Here we present a 2D planar simulation of the collisions between liquid droplets and solid particles that are most often used in industrial applications. The collisions are modeled using a combination of Volume of Fluid ...

With recent advances in semiconductor technology, conventional cooling methods and standard coolants are no longer adequate to manage electronic chips' enormous heat generation. Therefore, innovative cooling solutions are ...

In this paper, a new 8-node solid-shell finite element is proposed. The transverse shear strains and transverse normal strains of the element are separately interpolated and related to the C0-displacement approximation at ...

The problem of occurrence of starting earthquakes in subduction zones is considered. Subduction is the phenomenon of movement of the oceanic lithospheric plate under the continental one. The oceanic lithospheric plate at ...

Continuity and discontinuity of two-dimensional domains are thoroughly investigated for accuracy and convergence rate using two prominent discretization methods, namely smoothed and scaled boundary finite element. Because ...

The present study introduces two quantitative parameters to compare the accuracy of ultrasonic C-scan testing and X-ray radiography methods in the damaged area detection under low-velocity impact in polymer-based composites. ...

A mathematical model is presented for entropy generation in transient hydromagnetic flow of an electroconductive magnetic Casson (non-Newtonian) nanofluid over a porous stretching sheet in a porous medium. The model employed ...

The paper proposes a new technique for the well-test data interpretation using two different steady-state flow tests of gas condensate well to determine the initial value of the effective reservoir permeability and the ...

This study proposes two alternative approaches to complement existing integration strategies used in the weight function method for linear elastic crack problems. The first approach is based on an interpolation type ...

The present work aims at generating a systematic way for longitudinal vibration (LV) analysis of bars (or rods) with arbitrary boundary conditions (BCs) by mixed-type finite element (MFE) method using the Gâteaux differential. ...

In this study, an attempt is made to minimize the weight of Howe roof and ten member-6 Node trusses, separately. Two constraints, maximum allowable deflection and maximum allowable member stresses have been considered. For ...

This paper proposes a hyperbolic heat transport model for a homogeneously perfused biological tissue irradiated by a laser beam. In particular, involving two local energy equations, one for the blood vessel and the other ...

A jet pump operates under the Venturi effect, where a fluid enters through a primary nozzle and, when passing through a convergent-divergent nozzle, it reaches supersonic conditions, originating a vacuum pressure in a ...

In this paper, it is aimed to analyze the linear vibrational behavior of functionally-graded (FG) size-dependent circular nano-plates using the integral form of the non-local strain gradient (NSG) model. The linear ...

A numerical analysis is performed on entropy generation in a radiative and dissipative hydromagnetic micropolar fluid prompted by a nonlinearly stretching sheet with the impact of non-uniform heat source/sink, variable ...

Studying the impact of Ferrohydrodynamic interaction on the flow of Casson‑Williamson nanofluid present a significant insight into complex fluid behaviour in several fields including aerospace engineering, energy systems, ...

This computational fluid dynamic analysis attempts to simulate the incompressible steady fluid flow and heat transfer in a solar air channel with wall-mounted baffles. Two ꞌSꞌ-shaped baffles, having different orientations, ...

Investigation of free vibration of porous power and sigmoid-law sandwich functionally graded (FG) plates with different boundary conditions is presented in this paper. The FG sandwich plate includes three layers. The face ...

The implementation of high-order (spectral) approximations associated with FEM is an approach to overcome the difficulties encountered in the numerical analysis of complex problems. This paper proposes the use of the ...

The nonlinear deformation and vibrations of beams are frequently encountered as a typical example of structural analysis as well as a mathematical problem. There have been many methods and techniques for the approximate ...