A Unified Circuit View of Multiphysics Finite Element Analysis via Discrete Exterior Calculus Part II: 2D Dynamic Fields

Engineering challenges often necesssitate multi-physics integration. However, different physical processes in engineering systems are described with languages often only comprehensible by engineers in respective disciplines. This paper is bridging the gaps between multiphysics in finite element analysis (FEA) formulations through a unified circuit view. This unification is systematically done via a mathematical tool called discrete exterior calculus (DEC). It will not help with the FEA computationally, rather it will give the designers an intuitive and unified perspective about the multiphysics in engineering systems and potentially lead to novel multiphysics design approaches. This paper is a multi-part effort. Here we present Part II focusing on 2D dynamic fields.