PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS OF SHALLOW H.P. SHELL

A reduced constraint hp finite element method for shell problems

We propose and analyze an hp finite element method for the Nagdhi shell model, based on rectangular elements. We show that for the bending-dominated case, assuming sufficient smoothness on the solution, the method is locking free in terms of both h and p, as the thickness of the shell tends to zero. Our results are established under the assumption that the geometrical coefficients appearing in ...

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Vibration Optimization of Fiber-Metal Laminated Composite Shallow Shell Panels Using an Adaptive PSO Algorithm

The paper illustrates the application of a combined adaptive particle swarm optimization (A-PSO) algorithm and the finite strip method (FSM) to the lay-up optimization of symmetrically fiber-metal laminated (FML) composite shallow shell panels for maximizing the fundamental frequency. To improve the speed of the optimization process, adaptive inertia weight was used in the particle swarm optimiz...

Singular solutions for the shallow-water equations

The method of weak asymptotics is used to find singular solutions of the shallow-water system which can contain Dirac-δ distributions (Espinosa & Omel’yanov, 2005). Complex-valued approximations which become real-valued in the distributional limit are shown to extend the range of possible singular solutions. It is shown, in this paper, how this approach can be used to construct solutions contai...

Exact Solitary Wave Solutions in Shallow Water

Long's equation describes stationary flows to all orders of nonlinearity and dispersion. Dissipation is neglected. In this paper, Long's equation is used to attempt to model the propagation of a solibore -a train of internal waves in shallow water at the deepening phase of the internal tide. 1. The Solibore Phenomenon The internal tide in shallow water often has a sawtooth shape rather than a s...