In this paper we derive and test an extended mass-flow type stochastic particle algorithm for simulating the growth of nanoparticles that are formed in flames and reactors. The algorithm incorporates the effects of coagulation that dominates such systems, along with a particle source and surface growth. We simulate three different configurations for the creation of nanoparticles. The oxidation ...

Finite element (FE) simulation with inherent deformation is an ideal and practical computational approach for predicting welding stress and distortion in the production of complex aluminum alloy structures. In this study, based on the thermal elasto-plastic analysis, FE models of multi-pass butt welds and T-type fillet welds were investigated to obtain the inherent strain distribution in a 5A06...

An effective and rigorous approach to determine optimum welding process parameters is implementation of advanced computer aided engineering (CAE) tool that integrates efficient optimization techniques and numerical welding simulation. In this paper, an automated computational methodology to determine optimum arc welding process control parameters is proposed. It is a coupled Genetic Algorithms ...

The use of finite element (FE) analysis in the simulation of physical phenomena over the human body has necessitated the construction of meshes from images. Despite the availability of several tools for generating meshes for FE-based applications, most cannot deal directly with the raw pixel-wise representation of image data. Additionally, some are optimized for the construction of much simpler...

The present work addresses the various ingredients required for reliable finite element simulations of cold isostatic pressing (CIP) of metal powders. A plastic constitutive model for finite deformation is presented and implemented into an explicit finite element (FE) code. The FE implementation is verified so that numerical errors (both temporal and spatial errors) are kept under control. Ther...

We describe a new LIDAR technique for middle atmospheric temperature measurement. The proposed LIDAR exploits the Fe layer in the 80-100-km altitude region. Absolute temperatures are inferred by the use of the Maxwell-Boltzmann relationship from the ratio of LIDAR returns from mesospheric Fe atoms excited at 372 and 374 nm, corresponding to the ground-state resonance line and a thermally popula...

In this paper, properties of slab deformation in sizing press mill as one of the slab reduction processes in hot rolling mills have been evaluated using the elastoviscoplastic finite element method with explicit formulation. Effect of prarameters such as initial slab width and thickness, reduction, feed pitch, and anvil speed on factors such as dogbone formation, head and tail fishtail profile,...

This paper reviews a recent RedfishGroup project for the City of Santa Fe Fire and Police Department integrating wildfire simulation and agent-based modeling of traffic dynamics. Visualizations of the evacuation dynamics were used to communicate with citizens dangers faced during evacuations and to explore when shelter-in-place is a reasonable alternative to evacuation. Additional uses of the m...

Development process of the automobile part modules usually requires various kinds of numerical simulations to reduce the number of prototypes. In the past simulation, engineers had been forced to use several tools for different types of Finite Element (FE) based stress analysis, even though the simulation processes are well defined, since no FE based stress analysis software had not provided va...

This paper presents a new model of equivalent modulus derived from the Repeated Load CBR (RL-CBR) test without strain gauge. This model is an updated version of Araya et al. model (2011), the update consists of using the vertical strain as weighting factor instead of vertical displacement in the mean vertical and horizontal stresses calculation. The accuracy of equivalent modulus was improved b...