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Código Computacional Avançado para Análise de Fenômenos Físicos de Campo Escalar da Engenharia

ABSTRACT

Differential equations govern innumerable physical phenomena present in different fields of knowledge of physics-mathematical. Once the models are understood by the scalar field theory, they enable the description of a range of practical engineering applications, moving through problems in the area of ??acoustics, thermal, solids and fluids mechanics, electromagnetism, among others. In this scenario, the current article focuses on presenting the specific module of the computer program, developed in Matlab, called NASEN, aimed at solving the scalar field equation using the finite element method (FEM). Therefore, the spatial discretization is performed based on the mathematical procedures of the Galerkin method and the temporal discretization is performed based on the Newmark integration method and the A-method. Problems of different nature are studied, such as nonlinear parabolic, hyperbolic and eigenvalue problems. The methodology used to solve nonlinear problems is based on the incremental and iterative strategies of Newton-Raphson. The performance evaluation of the computer program is carried out with the analytical, numerical or experimental solutions available in the literature. In summary, the results obtained are satisfactory, indicating that the computational code is capable of adequately predicting the physical behavior of the proposed problems.

Keywords:
finite elements; scalar field theory; computer program; physics-mathematics

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