In the last few years, the thermo-hydraulic simulation of nanofluid flow bifurcation phenomena has become of great interest to researchers and a useful tool in many engineering applications. FVM has been employed in this article to numerically explore the laminar water flow over a backward facing channel with or without carbon nanoparticles (CN). T...

By Sandip Saha, Vallampati Ramachandra Prasad, Osman Anwar Bég

In the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the effect of temperature gradient on simply supported symmetric sandwich beam. A Navier’s solution technique is used. The temperature profile is assumed to be linear across the thickness of a sandwich beam. A higher order beam theory (HBT) is used to include the effect of s...

By Sanjay Kantrao Kulkarni, Yuwaraj Marotrao Ghugal

Laminar flow, heat transfer and mass transfer of nanofluid in a porous medium have been studied using Buongiorno’s two phase model. The porous medium in place is a non-uniform octagonal shape. In order to increase the rate of heat transfer within the porous cavity, it has been equipped with a heated square at different vertical p...

By Fatima-Z Khelif, Mustapha Helmaoui, Mohamed Bouzit, Abderrahim Mokhefi

Stability of stratified incompressible viscoelastic plasma arranged in horizontal strata with quantum pressure and dust particles saturated by a porous medium is investigated. The rheology of the plasma is described by the Walters (model B). The set of non-linear partial differential equations defining the physical system are reduced to linear ordi...

By Anukampa Thakur, Veena Sharma, Gian C. Rana

Molecular dynamics simulations of the rigid-anvil collision test are performed by using a two-dimensional computational setup that mimics the traditional ballistic Taylor test. In this extensively utilized computational setup, the slender nanoscale projectiles collide with a rigid wall with hypersonic striking velocities ranging from 3 km/s to 30 k...

By Sreten Mastilović

Vibration suppression has been thoroughly studied in the last few years. A number of methods has been proposed for this purpose. An evolving method lies in the search of band gap regions, that is, certain frequency ranges where vibrations are isolated. In the present investigation, a periodic unit cell of a chiral metamaterial has been created in o...

By Panagiotis Koutsianitis, Georgios K. Tairidis, Alexandros Kougkoulos, Georgios E. Stavroulakis

The aims of this work are to investigate and compare two different flow dynamics techniques (steady state - pulsatile flow) for endothelial shear stress calculation, compare lesion specific smartFFR and ESS values, as well as total vessel smartFFR and ESS values, and investigate the relationship between smartFFR and ESS to stress MBF (myocardial bl...

By Panagiotis K. Siogkas, Georgios-Eleftherios Kalykakis, Constantinos D. Anagnostopoulos, Themis P. Exarchos

In an ultrasound-guided needle insertion, physicians should adjust a certain insertion angle and the position of the transducer to ensure that the initial point and final target are in-plane inside the imaging plane. One of the crucial problems in this interventional procedure is poor and inconsistent needle visibility in B-mode ultrasound. In this...

By Hesty Susanti, S. Suprijanto, Deddy Kurniadi

The purpose of this study is to create a universal computational model of a plane-stressed joint element, which could be implemented as a special finite element of the beam-column subassembly integrated into the FEA procedure to improve its accuracy. The combination both of the finite element method and the finite difference method has been accepte...

By Sergey Savin

This article focuses on the design and manufacture of mechanical parts that have complicated shapes using the technique of reverse design using a scanner or an MMT for data acquisition in the form of a point cloud, using CAD software (CATIA). The digital model created is used for a virtual representation of the final product. Then we get the physic...

By Salah Amroune, Ahmed Belaadi, Moussa Menaseri, Noureddine Geroski, Barhm Mohamad, Khalissa Saada, Riyad Benyettou