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Numerical analysis of an intercity bus structure : a simple unifilar model proposal to assess frontal and semifrontal crash scenarios
(2016) [Journal article]To improve the safety of the intercity bus structure against impact scenarios and to reduce the injuries and death in traffic accidents it is crucial in a country with continental dimensions like Brazil, where the road ... -
Numerical analysis of an overtopping wave energy converter subjected to the incidence of irregular and regular waves from realistic sea states
(2022) [Journal article]The present study aims to evaluate the difference in the fluid-dynamic behavior of an overtopping wave energy converter under the incidence of irregular waves based on a realistic sea state when compared to the incidence ... -
Numerical analysis of cross-laminated timber building under seismic loading : assessment under EN 1998 and NBR 15421 regulations
(2023) [Dissertation]Civil Construction is getting increasingly concerned with decreasing the environmental impact of its activities. Because of that, new materials and techniques are being developed with the main objective of fulfilling housing ... -
Numerical analysis of the available power in an overtopping wave energy converter subjected to a sea state of the Coastal Region of Tramandaí, Brazil
(2022) [Journal article]The present work proposes a numerical study of an overtopping wave energy converter. The goal of this study is to evaluate the theoretical power that can be converted by an overtopping device subjected to sea waves in the ... -
Numerical analysis of the influence of empty channels design on performance of resin flow in a porous plate
(2020) [Journal article]This numerical study aims to investigate the influence of I and T-shaped empty channels’ geometry on the filling time of resin in a rectangular porous enclosed mold, mimicking the main operating principle of a liquid resin ... -
Numerical analysis of the solidity effects over the aerodynamic performance of a small wind turbine
(2017) [Thesis]This thesis presents a methodology of two-dimensional airfoil simulation focusing on its application on the design and optimization of blades and rotors of small horizontal axis wind turbines, and its application in a set ... -
Numerical analysis of twin tunnels including long-term effects considering the creep and shrinkage of concrete
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Numerical analysis of water melting and solidification in the interior of tubes
(2005) [Journal article]Latent energy storage systems find applications in many engineering fields, including industrial refrigeration plants, air conditioning installations, recovery of heat in industrial processes, etc. To tackle the design of ... -
Numerical analysis using different levels of complexity and determination of ultimate limit state for riser connection device
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Numerical and computational analysis regarding buckling knockdown factor of composite cylinders
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Numerical and experimental study of an industrial case for grain size evolution in bainitic steel in controlled hot forging and its influence on mechanical performance
(2022) [Journal article]Controlling the recrystallization is an important way to reach grain size refinement and outstanding strength and toughness on alloy metals. This study sets out the application and investigation of mathematical microstructure ... -
Numerical Evaluation of the Hydropneumatic Power of the Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter Submitted to Regular and Irregular Waves
(2021) [Journal article]The purpose of this study is to computationally analyze the hydropneumatic power available in the air duct of an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Converter (WEC) device when subject to realistic sea state data ... -
Numerical evidence of Janssen-Oerding's prediction in a three-dimensional spin model far from equilibrium
(2022) [Journal article]In 1994, Jansen and Oerding predicted an interesting anomalous tricritical dynamic behavior in threedimensional models via renormalization group theory. However, we highlight the lack of literature about the computational ... -
Numerical implementation of a micromechanics-based viscoelastic model for geomaterials with isotropically distributed micro-fractures
(2019) [Journal article]The constitutive behavior of geomaterials is generally affected by the presence at different scales of discontinuity surfaces with different sizes and orientations. According to their mechanical behavior, such discontinuities ... -
A numerical investigation of inertia flows of Bingham-Papanastasiou fluids by an extra stress-pressure-velocity galerkin least-squares method
(2010) [Journal article]This article is concerned with finite element approximations for yield stress fluid flows through a sudden planar expansion. The mechanical model is composed by mass and momentum balance equations, coupled with the Bingham ... -
A numerical investigation of the resin flow front tracking applied to the RTM process
(2011) [Journal article]Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) is largely used for the manufacturing of high-quality composite components and the key stage during processing is the resin infiltration. The complete understanding of this phenomenon is of ... -
Numerical methods for regularization models of geophysical flows
(2015) [Dissertation]Escoamentos geofísicos são aqueles escoamentos que são afetados pela rotação da Terra. Simulações computacionais envolvendo este tipo de escoamento tem diversas aplicações como, por exemplo, em estudos sobre mudanças ... -
Numerical model for analysis of the load attenuation on mooring lines in catenary system
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Numerical modeling of cable-rigid-body structural systems using the NP-FEM method
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Numerical modeling of reinforced concrete structures : static and dynamic analysis
(2013) [Journal article]A numerical model using the Finite Element Method (FEM) for the nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) beams, plates and shells is presented in this work. For this purpose, computer programs based ...
