...Xin Meng; Qingyang Ren; Songqiang Xiao; Bin Chen; Hongfei Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to simulate the tension process of tension-type anchor cable and to explore the mechanical characteristics and tension-torsion coupling effect of anchor cable subjected to tension. Design...

...Wagner de Campos Galuppo; Ana Magalhães; Luís Lima Ferrás; João Miguel Nóbrega; Célio Fernandes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop new boundary conditions for simulating the injection molding process of polymer melts. Design/methodology/approach The boundary conditions are derived...

...Dan Chen; Fen Liu; Yi Zhang; Yun Zhang; Huamin Zhou Purpose The numerical simulation of dispersed-phase evolution in injection molding process of polymer blends is of great significance in both adjusting material microstructure and improving performances of the final products. This paper aims...

...Lin Deng; Junjie Liang; Yun Zhang; Huamin Zhou; Zhigao Huang Purpose Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has made great success in computational fluid dynamics, and this paper aims to establish an efficient simulation model for the polymer injection molding process using the LBM. The study aims...

...R Lohner; Muhammad Baqui; Eberhard Haug; Britto Muhamad Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a first-principles model for the simulation of pedestrian flows and crowd dynamics capable of computing the movement of a million pedestrians in real-time in order to assess the potential...

... the recommendations from Torre-Casanova et al. (2013) (bond stress-bond slip relation Eligehausen et al., 1982 , for example) (Figure 5 for the monotonic case): (Equation 13) Reinforced concrete Simulation Bond slip model Reinforced concrete tie Reinforced concrete structures...

...Ankit Garg; Akhil Garg; Wan-Huan Zhou; Kang Tai; M C Deo Purpose – For measuring the effect of crop root content on soil water retention curves (SWRC), a simulation approach (multi-gene genetic programming (MGGP)), which develops the model structure and its coefficients automatically can...

...Esteban Della Nave; Eduardo Natalio Dvorkin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a simulator of oil well drilling processes. Design/methodology/approach – The simulator incorporates the main variables that are used by drilling engineers in the definition...

... on the resonance detuning parameter, given by: Simulation has proven to be a valuable tool in understanding SBS-based distributed sensor systems (Marble et al., 2004 ; Kalosha et al., 2006 ; Minardo et al., 2011). Accurate simulation models allow for the rapid design...

... Al₂O₃‐10 vol% ZrO₂ microstructure. A bilinear, time‐independent cohesive zone law is implemented for describing fracture behaviour of grain boundaries. Simulation conditions are similar to those found at contact between a head and a cup of hip prosthesis. Residual stresses arisen from...

...‐fidelity simulation defined on the parametric space. Typically m is the cardinal of a set of quantities computed during a CFD simulation hence m is large. The evaluations of S at different sites of the parametric space must be available to build the POD‐based model...

...Qiaosheng Liu; Juntong Xi; Zhuoqi Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a universal, robust and efficient method to obtain a reliable initial guess solution for the one‐step finite element simulation. Design/methodology/approach In one‐step simulation, getting initial guess...

...Y T Feng; Ignacio G. Tejada; Rafael Jimenez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that there are some underlying principles of granular media that can be derived from statistical mechanics and that could be useful when considered in the context of computer simulations. Design/methodology...

...G. Shobeyri; M.H. Afshar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an adaptive refinement strategy based on a posteriori error estimate for the efficient simulation of free surface flows using discrete least squares meshless (DLSM) method. Design/methodology/approach A pressure...

...D. Balzani; D. Böse; D. Brands; R. Erbel; A. Klawonn; O. Rheinbach; J. Schröder Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a computational framework for the simulation of patient‐specific atherosclerotic arterial walls. Such simulations provide information regarding the mechanical stress...

...Yang Zhengjun; Wang Fujun Purpose Large eddy simulation (LES) is widely used in prediction of turbulent flow. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new dynamic mixed nonlinear subgrid‐scale (SGS) model (DMNM), in order to improve LES precision of complex turbulent flow, such as flow including...

... on solvers from deterministic algorithms. Probabilistic analysis is referred to as the approximation of the response by a Taylor series expansion about the mean input. Alternatively, stochastic simulation implies random sampling of the input and statistical evaluation of the output. Findings Beyond...

...C.R. Leonardi; D.R.J. Owen; Y.T. Feng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel computational framework capable of simulating the block cave phenomenon of fines migration in two dimensions. Fines migration is characterised by the faster movement of fine and often low‐grade material...

...C.R. Leonardi; D.R.J. Owen; Y.T. Feng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel computational framework based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and discrete element method (DEM) capable of simulating fines migration in three dimensions. Fines migration occurs in a block cave mine...

... intervention. A relatively simple constitutive model was implemented strictly for demonstrative purposes. Findings Well known examples were simulated to verify the applicability of the method. The simulations revealed the capabilities of the method and reasonable correspondence with reference results...