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    A Lie-Group Adaptive Method to Identify the Radiative Coefficients in Parabolic Partial Differential Equations

    Chein-Shan Liu1, Chih-Wen Chang2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 107-134, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.025.107
    Abstract We consider two inverse problems for estimating radiative coefficients α(x) and α(x, y), respectively, in Tt(x, t) = Txx(x, t)-α(x)T(x, t), and Tt(x, y, t) = Txx(x, y, t) + Tyy(x, y, t)-α(x, y)T(x, y, t), where a are assumed to be continuous functions of space variables. A Lie-group adaptive method is developed, which can be used to find a at the spatially discretized points, where we only utilize the initial condition and boundary conditions, such as those for a typical direct problem. This point is quite different from other methods, which need the overspecified final time data. Three-fold advantages… More >

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    A Computational Inverse Technique to Determine the Dynamic Constitutive Model Parameters of Concrete

    R. Chen1, X. Han1,2, J. Liu1, W. Zhang1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 135-158, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.025.135
    Abstract In this paper, a computational inverse technique is presented to determine the constitutive parameters of concrete based on the penetration experiments. In this method, the parameter identification problem is formulated as an inverse problem, in which the parameters of the constitutive model can be characterized through minimizing error functions of the penetration depth measured in experiments and that computed by forward solver LS-DYNA. To reduce the time for forward calculation during the inverse procedure, radial basis function approximate model is used to replace the actual computational model. In order to improve the accuracy of approximation model, a local-densifying method combined… More >

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    A lattice Boltzmann-Based Study of Plasma Sprayed Particles Behaviours

    R. Djebali1, B. Pateyron2, M. ElGanaoui3
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 159-176, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.025.159
    Abstract Axisymetric lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is developed to investigate the interaction of momentum and heat between plasma hot gas and Alumina powders. The plasma flow is simulated using a double population lattice Boltzmann model and the plasma-particles interaction is modeled based on a Lagrangian approach for the motion and heat transfer equations. The present results show that the LB method is an efficient and powerful tool to comprehend and explain the very high complexity of the plasma jet physics as well as it preserves effectively the computational cost. The present results for the centerline temperature and velocity profiles agree well… More >

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    Local Buckling Prediction for Large Wind Turbine Blades

    W. Liu, X. Y. Su, Y. R. An, K. F. Huang1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 177-194, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.025.177
    Abstract Local buckling is a typical failure mode of large scale composite wind turbine blades. A procedure for predicting the onset and location of local buckling of composite wind turbine blades under aerodynamic loads is proposed in this paper. This procedure is distinct from its counterparts in adopting the pressure distributions obtained from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations as the loads. The finite element method is employed to investigate local buckling resistance of the composite blade. To address the mismatch between the unstructured CFD grids of the blade surface and the finite shell elements used during the buckling analysis, an interpolation… More >

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