Prediction of Runoff-Evapotranspiration to Estimate Leachate Generation in a Landfill
The fraction of precipitation that remains after runoff and surface water evaporation, enters into the solid waste landfill and generates leachate flow at the bottom. A part of the infiltration...
This note summarizes recent progress in developing h-p adaptive finite element methods for the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. A brief review of the h-p strategies and...
Structural Response Statistics by Boundary Elements
In this paper a boundary element method for problems of random vibration of continuous structures is presented. The method reduces the effect of the mesh size on the accuracy of the results....
Finite Element Approximation to Heat Transfer Through Construction Glass Blocks
The purpose of this study is to investigate the heat transfer through combined solid and fluid media, taking into account the interaction between the solid and the fluid. The main example...
Explicit Integration Schemes in Structural Dynamics
Based on the recursive explicit form of Newmark ?-? method developed by Zienkiewicz for displacements, similar recursive expressions for velocities and accelerations are developed. General...
Numerical Solutions for Transient and Nearly Periodic Waves in Shallow Water
This paper presents a study of several numerical methods for solving transient (time-dependent) model equations for waves in shallow water by means of the method of lines. The physical...
Stability of Nearly Breaking Long Waves
This paper addresses the development of equations for nonlinear dispersive waves that have improved stability properties over the commonly used Boussinesq-type equations. Boussinesq-type...
The Influence of the Viscosity on the Progressive Waves
In a stationary atmosphere, the free-surface progressive wave motion in a real fluid of uniform depth is analysed by using Navier-Stokes equation, and its mechanism is described in first-order...
Chaotic Advection in a Shear Layer
The developing (in time) inviscid shear layer, although not yet in its turbulent regime, displays all the characteristics of chaotic advection. The corresponding Lyapunov exponent is strictly...
The Moving Contact Line
The flow field around the moving contact line, generated by an impulsive, horizontal motion of a vertical plate, is studied numerically. The two-dimensional, unsteady Navier-Stokes equations,...
Interaction of Viscous Free-Surface Flow with Submerged Structure
The fully-transformed unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved numerically in a time-dependent boundary-fitted coordinate system. In addition, the complete viscous free-surface...
Simulation of Blood-Heart Interaction: Validation of Approach
An existing pressure correction method to model unsteady flow with arbitrarily moving boundaries has been adapted to simulate the interaction of three-dimensional blood flow with a mitral...
Three-Dimensional Blood Flows Associated with Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsation
Three-dimensional blood flow processes associated with intra-aortic balloon counterpuslation (IABP) are calculated using a Cray YMP supercomputer. The mathematical model incorporates a...
Finite Analytic Explicit Scheme for Viscous Burgers' Equation
Burgers' equation is numerically analyzed by finite analytic method. The basic idea of finite analytic method is to incorporate the analytic solution of partial differential...
Forced Vibration Analysis of Frame Structures Subjected to Support Movements by the Distributed Mass Method
The dynamic response of frame structures subjected to support movements as a time varying excitation is analyzed by the distributed mass method. The continuous nature of a structure can...
Dynamic Behavior of a Non-Linear Cable Truss
The equations of motion of a geometrically non-linear cable truss are presented. The behavior of the truss subject to harmonic excitation is studied....
The Analysis of a Spherical Shell
The analysis of a spherical shell may be performed by using the integral equation method. For a continuum structure, this method is computationally efficient and requires simple input...
Engineering Applications of the Analysis of a Spherical Shell
In a companion paper, a set of two integral equations have been established for a spherical shell under axisymmetric loads. This set of equations may be solved numerically by using Nystrom...
Time-Delayed Control of Nondispersive Continuous Systems
This paper deals with the noncollocated, time-delayed active point control of continuous systems. It considers systems of finite spatial extent which can be modelled by the undamped wave...
Foias-Temam Approximations of Attractors for Galloping Oscillators
A method for the algebraic approximation of attractors recently developed by Foias and Temam is adapted for application to autonomous galloping oscillators. We compare results obtained...
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