On the effect of standard PFEM remeshing on volume conservation in free-surface fluid flow problems
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Data publicació2017-07
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Abstract
The aim of this work is to analyze the remeshing procedure used in the particle finite element method (PFEM) and to investigate how this operation may affect the numerical results. The PFEM remeshing algorithm combines the Delaunay triangulation and the Alpha Shape method to guarantee a good quality of the Lagrangian mesh also in large deformation processes. However, this strategy may lead to local variations of the topology that may cause an artificial change of the global volume. The issue of volume conservation is here studied in detail. An accurate description of all the situations that may induce a volume variation during the PFEM regeneration of the mesh is provided. Moreover, the crucial role of the parameter a used in the Alpha Shape method is highlighted and a range of values of a for which the differences between the numerical results are negligible, is found. Furthermore, it is shown that the variation of volume induced by the remeshing reduces by refining the mesh. This check of convergence is of paramount importance for the reliability of the PFEM. The study is carried out for 2D free-surface fluid dynamics problems, however the conclusions can be extended to 3D and to all those problems characterized by significant variations of internal and external boundaries.
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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40571-016-0124-5
CitacióFranci, A., Cremonesi, M. On the effect of standard PFEM remeshing on volume conservation in free-surface fluid flow problems. "Computational particle mechanics", Juliol 2017, vol. 4, núm. 3, p. 331-343.
ISSN2196-4378
Versió de l'editorhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40571-016-0124-5
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