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Applications of Finite Element Method To Scalar Transport Problems
Applications of Finite Element Method To Scalar Transport Problems
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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS: FVM: Applications to Scalar Transport Problems
Dr K M Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee NPTEL 23.4
Let us note that temperature is specified at x =0 (flux kdT/dx is unknown). Hence, we modify
the first equation in Eq. (xiv) by incorporating known temperature value. Further, substitute h
= 0.1, f =1273, value of flux at right-end of the domain, and divide last five equations by 10
(to make all the diagonal elements to be of same order of magnitude). The resulting discrete
system is
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1 0 0 0 0 0 373
0 0 0 12.73
0 0 0 12.73
0 0 0 0 12.73
0 0 0 12.73
0 0 0 0 / 2 106.365
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where a =0.9983333, d =2.0066667.
The preceding system is very similar to the discrete system (x) obtained using finite
difference discretization in Example 15.1 (only coefficients in last row differ). Numerical
calculations using TDMA are given in the following table:
Comparison of results obtained using FEM, FVM and FDM using the same grid size is given
below:
Exact FEM FVM FDM %Error FEM %Error FVM %Error FDM
373.000
373.000 373.000 373.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
498.950
499.006 498.931 497.289 0.011 0.004 0.333
617.180
617.259 617.121 613.821 0.013 0.009 0.544
728.850
728.944 728.753 723.762 0.013 0.013 0.698
835.080
835.179 834.942 828.209 0.012 0.017 0.823
936.920
937.029 936.751 928.209 0.012 0.018 0.930
We can clearly observe that the finite element and finite volume results using identical grid
spacing are more accurate than those obtained using FDM. The primary reason is use of first
order backward difference method used in finite difference solution for incorporation of flux
boundary condition.
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1 0 1.00 0 373 1 373 373.000 373.00
2 -a d -a 12.73 2.006666667 385.1083333 499.006 498.95
3 -a d -a 12.73 1.509987542 204.3245944 617.259 617.18
4 -a d -a 12.73 1.346615231 147.8198917 728.944 728.85
5 -a d -a 12.73 1.266537325 122.3184866 835.179 835.08
6 -a d/2 0 100.36 0.216408681 202.7811261 937.029 936.92
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS: FVM: Applications to Scalar Transport Problems
Dr K M Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee NPTEL 23.5
REFERENCES/FURTHER READING
Chung, T. J . (2010). Computational Fluid Dynamics. 2
nd
Ed., Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK.
Muralidhar, K. and Sundararajan, T. (2003). Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat
Transfer, Narosa Publishing House.
Reddy, J . N. (2005). An Introduction to the Finite Element Method. 3
rd
Ed., McGraw Hill,
New York.
Zienkiewicz, O. C., Taylor, R. L., Zhu, J . Z. (2005). The Finite Element Method: Its Basis
and Fundamentals, 6
th
Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier).