This is a feasibility study for the application of a novel concept of single-needle device for localized chemotherapy. Systemic chemotherapy has numerous and severe side effects. To conduct localized (electro)chemotherapy, we designed a novel device that does not currently exist on the market. Electrochemotherapy is based on the cell membranes temp...

By Aleksandar Cvetković, Danijela Cvetković, Danko Milašinović, Nemanja Jovičić, Nikola Miailović, Dalibor Nikolić, Slobodanka Mitrović, Nenad Filipović

Efficient memory handling is one of the key issues that engineers and programmers face in developing software for numerical analysis such as the Finite Element Method. This method operates on huge matrices that have a large number of zero coefficients which waste memory, so it is necessary to save it and to work only with non-zero coefficients usin...

By Dragoljub Stevanović, Marko Topalović, Miroslav Živković

The perpetual points have been defined recently as characteristic points in a dynamical system. In many unexcited linear and nonlinear mechanical systems, the perpetual points are associated with rigid body motions and form the perpetual manifolds. The mechanical systems that admit rigid body motions as solutions are called perpetual. In the extern...

By Fotios Georgiades

The procedure for identifying concrete damage plasticity material model parameters is presented in this paper. Concrete damage plasticity material model represents a constitutive model which is based on a combination of theory of plasticity and theory of damage mechanics. This material model is often used in solving geotechnical problems due to its...

By Dragan M. Rakić, Aleksandar S. Bodić, Nikola J. Milivojević, Vladimir Lj. Dunić, Miroslav M. Živković

The purpose of this research was to investigate the prospect of continuous flow modelling in LS-DYNA using SPH-FEM coupling. The both methods (SPH and FEM) are based on the continuum mechanics, however, SPH implementation uses Lagrangian material framework, while FEM uses an Eulerian formulation for the fluid analysis, and Lagrangian formulation fo...

By Marko Topalović, Aleksandar Nikolić, Snežana Vulović, Vladimir P. Milovanović

Thermal diffusion and variable thermal conductivity effects on unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), heat and mass transfer flow past an infinite vertical porous plate have been investigated and analyzed numerically. The resultant flow governing equations are resolved numerically by the finite-difference scheme of the Crank-Nicolson type implicit met...

By M. Santha Raju, G.S.S. Raju

Due to extensive research efforts within the past thirty years, the mechanisms by which bubbles transfer energy during pool boiling are relatively well understood and have various applications in reactors, rockets, distillation, air separation, refrigeration and power cycles. In this paper, CFD analysis of heat transfer characteristics in nucleate ...

By Andrijana Stojanović, Srđan Belošević, Nenad Crnomarković, Ivan Tomanović, Aleksandar Milićević

Heart wall tissue plays a crucial role in living organisms by generating the mechanical force for blood flow. This tissue has a complex internal structure comprised mostly of muscle cells, in which biochemical energy is transformed into mechanical active stress under rhythmical electrical excitation. The overall heart functioning depends, among oth...

By Miloš Kojić, Miljan Milošević, Bogdan Milićević, Vlada Geroski, Vlada Simić, D. Trifunović, G. Stanković, Nenad Filipović

The present work displays an extensive numerical analysis for the thermo-hydrodynamic (THD) behavior in finite length journal bearings lubricated with different types of nano-lubricants considering cavitation effect. The effects of nanoparticle concentrations, cavitation and temperature rise on the performance parameters of such bearings have been ...

By Saba.Y. Ahmed, Basim A. Abass, Zainab H. Kadhim

The Prognostic and Health Management (PHM) becomes a research topic in its own right and tends to be more and more visible within the scientific community such as in Nasa Society, which has provided datasets for experiments. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of a data-driven prognostic technique used for predicting Remaining ...

By Asmaa Motrani, Rachid Noureddine, Farid Noureddine