Seismic barriers: theory and numerical simulations

Thermally actuated shape-memory polymers: Experiments, theory, and numerical simulations

With the aim of developing a thermo-mechanically-coupled large-deformation constitutive theory and a numerical-simulation capability for modeling the response of thermally-actuated shape-memory polymers, we have (i) conducted large strain compression experiments on a representative shape-memory polymer to strains of approximately unity at strain rates of 10 s and 10 s, and at temperatures rangi...

Theory and numerical simulations of defect ordering in irradiated materials.

A general theory for the spatial ordering of immobile clustered defects in irradiated materials is presented here. A vectorial form for the Fourier transforms of perturbations in the concentration of point and clustered defects is derived. Linear stability analysis indicates that, under conditions appropriate for void growth ~high temperature!, instabilities leading to spatially ordered microst...

Partially quenched chiral perturbation theory and numerical simulations

The dependence of the pseudoscalar meson mass and decay constant is compared to one-loop Partially Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory (PQChPT) in a numerical simulation with two light dynamical quarks. The characteristic behaviour with chiral logarithms is observed. The values of the fitted PQChPT-parameters are in a range close to the expectation in continuum in spite of the fact that the lat...

Recent Developments on Compton Scatter Tomography: Theory and Numerical Simulations

Simulations of seismic acquisition footprint

Seismic acquisition footprint generally consists of modulations in recorded amplitudes that are spatially correlated to the surface locations of sources and receivers used in a survey. These amplitude variations obscure the true reflection response of the subsurface. In this study, synthetic seismic data were produced using numerical modelling code written in MATLAB. An “exhaustive” dataset was...