In this paper,strategies are provided for a powerful numerical manifold method(NMM)with h and p refinement in analyses of elasticity and elasto-plasticity.The new NMM is based on the concept of the independent cover,w...In this paper,strategies are provided for a powerful numerical manifold method(NMM)with h and p refinement in analyses of elasticity and elasto-plasticity.The new NMM is based on the concept of the independent cover,which gets rid of NMM's important defect of rank deficiency when using higher-order local approximation functions.Several techniques are presented.In terms of mesh generation,a relationship between the quadtree structure and the mathematical mesh is established to allow a robust h-refinement.As to the condition number,a scaling based on the physical patch is much better than the classical scaling based on the mathematical patch;an overlapping width of 1%–10%can ensure a good condition number for 2nd,3rd,and 4th order local approximation functions;the small element issue can be overcome after the local approximation on small patch is replaced by that on a regular patch.On numerical accuracy,local approximation using complete polynomials is necessary for the optimal convergence rate.Two issues that may damage the convergence rate should be prevented.The first is to approximate the curved boundary of a higher-order element by overly few straight lines,and the second is excessive overlapping width.Finally,several refinement strategies are verified by numerical examples.展开更多
In this paper we get some relations between α（G）, α＇（G）, β（G）, β＇（G） and αT（G）, βT（G）. And all bounds in these relations are best possible, where α（G）, α＇（G）,/3（G）, β（G）, αT（G） and ...In this paper we get some relations between α（G）, α＇（G）, β（G）, β＇（G） and αT（G）, βT（G）. And all bounds in these relations are best possible, where α（G）, α＇（G）,/3（G）, β（G）, αT（G） and βT（G） are the covering number, edge-covering number, independent number, edge-independent number （or matching number）, total covering number and total independent number, respectively.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52130905 and 52079002)。
文摘In this paper,strategies are provided for a powerful numerical manifold method(NMM)with h and p refinement in analyses of elasticity and elasto-plasticity.The new NMM is based on the concept of the independent cover,which gets rid of NMM's important defect of rank deficiency when using higher-order local approximation functions.Several techniques are presented.In terms of mesh generation,a relationship between the quadtree structure and the mathematical mesh is established to allow a robust h-refinement.As to the condition number,a scaling based on the physical patch is much better than the classical scaling based on the mathematical patch;an overlapping width of 1%–10%can ensure a good condition number for 2nd,3rd,and 4th order local approximation functions;the small element issue can be overcome after the local approximation on small patch is replaced by that on a regular patch.On numerical accuracy,local approximation using complete polynomials is necessary for the optimal convergence rate.Two issues that may damage the convergence rate should be prevented.The first is to approximate the curved boundary of a higher-order element by overly few straight lines,and the second is excessive overlapping width.Finally,several refinement strategies are verified by numerical examples.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10771091)Com2MaC-KOSEF (No.(E)ndzr09-15)
文摘In this paper we get some relations between α（G）, α＇（G）, β（G）, β＇（G） and αT（G）, βT（G）. And all bounds in these relations are best possible, where α（G）, α＇（G）,/3（G）, β（G）, αT（G） and βT（G） are the covering number, edge-covering number, independent number, edge-independent number （or matching number）, total covering number and total independent number, respectively.
