This research work is an initiative to characterize the thermal behavior of power transformers in presence of winding short circuit faults as one of the most important causes of failures in power transformers. The paper contributes for this matter by accurately estimating the excessive power losses and temperature rise due to winding short circuit faults, through a circuit-magnetic-thermal FEM ...

The Finite Element Method (FEM) has been used in the broad field of continuum mechanics in engineering disciplines for several decades. However, recently, some scholars have attempted to apply the method to social science phenomena. What is the scope of using FEM in social science-related fields? Anchored in the literature on social sciences, this paper, firstly, reviews the scope of using FEM ...

Time-stepping finite element method (FEM) has become a powerful tool in solving transient electromagnetic fields. The formulation can include complex issues such as time harmonics and space harmonics, nonlinear magnetic property of iron materials, external circuit and mechanical motion in the system equations. However, as the derivatives of physical quantities are usually unknown at the initial...

The coupled damage/plasticity model for meso-level which is ply-level in case of Uni-Directional (UD) Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) is implemented. The mathematical formulations, particularly the plasticity part, are discussed in a comprehensive manner. The plastic potential is defined in effective stress space and the damage evolution is based on the theory of irreversible thermodynamics. T...

Thermo-hyperelastic problems at finite strains belong to a category of non-linear coupled problems that impose challenges on their numerical treatment. We present the weak-form for a 1-D coupled, stationary, thermo-hyperelastic system with constant or temperature-dependent material properties. The coupled system is discretized by a ‘monolithic’ high-order finite element method (p-FEM) based on ...

Hybrid FEM/MoM methods combine the finite element method (FEM) and the method of moments (MoM) to model inhomogeneous unbounded problems. These two methods are coupled by enforcing the continuity of tangential fields on the boundary that separates the FEM and MoM regions. When modeling complex geometries with many elements on the boundary, the MoM part of the problem is the bottleneck of the hy...

We propose a novel, highly efficient and accurate space and time adaptive higher-order finite element method (hp-FEM) for evolutionary microwave heating problems. Since the electric field E and temperature field T are very different in nature, we approximate them on individual meshes that change dynamically in time independently of each other. Although the approximations of E and T are defined ...

This paper presents a comparison of numerical methods used to model large scale acoustic coupled fluidstructure interaction (FSI) problems for single and double-walled cylindrical shells. The finite element method (FEM) is used to model the structure while the fast multipole boundary element method (FMBEM) is used to model the fluid domain and both models are coupled on the shared boundary surf...