Articles techniques et présentations

The assessment of the seismic safety of gravity dams is a topic of great importance in civil engineering. In this paper, fluid structure interaction modeling of gravity dams during earthquakes is investigated. In particular, this work aims to provide physical significance of a plan ... En savoir plus

RFSP-IST (Reactor Fueling Simulation Program) is a computer code used for the full-core neutronics design and analysis of CANDU® reactors. RFSP-IST calculates the static flux and power distributions in the core by solving the neutron diffusion equation in two energy groups. For ... En savoir plus

In this paper, we discuss a simplified finite element method simulation of surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line hydrogen sensor using COMSOL Multiphysics.  A delay line SAW sensor consists of a transmitting interdigital transducer (IDT) and a receiving IDT separated by a few ... En savoir plus

The disk resonator gyroscope (DRG) is a meso-scale, high performance, compact and planar new generation Coriolis vibratory gyroscope which is suitable for space applications. Angular rate measurement utilizes the precession of a pair of degenerate modes of a perfectly balanced ... En savoir plus

We demonstrate a new method of finding stationary solutions to nonlinear equations using a dynamical damped oscillatory model to minimize an energy functional. The method can be used for diverse physical problems and is here demonstrated both for finding stationary solutions to the heat ... En savoir plus

Airbus Safran Launchers is the market leader in Space Launch services. Rocket engines are among the most powerful machines that exist. The core of the rocket engine is the combustion chamber where in the case of liquid propellant rocket engines, fuel and oxidizer are injected, mixed and ... En savoir plus

Accurate modeling of magnetostrictive materials and devices requires coupling of electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and possibly acoustic domains. There are relatively few finite  element software packages that include all these physical models and even fewer that include magnetostrictive ... En savoir plus

An important yet rarely explored problem in room acoustics is how to correlate the decay times of modal resonances to the acoustic properties of the boundaries (walls). The room response is often described by reverberation times, but the reverberation model breaks down at low frequency, ... En savoir plus

The problem of an unbalanced mechanical torque signal generation using nonpolar repulsion techniques is studied. To achieve such an unbalanced torque, several stator and rotor geometries, consisting of nonlinear permanent magnet spring batteries are investigated. It can be shown that an ... En savoir plus

To consider effective counter measures against ground water contaminated with dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) such as chlorinated solvents, it is first important to understand the mechanism of their migration in heterogeneous aquifer. In addition, numerical analysis models to ... En savoir plus