The Monte Carlo method for photon transport is often used to predict the volumetric heating that an optical source will induce inside a tissue or material. This method relies on constant (with respect to temperature) optical properties, specifically the coefficients of scattering and absorption. In reality, optical coefficients are typically temperature-dependent, leading to error in simulation...

Finite element applications have customarily been used as a means for the analysis of constant-property prototypes prior to their physical fabrication. To a lesser extent they have been made instrumental for purposes of design generation and fabrication of variable material-property prototypes. The work explores the potential of applying finite element methods in the early stages of the design ...

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In many forming processes the evolution of the material properties evolves with time and changes as temperature varies, forcing the use of a time-dependent thermomechanical computational model to simulate those processes. If the property under study could be described as a collectivity of microentities jumping over a certain distribution of energy barriers from one metastable state to another, ...

This work presents thermoplastic analysis of FG rotating diskswith variable thickness and constant angular velocity. The solutions are obtained by variable material property (VMP) theory. In this theory, the domain is divided into some finite sub-domains in the radial direction, in which the properties are assumed to be constant and the form of the elastic response is used to solve elastic-plas...