Abstract-In this paper, some recent works of the authors, in the area of the field-boundary element method for finite/small strain elastoplasticity [Okada, Rajiyah and Atluri (1988a) J. Appl. Mech. 55, 786-794; (1988b) Comput. Strucr. 30,275-288; (1989) Comput. Mech. 4, 165-175; (1990) Inr. 1. Numer. Meth. Engrtg 29, 15-351, are summarized. Certain new integral representations for displacement ...

In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this Nitsche-XFEM technique in the paper [A. Hansbo, P. Hansbo, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 191 (2002)]. In general, the resulting linear systems have very...

Perhaps the most important contribution sports vision could make, is to demonstrate a direct relationship between vision and sporting performance. Scientific proof, if it exists, could have a profound effect on thinking in optometry, the sporting institutions and amongst coaches and sports participants (50% of the population). It may also have implications in other areas of occupational optomet...

We compare rain event size distributions derived from measurements in climatically different regions, which we find to be well approximated by power laws of similar exponents over broad ranges. Differences can be seen in the large-scale cutoffs of the distributions. Event duration distributions suggest that the scale-free aspects are related to the absence of characteristic scales in the meteor...

The presence of even a small amount of surfactant at the particle-laden fluid interface subjected to shear makes surface flow incompressible if the shear rate is small enough [T. M. Fischer et al., J. Fluid Mech. 558, 451 (2006)]. In the present paper the effective surface shear viscosity of a flat, low-concentration, particle-laden incompressible interface separating two immiscible fluids is c...

Although object oriented database systems o er more powerful modeling capability than relational database systems their performance su ers from the increased complexity in the data model Thus e cient index mech anisms must be used to improve the performance In this paper two new signature methods for indexing object oriented databases and the associated operations are de scribed The cost models...

Head and neck cancer (HNC) is one of the most prevalent human malignancies, af‐ fecting different anatomic sites of the upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) such as the oral cavity, larynx, and naso-, oro-, and hypopharynx. HNC develops through the ac‐ cumulation of multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations in a multistep process. In this issue, the aim is to describe epigenetic mechanisms behind...

The paper deals with three-term recurrence relations for Boubaker and related polynomials, as well as some properties including zero distribution of such kinds of polynomials. Also, an application of these polynomials for obtaining approximate analytical solution of Love’s integral equation is presented. This Fredholm integral equation of the second kind appeared in an electrostatic problem ana...

Int. J. Adv. Engg. Res. Studies/III/I/Oct.-Dec.,2013/58-60 Review Article EVALUATING THE DESIGN OF AN AUTOMOBILE SILENCER THROUGH FEA METHODOLOGY FOR MINIMIZING THE VIBRATIONS GENERATED DURING ITS OPERATION 1 Kaushik Ramchandra Gadre, 2 T. A. Jadhav, 3 Swapnil S. Kulkarni Address for Correspondence 1 ME-Mech/Design (pursuing), 2 Associate Prof., Sinhagad College of Engineering, Pune 3 Director-...