Engineering Applications of Finite Element Method: Progress and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2024) | Viewed by 1320
Special Issue Editors
Interests: FEM modeling; marine acoustics; noise control; vibration control; CFD modeling
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Interests: vibration control; vibration analysis; vibration testing; finite element analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The finite element method (FEM) is a numerical technique used to perform finite element analysis (FEA) of any given physical phenomenon.
It is necessary to use mathematics to comprehensively understand and quantify any physical phenomena, such as structural or fluid behavior, thermal transport, wave propagation, and chemical reactions, for example, in treatment systems. Most of these processes are described using partial differential equations (PDEs). However, for a computer to solve these PDEs, numerical techniques have been developed over the last few decades, and one of the most prominent today is the FEM.
The FEM started as a promising strategy for modeling several mechanical applications. The applications of the FEM are now starting to reach their potential in different sectors such as aerospace, civil engineering, marine engineering, and others. One of the most exciting prospects is its application in coupled problems such as fluid–structure interaction, thermomechanical, thermochemical, thermo-chemo-mechanical problems, biomedical engineering, and piezoelectric.
We are pleased to invite researchers to submit manuscripts to this collection that cover aspects related to the FEA, including, but not limited to:
- FEA in mechanical engineering: structural analysis, modal analysis, solid mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, thermal analysis;
- FEA in marine engineering: structural analysis and verification, vibration and noise, radiated noise, exhaust gas noise, thermal analysis;
- FEA in materials engineering: material characterization;
- FEA in aerospace engineering: aerodynamics, mode shapes, structural analysis, response analysis;
- FEA in chemical engineering: exhaust gas characterization; chemical reactions in treatment system modeling;
- FEA in electronics engineering: grid analysis, electromagnetics, motor dynamic analysis, analysis for electronic equipment;
- FEM applied to thermal and fluid analyses and to fluid–structure interaction
- Optimization process and machine learning applications in FEA.
Dr. Giada Kyaw Oo D'Amore
Dr. Marco Biot
Prof. Dr. Jan Kaspar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- finite element method
- structural monitoring
- fracture mechanics
- materials characterization
- mechanics of structure
- experimental verification
- manufacturing processes
- chemical simulations
- acoustic simulations
- noise and vibration
- radiated noise
- fluid–structure coupling
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