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- Effect of CNT Agglomeration on the Electrical Conductivity and Percolation Threshold of Nanocomposites: A Micromechanics-based Approach
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.5, pp. 343-365, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.343
- Abstract The addition of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to a matrix material is expected to lead to an increase in the effective electrical properties of nanocomposites. However, a CNT entanglement caused by the matrix viscosity and the high aspect ratio of the nanotubes often inhibits the formation of a conductive network. In the present study, the micromechanics-based model is utilized to investigate the effect of CNT agglomeration on the electrical conductivity and percolation threshold of nanocomposites. A series of parametric studies considering various shapes and curviness distributions of CNTs are carried out to examine the effects of entanglement on the electrical performance…
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- An Approach with HaarWavelet Collocation Method for Numerical Simulations of Modified KdV and Modified Burgers Equations
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.5, pp. 315-341, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.315
- Abstract In this paper, an efficient numerical schemes based on the Haar wavelet method are applied for finding numerical solution of nonlinear third-order modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation as well as modified Burgers' equations. The numerical results are then compared with the exact solutions. The accuracy of the obtained solutions is quite high even if the number of calculation points is small.
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- Vertical Vibrations of an Elastic Foundation with Arbitrary Embedment within a Transversely Isotropic, Layered Soil
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.5, pp. 281-313, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.281
- Abstract This paper introduces a numerical model to investigate the vibratory response of elastic and rigid circular plates embedded in viscoelastic, transversely isotropic, three-dimensional layered media. In the present numerical scheme, the boundary-value problem corresponding to the case of time-harmonic concentrated and distributed axisymmetric vertical ring loads within a layered half-space is formulated according to an exact stiffness method. Its solution results in the required influence functions for the modeling of the present problem. The case of an embedded flexible plate is formulated in terms of a variational method. The deflection profile of the plate is written in terms of generalized…
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- Numerical Simulation of 3D Rough Surfaces and Analysis of Interfacial Contact Characteristics
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.4, pp. 251-279, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.251
- Abstract Mechanical behaviors arising at the contact interface largely depend on its surface topographies, particularly when it comes to rough surfaces. A numerical simulation based on an appropriate characterization of rough surfaces especially in terms of three dimensional can be of great significance when it comes to capturing the deformation patterns of micro-scale contacts. In this paper, a simple and practical scheme is developed to generate 3D rough surfaces and to analyze and evaluate the contact characteristics. Firstly amplitude and spatial statistical characterizations of asperities are introduced to avert from the redundancy of topography data caused by traditional measuring methods. A…
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- Particle-based Simulations of Flows with Free Surfaces Using Hyperbolic-typeWeighting Functions
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.4, pp. 229-249, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.229
- Abstract In this paper, we present the application of the particle-based simulations to complicated fluid flow problem with free surfaces. The particle approach is based on the MPS (Moving Particle Simulation) method using hyperbolic-type weighting function to stabilize the spurious oscillatory solutions for solving the Poisson equation with respect to the pressure fields. The hyperbolic-type weighting function is constructed by differentiating the characteristic function based on neural network framework. The weighting function proposed herein is collaterally applied to the kernel function in the SPH-framework. Numerical results demonstrate the workability and validity of the present MPS approach through the dambreaking flow problem.
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- Bäcklund Transformations: a Link Between Diffusion Models and Hydrodynamic Equations
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.4, pp. 215-227, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.215
- Abstract This work presents a new analytical method to transform exact solutions of linear diffusion equations into exact ones for nonlinear advection-diffusion models. The proposed formulation, based on Bäcklund transformations, is employed to obtain velocity fields for the unsteady two-dimensional Helmholtz equation, starting from analytical solutions of a heat conduction type model.
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- Vibration Control and Separation of a Device Scanning an Elastic Plate
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.3, pp. 189-213, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.189
- Abstract The control and separation of a scanning device moving along an arbitrary trajectory on an elastic plate is investigated. The system is a moving mass problem and is difficult to analyze directly. A semi-analytical method for the movingmass model is presented here. Without vibration control, the separation of a vehicle from a plate is likely to happen. The mechanism of separation of a vehicle from a plate is studied. Moreover, the effects of several parameters on vibration separation and the critical speed of system are studied. An effective control methodology is proposed for suppressing vibration and separation This model is…
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- Nonlinear Dynamics of Duffing Oscillator with Time Delayed Term
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.3, pp. 155-187, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.155
- Abstract The improved constrained optimization harmonic balance method(COHBM) is presented to solve the Duffing oscillator with time delayed term. Within the framework of the proposed method, the analytical gradients of the objective function and nonlinear quality constraints with respect to optimization variables are formulated and the sensitivity information of the Fourier coefficients can also obtained. The general formulas of the geometrically nonlinear and time delayed terms are analytically derived, which makes the calculations of nonlinear differential equations in the frequency domain easily. A stability analysis method based on the analytical formulation of the nonlinear equality constraints is presented for the nonlinear…
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- A High-Order Finite-Difference Scheme with a Linearization Technique for Solving of Three-Dimensional Burgers Equation
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.3, pp. 139-154, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.139
- Abstract The objective of this paper aims to present a numerical solution of high accuracy and low computational cost for the three-dimensional Burgers equations. It is a well-known problem and studied the form for one and two-dimensional, but still little explored numerically for three-dimensional problems. Here, by using the High-Order Finite Difference Method for spatial discretization, the Crank-Nicolson method for time discretization and an efficient linearization technique with low computational cost, two numerical applications are used to validate the proposed formulation. In order to analyze the numerical error of the proposed formulation, an unpublished exact solution was used.
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- Construction of an Edge Finite Element Space and a Contribution to the Mesh Selection in the Approximation of the Second Order Time Harmonic Maxwell System
- CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.103, No.2, pp. 111-137, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.103.111
- Abstract This work is concerned with the development of the so-called Whitney and Nédélec edge finite element method for the solution of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations. Initially, the second order time harmonic Maxwell systems, as well as their variational formulation, are presented. In the sequence, Whitney and Nédélec element spaces, whose functions present continuous tangential components along the interface are built of adjacent elements. Then, numerical experiments validate the performance of Whitney and Nédélec first order elements in a two-dimensional domain. The discrete dispersion relation for the elements shows that the numerical phase velocity can be used as an error estimator.…
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