Following the previous post, I'm going to discuss about the boundary conditions in FEM method. For FEM method, there are two types of boundary conditions: 1. Natural boundary condition 2. Essential boundary condition
The difference between these two kinds of boundary conditions are well summarized in the following two references: - https://caendkoelsch.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/what-is-the-difference-between-essential-and-natural-boundary-conditions-in-fem/ - https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_essential_boundary_conditions_and_natural_boundary_conditions - https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2089253/how-to-identify-natural-and-essential-boundary-conditions-of-this-differential-e - http://textofvideo.nptel.ac.in/105106051/lec3.pdf
To clearly show the difference, I combined the two references:
Essential boundary conditions Natural boundary conditions They are imposed explicitly during solving These conditions are added during the formulation of FEM problem and are automatically, “naturally” satisfied without any external conditions They are satisfied exactly by the construction of additional trial function or modification of the linear system to solve They are satisfied up to the order of the shape function Some examples would be Displacement in stress analysis Bending moment or shear forces in stress analysis Temperature in thermal analysis Adiabatic boundary in heat conduction analysis The part that I'm mainly interested in is the natural boundary condition.
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Recently, I'm working on the numerical simulation of Nano-second pulsed plasma. The equation to solve is the drift diffusion equation, which has a similar form to 🍔's equation. If it's a steady problem, then the equation becomes elliptical one. However, there are several challenges for me including: 1. Finite element method with weak form 2. New solver: COMSOL 3. The settings of boundary condition
So, to solve the problem, I decide to start with the simple one.
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This post contains some notes I took when learning ab-initio calculations
Localized orbital (LOCA) and unitary transformation Localized molecular orbitals are molecular orbitals which are concentrated in a limited spatial region of a molecule, for example a specific bond or a lone pair on a specific atom. They can be used to relate molecular orbital calculations to simple bonding theories, and also to speed up post-Hartree–Fock electronic structure calculations by taking advantage of the local nature of electron correlation.
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