Silicon in single crystal form has been the material of choice for the first demonstration of the MIT microengine project. However, because it has a relatively low melting temperature, silicon is not an ideal material for the intended operational environment of high temperature and stress. In addition, preliminary work indicates that single crystal silicon has a tendency to undergo localized de...

Awell-established numerical approach to solve the Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible žuids is Chorin’s projection method [1], whereby the žuid velocity is explicitly updated, and then an elliptic problem for the pressure is solved, which is used to orthogonally project the velocity eld to maintain the incompressibility constraint. In this paper, we develop a mathematical correspondence...

Several authors have proposed mechanical models to predict long term tooth movement considering both the tooth and its surrounding bone tissue as isotropic linear elastic materials coupled to either an adaptative elasticity behavior or an update of the elasticity constants with density evolution. However, tooth movements obtained through orthodontic appliances result from a complex biochemical ...

In this paper we study a numerical method for the simulation of free surface flows of viscoplastic (Herschel-Bulkley) fluids. The approach is based on the level set method for capturing the free surface evolution and on locally refined and dynamically adapted octree cartesian staggered grids for the discretization of fluid and level set equations. A regularized model is applied to handle the no...

In this paper the basic mathematical structure of a thermo-poro-mechanical model for faults under rapid shear is discussed. The analysis is 1D in space and concerns the infinitely extended fault. The gauge material is considered as a two-phase material consisting of a thermo-elastic fluid and of a thermoporo-elasto-viscoplastic skeleton. The governing equations are derived from first principles...

Crystal plasticity modeling and simulation is an important predictive tool for understanding the deformation of polycrystalline materials under diverse loading conditions. The validity accuracy these simulations depend on choice constitutive law. One main components law plastic hardening This study, therefore, focuses effect phenomenological Voce dislocation density based full field predictions...