Long Deng¹, Xueying Huang^2,3,*, Heng Zuo⁴, Yuan Zheng², Chun Yang⁵, Yunhu Song¹, Dalin Tang⁶

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.2, pp. 115-125, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.04076

Abstract The mechanisms of systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the mitral valve in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) remain unclear. To investigate the angle of attack between blood flow and mitral valve leaflets at pre-SAM time point, patient-specific CT-based computational models were constructed for 5 patients receiving septal myectomy surgery to obtain pre- and post-operative 2D vector flow mapping. The comparisons between pre- and post-operative angles of attack based on 2D vector flow mapping of 5 patients were performed. It was found that there was no statistically significant difference between pre- and post-operative angles of attack (61.1±t More >

Shen Yu¹, Jizhe Wang^2,*, Yan Guo^2,*, Xiuzhen Sun², Shuang Shen³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.2, pp. 315-322, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.04028

Abstract A three-dimensional numerical model of the membranous labyrinth of the semicircular canal of the inner ear was established to investigate the effects of canalithiasis of BPPV on the balance function of the inner ear. The movement of otolith particles in the membranous labyrinth was simulated when a person turns his head to a specific position. The effects of otolith movements on the balance function of the inner ear were simulated for different numbers, diameters, and initial positions of otoliths. The simulation results show that the otolith diameter affects the movement duration of otoliths in the More >

Yanxia Wang¹, Yu Wang², Siqi Li³, ur Rehman Aziz³, Shutian Liu¹, Kairong Qin^2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.2, pp. 127-147, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.03985

Abstract Assessment of the magnitude and pattern of wall shear stress (WSS) in vivo is the prerequisite for studying the quantitative relationship between exercise-induced WSS and arterial endothelial function. In the previous studies, the calculation of the WSS modulated by exercise training was primarily based upon the rigid tube model, which did not take non-linear effects of vessel elastic deformation into consideration. In this study, with an elastic tube model, we estimated the effect of a bout of 30-minute acute cycling exercise on the WSS and the flow rate in the common carotid artery according to… More >

Fengjuan Wang^1,2, Shengping Wu^1,2,*, Jinyang Jiang^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.1, pp. 1-10, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.03834

Abstract Corrosion inhibition performances of three purine derivatives were investigated systematically by employing DFT and molecular modeling. The relationship between macroscopic inhibition efficiency and quantum chemical properties was discussed from multiple perspectives, based on frontier orbital theory, and Fukui function theories. Comparative experimental and theoretical studies were taken, indicating the inhibition efficiency could be analyzed in the order of guanine <2,6-diaminopurine <2,6-dithiopurine. The sulphur atom (S5) was validated to be the most susceptible site for electrophile via quantitative surface analysis. More >

Jinguo Zhao^{1, *}

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.1, pp. 69-88, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.02415

Abstract With the improvement of automobile ownership in recent years, the incidence of traffic accidents constantly increases and requirements on the security of automobiles become increasingly higher. As science and technology develops constantly, the development of automobile automatic obstacle avoidance and cruise system accelerates gradually, and the requirement on distance control becomes stricter. Automobile automatic obstacle avoidance and cruise system can determine the conditions of automobiles and roads using sensing technology, automatically adopt measures to control automobile after discovering road safety hazards, thus to reduce the incidence of traffic accidents. To prevent accidental collision of automobile More >

Muhammad Shoaib Arif ^{1, *}, Yasir Nawaz¹, Mairaj Bibi², Zafar Ali¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.1, pp. 31-49, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.00434

Abstract This communiqué is opted to study the flow of nanofluid because of heated disk rotation subjected to the convective boundaries with chemical reaction of first order. Wherein Buongiorno’s model for nanofluids is used due to its wide range of applications and the rotating disk under investigation is permeable. Small magneto Reynolds parameter and boundary layer assumptions are carried out to formulate the problem. The system of nonlinear partial differential equations governing the flow problem is converted into the set of ordinary differential equations by using particular relations known as Von Karman transformations. The complicated set More >

Mena E. Tawfik^{1, 2}, Peter L. Bishay^{3, *}, Edward A. Sadek¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.115, No.1, pp. 105-129, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.115.105

Abstract Monte Carlo Simulations (MCS), commonly used for reliability analysis, require a large amount of data points to obtain acceptable accuracy, even if the Subset Simulation with Importance Sampling (SS/IS) methods are used. The Second Order Reliability Method (SORM) has proved to be an excellent rapid tool in the stochastic analysis of laminated composite structures, when compared to the slower MCS techniques. However, SORM requires differentiating the performance function with respect to each of the random variables involved in the simulation. The most suitable approach to do this is to use a symbolic solver, which renders… More >

Junmeng Li¹, Yanli Huang¹, Wenyue Qi¹, Guoqiang Kong¹, Tianqi Song¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.115, No.1, pp. 85-103, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.115.085

Abstract In fully mechanized solid backfilling mining (FMSBM), the loose gangues backfill body (LGBB) that filled into the goaf becomes the main body of bearing the overburden load. The deformation resistance of LGBB is critical for controlling overburden movement and surface subsidence. During the process of load bearing, LGBB will experience grain crushing, which has a significant effect on its deformation resistance. Gangues block will be accompanied with obvious acoustic emissions (AE) features in process of slipping, flipping and damaging. Under confined compression test, monitoring the AE parameters of LGBB can reveal the impact mechanism of… More >

Jiaquan Xie^1,3,*, Fuqiang Zhao^1,3, Zhibin Yao^1,3, Jun Zhang^1,2

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.115, No.1, pp. 67-84, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.115.067

Abstract In this paper, the three-variable shifted Jacobi operational matrix of fractional derivatives is used together with the collocation method for numerical solution of three-dimensional multi-term fractional-order PDEs with variable coefficients. The main characteristic behind this approach is that it reduces such problems to those of solving a system of algebraic equations which greatly simplifying the problem. The approximate solutions of nonlinear fractional PDEs with variable coefficients thus obtained by three-variable shifted Jacobi polynomials are compared with the exact solutions. Furthermore some theorems and lemmas are introduced to verify the convergence results of our algorithm. Lastly, More >

Tianyu Wu¹, Wenliang Qiu^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.115, No.1, pp. 47-66, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2018.115.047

Abstract The action of drifting ice floes may induce strong vibrations of offshore structures, and further reduce the structural safety and serviceability. The aim of this paper is to develop a method by considering ice crushing as a stochastic process. On the basis of ice force spectrum which considers the time and spatial correlation between the local ice forces, a simulation methodology to generate the stochastic ice forces process of vertical offshore structure is proposed. The crucial segment in the simulation is to accurately calculate the effective ice pressure, and it is accomplished by an empirical… More >