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A low-diffusion preconditioning Roe scheme with an adjustable parameter to control the numerical dissipation is proposed. This scheme reflects the real physical dissipation in the extremely low-speed region. The preconditioning parameter in scheme is improved by linear cut-off and correction factor. The numerical results of low-Mach-number/low-Reynolds-number steady solutions of viscous flows past...
By means of reasonable assumption and mathematical derivation, a theoretic expression of flow rate for a single fracture with linearly varying width was obtained. The mathematical derivation was based on the cubic law and the new theoretic expression was an extention of traditional parallel plate model. This study may help to analyze seepage in fractured rock mass.
Chaotic oscillations are useful in assessing the health of a structure. Hence, simple chaotic systems which can easily be realized mechanically or electro-mechanically are highly desired. We study a new piecewise linear spring-mass system. The chaotic behaviour in this system is characterized using bifurcation diagrams and the invariant parameters of the dynamics. We also show that there exists a...
In this letter, a comparison between three types (two linear and one nonlinear) of models of skeletal muscle stiffness is shown. Results are compared with experimental data for biceps brachii in the case of muscle stretching and with the Hill equation for a biological muscle. It is shown that results for nonlinear stiffness model in case of length-force relationship fits to the experimental data.
An analysis is presented with magnetohydrodynamics natural convective flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid saturated porous medium in a vertical slot. The flow in the porous media has been modeled using the Brinkman model. The fully-developed two-dimensional flow from capped to open ends is considered for which a continuum of solutions is obtained. The influence of pertinent parameters on the flow is...
Airfoil self-noise is a common phenomenon for many engineering applications. Aiming to study the underlying mechanism of airfoil self-noise at low Mach number and moderate Reynolds number flow, a numerical investigation is presented on noise generation by flow past NACA0018 airfoil. Based on a high-order accurate numerical method, both the near-field hydrodynamics and the far-field acoustics are computed...
The finite element method has been considered as one of the most significant engineering advances of the twentieth century. This computational methodology has made substantial impact on many fields in science and also has profoundly changed engineering design procedures and practice. This paper, mainly from a solid mechanics perspective, and the Swansea viewpoint in particular, describes very briefly...
The problem of quick analysis using exact geometry data was proposed by Hughes et al. and the isogeometric analysis framework was introduced as a solution. In this letter, the exact geometry concept is combined into the quasi-conforming framework and a novel method, i.e., the exact geometry based quasi-conforming analysis is proposed. In present method the geometry is exactly described by non-uniform...
It has been long time established that application of damage delocalization method to softening constitutive models yields numerical results that are independent of the size of the finite element. However, the prediction of real-world large and small scale problems using the delocalization method remains in its infancy. One of the drawbacks encountered is that the predicted load versus displacement...
A slip-line field solution is presented for the ultimate bearing capacity of the pipeline on a purely-cohesive clay soil, taking into account of circular configuration of the pipe, the pipe embedment, and the pipe-soil interfacial cohesion. The derived bearing capacity factors for a smooth rigid pipe may degenerate into those for the conventional rectangular-shaped strip footing while the pipe embedment...
To better simulate multi-phase interactions involving failure evolution, the material point method (MPM) has evolved for almost twenty years. Recently, a particle-based multiscale simulation procedure is being developed, within the framework of the MPM, to describe the detonation process of energetic nano-composites from molecular to continuum level so that a multiscale equation of state could be...
Sand jet in non-Newtonian viscoplastic fluid is associated with a number of industrial and engineering applications, including sand capping for the reclamation of oilsands tailings ponds and sediment deposition into soft mud. In this study, several experiments were carried out by depositing circular sand jets vertically into viscoplastic fluids, known as Laponite gel. The deformation regimes of sand...
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