In this article, vibration analysis of an Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on a Pasternak-type foundation is studied. The governing equation is solved by using a spectral finite element model (SFEM). The solution involves calculating wave and time responses of the beam. The Fast Fourier Transform function is used for temporal discretization of the governing partial differential equation into a se...

Using finite element methods, we need to answer these questions: • What is the appropriate functional space V for the solution? • What is the appropriate weak or variational form of a differential equation? • What kind of basis functions or finite element spaces should we choose? • How accurate is the finite element solution? We briefly address these questions in this Chapter. Recalling that fi...

saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) can exhibit sustained oscillations during the operation in a continuous bioreactor that adversely affects its stability and productivity. because of heterogeneous nature of cell populations, the cell population balance equation (pbe) can be used to capture the dynamic behavior of such cultures. in this work, an unstructured-segregated model is used for d...