Local computational strategies for predicting wave propagation in nonlinear media

Michael J. Leamy; Thibaut B. Autrusson; Wieslaw J. Staszewski; Tadeusz Uhl; Pawel Packo

doi:10.1117/12.2045041

9 March 2014 Local computational strategies for predicting wave propagation in nonlinear media

Michael J. Leamy, Thibaut B. Autrusson, Wieslaw J. Staszewski, Tadeusz Uhl, Pawel Packo

Proceedings Volume 9064, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2014; 90641J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2045041
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Two local computational strategies for modeling elastic wave propagation, namely the Local Interaction Simulation Approach (LISA) and Cellular Automata for Elastodynamics (CAFE), are compared and contrasted in analyzing bulk waves in two-dimensional nonlinear media. Each strategy formulates the problem from the perspective of a cell and its local interactions with other cells, leading to robust treatments of anisotropy, heterogeneity, and nonlinearity. The local approach also enables straight-forward parallelization on high performance computing clusters. While the two share a common local perspective, they differ in two major respects. The first is that CAFE employs both rectangular and triangular cells, while LISA considers only rectangular. The second is that LISA appeared much earlier than CAFE (early 1990’s versus late 2000’s), and as such has been developed to a much greater degree with a multitude of material models, cell-to-cell interactions, loading possibilities, and boundary treatments. A hybrid approach which combines the two is of great interest since the non-uniform mesh capability of the CAFE triangular cell can be readily coupled to LISA’s rectangular grids, taking advantage of the built-in LISA features on the uniform portion of the domain. For linear material domains, the hybrid implementation appears straight-forward since both methods have been shown to recover the same equations in the rectangular case. For nonlinear material domains, the formulations cannot be put into a one-to-one correspondence, and hybrid implementation may be more problematic. This paper addresses these differences by first presenting the underlying formulations, and then computing results for growth of a second harmonic in an introduced bulk pressure wave. Rectangular cells are used in both LISA and CAFE. Results from both approaches are compared to an approximate, analytical solution based on a two-scale field representation. Differences in the LISA and CAFE computed solutions are discussed and recommendations are made for a follow-on hybrid implementation.

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Michael J. Leamy, Thibaut B. Autrusson, Wieslaw J. Staszewski, Tadeusz Uhl, and Pawel Packo "Local computational strategies for predicting wave propagation in nonlinear media", Proc. SPIE 9064, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2014, 90641J (9 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2045041

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