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This study considers blood flow in total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) morphology, which is created in Fontan surgical procedure in patients with single ventricle heart disease. Ordinary process of TCPC operation reduces the pulmonary blood flow pulsatility; because of right ventricle being bypassed. This phenomenon causes a lot of side effects for patients. A cardiac surgeon has suggested that keeping main pulmonary artery (MPA) partially open, would increase pulmonary flow pulsations. MPA gets closed in ordinary TCPC operation. The purpose of current study is to verify the effects of keeping MPA partially open on pulmonary flow pulsations, by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).... 

The use of conventional multi-scale models for materials that exhibit softening behavior is not possible due to the phenomenon of localization, because the fundamental assumptions of homogenization are no longer satisfying around the localization region, and therefore the macro-scale results depend on the size of the representative volume element and the macro-scale mesh discretization. Also, if the finite elements mesh be fine enough, the solution does not converge to acceptable physical values. This research concerns the multi-scale study of failure and proposes an appropriate method for computational homogenization of that. The main idea is to apply the enhanced homogenization method to... 

This study presents delamination in fiber-reinforced composite laminates by using multiscale modeling. The meso modeling is used to derive the relationship between microcrack density and damage parameters. Next the selected failure model is applied to analyze the macroscale modeling. The progress of failure terms and the reduction of fiber and matrix properties implemented into ABAQUS/Standard, which enables an individual to create a new material behavior through the user subroutine UMAT. In the following, the contours associated with each of the damage parameters are obtained in each of the damage mode. Then for a specific material, the relationship between microcrack density and damage... 

In this study, a novel multiscale hierarchical molecular dynamics (MD) – finite element (FE) coupling method is proposed to illustrate the influence of temperature on mechanical properties of heterogeneous nano-crystalline structures. The embedded-atom method (EAM) many-body interatomic potential is implemented to consider pairwise interactions between atoms in the metallic alloys with face-centered-cubic (FCC) lattice structure at different temperatures. In addition, the Nose-Hoover thermostat is employed to adjust the fluctuation of temperature. In order to calculate the equivalent lattice parameter, a weight average between the lattice parameters of atomic structures is utilized. The... 

In this paper, a machine learning-based atomistic-continuum multi-scale scheme is introduced to model the materials' geometrically and materially nonlinear behavior. The kinematic and energetic consistency principles are employed to link the atomistic and continuum scales. In order to establish the kinematic consistency principle, the periodic boundary condition is implemented for the atomistic RVE. The Ni-based superalloy, including 0 to 3% porosity, is considered for the models. Several parameter analysis is done to distinguish the proper atomistic RVE to be used in multi-scale models. The data set, including the stress-strain samples, is generated through molecular dynamics analysis... 

The swelling phenomenon in the porous media causes many problems in various engineering issues, including foundation construction and oil and gas extraction. For this reason, in the last few decades, flow modeling in reactive porous media and investigation of coupled hydro-chemo-mechanical problems have attracted a lot of attention. On the other hand, despite the simplifications, porous media have a heterogeneous structure, and the numerical modeling of these heterogeneities directly increases the computational costs. A suitable method for modeling heterogeneous problems is the computational homogenization method. In this method, the problem is solved in two scales in a correlated manner and... 

Nowadays, single-crystal nickel-based superalloys are widely used in the manufacture of gas turbine blades in the aerospace industry due to their high resistance to creep, fatigue and corrosion at high temperatures. The superior behavior of these materials at elevated temperatures is a result of their two-phase microstructure, which includes the matrix phase (γ) of nickel and the precipitate phase (γ') of Ni3Al intermetallic compounds with a high volume fraction. The aim of this thesis is to develop computational modeling tools to study the creep deformation of single-crystal Ni-based superalloys. At high temperatures, the creep deformation of Ni-based superalloys is determined by the atomic...