In this paper, vibration analysis of thick functionally graded beam with simply supported boundary condition under constant axial load is studied. The beam has a uniform cross-sectional area and the mechanical properties of the fungtionally graded beam are assumed to be vary through the thickness of the beam. Fundamental relations, the equilibrium and stability equations based on the displaceme...

Title of dissertation: OPTIMAL APPROXIMATION SPACES FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH ROUGH COEFFICIENTS Qiaoluan Li, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor John E. Osborn Department of Mathematics The finite element method has been widely used to solve partial differential equations by both engineers and mathematicians for the last several decades. This is due to its well-known...

Nowadays, the technology intends to use materials such as magnesium alloys due to their high strength to weight ratio in engine components. As usual, engine cylinder heads and blocks has made of various types of cast irons and aluminum alloys. However, magnesium alloys has physical and mechanical properties near to aluminum alloys and reduce the weight up to 40 percents. In this article, a new ...

in this paper, eringen’s nonlocal elasticity and timoshenko beam theories are implemented to analyze the bending vibration for non-uniform nano-beams.  the governing equations and the boundary conditions are derived using hamilton’s principle. a generalized differential quadrature method (gdqm) is utilized for solving the governing equations of non-uniform timoshenko nano-beam for pinned-pinned...

In this paper, non-polynomial spline method for solving Coupled Burgers Equations are presented. We take a new spline function. The stability analysis using Von-Neumann technique shows the scheme is unconditionally stable. To test accuracy the error norms 2L, L are computed and give two examples to illustrate the sufficiency of the method for solving such nonlinear partial differential equation...

in this paper, conjugate heat transfer of magneto hydrodynamic mixed convection of nanofluid about a vertical slender hollow cylinder embedded in a porous medium with high porosity have been numerically studied. the forchheimer’s modification of darcy’s law was used in representing the nanofluid motion inside the porous media. the governing boundary layer equations were transformed to non-dimen...

This paper presents the application of the method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) for the analysis of hydrodynamic thrust bearings. GDQ is a simple, efficient, high-order numerical technique and it uses the information on all grid points to approach the derivatives of the unknown function. The effectiveness of the solution technique is verified by comparing the GDQ computed results...

Due to the symmetry feature in nature, fractional differential equations precisely measure and describe biological physical processes. Multiterm time-fractional order has been introduced model complex processes different phenomena. This article presents a numerical method based on cubic B-spline finite element for solution of multiterm equations. The temporal part is defined Caputo sense while ...

For matrix functions f we investigate how to compute a matrix-vector product f(A)b without explicitly computing f(A). A general method is described that applies quadrature to the matrix version of the Cauchy integral theorem. Methods specific to the logarithm, based on quadrature, and fractional matrix powers, based on solution of an ordinary differential equation initial value problem, are als...