Despite such very appealing features of the radial basis function (RBF) as inherent meshfree and independent of dimension and geometry, the various RBF-based schemes [1] of solving partial differential equations (PDE’s) still confront some deficiencies. For instances, the lack of easy-to-use spectral convergent RBFs, ill-conditioning and costly evaluation of full interpolation matrix. The purpo...

Landmines are an open problem in many countries of the world. They cause injuries and death and no technique proposed to date guarantees fast and 100% reliable detection alone. To this purpose, at the Humanitarian Demining Laboratory of “La Sapienza” University of Rome, several solutions are being studied. In this paper, numerical simulations of a prototype thermal detection system are reported...

in this paper rationalized haar (rh) functions method is applied to approximate the numerical solution of the fractional volterra integro-differential equations (fvides). the fractional derivatives are described in caputo sense. the properties of rh functions are presented, and the operational matrix of the fractional integration together with the product operational matrix are used to reduce t...

In this paper, the cell-centered finite volume method (CC-FVM) has been presented to simulate the axisymmetric radial flow toward a pumping well. The model is applied to the unstructured triangular grids which allows to simulate inhomogeneous and complex-shaped domains. Due to the non-orthogonality of the irregular grids, the multipoint flux approximation (MPFA) methods are used to discretize t...

This study presents the results of an experimental program to investigate the effectiveness of an innovative combined FRP technique using combination of externally bonded (EB) FRP fabrics and near surface mounted (NSM) FRP rods for flexural strengthening of existing reinforced concrete (RC) two-wayslabs with low clear cover thickness. Three full-scale RC slabs (1500×1500×120 mm) were tested und...

the present paper is concerned with  the investigation of disturbances in a homogeneous  transversely isotropic thermoelastic rotating  medium with two temperatures, in the presence of the combined effects of   hall currents and magnetic field due to thermomechanical sources. the formulation is applied to the thermoelasticity theories developed by green-naghdi theories of type-ii and type-iii. ...