Sentence examples for coarse elements from inspiring English sources
Therefore, at each Oued Mejerda flood a granulometric sorting is carried out where the coarse elements are initially deposed.
After imposing a coarse-scale grid on the given fine-scale problem, the coarse-scale basis functions are obtained by solving local equilibrium problems within coarse elements.
The measure combines both fine and coarse elements in the structure and can offer an alternative method to the aforementioned distance measures, with a critical advantage in applications that use energy and probability dot plots for the analysis of secondary structures.
Then the equivalent tangent stiffness matrix and internal force vector of the macroscopic coarse element are deduced based on the co-rotational approach, which can describe the motion of macroscopic coarse element clearly and efficiently.
The overall macroscopic quantities of whole composite structure are obtained by assembling those of each coarse element.
The numerical results show that the least-squares mixed GMsFEM can give accurate approximation for both pressure and velocity using only a few basis functions per coarse element.
A new 3D multi-node coarse element is provided to simulate the complex deformation and the approach is elaborated to construct the displacement base functions numerically.
Firstly, the lattice truss unit cell is equivalent to a continuum coarse element by using a numerical constructed interpolation function in the local coordinate system.
By virtue of these functions, the equivalent mass matrix, stiffness matrix and external loading vector of one single coarse element can be determined easily.
The heterogeneous and complex microstructure can be equivalent to a simple macroscopic piezoelectric coarse element through those constructed multiscale base functions.
Correspondingly, the macroscopic displacement of coarse element can be divided into three parts which are contributed by nodal (original), hierarchical and modal shape functions, respectively.
