Jingjing Liu¹, Long Yu^1,*, Xiaoyan Li², Jing Liu²

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 1-1, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.012234

Abstract Owing to uncontrollable deformation during the launching process, significant hazards such as airbag blast failure can be observed, which can cause severe damage to surrounding structures. Involving gas-solid coupling and nonlinear damage, the analysis and evaluation of airbag blasts are complex. Therefore, an effective method to analyze the possible blast behavior by coupling smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the finite element method (FEM) has been presented in this study. First, a single airbag compression model was established to calculate the stiffness curve and the rationality of the numerical method was verified through comparison with experiments.… More >

Peilei Yan^1,2,*, Endong Guo^1,2, Houli Wu^1,2, Liangchao Zhang^1,2

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.2, pp. 1655-1678, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.044760 - 29 January 2024

Abstract A coupled numerical calculation method combining smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the finite element method (FEM) was implemented to investigate the seismic response of horizontal storage tanks. A numerical model of a horizontal storage tank featuring a free liquid surface under seismic action was constructed using the SPH–FEM coupling method. The stored liquid was discretized using SPH particles, while the tank and supports were discretized using the FEM. The interaction between the stored liquid and the tank was simulated by using the meshless particle contact method. Then, the numerical simulation results were compared and analyzed… More >

Qingyun Zeng^1,2, Mingxin Zheng^1,*, Dan Huang²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.12, pp. 2981-3005, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.029427 - 27 October 2023

Abstract A complex interface exists between water flow and solid particles during hydraulic soil erosion. In this study, the particle discrete element method (DEM) has been used to simulate the hydraulic erosion of a granular soil under moving bed conditions and surrounding terrain changes. Moreover, the weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (WCSPH) approach has been exploited to simulate the instability process of the free surface fluid and its propagation characteristics at the solid–liquid interface. The influence of a suspended medium on the water flow dynamics has been characterized using the mixed viscosity concept accounting for the More > Graphic Abstract

Qiuhong Li¹, Wenhao Huang^1,*, Joey Sanchez², Ping Wang¹, Qiang Ding³, Jiufa Wang⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2093-2121, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021340 - 20 September 2022

Abstract Based on Kirchhoff plate theory and the Rayleigh-Ritz method, the model for free vibration of rectangular plate with rectangular cutouts under arbitrary elastic boundary conditions is established by using the improved Fourier series in combination with the independent coordinate coupling method (ICCM). The effect of the cutout is taken into account by subtracting the energies of the cutouts from the total energies of the whole plate. The vibration displacement function of the hole domain is based on the coordinate system of the hole domain in this method. From the continuity condition of the vibration displacement More >

Jiacheng Qian¹, Chenqi Zou¹, Mengyan Zang^1,*, Shunhua Chen^2,3,*, Makoto Tsubokura⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.2, pp. 251-280, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020738 - 21 July 2022

Abstract The stone chip resistance performance of automotive coatings has attracted increasing attention in academic and industrial communities. Even though traditional gravelometer tests can be used to evaluate stone chip resistance of automotive coatings, such experiment-based methods suffer from poor repeatability and high cost. The main purpose of this work is to develop a CFD-DEM-wear coupling method to accurately and efficiently simulate stone chip behavior of automotive coatings in a gravelometer test. To achieve this end, an approach coupling an unresolved computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method and a discrete element method (DEM) are employed to account… More >

Yasunori Yusa¹, Shinobu Yoshimura¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.99, No.1, pp. 87-104, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.099.087

Abstract To speed up the elastic–plastic analysis of a large-scale model with a crack in which plasticity is observed near the crack, the partitioned coupling method is applied. In this method, the entire analysis model is decomposed into two non-overlapped domains (i.e., global and local domains), and the two domains are analyzed with an iterative method. The cracked local domain is modeled as an elastic–plastic body, whereas the large-scale global domain is modeled as an elastic body. A subcycling technique is utilized for incremental analysis to reduce the number of global elastic analyses. For a benchmark More >

Yasunori Yusa¹, Shinobu Yoshimura¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.91, No.6, pp. 445-461, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2013.091.445

Abstract For large-scale fracture mechanics simulation, a partitioned iterative coupling method is investigated. In this method, an analysis model is decomposed into two domains, which are analyzed separately. A crack is introduced in one small domain, whereas the other large domain is a simple elastic body. Problems concerning fracture mechanics can be treated only in the small domain. In order to satisfy both geometric compatibility and equilibrium on the domain boundary, the two domains are analyzed repeatedly using an iterative solution technique. A benchmark analysis was performed in order to validate the method and evaluate its More >

Quan Zheng, Jing Wang, Jing-ya Li

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 101-102, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.017.101

Abstract This paper investigates the coupling method of the finite element and the natural boundary element using an elliptic artificial boundary for solving exterior anisotropic problems, and obtains new error estimate that depends on the mesh size, the location of the elliptic artificial boundary, the number of terms after truncating from the infinite series in the integral. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of this method. More >

W. H. Peng, G. H. Cao, Z. Z. Dong, S. C. Li

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.19, No.1, pp. 13-14, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.019.013

Abstract Numerical method is applied to investigate the Darcy-Stokes equations, which is governing the steady incompressible Stokes flow past a circular cavity in a porous medium. The free fluid flow is modeled by the incompressible Stokes equations, and the flow in the porous medium is imposed by Darcy equations. Based on domain decomposition method with D-N alternating iteration algorithm, the coupling method of finite difference method and natural boundary element method is studied for the coupling Darcy-Stokes equations under a certain pressure difference.
Divide the whole domain into two non-intersecting bounded subdomains and . The boundary of… More >

Zhao Huiming, Dong Zhengzhu, Chen Jiarui, Yang Min

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 29-30, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.018.029

Abstract The advantage of the coupling method of natural boundary element method(NBEM) and finite element method (FEM) is introduced firstly. Then the principle of the direct coupling method of NBEM and FEM, and its implementation, are discussed. The comparison of results between the direct coupling method and FEM proves that the direct coupling method is simple, feasible and valid in practice. More >