Engineering Computations: Volume 35 Issue 4

Solution of interval shallow water wave equations using homotopy perturbation method

Perumandla Karunakar, Snehashish Chakraverty

This paper aims to present solutions of uncertain linear and non-linear shallow water wave equations. The uncertainty has been taken as interval and one-dimensional interval…

Prediction and optimization model of activated carbon double layer capacitors based on improved heuristic approach genetic algorithm neural network

Zhen Yang, Yun Lin, Xingsheng Gu, Xiaoyi Liang

The purpose of this paper is to study the electrochemical properties of electrode material on activated carbon double layer capacitors. It also tries to develop a prediction model…

Numerical simulation for external magnetic field influence on Fe3O4-water nanofluid forced convection

Mohsen Sheikholeslami

The purpose of this paper is to simulate nanofluid laminar steady flow in a lid-driven porous cavity under the impact of Lorentz forces.

Computer-extended series solution for laminar flow between a fixed impermeable disk and a porous rotating disk

Vishwanath B. Awati, Oluwole Daniel Makinde, Manjunath Jyoti

The purpose of this paper is to study the laminar boundary layer flow between a stationary nonporous disk and a porous rotating disk, both being immersed in large amount of fluid.

Finite element analysis of magnetohydrodynamic flow over flat surface moving in parallel free stream with viscous dissipation and Joule heating

Santosh Chaudhary, Mohan Kumar Choudhary

The purpose of this paper is to investigate two-dimensional viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting fluid…

Effects of inlet cavitation on swirling flow in draft-tube cone

Jing Yang, Qingjuan Hu, Zhengwei Wang, Jinghuan Ding, Xianyu Jiang

For Francis turbine, the vortex flow in the draft tube plays an important role in the safe and efficient operating of hydraulic turbine. The swirling flow produced at the blade…

The thin plate spline collocation method for solving integro-differential equations arisen from the charged particle motion in oscillating magnetic fields

Pouria Assari

The purpose of this study is to obtain a scheme for the numerical solution of Volterra integro-differential equations with time periodic coefficients deduced from the charged…

Self-adaptive migration NSGA and optimal design of inductors for magneto-fluid hyperthermia

Elisabetta Sieni, Paolo Di Barba, Fabrizio Dughiero, Michele Forzan

The purpose of this paper is to present a modified version of the non-dominated sorted genetic algorithm with an application in the design optimization of a power inductor for…

Cooling enhancement by nanofluid mixed convection inside a horizontal vented cavity submitted to sinusoidal heating

Ismail Arroub, Ahmed Bahlaoui, Abdelghani Raji, Mohammed Hasnaoui, Mohamed Naïmi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate numerically mixed convection of Al₂O₃-water nanofluids flowing through a horizontal ventilated cavity heated from below by a…

Predicting the ground vibration induced by mine blasting using imperialist competitive algorithm

Katayoun Behzadafshar, Fahimeh Mohebbi, Mehran Soltani Tehrani, Mahdi Hasanipanah, Omid Tabrizi

The purpose of this paper is to propose three imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA)-based models for predicting the blast-induced ground vibrations in Shur River dam region…

Numerical simulation of the anisotropic properties of a columnar jointed rock mass under triaxial compression

Long Yan, Weiya Xu, Rubin Wang, Qingxiang Meng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the anisotropic characteristics of the special structure of a columnar jointed rock masses and provide reference to forecast the…

An evolutionary based framework for many-objective optimization problems

Kimia Bazargan Lari, Ali Hamzeh

Recently, many-objective optimization evolutionary algorithms have been the main issue for researchers in the multi-objective optimization community. To deal with many-objective…