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Chapter 7

ALE Solver

IIntroduction
t d ti to t ANSYS
AUTODYN

ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary Release 12.1


© 2010 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. 7-1 February 2010
ALE Solver
Overview Training Manual

• ALE (Arbitrary Lagrange Euler)


– Nodes on mesh boundaries and material interfaces move with the material
(Lagrange)
– All other interior nodes may:
• Move with the material (Lagrange)
• Remain fixed in space (Euler)
• Move independently of the material as prescribed by an applied motion constraint
– Used to model solid continua, fluids and gases including fluid/structure
interaction

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ALE Solver
ALE Applications Training Manual

• The most efficient way


of calculating the blast
response off structures
t t
that do not deform
significantly

Strong structure

• Mesh distortions
cannot easily be
avoided if gross
deformation / failure
occurs

Weak structure
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ALE Solver
ALE Computation Cycle Training Manual

• The ALE computation cycle is identical to the Lagrange computation cycle


except for an additional rezoning step for interior nodes
• IInterior
t i nodesd are rezoned d according
di tto specified
ifi d motion
ti constraints
t i t and
d
the solution is mapped onto the new grid
• By default, all nodes in an ALE Part are Lagrangian
– Motion constraints need to be explicitly applied to the grid

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ALE Solver
ALE Motion Constraints / Setting Options Training Manual

• Motion Constraints
– Free (Lagrange)
– Fixed (Euler)
– Equipotential
– Equal spaced in x, y or z
– Equal spaced along I, J and/or K lines
– Geometrically spaced I, J and/or K
– Flow averaged (2D only)
– User defined

• Setting Options
– Cycle Frequency (default: every cycle)
– Iterations per cycle (default: 1)
– Relaxation Coefficient (default: 1-no relaxation)

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ALE Solver
Example: Explosion in a container Training Manual

• Single ALE mesh

• Air has one atmosphere pressure

• TNT modeled as high pressure Air region

– No
N material
t i l iinterface
t f b
between
t TNT and
d Ai
Air

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• Lagrange motion constraint for all nodes


– Large mesh deformations at TNT / Air interface
• Small time step
• Degenerate element stops calculation

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ALE Solver
Example: Explosion in a container Training Manual

• Lagrange motion constraint for all concrete nodes

• Euler
E l motion
ti constraint
t i t ffor allll other
th nodes
d

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ALE Solver
Example: Explosion in a container Training Manual

• Lagrange motion constraint for all concrete nodes

• Equipotential
E i t ti l motion
ti constraint
t i t ffor allll other
th nodes
d

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