Fast Solvers for Unsteady Thermal Fluid Structure Interaction

We consider time dependent thermal fluid structure interaction. The respective models are the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and the nonlinear heat equation. A partitioned coupling approach via a Dirichlet-Neumann method and a fixed point iteration is employed. As a refence solver a previously developed efficient time adaptive higher order time integration scheme is used. To improve upon this, we work on reducing the number of fixed point coupling iterations. Thus, first widely used vector extrapolation methods for convergence acceleration of the fixed point iteration are tested. In particular, Aitken relaxation, minimal polynomial extrapolation (MPE) and reduced rank extrapolation (RRE) are considered. Second, we explore the idea of extrapolation based on data given from the time integration and derive such methods for SDIRK2. While the vector extrapolation methods have no beneficial effects, the extrapolation methods allow to reduce the number of fixed point iterations further by up to a factor of two with linear extrapolation performing better than quadratic.Comment: 17 page

The beta-relaxation dynamics of a simple liquid

We present a detailed analysis of the beta-relaxation dynamics of a simple glass former, a Lennard-Jones system with a stochastic dynamics. By testing the various predictions of mode-coupling theory, including the recently proposed corrections to the asymptotic scaling laws, we come to the conclusion that in this time regime the dynamics is described very well by this theory.Comment: 9 pages of Latex, 4 figure

How does the relaxation of a supercooled liquid depend on its microscopic dynamics?

Using molecular dynamics computer simulations we investigate how the relaxation dynamics of a simple supercooled liquid with Newtonian dynamics differs from the one with a stochastic dynamics. We find that, apart from the early beta-relaxation regime, the two dynamics give rise to the same relaxation behavior. The increase of the relaxation times of the system upon cooling, the details of the alpha-relaxation, as well as the wave vector dependence of the Edwards-Anderson-parameters are independent of the microscopic dynamics.Comment: 6 pages of Latex, 4 figure

Extrapolation in Time in Thermal Fluid Structure Interaction

We consider time dependent thermal fluid structure interaction. The respective models are the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and the nonlinear heat equation. A partitioned coupling approach via a Dirichlet-Neumann method and a fixed point iteration is employed. As a reference solver a previously developed efficient time adaptive higher order time integration scheme is used. To improve upon this, we work on reducing the number of fixed point coupling iterations. Thus, we explore the idea of extrapolation based on data given from the time integration and derive such methods for SDIRK2. This allows to reduce the number of fixed point iterations further by up to a factor of two with linear extrapolation performing better than quadratic

The eHumanities Desktop - An Online System for Corpus Management and Analysis in Support of Computing in the Humanities

Gleim R, Waltinger U, Ernst A, Mehler A, Esch D, Feith T. The eHumanities Desktop - An Online System for Corpus Management and Analysis in Support of Computing in the Humanities. In: Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL 2009. 2009