Numerical simulation of wave attack on sea dike with asphalt concrete revetment

The numerical simulation of wave attack on a sea dike with an asphalt concrete revetment during a severe storm is carried out using the dynamic Finite Element Method. When wave loads attack the revetment during such a storm, both the revetment and the underlying soil may be damaged. The two-phase flow equations are considered, to study the...

Reliability of Quay Walls

A committee of Civieltechnisch Centrum Uitvoering Research en Regelgeving (CUR) is currently (2012) working on the update of the handbook Quay Walls (CUR 211). In the past the partial safety factors in this book were derived using a spring model, but new developments enable to use Finite Element Methods (FEM) to model sheet-pile structures and...

Goal Adaptive Discretization of a One-Dimensional Boltzmann Equation

Fluid-flow problems in the transitional molecular/continuum regime play an important role in many engineering applications. Such problems are gaining further prominence with the perpetual trend towards miniaturization in science and engineering. The numerical simulation of flows in the transitional molecular/continuum regime and the...

Modeling Strategies for Electro-Mechanical Microsystems with Uncertainty Quantification

Microsystems are very small sensors and actuators, manufactured with the same technology as computer chips. Well known applications of these machines are the acceleration sensors in the Wii game console and the iPhone. At the micrometer length scales of microsystems the physical forces behave different when compared to devices operating in the...

Numerical schemes for the simulation of three-dimensional cardiac electrical propagation in patient-specific ventricular geometries

This paper introduces different numerical strategies in computational electrophysiology, based on the Finite Element Method to handle the space discretization of the governing equations. The long-term goal is to apply these computational techniques to study the three-dimensional electrical propagation in patient-specific ventricular geometries,...