Engineering Computations: Volume 7 Issue 3

Which parallel finite element algorithm for which architecture and which problem?

Charbel Farhat

The various forms of parallel numerical algorithms that speed up finite element computations are as numerous as the number of researchers working on the problem. In this paper, we…

Dynamic analysis of thin‐walled structures using polynomial and exact solutions: application to thin‐walled pipes

A.E. Kanarachos, N. Koutsidis, C.N. Spentzas

We present a combined or mixed method for the dynamic analysis of thin‐walled structures, based on the superposition of beam and shell strains and displacements. Polynomial or…

A boundary element method to calculate the fluid hydrodynamic mass matrix in structural analysis including free surface waves

A. Rangette

A boundary element method has been developed to calculate the added mass matrix of fluid coupled structures in the case when the fluid is assumed to be compressible and inviscid…

Edge effects in Mindlin—Reissner plates using adaptive mesh refinement

A. Selman, E. Hinton, W. Atamaz‐Sibai

An adaptive mesh refinement procedure is used in static plate bending finite element analysis to study the edge effects in Mindlin—Reissner plates.

Numerical prediction of an oil‐fired water tube boiler

Maria da Graça Carvalho, Pedro Jorge Coelho

A fully three‐dimensional model has been applied to an oil‐fired water tube boiler in order to predict the flow, temperature, mixture fraction, species concentrations and the heat…

Introduction of anisotropy in the numerical simulation of the forging process

François Bay, Jean‐Loup Chenot

In order to optimize production and save material, numerical simulation is becoming more and more used in industrial forging processes.

Modelling the three‐dimensional fluid flow and heat transfer in a moving weld pool

Chuan Song Wu, Keh C. Tsao

A three‐dimensional model for the fluid convection and heat flow in arc welding is proposed. It extends the previous two‐dimensional model by accounting also for the fluid flow…

An expert system for forming quadrilateral finite elements

Y.C. Liu, H.A. ElMaraghy, K.F. Zhang

A knowledge‐based system for forming quadrilateral finite elements, XFORMQ, was developed at the Centre of Flexible Manufacturing Research and Development of McMaster University…

Area moments and areas of beam cross‐sections numerically determined

J.F. Stelzer

Sometimes beam cross‐sections with strange geometries occur. Then it is tedious to calculate the values which are needed for a beam analysis, such as the area, the centre of…