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Adomian Decomposition of the Flowfield in a Simulated Rocket Motor
The work presents an analytic, approximate solution to an internal flowfield for a solid rocket motor. The flowfield is modeled as a wall-normal injection or suction in a symmetric porous channel with laterally expanding or contracting walls. From the effective speeds that gases are ejected into the combustion chamber of typical rocket motors, the flowfield is modeled to be incompressible. Since the flame zone occurs in a very thin space above the propellant grain surface, it will be disregarded. Assuming linearly varying axial velocity and uniform expansion (or contraction), the Navier-Stokes equations will be reduced into a single nonlinear equation that can be solved asymptotically. The Adomian Decomposition Method is used to solve this problem. Its systematic approach to solving differential equations makes it ideally suited for the present application. With this approximate method one can recover an exact solution for problems that allow an analytic treatment, it can also be used to arrive at approximate solutions for problems that cannot be solved exactly. The governing equation that describes the bulk fluid motion within the rocket chamber and the solution provided here will take into account the viscosity, wall regression, and wall permeability
A new approach for solving nonlinear Thomas-Fermi equation based on fractional order of rational Bessel functions
In this paper, the fractional order of rational Bessel functions collocation
method (FRBC) to solve Thomas-Fermi equation which is defined in the
semi-infinite domain and has singularity at and its boundary condition
occurs at infinity, have been introduced. We solve the problem on semi-infinite
domain without any domain truncation or transformation of the domain of the
problem to a finite domain. This approach at first, obtains a sequence of
linear differential equations by using the quasilinearization method (QLM),
then at each iteration solves it by FRBC method. To illustrate the reliability
of this work, we compare the numerical results of the present method with some
well-known results in other to show that the new method is accurate, efficient
and applicable
Spectral/hp element methods: recent developments, applications, and perspectives
The spectral/hp element method combines the geometric flexibility of the
classical h-type finite element technique with the desirable numerical
properties of spectral methods, employing high-degree piecewise polynomial
basis functions on coarse finite element-type meshes. The spatial approximation
is based upon orthogonal polynomials, such as Legendre or Chebychev
polynomials, modified to accommodate C0-continuous expansions. Computationally
and theoretically, by increasing the polynomial order p, high-precision
solutions and fast convergence can be obtained and, in particular, under
certain regularity assumptions an exponential reduction in approximation error
between numerical and exact solutions can be achieved. This method has now been
applied in many simulation studies of both fundamental and practical
engineering flows. This paper briefly describes the formulation of the
spectral/hp element method and provides an overview of its application to
computational fluid dynamics. In particular, it focuses on the use the
spectral/hp element method in transitional flows and ocean engineering.
Finally, some of the major challenges to be overcome in order to use the
spectral/hp element method in more complex science and engineering applications
are discussed
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