Engineering Computations: Volume 28 Issue 6

Numerical simulation of the performance of a human nasal cavity

Francisco Castro, Teresa Parra, César Quispe, Pilar Castro

The paper aims to focus on airflow and heat transfer inside the human nasal cavity. The contribution of this work is the inertial analysis of the momentum and thermal stress of…

Shock wave simulations using Sinc Differential Quadrature Method

Alper Korkmaz, İdris Dağ

This paper aims to present a numerical solution of non‐linear Burger's equation using differential quadrature method based on sinc functions.

Probabilistic evaluation of seismic liquefaction potential in field conditions: A kinetic energy approach

Yaser Jafarian, Mohammad H. Baziar, Mohammad Rezania, Akbar A. Javadi

In this paper, the peak kinetic energy density (KED) of soil particles during earthquake excitation is used as an intensity measure for the evaluation of liquefaction potential…

Seismic response analysis models of an oil storage tank with a floating roof

Toshio Nagashima, Takenari Tsukuda, Hiroshi Suemasu, Kiyoshi Sogabe

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the finite element models on the response of a free surface or a floating roof, which is important for safety assessment…

Dependence of contact area on the resolution of fractal interfaces in elastic and inelastic problems

Olympia Panagouli, Euripidis Mistakidis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the resolution with which interfaces of fractal geometry are represented, on the contact area and consequently on the…

Optimum energy on the fragmentation of kidney stones by direct impact

Antonio Caballero, Jean‐Francois Molinari

This paper aims to describe a numerical approach to the fragmentation of kidney stones by direct impact.

The truss‐like discrete element method in fracture and damage mechanics

Luis Kosteski, Ignacio Iturrioz, Ruben Galiano Batista, Adrián P. Cisilino

The purpose of this paper is to further develop the truss‐like discrete element method (DEM) in order to make it suitable to deal with damage and fracture problems.