Abstract: Finite element analysis (FEA), combined with on-site and laboratory tests, might be an effective and versatile tool for studying existing structures, providing useful insights on structural resisting resources and failure ...

Abstract: Although.there is some ambiguity in the description of the U.S. Navy Fleet fourth-order primitive-equation model developed by Mihok and Kaitala (1976), the finite differences used for the continuity equation and pressure ...

Abstract: The deep circulation of the atmosphere of Venus is simulated by means of two-dimensional numerical models. Two extreme cases are considered: first, rotation is neglected and the subsolar point is assumed to be fixed; second ...

Abstract: The results of two-dimensional simulations of the deep circulation of Venus are presented. They prove that the high surface temperature can only be explained by the greenhouse effect, and that Goody and Robinson's dynamical ...

Abstract: The ?box-type? finite-difference method includes a weighted average of the pressure gradient with weights proportional to the surface of the grid walls. It is shown that this averaging introduces first-order truncation ...

Abstract: In the present paper, the thermohygrometric performances of a clay brick wall, with reference to the typical northern Italy’s historical building envelopes, improved with an insulating layer on the inner side, are analyzed. ...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explore the potential of the lumped‐plasticity program STRUPL‐1C and to illustrate its use as a practical engineering tool for the nonlinear analysis of concrete structures. This result ...

Abstract: Yield safety is introduced as a variable that controls both the cracking under service conditions and the permissible redistribution of ductile structural concrete frameworks at the ultimate limit state. Limiting values ...

Abstract: Regional ocean circulation along the Oregon coast is studied numerically for forcing fields derived from year 2005 and climatological-mean conditions. The primary object is to study directly the Lagrangian pathways by which ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments show that blocking in a barotropic atmosphere can occur as a resonant enhancement of Rossby lee waves forced by two stationary sources of potential vorticity. In particular, if an upstream source of ...