Mixing materials within zone boundaries using shape overlays

Grandy, J

doi:10.2172/321862

Title: Mixing materials within zone boundaries using shape overlays

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Shape overlays provide a means of statically imposing a physical region containing specified material properties onto a zoned mesh. In the most general case, material interface boundaries are unrelated to mesh zone boundaries, causing zones to contain a mixture of materials, and the mesh itself is not uniform in physical space. We develop and apply an algorithm for shape overlays on nonorthogonal, nonuniform meshes in two dimensions. Examples of shape generation in a multiblock uid dynamics code are shown.

Authors:: Grandy, J

Publication Date:: Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 1997

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 321862

Report Number(s):: UCRL-ID-127189
ON: DE97053202

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-48

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 22 Apr 1997

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, LAW, MISCELLANEOUS; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATERIALS; MIXING; ALGORITHMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

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