Engineering Computations: Volume 26 Issue 7

Fuzzy model‐based assessment and monitoring of desertification using MODIS satellite imagery

Meng‐Lung Lin, Cheng‐Wu Chen, Qiu‐Bing Wang, Yu Cao, Jyh‐Yi Shih, Yung‐Tan Lee, Chen‐Yuan Chen, Shin Wang

The growing rate of desertification in Northwestern China and Mongolia that is occurring as a result of the conflict between economic development and natural conservation has been…

Cooperative co‐evolutionary scatter search for satellite module layout design

Yi‐Shou Wang, Hong‐Fei Teng, Yan‐Jun Shi

The purpose of this paper is to tackle a satellite module layout design problem (SMLDP). As a complex engineering layout and combinatorial optimization problem, SMLDP cannot be…

YADE‐OPEN DEM: an open‐source software using a discrete element method to simulate granular material

J. Kozicki, F.V. Donzé

YADE‐OPEN DEM is an open‐source software based on the discrete element method, (DEM) which uses object oriented programming techniques. The purpose of this paper is to describe…

Denoising using linear and nonlinear multiresolutions II: cell‐average framework and color images

Sergio Amat, Juan Ruiz, J. Carlos Trillo

Multiresolution representations of data are classical tools in image processing applications. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a particular problem, obtaining good…

Eigensolution of Laplacian matrices for graph partitioning and domain decomposition: Approximate algebraic method

A. Kaveh, B. Alinejad

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a general equation for eigensolution. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graphs have many applications in combinatorial optimization and…

The forward and inverse problems in magnetic induction tomography of low conductivity structures

Ryszard Palka, Stanislaw Gratkowski, Krzysztof Stawicki, Piotr Baniukiewicz

The purpose of this paper is to develop a magnetic induction tomography (MIT) system as well as the conductivity reconstruction algorithms (inverse problem).

Mathematical model of variable volume diafiltration with time dependent water adding

A. Takači, T. Žikić‐Došenović, Z. Zavargó

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a mathematical model, an algorithm and numerical procedure for determining the duration of a diafiltration process with variable volume…

Exact post‐buckling stiffness calculation of box section struts

S.A.M. Ghannadpour, H.R. Ovesy

The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply an exact finite strip (F‐a FSM) for the buckling and initial post‐buckling analyses of box section struts.