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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Novel electromagnetic design system enhancements using computational intelligence strategies

Dorica, Mark January 2006 (has links)
No description available.
82

Numerical Modeling of Aerodynamics of Airfoils of Micro Air Vehicles in Gusty Environment

Gopalan, Harish 17 December 2008 (has links)
No description available.
83

Wave Scattering From Infinite Cylindrical Obstacles of Arbitrary Cross-Section

Weber, Matthew B. 03 December 2004 (has links) (PDF)
In this work the scattering of an incident plane wave propagating along a plane perpendicular to the xy-plane is studied. The wave is scattered from an infinitely long cylindrical object of arbitrary cross-section. Due to the arbitrary geometry of the obstacle, a finite differences numerical method is employed to approximate the solution of the scattering problems. The wave equation is expressed in terms of generalized curvilinear coordinates. Boundary conforming grids are generated using elliptic grid generators. Then, a explicit marching in time scheme is implemented over these grids. It is found that as time grows the numerical solution converges to a wave with harmonic time dependence. The amplitude of these waves is analyzed and graphed over generalized grids for different geometries. An important physical measure of the energy scattered, the differential scattering cross section, is also obtained. In particular, the method is applied to a circular cylindrical obstacle. For this case, the analytical solution can also be obtained by traditional spectral techniques. The method is validated by comparing this exact solution with the numerical approximation obtained from the application of it.
84

A finite element mesh optimization procedure using a thermal expansion analogy

Nguyen, Vinh Dinh January 1985 (has links)
Finite element optimum meshes are synthesized by the use of thermal expansion principles in conjunction with an analogous temperature field computed from the element strain energy contents. Elements having high strain energy contents are shrunk and those with low strain energy contents are expanded until all elements contain the same amount of strain energy. Deviatoric strain energy is also used in place of the strain energy as the objective function for the optimization method. Both objective functions yield significant improvements of the meshes after only a few iterations. In one test case, the errors in the maximum stresses are reduced by more than 1/3 after 1 iteration. In another test case, the error in the stress concentration factor is reduced by more than 3/4 after 7 iterations. / M.S.
85

Techniques for compressible flow calculations on multi-zone grids

Reu, Taekyu January 1988 (has links)
In order to simulate inviscid/viscous compressible flowfields about 3-D realistic aerodynamic bodies, the combined use of an implicit, upwind biased real gas scheme with 3-D fully conservative patched grid techniques is discussed. An "equivalent" gamma formulation is implemented in order to model real gas effects in Van Leer's flux vector splitting (FVS) and Roe’s flux difference splitting (FDS) scheme. A hybrid approximate-factorization (AF)/relaxation algorithm is used as an efficient solver of the Euler, parabolized Navier-Stokes, and thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations. Two different approaches, clipping and Ramshaw’s rezoning algorithms, for performing a conservative flux calculation are described and compared in terms of numerical efficiency. In order to show the real gas \\\ effects in the upwind schemes, two tcst problems are solved. Also to demonstrate the capability of the patched grid approach, the turbulent flowüeld about 3-D analytic forebody is calculated as another test problem. Due to the poor results of the Baldwin-Lomax turbulent model for separated flows, only the attached flowtield is considered in the analytic forebody calculation. Finally, as applications of this approach, the inviscid/viscous flowfields about several aerodynamic bodies are calculated including a generic hypersonic aircraft, a model of the SR-71 aircraft, and F-18 forebody with strakes. / Ph. D.
86

A High-Resolution Procedure For Euler And Navier-Stokes Computations On Unstructured Grids

Jawahar, P 09 1900 (has links)
A finite-volume procedure, comprising a gradient-reconstruction technique and a multidimensional limiter, has been proposed for upwind algorithms on unstructured grids. The high-resolution strategy, with its inherent dependence on a wide computational stencil, does not suffer from a catastrophic loss of accuracy on a grid with poor connectivity as reported recently is the case with many unstructured-grid limiting procedures. The continuously-differentiable limiter is shown to be effective for strong discontinuities, even on a grid which is composed of highly-distorted triangles, without adversely affecting convergence to steady state. Numerical experiments involving transient computations of two-dimensional scalar convection to steady-state solutions of Euler and Navier-Stokes equations demonstrate the capabilities of the new procedure.
87

Ultrasonic Technique in Determination of Grid-Generated Turbulent Flow Characteristics

Andreeva, Tatiana A. 10 October 2003 (has links)
"The present study utilizes the ultrasonic travel-time technique to diagnose grid-generated turbulence. The statistics of the travel-time variations of ultrasonic wave propagation along a path are used to determine some metrics of the turbulence. The motivation for this work stems from the observation of substantial delta-t variation in ultrasonic measuring devices like flow meters and circulation meters. Typically, averaging can be used to extract mean values from such time series. The corollary is that the fluctuations contain information about the turbulence. Experimental data were obtained for ultrasonic wave propagation downstream of a heated grid in a wind tunnel. Such grid-generated turbulence is well characterized and features a mean flow with superimposed velocity and temperature fluctuations. The ultrasonic path could be perpendicular or oblique to the mean flow direction. Path lengths were of the order of 0.3 m and the transducers were of 100 kHz working frequency. The data acquisition and control system featured a very high-speed analog to digital conversion card that enabled excellent resolution of ultrasonic signals. Experimental data for the travel-time variance were validated using ray acoustic theory along with the Kolmogorov “2/3” law. It is demonstrated that the ultrasonic technique, together with theoretical models, provides a basis for turbulent flow diagnostics. As a result, the structure constant appearing in the Kolmogorov “2/3” law is determined based on the experimental data. The effect of turbulence on acoustic waves, in terms of the travel time, was studied for various mean velocities and for different angular orientations of the acoustic waves with respect to the mean flow. Average travel time in the presence of turbulence was shorter then in the undisturbed media. The effect of the time shift between the travel times in turbulent and undisturbed media is associated with Fermat’s principle. The travel time and log-amplitude variance of acoustic waves were investigated as functions of travel distance and mean velocity over a range of Reynolds number varying from 4000 to 20000. Experimental data are interpreted using classical ray acoustic approach and the parabolic acoustic equation approach together with the perturbation method. It was experimentally demonstrated that there is a strong dependence of the travel time on the mean velocity even in the case where the propagation of acoustic waves is perpendicular to the mean velocity. The effect of thermal fluctuations, which result in fluctuations of sound speed, was studied for two temperatures of the grid: (no grid heating) and . A semi analytical acoustic propagation model that allows determination of the spacial correlation functions of flow field is developed based on the classical flow meter equation and statistics of the travel time of acoustic waves traveling through the velocity and the thermal turbulence. The basic flow meter equation is reconsidered in order to take into account sound speed fluctuations and turbulent velocity. The resulting equation is written in terms of correlation functions of travel time, sound speed fluctuation and turbulent velocity fluctuations. Experimentally measured travel time statistics data with and without grid heating are approximated by Gaussian function and used to solve the integral flow meter equation in terms of correlation functions analytically."
88

Analysis of Mesh Strategies for Rapid Source Location in Chemical/Biological Attacks

Howard, Patricia Ann 30 April 2004 (has links)
Currently, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are creating software that is designed to determine the source of a toxic release given sensor readings of the toxin concentration at fixed locations in the building. One of the most important concerns in solving such problems is computation time since even a crude approximation to the source, if found in a timely manner, will give emergency personnel the chance to take appropriate actions to contain the substance. The manner in which the toxin spreads depends on the air flow within the building. Due to the turbulence in the air flow, it is necessary to calculate the flow field on a fine mesh. Unfortunately, using a fine mesh for every calculation in this problem may result in prohibitively long computation times when other features are incorporated into the model. The goal of this thesis is to reduce the computation time required by the software mentioned above by applying two different mesh coarsening strategies after the flow field is computed. The first of these strategies is to use a uniformly coarse mesh and the second is to use our knowledge of the air flow in the building to construct an adaptive mesh. The objective of the latter strategy is to use a fine mesh only in areas where it is absolutely necessary, i.e., in areas where there is a great change in the flow field.
89

Error estimation and grid adaptation for functional outputs using discrete-adjoint sensitivity analysis

Balsubramanian, Ravishankar. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Computational Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.
90

Interactive and immersive surface interrogation techniques over triangulated surfaces

Guan, Yanlin. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

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