Showing papers in "International Journal of Engineering Science in 2005"

TL;DR: In this article, an exact solution for the multilayered rectangular plate made of functionally graded, anisotropic, and linear magneto-electro-elastic materials is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the Fourier sine transforms are used to obtain exact solutions corresponding to the motions of a second grade fluid, due to the cosine and sine oscillations of an infinite flat plate as well as those induced by an oscillating pressure gradient.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the elastic stress and strain fields of dislocations and disclinations in the framework of Mindlin's gradient elasticity and obtained exact analytical solutions for the stress and elastic strain fields.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element analysis and micromechanics based averaging of a representative volume element (RVE) is performed to determine the effective dielectric, magnetic, mechanical, and coupled-field properties of an elastic matrix reinforced with piezoelectric and piezomagnetic fibers as functions of the phase volume fractions, the fiber arrangements in the RVE, and the fiber material properties with special emphasis on the poling directions of the pieziolectric or piezusmagnetic fibers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present numerical studies of waves interacting with a cylindrical point absorber that is directly driving a seabed-based linear generator, using potential theory assuming an inviscid irrotational incompressible fluid.

TL;DR: In this article, a linear theory for elastic materials with inner structure, whose particles in addition to the classical displacement, possess microtemperatures, is presented. And the exponential stability of the solutions when considering the theory with microtemperature is proved.

TL;DR: In this paper, a penalty finite element analysis with bi-quadratic rectangular elements is performed to investigate the influence of uniform and non-uniform heating of wall(s) on natural convection flows in a square cavity.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized Jeffreys model with the fractional calculus is built to deal with some unsteady transient rotational flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid in an annular pipe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the velocity field and the associated tangential tension corresponding to a potential vortex in an Oldroyd-B fluid are determined by means of the Hankel transform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM/Sn) has been implemented to solve the filtered Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) for the radiation modelling and this has been combined with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the flow, temperature and composition fields within the combustion chamber.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors dealt with non-Fickian mass transport through polymeric membranes via continuum mechanics and introduced an appropriate function relating the stress to concentration and time, such that the model predicts a realistic stress distribution at equilibrium also.

TL;DR: In this paper, the three-dimensional Green's functions of infinite, two-phase and semi-infinite magnetoelectroelastic media under point forces, point charge and magnetic monopole are all presented in terms of elementary functions for all cases of distinct eigenvalues and multiple eigen values.

TL;DR: A bidispersed suspension of small solid particles that have different densities and settling velocities in a fluid that contains motile gyrotactic micro-organisms is considered and it is found that the number density distribution of solid particles of one type impacts that of particles of the other type as well as that of micro- organisms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the wave propagation and their reflection and transmission from a plane interface between two different microstretch elastic solid half-spaces in perfect contact were investigated, and it was shown that the amplitude ratios of reflected and transmitted waves are functions of angle of incidence, frequency and are affected by the elastic properties of the media.

TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental equations of the three-dimensional problem of generalized thermoelasticity with one relaxation parameter including heat source in an infinite rotating elastic medium under the influence of magnetic field were obtained as a vector-matrix differential equation form in the Laplace-Fourier transform domain.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method, is applied to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics in an electrically conducting fluid near an isothermal sheet.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited Huilgol's examples and discussed in detail the underlying physics that make Astarita's criterion to fail for certain flows, leading to a new criterion for flow classification based on the concept of persistence of straining.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady laminar natural convective flow and heat transfer of micropolar fluids in enclosures with a centrally located discrete heater in one of its sidewalls by applying a finite difference method was numerically investigated.

TL;DR: The theory of diffusive stresses based on the diffusion-wave equation with time-fractional derivative of fractional order α is formulated in this paper, which is a mathematical model of a wide range of important physical phenomena and can be obtained as a consequence of the non-local constitutive equation for the matter flux vector with the long-tale power time-nonlocal kernel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined loss of ellipticity and associated failure for fiber-reinforced compressible non-linearly elastic solids under uniaxial plane deformations.

TL;DR: In this article, a computational model for the growth of SixGe1−x single crystals by Liquid Phase Diffusion (LPD) from the germanium-rich side of the binary SixGe 1−x phase diagram is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the RNS/Prandtl equations are presented as an asymptotic limit of the Navier-Stokes equations and used to predict the order of magnitude of wall shear stress in a straight constricted pipe.

TL;DR: In this article, the role played by boundary conditions in defining a meaningful space average of deformation, defining the effective stress, and establishing a connection between the idea of effective stress from micro-mechanics and that based on the virial theorem.

TL;DR: In this article, a periodic array of cracks in an infinite functionally graded material under mechanical and/or thermal loading is investigated and some suggestions are made for the design of thermal resistive functionally graded materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stability analysis of a thin layer of viscoelastic fluid flowing down a non-uniformly heated inclined plane is considered based on the assumption of constant temperature gradient (positive or negative) along the plane.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study on the steady state developing electro-osmotic flow in closed-end cylindrical micro-channels is presented, which includes the Poisson-Boltzmann equation describing the electrical distribution and the modified two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations governing the velocity field.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional numerical study has been carried out to investigate the drag and Nusselt number characteristics under forced convection conditions between a streaming power law liquid and a rectangle (with its longer side aligned with the direction of flow) placed symmetrically between two solid walls.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the problem of heat flow in a micromorphic continua with microtemperatures and obtained a new theory of heat for materials with inner structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the linear theory of homogeneous and isotropic thermo-microstretch elastic solids and established a uniqueness result with no definiteness assumption on constitutive coefficients.

TL;DR: In this article, the electrical and elastic characterisation of dispersions of pseudo-oriented ellipsoids of rotation is studied. But the authors focus on the non-random orientational distribution between the random and the parallel inclusions.