Keerasut Suttanarak¹, Nirut Naksuk², Jarruwat Charoensuk¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.10, No.2, pp. 87-88, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.010.087

Abstract The water management in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEMFC) is crucial in operating PEMFC system concerning water balance between electrode and membrane. Improper cell humidification might lead to drying or flooding of the electrodes, which degrades cell performance. In this research, effects of gas humidification are studied to aid a system designer in achieving the optimal condition of fuel cell system. The investigation takes into account the conservation of mass, momentum, energy and species as well as the water transport equations including electro-osmotic drag and back diffusion through numerical simulation. More >

A.R. da Silva¹, A. Silveira-Neto^2,3, D.A. Rade^2,4, R.Francis⁴, E.A. Santos⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.50, No.3, pp. 285-304, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.050.285

Abstract In the context of computational fluid dynamics a numerical investigation of incompressible flow around fixed pairs of rigid circular cylinders was carried out. The two-dimensional filtered Navier-Stokes equations with the Smagorinsky sub-grid scale model were solved using a Cartesian non-uniform grid. The immersed Boundary Method with the Virtual Physical Model was used in order to model the presence of two circular cylinders embedded in the flow. The fractional time step method was used to couple pressure and velocity fields. The simulations were carried out for Reynolds number equal to 72,000 for pitch ratio equal to More >

M.J. Galán Moreno, J.J. Sánchez Medina, L. Álvarez Álvarez E. Rubio Royo¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.50, No.3, pp. 191-226, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.050.191

Abstract Urban traffic is a key factor for the development of a city. There exist many different approaches facing traffic optimization. In our case we have focused on traffic lights optimization. We have designed and tested a new architecture to optimize traffic light cycle times. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the good performance of our architecture in a congested scenario. We have simulated several congestion situations for a very large real world traffic network - "La Almozara" in Zaragoza, Spain. Our results seem encouraging in this extreme situation. As we increase the load More >

Q.W. Ma^1,2, J.T. Zhou¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 277-304, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.043.277

Abstract Following our previous work, the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerin me -thod based on Rankine source solution (MLPG_R) will be extended in this paper to deal with breaking waves. For this purpose, the governing equation for pressure is improved and a new technique called Mixed Particle Number Density and Auxiliary Function Method (MPAM) is suggested for identifying the free surface particles. Due to complexity of the problem, two dimensional (2D) breaking waves are only concerned here. Various cases are investigated and some numerical results are compared with experimental data available in literature to show the newly developed More >

E. Majchrzak¹, B. Mochnacki², A. L. Greer³, J. S. Suchy⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.41, No.2, pp. 131-146, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.041.131

Abstract Multi-layered thin metal film subjected to a short-pulse laser heating is considered. Mathematical description of the process discussed bases on the equation in which there appear the relaxation time and the thermalization time (dual-phase-lag-model). In this study we develop a three level implicit finite difference scheme for numerical modelling of heat transfer in non-homogeneous metal film. At the interfaces an ideal contact between successive layers is assumed. At the stage of computations a solution of only one three-diagonal linear system corresponds to transition from time t to t + Δt. The mathematical model, numerical algorithm and examples More >

Shang Ma¹, Xiong Zhang^1,2, Yanping Lian¹, Xu Zhou³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.39, No.2, pp. 101-124, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.039.101

Abstract Numerical simulation of high explosive explosion problems is a big challenge to traditional numerical methods because explosion usually involves extremely large deformation and multi-material interaction of different phases. Recently developed meshfree methods show much advantages over mesh-based method for problems associated with very large deformation. Some of them have been successfully applied to impact and explosion problems, such as smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Similar to SPH, material point method (MPM) is an efficient meshfree particle method solving continuum problems. With combination of the advantages of Eulerian and Lagrangian methods, MPM is a promising numerical tool… More >

F. Mechighel^1,2, M. El Ganaoui¹, M. Kadja², B. Pateyron³, S. Dost⁴

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.5, No.4, pp. 313-330, 2009, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2009.005.313

Abstract A numerical study has been carried out to investigate the three-dimen -sional buoyant flow in a parallelepiped box heated from below and partially from the two sidewalls (a configuration commonly used for solidification problems and crystal growth systems). Attention has been paid, in particular, to phenomena of symmetry breaking and transition to unsteady non-symmetric convection for a low Prandtl number fluid (Pr=0.01). The influence of an applied horizontal magnetic field on the stability properties of the flow has been also considered. Results obtained may be summarized as follows: In the absence of magnetic field and More >

K. Yamamoto¹, M. Tanaka¹, S. Tashiro¹, K. Nakata¹, K. Yamazaki², E. Yamamoto², K. Suzuki², A. B. Murphy³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.7, No.1, pp. 1-6, 2008, DOI:10.3970/icces.2008.007.001

Abstract Authors have used a numerical model of stationary helium TIG arc welding taking into account the iron, chromium and manganese vapors produced from the weld pool surface and have simulated the distribution of the metal vapors, plasma temperature, fluid flow velocity and the formation of the weld pool. The concentration of manganese vapor in arc plasma was much higher compared with the composition of manganese for stainless steel. More >

H. T. Wang, G. Hall, S. Y. Yu, Z. H. Yao

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 153-174, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2008.037.153

Abstract Graphite materials are widely used in gas-cooled nuclear reactors as both moderators and reflectors. The graphite properties change when the microstructure damage occurs due to the in-core radiation and oxidation, thereby having a strong impact on the service life of graphite. In this paper, the X-ray tomography and the boundary element method (BEM) are introduced to the microstructure modeling and numerical simulations of both the mechanical and thermal property changes of nuclear graphite due to radiolytic oxidation. The model is established by the three-dimensional X-ray scan on the isotropic nuclear graphite Gilsocarbon, which is used… More >

C. Gato and Y. Shie¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 269-292, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2008.033.269

Abstract Numerical simulations of large deformation dynamic fracture in thin shell structures using 3-D meshfree method is presented. Due to the smoothness of the meshfree shape functions, they are well suited to simulate large deformation of thin shell structures while avoiding ill-conditioning as well as stiffening in numerical computations. Dynamic fracture is modeled by simple criterion, i.e. removing connectivity between adjacent nodes once a fracture criterion is met. The main advantage of such 3-D meshfree continuum approach is its simplicity in both formulation and implementation as compared to shell theory approach, or degenerated continuum approach. Moreover, More >