In the present study, a finite volume method is employed to model the advection-diffusion phenomenon during a pure substance melting process. The exercise is limited to a benchmark problem consisting of the 2D melting from a vertical wall of a PCM driven by natural convection in the melt. Numerical results, mainly the temporal evolution of average Nusselt number at the hot wall and the average ...

in this paper, we introduce a hybrid approach based on neural network and optimization teqnique to solve ordinary differential equation. in proposed model we use heyperbolic secont transformation function in hiden layer of neural network part and bfgs teqnique in optimization part. in comparison with existing similar neural networks proposed model provides solutions with high accuracy. numerica...

This paper aims to study the mechanical behaviour and failure mechanism of intact rocks under different loading conditions using the grain based model implemented in the universal distinct element code (UDEC). The grain based numerical model is a powerful tool to investigate complicated micro-structural mechanical behaviour of rocks. In the UDEC grain based model, the intact material is simulat...

water obtained from any source may contain impurities induced by erosion, dissolved minerals, dissolved gases and material produced from organic matter decomposing. if the amount of these substances exceed a certain limit, not only the water would not be potable, but the water containing the material will not be suitable to be used in most applications, or at least before treatment cannot be ap...

neither damage mechanics model nor elastoplastic constitutive law can solely describe the behavior of concrete satisfactorily. in fact, they both fail to represent proper unloading slopes during cyclic loading. to overcome the disadvantages of pure plastic models and pure damage approaches, the combined effects need to be considered. in this regard, various classes of plastic-damage models have...