Engineering Computations: Volume 34 Issue 8

Non-linear radiative squeezed flow in a rotating frame

Naveed Ahmed, Umar Khan, Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din, Saeed Ullah Jan

In this current study, the authors aim to analyze non-linear radiative squeezed flow in a rotating frame of viscous fluid.

Hydromagneto quadratic natural convection on a lid driven square cavity with isothermal and non-isothermal bottom wall

Venkatadri K., Gouse Mohiddin S., Suryanarayana Reddy M.

This paper aims to focus on linear and non-linear convection in a lid-driven square cavity with isothermal and non-isothermal bottom surface.

Particle shape, thermal radiations, viscous dissipation and joule heating effects on flow of magneto-nanofluid in a rotating system

Umar Khan, Adnan Abbasi, Naveed Ahmed, Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and Joule heating effects on the flow of a magneto-nanofluid between two horizontally…

Flow of magneto-nanofluid over a thermally stratified bi-directional stretching sheet in the presence of Ohmic heating: A numerical study of particle shapes

Umar Khan, Adnan Abbasi, Naveed Ahmed, Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din

This paper aims to explore the flow of nanofluid over bi-directional stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic field and linear thermal radiation.

A study for steady nanofluid flow between parallel plates

Syed Tauseef Mohyud-din, Muhammad Asad Iqbal, Muhammad Shakeel

In this paper, the authors study the behavior of heat and mass transfer between parallel plates of a steady nanofluid flow in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In the…

Solving imprecisely defined vibration equation of large membranes

Smita Tapaswini, Chunlai Mu, Diptiranjan Behera, Snehashish Chakraverty

Vibration of large membranes has great utility in engineering application such as in important parts of drums, pumps, microphones, telephones and other devices. So, to obtain a…

Metamodel-based design optimization employing a novel sequential sampling strategy

Leshi Shu, Ping Jiang, Li Wan, Qi Zhou, Xinyu Shao, Yahui Zhang

Metamodels are widely used to replace simulation models in engineering design optimization to reduce the computational cost. The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel…

A new meshless approach in simulating free surface flows using continuous MLS shape functions and Voronoi diagram

Gholamreza Shobeyri, Mohammad Yourdkhani

The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient and accurate mesh-less method to simulate free flows with continuous deformation in boundary positions.

Optimal sensors and actuators placement for large-scale unstable systems via restricted genetic algorithm

Masoud Seyed Sakha, Hamid Reza Shaker

One of the fundamental problems in control systems engineering is the problem of sensors and actuators placement. Decisions in this context play a key role in the success of…

The comparison of two reliable methods for the accurate solution of fractional Fisher type equation

S. Saha Ray

The purpose of this paper is the comparative analysis of Haar Wavelet Method and Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method for fractional Fisher type equation. In this paper, two…

A state space boundary element method for elasticity of functionally graded materials

Changzheng Cheng, Zhilin Han, Zhongrong Niu, Hongyu Sheng

The state space method (SSM) is good at analyzing the interfacial physical quantities in laminated materials, while it has difficulty in calculating the mechanical quantities of…

A novel hybrid stress meshless method for two-dimension elastic structure with a traction-free circular boundary

Zilong Cao, Yupu Guan, Wei Chen

To increase the use of the meshless method, a hybrid stress method is introduced into the meshless method.

Influence of Lorentz forces on nanofluid flow in a porous cavity by means of non-Darcy model

M. Sheikholeslami

This main purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of Lorentz forces on magnetic nanofluid free convection in a porous media. Control volume based finite element…

A set of constitutive functions for dried body to predict entire deformation process of ceramic products during firing

Seishiro Matsubara, Kenjiro Tarada, Takaya Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Saitou, Manabu Umeda, Yasuko Mihara, Kai Oide, Hiroto Shin, Yasuhiro Katsuda

The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of constitutive functions for dried bodies for accurate prediction of the entire deformation process of ceramic products during…

Numerical simulation for magnetohydrodynamic three dimensional flow of Casson nanofluid with convective boundary conditions and thermal radiation

Sumit Gupta, Kalpna Sharma

The purpose of this study is to analyze magnetohydrodynamic three-dimensional flow of Casson nanofluid over a stretching sheet in presence of thermophoresis and Brownian motion…

A novel design for microfluidic chamber based on reverse flow optimization

Xueye Chen, Tiechuan Li

This paper aims presents topology optimization of microfluidic channels with reverse flow.

8-node and 12-node plane elements based on assumed stress quasi-conforming method immune to distorted mesh

Changsheng Wang, Yang Wang, Caixia Yang, Xiangkui Zhang, Ping Hu

Severe accuracy loss may occur when finite element comes to the distorted mesh model, and the calculation may fail when element mesh degenerates into concave quadrangle or the…

Hybrid multilevel solution of sparse least-squares linear systems

Christos K. Filelis-Papadopoulos, George A. Gravvanis

Large sparse least-squares problems arise in different scientific disciplines such as optimization, data analysis, machine learning and simulation. This paper aims to propose a…

An algorithm inspired by social spiders for truss optimisation problems

Grasiele Regina Duarte, Afonso Celso de Castro Lemonge, Leonardo Goliatt da Fonseca

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of social spider algorithm (SSA) to solve constrained structural optimisation problems and to compare its results with…

Haar wavelets operational matrix based algorithm for computational modelling of hyperbolic type wave equations

Sapna Pandit, Ram Jiwari, Karan Bedi, Mehmet Emir Koksal

The purpose of this study is to develop an algorithm for approximate solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations.

An efficient and novel technique for solving continuously variable fractional order mass-spring-damping system

S. Sahoo, S. Saha Ray, S. Das

In this paper, the formulation and analytic solutions for fractional continuously variable order dynamic models, namely, fractional continuously mass-spring damper (continuously…

Numerical algorithms for solving shallow water hydro-sediment-morphodynamic equations

Chunchen Xia, Zhixian Cao, Gareth Pender, Alistair Borthwick

The purpose of this paper is to present a fully conservative numerical algorithm for solving the coupled shallow water hydro-sediment-morphodynamic equations governing fluvial…

Adaptive finite element method for eigensolutions of regular second and fourth order Sturm-Liouville problems via the element energy projection technique

Si Yuan, Kangsheng Ye, Yongliang Wang, David Kennedy, Frederic W. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to present a numerically adaptive finite element (FE) method for accurate, efficient and reliable eigensolutions of regular second- and fourth-order…

Parametric finite element modeling and tooth contact analysis of spur and helical gears including profile and lead modifications

Yanzhong Wang, Yang Liu, Wen Tang, Peng Liu

The finite element method has been increasingly applied in stress, thermal and dynamic analysis of gear transmissions. Preparing the models with different design and modification…