The spectral element method as an efficient tool for transient simulations of hydraulic systems

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2017.10.010zbMATH Open1480.65286arXiv1705.02118OpenAlexW2613579185MaRDI QIDQ2295100FDOQ2295100

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 12 February 2020

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents transient numerical simulations of hydraulic systems in engineering applications using the spectral element method (SEM). Along with a detailed description of the underlying numerical method, it is shown that the SEM yields highly accurate numerical approximations at modest computational costs, which is in particular useful for optimization-based control applications. In order to enable fast explicit time stepping methods, the boundary conditions are imposed weakly using a numerically stable upwind discretization. The benefits of the SEM in the area of hydraulic system simulations are demonstrated in various examples including several simulations of strong water hammer effects. Due to its exceptional convergence characteristics, the SEM is particularly well suited to be used in real-time capable control applications. As an example, it is shown that the time evolution of pressure waves in a large scale pumped-storage power plant can be well approximated using a low-dimensional system representation utilizing a minimum number of dynamical states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02118

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zbMATH Keywords

method of characteristicsspectral element methodpressure wavescontrol applicationsupwind discretizationhyperbolic differential equationslow-dimensional numerical approximationspumped-storage power plantreal-time capable modelwater hammer simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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