Section: New Results

New schemes for time-domain simulations

Solving the Homogeneous Isotropic Linear Elastodynamics Equations Using Potentials

Participant : Patrick Joly.

This work is done in collaboration with Sébastien Impériale (EPI M3DISIM) and Jorge Albella from the University of Santiago de Compostela. We consider the numerical solution of 2D elastodynamic equations using the decomposition of the displacement fields into potentials. This appears as a challenge for finite element methods. We address here the particular question of free boundary conditions. A stable (mixed) variational formulation of the evolution problem is proposed based on a clever choice of Lagrange multipliers. This is expected to be efficient when the velocity of shear waves is much smaller than the velocity of pressure waves, since one can adapt the discretization to each type of waves.

Discontinuous Galerkin method with high-order absorbing boundary conditions

Participant : Axel Modave.

This work is done in collaboration with Andreas Atle from TOTAL, Jesse Chan from Rice University and Tim Warburton from Virginia Tech.

Discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes exhibit attractive features for large-scale time-domain wave-propagation simulations on modern parallel architectures (e.g. GPU clusters). For many applications, these schemes must be coupled with non-reflective boundary treatments to limit the size of the computational domain without losing accuracy or computational efficiency, which remains a challenging task.

We propose a combination of a nodal discontinuous Galerkin method with high-order absorbing boundary conditions (HABCs) for cuboidal computational domains. Compatibility conditions are derived for HABCs intersecting at the edges and the corners of a cuboidal domain. We propose a GPU implementation of the computational procedure, which results in a multidimensional solver with equations to be solved on 0D, 1D, 2D and 3D spatial regions. Numerical results demonstrate both the accuracy and the computational efficiency of our approach.