Engineering Computations: Volume 35 Issue 5

Numerical investigation of droplets-gas mixing performance in depth adjustable underwater launcher cooling chamber

Xin Liu, Yuming Xing, Liang Zhao

The purpose of this study is to investigate structure parameters that influence the mixing process of droplets-gas in underwater depth-adjustable launcher cooling chamber and help…

Numerical study of the effect of magnetic field on Fe3O4 –water ferrofluid convection with thermal radiation

Mohsen Sheikholeslami, Shirley Abelman

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of magnetic field on ferrofluid convective mode with radiation.

Car model reconstruction from images through character line recognition

Bo Wang, Franca Giannini, Marina Monti, BaoJun Li, Ping Hu, JiCai Liang

This paper aims to automatically derive a 2D parametric model of the main characteristic lines of a car from images, blueprints or hand-made sketches of its side view. Then this…

Quasilinearized Scale-3 Haar wavelets-based algorithm for numerical simulation of fractional dynamical systems

R.C. Mittal, Sapna Pandit

The main purpose of this work is to develop a novel algorithm based on Scale-3 Haar wavelets (S-3 HW) and quasilinearization for numerical simulation of dynamical system of…

Speeded simulation of seismicity accompanying mining and hydrofracture

Liliana Rybarska-Rusinek, Ewa Rejwer, Alexander Linkov

At present numerical simulation of seismicity, used in mining and hydraulic fracturing practice, is quite time expensive what hampers its combined employing with observed…

Solution of jamming transition problem using adomian decomposition method

Erman Şentürk, Safa Bozkurt Coşkun, Mehmet Tarık Atay

The purpose of the study is to obtain an analytical approximate solution for jamming transition problem (JTP) using Adomian decomposition method (ADM).

Modelling of turbulence energy decay based on hybrid methods

Aigerim Abdibekova, Dauren Zhakebayev, Akmaral Abdigaliyeva, Kuanysh Zhubat

The purpose of this study is to present an exact and fast-calculated algorithm for the modelling of turbulent energy decay based on two different methods: finite-difference and…

A probability transformation method (PTM) for the dynamic stochastic response of structures with non-Gaussian excitations

Giovanni Falsone, Rossella Laudani

This paper aims to present an approach for the probabilistic characterization of the response of linear structural systems subjected to random time-dependent non-Gaussian actions.

Mathematical modeling of electron irradiation of oil

Assylzhan Kizbayev, Dauren Zhakebayev, Ualikhan Abdibekov, Askar Khikmetov

This paper aims to propose a mathematical model and numerical modeling to study the behavior of low conductive incompressible multicomponent hydrocarbon mixture in a channel under…

Coupling simulation of the fast startup of a centrifugal pump with cavitation in a closed-loop pipeline system

Long Meng, Meng Liu, Lingjiu Zhou, Wanpeng Wang, Cuilin Liao, Lice Zhao, Tieyou Li

Cavitation inside pumps affects not only the steady state fluid flow, but also the unsteady or transient characteristic of the flow. However, cavitation inside pumps under…

Accelerating unstructured large eddy simulation solver with GPU

Hongbin Liu, Xinrong Su, Xin Yuan

Adopting large eddy simulation (LES) to simulate the complex flow in turbomachinery is appropriate to overcome the limitation of current Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes modelling…

Numerical investigation of the fluid lag during hydraulic fracturing

Bin Chen, Song Cen, Andrew R. Barron, D.R.J. Owen, Chenfeng Li

The purpose of this paper is to systematically investigate the fluid lag phenomena and its influence in the hydraulic fracturing process, including all stages of fluid-lag…

Use of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and gene expression programming methods for estimation of the bearing capacity of rock foundations

Ehsan Sadrossadat, Behnam Ghorbani, Rahimzadeh Oskooei, Mahdi Kaboutari

This study aims to examine the potential of two artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms, namely, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and gene expression…

Finite element computation of the effective thermal conductivity of two-dimensional multi-scale heterogeneous media

Lucas Prado Mattos, Manuel Ernani Cruz, Julián Bravo-Castillero

The simulation of heat conduction inside a heterogeneous material with multiple spatial scales would require extremely fine and ill-conditioned meshes and, therefore, the success…