Spectral element method in time for rapidly actuated systems

Authors:
Mohammad H. Kurdi;Philip S. Beran
Affiliations:
AFRL/VASD, Building 146, 2210 8th Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, United States;AFRL/VASD, Building 146, 2210 8th Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, United States
Venue:
Journal of Computational Physics
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, the spectral element (SE) method is applied in time to find the entire time-periodic or transient solution of time-dependent differential equations. The time-periodic solution is computed by enforcing periodicity of the element set. Of particular interest are periodic forcing functions possessing high frequency content. To maintain the spectral accuracy for such forcing functions, an h-refinement scheme is employed near the semi-discontinuity without increasing the number of degrees of freedom. Time discretization by spectral elements is applied initially to a standard form of a set of linear, first-order differential equations subject to harmonic excitation and an excitation admitting rapid variation. Other case studies include the application of the SE approach to parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations. The first-order form of these equations is obtained through semi-discretization using conventional finite-element, spectral element and finite-difference schemes. Element clustering (h-refinement) is applied to maintain the high accuracy and efficiency in the region of the forcing function admitting rapid variation. The convergence in time of the method is demonstrated. In some cases, machine precision is obtained with 25 degrees of freedom per cycle. Finally the method is applied to a weakly nonlinear problem with time-periodic solution to demonstrate its future applicability to the analysis of limit-cycle oscillations in aeroelastic systems.