In the paper a recent enhancement to the open source package SfePy (Simple Finite Elements in Python, http://sfepy.org) is introduced, namely the addition of another numerical discretization scheme, the isogeometric analysis, to the original implementation based on the nowadays standard and wellestablished numerical solution technique, the finite element method. The isogeometric removes the nee...

Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into complex physical phenomena. The classical Lagrangian typically limited low orders convergence suffer from violation divergence-free condition for magnetic field or conservation invariants. Th...

A major difficulty in finite element analysis is the preparation of an effective mesh leading to a good response solution. In engineering analyses of complex components, oftentimes, much more time is spent to arrive at an adequate mesh than to obtain the solution of the established finite element model. The difficulty in meshing is due to the fact that finite elements need to abut each other an...

in this paper, single, bi-layered and three-layered tube hydroforming processes were numerically simulated using the finite element method. it was found that the final bulges heights resulted from the models were in good agreement with the experimental results. three types of modeling were kept with the same geometry, tube material and process parameters to be compared between the obtained hydr...