Semi-implicit methods for the dynamics of elastic sheets

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.108952MaRDI QIDQ2222643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Silas Alben, Alex Gorodetsky, Donghak Kim, R. D. Deegan

Publication date 27 January 2021

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09198

zbMATH Keywords

elasticdynamicsstretchingbucklingbendingsemiimplicit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Thin films (74K35) Finite difference methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S20)

Abstract: Recent applications (e.g. active gels and self-assembly of elastic sheets) motivate the need to efficiently simulate the dynamics of thin elastic sheets. We present semi-implicit time stepping algorithms to improve the time step constraints that arise in explicit methods while avoiding much of the complexity of fully-implicit approaches. For a triangular lattice discretization with stretching and bending springs, our semi-implicit approach involves discrete Laplacian and biharmonic operators, and is stable for all time steps in the case of overdamped dynamics. For a more general finite-difference formulation that can allow for general elastic constants, we use the analogous approach on a square grid, and find that the largest stable time step is two to three orders of magnitude greater than for an explicit scheme. For a model problem with a radial traveling wave form of the reference metric, we find transitions from quasi-periodic to chaotic dynamics as the sheet thickness is reduced, wave amplitude is increased, and damping constant is reduced.

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