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Topological Effects in Wave Scattering and Metamaterials

Advanced wave engineering demands robust, efficient, and new-degree-of-freedom manipulations in wave intrinsic properties like amplitude, phase, polarization, and even spatial structure. To tackle this, this thesis advances photonic wave manipulation by sy ...

EPFL2025

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Michael Lehning, Varun Sharma, Mahdi Jafari

This paper studies numerically the convection of water vapour in snowpacks using an Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase approach. The convective water vapour transport in snow and its effects on snow density are often invoked to explain observed density profiles, ...

Cambridge University Press2022

A simplified modeling method for multi-particle damper: Validation and application in energy dissipation analysis

Qianqing Wang

Particle dampers have received considerable attention in recent years as a novel damping technique. However, due to its high degree of nonlinearity, no mature damping model has been constructed. This article proposes an equivalent raft model that takes int ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

A geometrically exact model for thin magneto-elastic shells

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Matteo Pezzulla, Dong Yan

We develop a reduced model for hard-magnetic, thin, linear-elastic shells that can be actuated through an external magnetic field, with geometrically exact strain measures. Assuming a reduced kinematics based on the Kirchhoff-Love assumption, we derive a r ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

The N-Clock Model: Variational Analysis for Fast and Slow Divergence Rates of N

Matthias Benjamin Ruf

We study a nearest neighbors ferromagnetic classical spin system on the square lattice in which the spin field is constrained to take values in a discretization of the unit circle consisting of N equi-spaced vectors, also known as the N-clock model. We fin ...

2022

DIC Challenge 2.0: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses

Edward Carlo Giorgio Andò

Background The DIC Challenge 2.0 follows on from the work accomplished in the first Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Challenge Reu et al. (Experimental Mechanics 58(7):1067, 1). The second challenge was required to better quantify the spatial resolution of ...

2022

Prediction of crack nucleation and propagation in porous ceramics using the phase-field approach

Arata Nakajo

The relevance of the phase-field approach to simulate the fracture in porous ceramics has been investigated. For this purpose, the conditions for the crack initiation using the phase-field model have been compared to the theoretical predictions of the coup ...

ELSEVIER2022

A virtual microstructure generator for 3D stone masonry walls

Katrin Beyer, Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

Detailed micromodel simulations of stone masonry walls require as input a 3D mesh that represents a realistic arrangement of stones in the masonry wall. In this paper, we constructed the first 3D masonry microstructures to derive 2D and 3D finite or discre ...

ELSEVIER2022

FE analysis and experimental validation of mechanical wedge-barrel anchors for CFRP rods

Alain Nussbaumer, Elyas Ghafoori, Hossein Heydarinouri

This paper presents a comparative study of the geometrical optimization of mechanical wedge-barrel anchors for prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) rods. Various anchor configurations were simulated using three-dimensional finite-element (FE) ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Understanding the coherent structures for different fluctuation frequencies at partial load condition of a Francis turbine

François Avellan

More and more hydropower plants are operating as regulator of renewable energy such as solar and wind energy resources. Because these renewable energy resources are highly volatile, so hydraulic turbines have to switch working condition in a wide flow rang ...

IOP Publishing2021

Digitalization in hydropower generation: development and numerical validation of a model-based Smart Power Plant Supervisor

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Elena Vagnoni, Francesco Gerini

The paper presents the development of a model-based Smart Power Plant Supervisor, a digital tool targeting the optimization of the operation and maintenance of hydroelectric units to improve ancillary services provision to the power system. The paper focus ...

IOP Publishing2021

Accelerating the convergence to a limit cycle in 3D cardiac electromechanical simulations through a data-driven 0D emulator

Alfio Quarteroni

The results of numerical simulations of cardiac electromechanics are typically characterized by a long transient before reaching a periodic solution known as limit cycle. This yields a serious computational overhead, as the only clinically relevant output ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

A High Resolution Digital Image Correlation Study under Multiaxial Loading

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Wei-Neng Hsu

In this study, a miniaturized cruciform-shaped sample geometry which allows reaching high plastic strain under equibiaxial loading with reduced thickness at the test section is presented. The thinning method results in excellent surface quality that can be ...

SPRINGER2019

Self-consistent triple decomposition of the turbulent flow over a backward-facing step under finite amplitude harmonic forcing

François Gallaire, Philippe Meliga, Eunok Yim

We investigate the saturation of harmonically forced disturbances in the turbulent flow over a backward-facing step subjected to a finite amplitude forcing. The analysis relies on a triple decomposition of the unsteady flow into mean, coherent and incohere ...

ROYAL SOC2019

Revisiting the drag reduction problem using adjoint-based distributed forcing of laminar and turbulent flows over a circular cylinder

François Gallaire, Edouard Boujo, Philippe Meliga

This study assesses the ability of a sensitivity-based, span-wise homogeneous control velocity distributed at the surface of a circular cylinder to cut down the cost of reducing drag by more classical techniques, e.g., base bleed and lateral suction. At Re ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

A semi-Lagrangian splitting method for the numerical simulation of sediment transport with free surface flows

Marco Picasso, Alexandre Caboussat, Gilles Steiner, Arwa Mrad

We present a numerical model for the simulation of 3D poly-dispersed sediment transport in a Newtonian flow with free surfaces. The physical model is based on a mixture model for multiphase flows. The Navier-Stokes equations are coupled with the transport ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Morphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex

Sundar Ram Naganathan

One of the great challenges in biology is to understand the mechanisms by which morphogenetic processes arise from molecular activities. We investigated this problem in the context of actomyosin-based cortical flow in C. elegans zygotes, where large-scale ...

ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD2018

The X-Mechanics toolbox to solve Y-Mechanics problems

William Curtin

The philosophy of "X-Mechanics" is introduced, and a few examples of its application by the author and collaborators to study "Y-Mechanics" problems are presented. ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

An experimental and constitutive investigation on the chemo-mechanical behaviour of a clay

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Paul Joost Witteveen

Engineering issues for which the understanding of the chemo-mechanical behaviour of soils is relevant include wellbore stability problems, the sali-nification of groundwater and nuclear waste storage, etc. However, despite the vast number of situations in ...

Ice Publishing2013

Mixed-mode fracture of adhesively-bonded pultruded composite lap joints

Yi Zhang, Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos

The fracture behavior of adhesively-bonded double- and stepped-lap joints composed of pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer composite laminates and subjected to axial tension was experimentally investigated and numerically modeled. Two methods were used ...

Elsevier2010