Engineering Computations: Volume 19 Issue 8

Computations of non‐isothermal viscous and viscoelastic flows in abrupt contractions using a finite volume method

Anthony Wachs, Jean‐Robert Clermont, Ahmad Khalifeh

A finite volume method is applied to numerical simulations of steady isothermal and non‐isothermal flows of fluids obeying different constitutive equations: Newtonian, purely…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02644400210423918. When citing the…

Vibration/noise optimization of a FEM railway wheel model

G.A. Efthimeros, D.I. Photeinos, Z.G. Diamantis, D.T. Tsahalis

This paper presents the optimization of the design of a railway wheel in terms of the wheel's sound power levels emission, with respect to its geometrical properties. To this end…

Formal specification scheme for database applications using requirements particle networks

Wiwat Vatanawood, Wanchai Rivepiboon

This paper proposes a systematic scheme for synthesizing formal specification from the definitions of relational data model – entity relationship diagram and their data…

Convergence analysis for cellular automata applied to truss design

Douglas J. Slotta, Brian Tatting, Layne T. Watson, Zafer Gu¨rdal, Samy Missoum

Traditional parallel methods for structural design, as well as modern preconditioned iterative linear solvers, do not scale well. This paper discusses the application of massively…

A modification to particle swarm optimization algorithm

Huiyuan Fan

In this paper, a modification strategy is proposed for the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The strategy adds an adaptive scaling term into the algorithm, which aims…