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45
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6364
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5619
National Ranking
366

Overview

Y.T. Feng is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom and has established a significant body of research primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work encompasses subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research outputs include exploration into topics such as Rock Mechanics and Modeling, Granular Flow and Fluidized Beds, Numerical Methods in Engineering, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, Drilling and Well Engineering, and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics.

Y.T. Feng has made contributions to several publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Powder Technology
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Coauthorship has been an element of Feng's research activity, with frequent collaborators including Tongming Qu, Min Wang, Wei Gao, Mengqi Wang, and Wei Zhou.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Feng include:

  • An energy-conserving contact theory for discrete element modelling of arbitrarily shaped particles: Basic framework and general contact model, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • A phase-field model for mixed-mode fracture based on a unified tensile fracture criterion, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Towards data-driven constitutive modelling for granular materials via micromechanics-informed deep learning, 2021, International Journal of Plasticity
  • Deep active learning for constitutive modelling of granular materials: From representative volume elements to implicit finite element modelling, 2023, International Journal of Plasticity
  • Calibration of parallel bond parameters in bonded particle models via physics-informed adaptive moment optimisation, 2020, Powder Technology

Best Publications

  • Coupled lattice Boltzmann method and discrete element modelling of particle transport in turbulent fluid flows: Computational issues

    Y. T. Feng;K. Han;D. R. J. Owen

  • An efficient framework for fluid–structure interaction using the lattice Boltzmann method and immersed moving boundaries

    D. R. J. Owen;C. R. Leonardi;Y. T. Feng

  • Filling domains with disks: an advancing front approach

    Y. T. Feng;K. Han;D. R. J. Owen

  • The modelling of multi-fracturing solids and particulate media

    D. R. J. Owen;Y. T. Feng;E. A. de Souza Neto;M. G. Cottrell

  • Discrete element modelling of large scale particle systems—I: exact scaling laws

    Y. T. Feng;D. R. J. Owen

  • Modeling of alkali-silica reaction in concrete:a review

    J. W. Pan;J. W. Pan;Y. T. Feng;J. T. Wang;Q. C. Sun

  • Sphere packing with a geometric based compression algorithm

    K. Han;Y.T. Feng;D.R.J. Owen

  • Energy-conserving contact interaction models for arbitrarily shaped discrete elements

    Y.T. Feng;K. Han;D.R.J. Owen

  • A phase-field model for mixed-mode fracture based on a unified tensile fracture criterion

    Qiao Wang;Qiao Wang;Yuntian Feng;Wei Zhou;Yonggang Cheng

  • Discrete thermal element modelling of heat conduction in particle systems: Basic formulations

    Y. T. Feng;K. Han;C. F. Li;D. R. J. Owen

  • Coupled lattice Boltzmann and discrete element modelling of fluid-particle interaction problems

    K. Han;Y. T. Feng;D. R. J. Owen

  • Combined three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method and discrete element method for modelling fluid-particle interactions with experimental assessment

    Y. T. Feng;K. Han;D. R. J. Owen

  • On upscaling of discrete element models: similarity principles

    Y.T. Feng;K. Han;D.R.J. Owen;J. Loughran

  • A new criterion for determination of initial loading parameter in arc-length methods

    Y.T. Feng;D. Perić;D.R.J. Owen

  • A 2D polygon/polygon contact model: algorithmic aspects

    Y.T. Feng;D.R.J. Owen

  • On the determination of the path direction for arc-length methods in the presence of bifurcations and `snap-backs'

    E.A. de Souza Neto;Y.T. Feng

  • Discrete element simulation of the dynamics of high energy planetary ball milling processes

    Y.T. Feng;K. Han;D.R.J. Owen

  • Discrete element modelling of flexible membrane boundaries for triaxial tests

    Tongming Qu;Y.T. Feng;Yong Wang;Min Wang

  • Parallelised finite/discrete element simulation of multi‐fracturing solids and discrete systems

    D.R.J. Owen;Y.T. Feng

  • An augmented spatial digital tree algorithm for contact detection in computational mechanics

    Y. T. Feng;D. R. J. Owen

  • A discrete particle model and numerical modeling of the failure modes of granular materials

    Xikui Li;Xihua Chu;Y.T. Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

David Owen
David Owen Swansea University
Djordje Perić
Djordje Perić Swansea University
Zhen-Yu Yin
Zhen-Yu Yin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
E. A. de Souza Neto
E. A. de Souza Neto Swansea University
Fei Li
Fei Li Xi'an Jiaotong University
Zhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang Arizona State University
Sondipon Adhikari
Sondipon Adhikari University of Glasgow

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