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A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO DESIGN THE GEOMETRY OF THE AIR-TWIST NOZZLE (Air-twist 노즐 형상 설계의수치적 연구)

  • Juraeva, M.;Song, D.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 2010
  • Spandex yarn requires a twisting process during winding and unwinding processes at the textile industry. The air-twist nozzle is widely used as part of the winding and unwinding. This paper describes computational approach to design the geometry of the air-twist nozzle. The nozzle has circular yarn-channel and the air-inlet which is perpendicularly connected to the yarn-channel with yarn-loading slit. The air-inlet of the nozzle is designed while measurements of the yarn-channel are fixed. The airflow inside the air-twist nozzle is simulated by using Computational Fluid Dynamic model. The Ansys CFX was used to perform steady simulations of the airflow for the air-twisting process. The vortical structure and the airflow pattern such as velocity streamline, vorticity, velocity of the air-twist nozzle are discussed. Computational results are compared with experimental results in this paper.

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Computational Approach to Color Overlapped Integral Imaging for Depth Estimation

  • Lee, Eunsung;Lim, Joohyun;Kim, Sangjin;Har, Donghwan;Paik, Joonki
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.3 no.6
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    • pp.382-387
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    • 2014
  • A computational approach to depth estimations using a color over lapped integral imaging system is presented. The proposed imaging system acquires multiple color images simultaneously through a single lens with an array of multiple pinholes that are distributed around the optical axis. This paper proposes a computational model of the relationship between the real distance of an object and the disparity among different color images. The proposed model can serve as a computational basis of a single camera-based depth estimation.

An efficient procedure for lightweight optimal design of composite laminated beams

  • Ho-Huu, V.;Vo-Duy, T.;Duong-Gia, D.;Nguyen-Thoi, T.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.297-310
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    • 2018
  • A simple and efficient numerical optimization approach for the lightweight optimal design of composite laminated beams is presented in this paper. The proposed procedure is a combination between the finite element method (FEM) and a global optimization algorithm developed recently, namely Jaya. In the present procedure, the advantages of FEM and Jaya are exploited, where FEM is used to analyze the behavior of beam, and Jaya is modified and applied to solve formed optimization problems. In the optimization problems, the objective aims to minimize the overall weight of beam; and fiber volume fractions, thicknesses and fiber orientation angles of layers are selected as design variables. The constraints include the restriction on the first fundamental frequency and the boundaries of design variables. Several numerical examples with different design scenarios are executed. The influence of the design variable types and the boundary conditions of beam on the optimal results is investigated. Moreover, the performance of Jaya is compared with that of the well-known methods, viz. differential evolution (DE), genetic algorithm (GA), and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The obtained results reveal that the proposed approach is efficient and provides better solutions than those acquired by the compared methods.

An efficient approach to structural static reanalysis with added support constraints

  • Liu, Haifeng;Wu, Baisheng;Li, Zhengguang
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.273-285
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    • 2012
  • Structural reanalysis is frequently used to reduce the computational cost during the process of design or optimization. The supports can be regarded as the design variables in various types of structural optimization problems. The location, number, and type of supports may be varied in order to yield a more effective design. The paper is focused on structural static reanalysis problem with added supports where some node displacements along axes of the global coordinate system are specified. A new approach is proposed and exact solutions can be provided by the approach. Thus, it belongs to the direct reanalysis methods. The information from the initial analysis has been fully exploited. Numerical examples show that the exact results can be achieved and the computational time can be significantly reduced by the proposed method.

Local response of W-shaped steel columns under blast loading

  • Lee, Kyungkoo;Kim, Taejin;Kim, Jinkoo
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.25-38
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    • 2009
  • Local failure of a primary structural component induced by direct air-blast loading may be itself a critical damage and lead to the partial or full collapse of the building. As an extensive research to mitigate blast-induced hazards in steel frame structure, a state-of-art analytical approach or high-fidelity computational nonlinear continuum modeling using computational fluid dynamics was described in this paper. The capability of the approach to produce reasonable blast pressures on a steel wide-flange section column was first evaluated. Parametric studies were conducted to observe the effects of section sizes and boundary conditions on behavior and failure of columns in steel frame structures. This study shows that the analytical approach is reasonable and effective to understand the nature of blast wave and complex interaction between blast loading and steel column behavior.

A New Computational Approach for the Stability Analysis of the Linguistic Fuzzy Control Systems (컴퓨터연산을 통한 언어형 퍼지 제어 시스템의 새로운 안정도 해석)

  • Kim, Eun-Tai
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a novel computational approach for the stability analysis of the linguistic fuzzy system is proposed. The suggested analysis method is easily implemented by the recently spotlighted convex optimization techniques called Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI). Compared with the previous works, the new method proposed herein is more relaxed and is applicable to not only the stabilization problem but also to the set-point regulation problem. Finally, the applicability of the suggested methodology is highlighted via computer simulations.

Computational modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer using various two-equation turbulence models

  • Juretic, Franjo;Kozmar, Hrvoje
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.687-708
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    • 2014
  • The performance of the $k-{\varepsilon}$ and $k-{\omega}$ two-equation turbulence models was investigated in computational simulations of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer developing above various terrain types. This was achieved by using a proposed methodology that mimics the experimental setup in the boundary layer wind tunnel and accounts for a decrease in turbulence parameters with height, as observed in the atmosphere. An important feature of this approach is pressure regulation along the computational domain that is additionally supported by the nearly constant turbulent kinetic energy to Reynolds shear stress ratio at all heights. In addition to the mean velocity and turbulent kinetic energy commonly simulated in previous relevant studies, this approach focuses on the appropriate prediction of Reynolds shear stress as well. The computational results agree very well with experimental results. In particular, the difference between the calculated and measured mean velocity, turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress profiles is less than ${\pm}10%$ in most parts of the computational domain.

An efficient multi-objective cuckoo search algorithm for design optimization

  • Kaveh, A.;Bakhshpoori, T.
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.87-103
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    • 2016
  • This paper adopts and investigates the non-dominated sorting approach for extending the single-objective Cuckoo Search (CS) into a multi-objective framework. The proposed approach uses an archive composed of primary and secondary population to select and keep the non-dominated solutions at each generation instead of pairwise analogy used in the original Multi-objective Cuckoo Search (MOCS). Our simulations show that such a low computational complexity approach can enrich CS to incorporate multi-objective needs instead of considering multiple eggs for cuckoos used in the original MOCS. The proposed MOCS is tested on a set of multi-objective optimization problems and two well-studied engineering design optimization problems. Compared to MOCS and some other available multi-objective algorithms such as NSGA-II, our approach is found to be competitive while benefiting simplicity. Moreover, the proposed approach is simpler and is capable of finding a wide spread of solutions with good coverage and convergence to true Pareto optimal fronts.