• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.969-977
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• 1999

A similarity solution of a steady laminar flow of micropolar fluids past wedges has been studied. The similarity variables found by Falkner and Skan are employed to reduce the streamwise-dependence in the coupled nonlinear boundary layer equations. Numerical solutions of the equations are then obtained using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and the distribution of velocity, micro-rotation, shear and couple stress across the boundary layer are obtained. These results are compared with the corresponding flow problems for Newtonian fluid past wedges with various wedge angles. Numerical results show that, keeping ${\beta}$ constant, the skin friction coefficient is lower for a micropolar fluid, as compared to a Newtonian fluid. For the case of constant material parameter K, however, the velocity distribution for a micropolar fluid is higher than that of a Newtonian fluid.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.117-135
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• 2009

The reflection and transmission of micropolar thermoelastic plane waves at the interface between an elastic solid and micropolar generalized thermoelastic solid is discussed. The interface boundary conditions obtained contain interface stiffness (normal stiffness and transverse stiffness). The expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients which are the ratios of the amplitudes of reflected and transmitted waves to the amplitude of incident waves are obtained for normal force stiffness, transverse force stiffness and welded contact. Numerical calculations have been performed for amplitude ratios of various reflected and transmitted waves. The variations of amplitude ratios with angle of incident wave have been depicted graphically. It is found that the amplitude ratios of reflected and transmitted waves are affected by the stiffness, micropolarity and thermal distribution of the media.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.605-614
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• 2019

The present paper seeks to investigate propagation and reflection of waves at free surfaces of homogeneous, anisotropic and rotating micropolar fibre-reinforced medium with voids. It has been observed that, in particular when P-wave is incident on the free surface, there exist four coupled reflected plane waves traveling in the medium; quasi-longitudinal displacement (qLD) wave, quasi-transverse displacement (qTD) wave, quasi-transverse microrotational wave and a wave due to voids. Normal mode Analysis usually called harmonic solution method is adopted in concomitant with Snell's laws and appropriate boundary conditions in determination of solution to the micropolar fibre reinforced modelled problem. Amplitude ratios which correspond to reflected waves in vertical and horizontal components are presented analytically. Also, the Reflection Coefficients are presented using numerical simulated results in graphical form for a particular chosen material by the help of Mathematica software. We observed that the micropolar fibre-reinforced, voids and rotational parameters have various degrees of effects to the modulation, propagation and reflection of waves in the medium. The study would have impact to micropolar fibre-reinforecd rotational-acoustic machination fields and future works about behavior of seismic waves.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.187-206
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• 2011

Accurate estimations of pre-failure deformations and post-failure responses of geostructures require that the simulation tool possesses at least three main ingredients: 1) a constitutive model that is able to describe the macroscopic stress-strain-strength behavior of soils subjected to complex stress/strain paths over a wide range of confining pressures and densities, 2) an embedded length scale that accounts for the intricate physical phenomena that occur at the grain size scale in the soil, and 3) a computational platform that allows the analysis to be carried out beyond the development of an initially "contained" failure zone in the soil. In this paper, a two-scale micropolar plasticity model will be used to incorporate all these ingredients. The model is implemented in a finite element platform that is based on the mechanics of micropolar continua. Appropriate finite elements are developed to couple displacement, micro-rotations, and pore-water pressure in form of $u_n-{\phi}_m$ and $u_n-p_m-{\phi}_m$ (n > m) elements for analysis of dry and saturated soils. Performance of the model is assessed in a biaxial compression test on a slightly heterogeneous specimen of sand. The role of micropolar component of the model on capturing the post-failure response of the soil is demonstrated.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.61 no.3
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• pp.381-387
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• 2017

In this paper we investigate the theory of micropolar thermoelastic bodies whose micro-particles possess microtemperatures. We transform the mixed initial boundary value problem into a temporally evolutionary equation on a Hilbert space and after that we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution. We also approach the study of the continuous dependence of solution upon initial data and loads.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.145-156
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• 2010

The propagation of waves in a micropolar transversely isotropic half space in the theory of thermoelasticity without energy dissipation are discussed. After developing the solution, the phase velocities and attenuation quality factor has been obtained. The expressions for amplitudes of stresses, displacements, microrotation and temperature distribution have been derived and computed numerically. The numerical results have been plotted graphically.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.651-662
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• 2014

The main goal of this study is to extend the domain of influence result to cover the micropolar thermoelastic diffusion. So, we prove that for a finite time t>0 the displacement field $u_i$, the microrotation vector ${\varphi}_i$, the temperature ${\theta}$ and the chemical potential P generate no disturbance outside a bounded domain $B_t$.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 2021

In present paper, inspired by the recently paper [1], we give the mixed pressure-velocity regular criteria in view of Lorentz spaces for weak solutions to 3D micropolar equations in a half space. Precisely, if (0.1) ${\frac{P}{(e^{-{\mid}x{\mid}^2}+{\mid}u{\mid})^{\theta}}{\in}L^p(0,T;L^{q,{\infty}}({\mathbb{R}}^3_+))$, p, q < ∞, and (0.2) ${\frac{2}{p}}+{\frac{3}{q}}=2-{\theta}$, 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1, then (u, w) is regular on (0, T].

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.224-243
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• 2022

In this paper, we prove the global existence of classical solutions to the 2D incompressible Boussinesq equations for the micropolar fluid. Furthermore, applying the Fourier splitting methods, we obtain the lager time decay properties.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.3
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• pp.587-618
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• 2023

In this paper, we consider the existence of time periodic solutions for the compressible magneto-micropolar fluids in the whole space ℝ³. In particular, we first solve the problem in a sequence of bounded domains by the topological degree theory. Then we obtain the existence of time periodic solutions in ℝ³ by a limiting process.