Chloride Ion Transmission Model under the Drying-wetting Cycles and Its Solution

The chloride ion transmission model considering diffusion and convection was established respectively for different zones in concrete by analyzing chloride ion transmission mechanism under the dryingwetting cycles. The finite difference method was adopted to solve the model. The equation of chloride ion transmission model in the convection and diffusion zone of concrete was discreted by the group explicit scheme with right single point （GER method） and the equation in diffusion zone was discreted by FTCS difference scheme. According to relative humidity characteristics in concrete under drying-wetting cycles, the seepage velocity equation was formulated based on Kelvin Equation and Darcy＇s Law. The time-variant equations of chloride ion concentration of concrete surface and the boundary surface of the convection and diffusion zone were established. Based on the software MATLAB the numerical calculation was carried out by using the model and basic material parameters from the experiments. The calculation of chloride ion concentration distribution in concrete is in good agreement with the drying-wetting cycles experiments. It can be shown that the chloride ion transmission model and the seepage velocity equation are reasonable and practical. Studies have shown that the chloride ion transmission in concrete considering convection and diffusion under the drying-wetting cycles is the better correlation with the actual situation than that only considering the diffusion.

Newton-EGMSOR Methods for Solution of Second Order Two-Point Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems

The convergence results of block iterative schemes from the EG （Explicit Group） family have been shown to be one of efficient iterative methods in solving any linear systems generated from approximation equations. Apart from block iterative methods, the formulation of the MSOR （Modified Successive Over-Relaxation） method known as SOR method with red-black ordering strategy by using two accelerated parameters, ω and ω′, has also improved the convergence rate of the standard SOR method. Due to the effectiveness of these iterative methods, the primary goal of this paper is to examine the performance of the EG family without or with accelerated parameters in solving second order two-point nonlinear boundary value problems. In this work, the second order two-point nonlinear boundary value problems need to be discretized by using the second order central difference scheme in constructing a nonlinear finite difference approximation equation. Then this approximation equation leads to a nonlinear system. As well known that to linearize nonlinear systems, the Newton method has been proposed to transform the original system into the form of linear system. In addition to that, the basic formulation and implementation of 2 and 4-point EG iterative methods based on GS （Gauss-Seidel）, SOR and MSOR approaches, namely EGGS, EGSOR and EGMSOR respectively are also presented. Then, combinations between the EG family and Newton scheme are indicated as EGGS-Newton, EGSOR-Newton and EGMSOR-Newton methods respectively. For comparison purpose, several numerical experiments of three problems are conducted in examining the effectiveness of tested methods. Finally, it can be concluded that the 4-point EGMSOR-Newton method is more superior in accelerating the convergence rate compared with the tested methods.

AN EXPONENTIAL-TYPE WEIGHTED IMPLICIT SCHEME AND ALTERNATING GROUP EXPLICIT ITERATIVE METHOD FOR BURGERS EQUATION

A new exponential-type weighted implicit difference schcme for solving the Burgers equation was developed and iterated by using the Alternating Group Explicit （AGE） method which has the obvious property of parallelism. The stability of the method was analyzed with linearization procedure. A model problem was numerically solved with the proposed scheme. The results show that the method is superb or to some existing schemes.

Single Alternating Group Explicit (SAGE) Method for Electrochemical Finite Difference Digital Simulation

The four different schemes of Group Explicit Method (GEM): GER, GEL, SAGE andDAGE have been claimed to be unstable when employed for electrochemical digital simulations withlarge model diffusion coefficient D_M. However, in this investigation, in spite of the conditionalstability of GER and GEL, the SAGE scheme, which is a combination of GEL and GER, was found to beunconditionally stable when used for simulations of electrochemical reaction-diffusions and had aperformance comparable with or even better than the Fast Quasi Explicit Finite Difference Method(FQEFD) in some aspects. Corresponding differential equations of SAGE scheme for digital simulationsof various electrochemical mechanisms with both uniform and exponentially expanded space units wereestablished. The effectiveness of the SAGE method was further demonstrated by the simulations of anEC and a catalytic mechanism with very large homogeneous rate constants.

A new modified group explicit iterative method for the numerical solution of time dependent viscous Burgers’equation

In this article,we discuss a new smart alternating group explicit method based on off-step discretization for the solution of time dependent viscous Burgers’equation in rectangu-lar coordinates.The convergence analysis for the new iteration method is discussed in details.We compared the results of Burgers’equation obtained by using the proposed iterative method with the results obtained by other iterative methods to demonstrate computationally the efficiency of the proposed method.

A Parallel Algorithm for the Convection Diffusion Problem

Based on the second-order compact upwind scheme, a group explicit method for solving the two-dimensional time-independent convection-dominated diffusion problem is developed. The stability of the group explicit method is proven strictly. The method has second-order accuracy and good stability. This explicit scheme can be used to solve all Reynolds number convection-dominated diffusion problems. A numerical test using a parallel computer shows high efficiency. The numerical results conform closely to the analytic solution.