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CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 68

Computational Coupling of One Dimensional and Two Dimensional Models for Elastic Structures

Y. Ofir1, D. Rabinovich2 and D. Givoli2

1Inter-departmental Program of Applied Mathematics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
Y. Ofir, D. Rabinovich, D. Givoli, "Computational Coupling of One Dimensional and Two Dimensional Models for Elastic Structures", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 68, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.68
Keywords: coupling, 2D-1D, Panasenko, Dirichlet-to-Neumann, Nitsche, low dimension, high dimension, time-harmonic, elastodynamic, elastic waves, hybrid model, derivative-recovery..

Summary
The coupling of two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) models in time harmonic elasticity is considered. The hybrid 2D-1D model is justified for cases where some regions in the 2D computational domain behave approximately in a 1D way. This hybrid model, if designed properly, is much more efficient than the standard 2D model taken for the entire problem. Two important issues related to such hybrid 2D-1D models are (a) the design of the hybrid model and its validation (with respect to the original problem), and (b) the way the 2D-1D coupling is done, and the coupling error generated. This paper focuses on the second issue. Three numerical methods are adapted to the 2D-1D coupling scenario, for elastic time harmonic waves: the Panasenko method, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) method and the Nitsche method. All three are existing methods that deal with interfaces; however none of them has previously been adopted and applied to the type of problem studied here. The accuracy of the 2D-1D coupling by the three methods is compared numerically for a specially designed benchmark problem, and conclusions are drawn on their relative performances.

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