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The paper presents a new method for the numerical solution of transient linear heat conduction problems. In the proposed method, the transient linear heat conduction equation is first integrated with respect to time over subsequent intervals. Then the resulting set of elliptic equations is discretized in space according to a finite-element procedure. The method is unconditionally stable. At the end of the paper, the effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed through some numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An algorithm combining the numerical execution in time of implicit and explicit methods of solution is presented in this paper. The algorithm swaps between both methods as required for the analysis. The whole mesh is solved for an unique method at once, i.e. there are no partitions of the mesh for separate implicit or explicit treatment of the solution. The combination is in-time, in such a manner that if the implicit method starts diverging the explicit one is initiated by appropriate conditions of transition. The formulation is presented first and its implementation is validated by the analysis of a key numerical example. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Utilizing systematically differential geometry the paper describes a method which substantially improves results obtained by Yuan et al. (1994), though the same technique is used in both articles. An 8-node isoparametric element with curved boundaries is analysed as an object of differential geometry. Inverse transformations between normal (geodesic) co-ordinates and natural (isoparametric) co-ordinates are derived in terms of a Taylor series which is convergent and does not need many terms to give an excellent approximation of the element shape with four curved sides. The concept of local normal co-ordinates results in the definition of distortion measures of a plane element. It is shown, by exploring the theory of geodesic curves, that the distortion parameters of a chord quadrilateral, spanned on the corner nodes of the 8-node element with curved boundaries, are the basic distortion measures for this 8-node element. Thus, significant reduction of the number of these parameters, from 12 to 4, from previous works is obtained. For the purpose of the finite element method, which is very sensitive to a shape of quadrilateral elements, only basic deviation measures from a regular form of a plane element are of interest. The distortion measures due to curvatures of sides seem to be of secondary significance in the analysis if straight sides of the chord quadrilateral and curved boundaries are isomorphic. The mathematical analysis used is quite general and relies strongly on differential geometry. The results are independent of co-ordinate systems. The meaning of element distortion measures is suggested. This analysis can be extended to curved surfaces in R3. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the superconvergence property of isoparametric bilinear finite elements is considered. A new superconvergence recovery method for isoparametric bilinear finite elements is discovered on the four vertices and the four midpoints of the edges of the elements for piecewise strongly regular quadrilateral subdivisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper a mathematical formulation for embedding reinforcements in 3D brick concrete elements is presented. The computational aspects and the implementation process of the model have been discussed. The proposed algorithm may be implemented in 3D finite element programs for stress analysis of reinforced concrete structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a formulation and analysis of three and four step least squares algorithms for first order IVPs. The three step algorithm is derived using cubic Lagrangian interpolation, and is found to be third order accurate but only conditionally stable. Fourth order Lagrangian interpolation is used to obtain a four step least squares scheme which is Ao-stable but inconsistent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper a computation code based on the finite-element method for temperature evolutions in composite elements with internal cavities is presented. It is suitable for the analysis of various thermal problems encountered in mechanical and civil engineering such as fire risk assessment. It is based on a plane isoparametric triangular element with six nodes allowing the modeling of curved boundaries. In order to analyze composite steel-concrete elements and to take into account the non-linearities coming from the temperature-dependent material properties and from the boundary conditions, an implicit integration scheme is used. Another advantage of the program is the possibility of describing internal cavities with convection and radiation exchanges. In order to show the capacity of the program two examples are presented. Comparisons have been made with experimental and other numerical results, exhibiting very good agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]