Semi-implicit methods for the dynamics of elastic sheets

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.108952zbMATH Open1453.74081arXiv1904.09198OpenAlexW2974260064WikidataQ127241955 ScholiaQ127241955MaRDI QIDQ2222643FDOQ2222643

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

Publication date: 27 January 2021

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

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.

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

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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)

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• RODAS

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