In this paper, a meshless Galerkin boundary node method is developed for boundary-only analysis of the interior and exterior incompressible viscous fluid flows, governed by the Stokes equations, in biharmonic stream function formulation. This method combines scattered points and boundary...

Composite components of wind turbine blade are assembled with adhesive. In order to assess structural integrity of blades it is needed to investigate fracture of joints. In this study, finite element analysis based on fracture mechanics was conducted to characterize failure of adhesive joint for...

The paper describes the intention of the authors to determine whether it is possible to predict the endurance of radial truck tires using finite element modeling. Two approaches are used. One is a stress analysis parameter approach. According to the approach, by studying the effect of tire...

In this paper, the occurrence of cavitation on horizontal axis marine current turbine blades has been investigated by numerical methods. To implicate the effects of cavitation on turbine performance, a momentum blade element method was used in conjunction with a boundary element method which...

In this paper, we present a numerical method for the computation of surface water waves over bottom topography. It is based on a series expansion representation of the Dirichlet–Neumann operator in terms of the surface and bottom variations. This method is computationally very efficient using...

A symmetric boundary element method for the static contact problem with Coulomb friction is presented. The method is based on the penalty approximation, a smooth approximation of the Coulomb law of friction and a symmetric discretization of the Steklov–Poincaré operator. The convergence of...

In this paper the determination of the time-dependent heat transfer coefficient in one-dimensional transient heat conduction from a non-standard boundary measurement is investigated. For this inverse nonlinear ill-posed problem the uniqueness of the solution holds. Numerical results obtained...

In this paper we propose a method for constrained shape optimization governed with a nonlinear axisymmetric magnetostatic state problem and we apply it to an optimal shape design of an electromagnet. The state problem is solved via Hiptmair’s symmetric coupling of finite elements employed in...