the ability to perform rolling contact fatigue (rcf) experiments in wheel–rail material is provided by a new small–scale test rig, manifesting the actual dynamic behaviour of the railway system. in this paper, a multi-body dynamics (mbd) model is proposed, simulating the vibration behaviour of the prescribed rig. the new testing facility is modelled using a three-dimensional model of the vehicl...

1. Abstract In this paper, we implement the extended finite element method (X-FEM) combined with the level set method to solve structural shape and topology optimization problems. Numerical comparisons with the conventional finite element method in a fixed grid show that the X-FEM leads to more accurate results without increasing the mesh density and the degrees of freedom. Furthermore, the mes...

The acoustic characteristics of acoustic tubes with protrusions at the radiation end are computed by FEM simulation. In the rst experiment, two di erent shapes of the protrusions, a symmetrical and an asymmetrical shape with respect to the vertical, are investigated. Frequency characteristics of the radiation impedance are computed from simulation results. The simulation results show that the r...

This paper proposes and analyzes a stabilized finite-volume method FVM for the threedimensional stationary Navier-Stokes equations approximated by the lowest order finite element pairs. The method studies the new stabilized FVM with the relationship between the stabilized FEM FEM and the stabilized FVM under the assumption of the uniqueness condition. The results have three prominent features i...

The wave based method (WBM) is considered for the steady-state dynamic analysis of acoustic problems as an alternative for the finite element method (FEM). The WBM exhibits better convergence properties with respect to model sizes, but the computation (CPU) times obtained by the current MATLAB implementation are large compared to commercially available FEM codes. Recently, a high performance FO...