Bücher der Reihe Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics

Focusing on the fundamentals of shell theories, their mathematical bases and finite element discretizations, this updated and authoritative edition includes major new additions on areas including 3-D shell models, dynamic analyses and triangular elements.

Inelastic Analysis of Solids and Structures presents in a unified manner the physical and theoretical background of inelastic material models and computational methods, and illustrates the behavior of the models in typical engineering conditions.

Laminar ?ows are governed by a balance between the inertial and viscous forces in the ?ow that provides the stability. Even though laminar ?ows are organized in an orderly manner, the ?ows may exhibit instabilities and bifurcation phenomena which may eventually lead to transition and turbulence.

This book is the first to apply the Spectral Finite Element Method (SFEM) to inhomogeneous and anisotropic structures in a unified and systematic manner. Readers will gain understanding of how to formulate Spectral Finite Element; learn about wave behaviour in inhomogeneous and anisotropic media;

This book presents two interconnected mathematical models generalizing the Navier-Stokes system. The models, called the quasi-gas-dynamic and quasi-hydrodynamic equations, are then used as the basis of numerical methods solving gas- and fluid-dynamic problems.

Offers a presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. This book develops general curvilinear coordinator kinematics of the continuum deformation using general curvilinear coordinates.

Synthesizing topics in mathematical programming with soft computing and proper orthogonal decomposition, this monograph shows with consistency the methods to use and the problems that need tackling in structural analyses. Examples and exercises are included.

This book details a systematic characteristics-based finite element procedure to investigate incompressible, free-surface and compressible flows.