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Design of a Feature-based Multi-viewpoint Design Automation System

  • Lee, Kwang-Hoon;McMahon, Chris A.;Lee, Kwan-H.
    • International Journal of CAD/CAM
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    • v.3 no.1_2
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2003
  • Viewpoint-dependent feature-based modelling in computer-aided design is developed for the purposes of supporting engineering design representation and automation. The approach of this paper uses a combination of a multi-level modelling approach. This has two stages of mapping between models, and the multi-level model approach is implemented in three-level architecture. Top of this level is a feature-based description for each viewpoint, comprising a combination of form features and other features such as loads and constraints for analysis. The middle level is an executable representation of the feature model. The bottom of this multi-level modelling is a evaluation of a feature-based CAD model obtained by executable feature representations defined in the middle level. The mappings involved in the system comprise firstly, mapping between the top level feature representations associated with different viewpoints, for example for the geometric simplification and addition of boundary conditions associated with moving from a design model to an analysis model, and secondly mapping between the top level and the middle level representations in which the feature model is transformed into the executable representation. Because an executable representation is used as the intermediate layer, the low level evaluation can be active. The example will be implemented with an analysis model which is evaluated and for which results are output. This multi-level modelling approach will be investigated within the framework aimed for the design automation with a feature-based model.

A Study on the y+ Effects on Turbulence Model of Unstructured Grid for CFD Analysis of Wind Turbine (풍력터빈 전산유체역학해석에서 비균일 그리드 무차원 연직거리의 난류모델에 대한 영향특성)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Soo;Ziaul, Huque;Han, Sang-Eul
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the dimensionless wall distance, y+ effect on SST turbulent model for wind turbine blade. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Phase VI wind turbine was used for the study, which the wind tunnel and structural test data has publicly available. The near wall treatment and turbulent characteristics have important role for proper CFD simulation. Most of the CFD development in this area is focused on advanced turbulence model closures including second moment closure models, and so called Low-Reynolds (low-Re) number and two-layer turbulence models. However, in many cases CFD aerodynamic predictions based on these standard models still show a large degree of uncertainty, which can be attributed to the use of the $\epsilon$-equation as the turbulence scale equation and the associated limitations of the near wall treatment. The present paper demonstrates the y+ definition effect on SST (Shear Stress Transport) turbulent model with advanced automatic near wall treatment model and Gamma theta transitional model for transition from lamina to turbulent flow using commercial ANSYS-CFX. In all cases the SST model shows to be superior, as it gives more accurate predictions and is less sensitive to grid variations.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR TRANSIENT SIMULATION OF TIME- AND SCALE-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT IN HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFER SYSTEMS

  • Liu, F.;Turner, I.;Ahn, V.;Su, N.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.11 no.1_2
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    • pp.215-241
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, solute transport in heterogeneous aquifers using a modified Fokker-Planck equation (MFPE) is investigated. This newly developed mathematical model is characterised with a time-, scale-dependent dispersivity. A two-dimensional finite volume quadrilateral mesh method (FVQMM) based on a quadrilateral background interpolation mesh is developed for analysing the model. The FVQMM transforms the coupled non-linear partial differential equations into a system of differential equations, which is solved using backward differentiation formulae of order one through five in order to advance the solution in time. Three examples are presented to demonstrate the model verification and utility. Henry's classic benchmark problem is used to show that the MFPE captures significant features of transport phenomena in heterogeneous porous media including enhanced transport of salt in the upper layer due to its parameters that represent the dependence of transport processes on scale and time. The time and scale effects are investigated. Numerical results are compared with published results on the some problems.

Analysis of patterned ITO layer of PDP thin films using spectroscopic ellipsometry (분광타원법을 이용한 PDP용 ITO 박막의 패턴 분석)

  • 윤희삼;김상열
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.272-278
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    • 2003
  • We studied patterned ITO layers of PDP thin films on glass substrates using spectroscopic ellipsometry. The optical property of ITO is expressed with the optical model based on two Lorentz oscillators. The effect of patterned ITO is calculated by taking the weighted average of reflectance in proportion to ITO coverage. The relative coverage of ITO is determined by using the model analysis of spectroellipsometric data. The difference of ITO coverage obtained by the best-fit model analysis of ellipsometric spectra to the expected one is critically examined and suggestions are made to minimize the observed discrepancy.

Effects of upstream two-dimensional hills on design wind loads: A computational approach

  • Bitsuamlak, G.;Stathopoulos, T.;Bedard, C.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.37-58
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    • 2006
  • The paper describes a study about effects of upstream hills on design wind loads using two mathematical approaches: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Artificial Neural Network (NN for short). For this purpose CFD and NN tools have been developed using an object-oriented approach and C++ programming language. The CFD tool consists of solving the Reynolds time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model using body-fitted nearly-orthogonal coordinate system. Subsequently, design wind load parameters such as speed-up ratio values have been generated for a wide spectrum of two-dimensional hill geometries that includes isolated and multiple steep and shallow hills. Ground roughness effect has also been considered. Such CFD solutions, however, normally require among other things ample computational time, background knowledge and high-capacity hardware. To assist the enduser, an easier, faster and more inexpensive NN model trained with the CFD-generated data is proposed in this paper. Prior to using the CFD data for training purposes, extensive validation work has been carried out by comparing with boundary layer wind tunnel (BLWT) data. The CFD trained NN (CFD-NN) has produced speed-up ratio values for cases such as multiple hills that are not covered by wind design standards such as the Commentaries of the National Building Code of Canada (1995). The CFD-NN results compare well with BLWT data available in literature and the proposed approach requires fewer resources compared to running BLWT experiments.

Audio and Video Bimodal Emotion Recognition in Social Networks Based on Improved AlexNet Network and Attention Mechanism

  • Liu, Min;Tang, Jun
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.754-771
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    • 2021
  • In the task of continuous dimension emotion recognition, the parts that highlight the emotional expression are not the same in each mode, and the influences of different modes on the emotional state is also different. Therefore, this paper studies the fusion of the two most important modes in emotional recognition (voice and visual expression), and proposes a two-mode dual-modal emotion recognition method combined with the attention mechanism of the improved AlexNet network. After a simple preprocessing of the audio signal and the video signal, respectively, the first step is to use the prior knowledge to realize the extraction of audio characteristics. Then, facial expression features are extracted by the improved AlexNet network. Finally, the multimodal attention mechanism is used to fuse facial expression features and audio features, and the improved loss function is used to optimize the modal missing problem, so as to improve the robustness of the model and the performance of emotion recognition. The experimental results show that the concordance coefficient of the proposed model in the two dimensions of arousal and valence (concordance correlation coefficient) were 0.729 and 0.718, respectively, which are superior to several comparative algorithms.

Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric perforated cantilever bimorph energy harvester via finite element analysis

  • Yousef A. Alessi;Ibrahim Ali;Mashhour A. Alazwari;Khalid Almitani;Alaa A Abdelrahman;Mohamed A. Eltaher
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2023
  • This article presents a numerical analysis to investigate the natural frequencies and harmonic response of a perforated cantilever beam attached to two layers of piezoelectric materials by using the finite element method for the first time. The bimorph piezoelectric is composed of 3 layers; two of them at the outer are piezoelectric, and the inner isotropic material. A higher order 3-D 20-node solid element that exhibits quadratic displacement behavior is exploited to discretize the isotropic layer, and coupled piezoelectric 3D element with twenty nodes is used to mesh the top and bottom layers. CIRCU94 element is added to act as a resistor part of the model. The proposed model is validated with previous works. The numerical parametric studies are presented to illustrate the effects of perforation geometry, the number of rows, the resistance on the natural frequencies, frequency response, and power. It is found that the thickness has a positive relationship with the natural frequency. Perforations help in producing higher voltage, and the best shape is rectangular perforations, and to produce higher voltage, two rows of rectangular perforations should be applied.

An Accurate Radio Channel Model for Wireless Sensor Networks Simulation

  • Alejandro Martfnez-Sala;Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo;Esteban Egea-Lopez;Javier Vales-Alonso;Leandro Juan-Llacer;Joan Garcia-Haro
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.401-407
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    • 2005
  • Simulations are currently an essential tool to develop and test wireless sensor networks (WSNs) protocols and to analyze future WSNs applications performance. Researchers often simulate their proposals rather than deploying high-cost test-beds or develop complex mathematical analysis. However, simulation results rely on physical layer assumptions, which are not usually accurate enough to capture the real behavior of a WSN. Such an issue can lead to mistaken or questionable results. Besides, most of the envisioned applications for WSNs consider the nodes to be at the ground level. However, there is a lack of radio propagation characterization and validation by measurements with nodes at ground level for actual sensor hardware. In this paper, we propose to use a low-computational cost, two slope, log-normal path­loss near ground outdoor channel model at 868 MHz in WSN simulations. The model is validated by extensive real hardware measurements obtained in different scenarios. In addition, accurate model parameters are provided. This model is compared with the well-known one slope path-loss model. We demonstrate that the two slope log-normal model provides more accurate WSN simulations at almost the same computational cost as the single slope one. It is also shown that the radio propagation characterization heavily depends on the adjusted model parameters for a target deployment scenario: The model parameters have a considerable impact on the average number of neighbors and on the network connectivity.

Comparison between a 3 Dimensional Turbulent Numerical Model and Hydraulic Experiment Model for the flow phenomenon around a Lock Gate (배수갑문 주위의 흐름현상에 대한 3차원 난류 수치모형과 수리모형실험의 비교)

  • Lee, Sang-Hwa;Jang, Eun-Cheul;Ha, Jae-Yul
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.162-169
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    • 2007
  • This study is focused on the comparison of a 3 dimensional numerical and hydraulic model experiment for the flow phenomenon when a lock gate is opened. The lock gate is designed to discharge the flood flow rate at $218m^3/s$ of Solicheon at the Kun Jang national industry complex. The three dimensional ${\kappa}-{\epsilon}$ turbulent model of ANSYS CFX-10 of the computational fluid dynamics(CFD) program was used. The characteristics of CFX-10 are able to be simulated effectively for turbulent flow, especially the flow separation of the boundary layer of the two phase interface of air and water. The velocity and the flow pattern of the numerical model was showed to be similar to the results of the hydraulic model experiment.

Two-phase transport model of the cathode of PEM fuel cell and effects of GDL properties (PEMFC 양극의 이상계 전달현상 전산모사 및 GDL 물성의 효과 분석)

  • Chun, Kook;Jung, Un-Ho;Park, Ki-Tae;Kim, Sung-Hyun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.403-406
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    • 2006
  • 본 연구에서는 양극의 two-phase simulation 모델을 확립하고 GDL 물성과 작동조건이 전지성능에 미치는 영향에 대해 시행하였다. 모델로는 Multi-phase $mixture(M^2)$ 모델을 사용하였는데 이 모델은 각 상의 balance식을 하나의 mixture-phase식으로 통합하여 수학적 계산이 용이할 뿐만 아니라 실제 전지 성능에 매우 근사하여 신뢰성성도 확보할 수 있었다. 최적의 GDL 구조와 작동조건을 규명하기 위해 기체투과도, 접촉각, 기공도, 기체 공급가스 차이에 따른 전지 성능 분석을 시행하였는데 그 결과 모든 파라미터들이 증가할수록 비례적으로 전지 성능이 증가하였다. 기체 공급가스>기공도>>접촉각>기체투과도 순으로 전지에 미치는 영향이 큰 것으로 나타났다.

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