The constitutive relationships required for the parameterization of multiphase flow and transport problems are of critical importance to hydrologic modeling. Recently, a hypothesis has been developed that predicts a functional relationship between capillary pressure, saturation, and interfacial area. A network model was developed to test this hypothesis. Microscale physical processes were simul...

Constitutive modeling has proven useful in providing accurate predictions of material response in components subjected to a variety of operating conditions; however, the high number of experiments necessary to determine appropriate constants for a model can be prohibitive, especially for more expensive materials. Generally, up to twenty experiments simulating a range of conditions are needed to...

of the Dissertation Part I: Reconstruction of Missing Data in Social Networks Based on Temporal Patterns of Interactions Part II: Constitutive Modeling in Solid Mechanics for Graphics Applications

Advances in plasticity based analytical modeling and finite element methods (FEM) based numerical modeling of metal cutting have resulted in capabilities of predicting the physical phenomena in metal cutting such as forces, temperatures and stresses generated. However, accuracy and reliability of these predictions rely on a work material constitutive model describing the flow stress, at which w...