This student thesis deals with a problem of manufacturing and competition ability of the joint stock company ZVVZ in the range of its manufacturing program - radial fans. The thesis compares the present and the innovated type of small radial fans from the view of manufacturing technology and manufacturing costs. The study comes out the technological documentation and demand forecast of future market. Finally the thesis summaries conditions which are necessary for the successful entrance of the innovated type of radial fans into the manufacturing process.

STŘÍLKA VLASTIMIL, Proposal of a tool for radial expanding of axial symetrical components Diploma work, 5th year, School year 2008/2009, educational group 5O/61, FS VUT in Brno, Institute of Manufacturing Technology, department of forming, May 2009 An object of this diploma work is location suitable manufacturing proposal for production engaged part of form ring from materials 17 246 segments tool. As a half- finished product of this part will be use a weldment metal plate from materials 17 246.1, the used welding technology is butt weld by laser beam. Choice of suitable manufacturing variety will be made from more construction proposal tool. Appearance to financial costs, mode of radial expanding and so from aspekt functionality and next processing part. We choice variety NO. 3. I implemented calculation usefull forming power and process factor. I affixed to the dokument plan configuration choose variety.

This diploma thesis deals with problematics of the radial force effect on the runner and possibilities of the force reduction. Some pump modifications were proposed and changes of radial force magnitude in reverse blocking state and optimal flow state were examined in consequence. Following investigation was focused on the new modifications regarding to the pump efficiency and its characteristics stability. All results were carried out using the Solidworks, the Fluent and the Microsoft Excel software.

This Diploma thesis deals with a design of a powertrain of fice-cylinder gasoline radial engine with assigned main parameters (bore, stroke, etc.). The work is divided into several parts: kinematics of the radial engine, creation of 3D models, force acting on the connecting rods, balancing of the engine. The last part is focused on creating MKP models, stress analysis and determining of fatigue safety of the selected parts.

Master thesis is focused on the research of influence of selected substantial parameters on stress – strain states in the deep groove radial ball bearing. The influence of radial load is analyzed, such as the influence of size of the bearing and row of the bearing, also influence of radial clearance is quantified. Next, the influence of thermal distribution in the bearing is analyzed for different combinations of thermal distributions and radial clearances. Conclusions from analyses are then used in the last task – suggestion of radial clearance for customer – specified assembly. Problem is solved using the finite element method (FEM) in pre/post processor MSC.Patran and solver MSC.Marc. To make analyses faster the substantial parameters are implemented in the algorithm for automatic generation of the bearing calculation (batch file).The theme of this thesis was commissioned by ZKL - Research and development, a. s.

Microsized hexagonal gallium nitride pyramids show promise as next generation Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) due to certain quantum properties within the pyramids. One metric for evaluating the efficiency of a LED device is by studying its Light Extraction Efficiency (LEE). To calculate the LEE for different pyramid designs, simulations can be performed using the FDTD method. Maximizing the LEE is treated as a black-box optimization problem with an interpolation method that utilizes radial basis functions. A simple heuristic is implemented and tested for various pyramid parameters. The LEE is shown to be highly dependent on the pyramid size, the source position and the polarization. Under certain circumstances, a LEE over 17% is found above the pyramid. The results are however in some situations very sensitive to the simulation parameters, leading to results not converging properly. Establishing convergence for all simulation evaluations must be done with further care. The results imply a high LEE for the pyramids is possible, which motivates the need for further research.

In this paper the obstacle description with Radial Basis Functions for contact problems in three dimensional elasticity will be done. A short Introduction of the idea of Radial Basis Functions will be followed by the usage of Radial Basis Functions for approximation of isosurfaces. Then these isosurfaces are used for the obstacle-description in three dimensional elasticity contact problems. In the last part some computational examples will be shown.

Model-based black-box optimization is a topic that has been intensively studied both in academia and industry. Especially real-world optimization tasks are often characterized by expensive or time-demanding objective functions for which statistical models can save resources or speed-up the optimization. Each of three parts of the thesis concerns one such model: first, copulas are used instead of a graphical model in estimation of distribution algorithms, second, RBF networks serve as surrogate models in mixed-variable genetic algorithms, and third, Gaussian processes are employed in Bayesian optimization algorithms as a sampling model and in the Covariance matrix adaptation Evolutionary strategy (CMA-ES) as a surrogate model. The last combination, described in the core part of the thesis, resulted in the Doubly trained surrogate CMA-ES (DTS-CMA-ES). This algorithm uses the uncertainty prediction of a Gaussian process for selecting only a part of the CMA-ES population for evaluation with the expensive objective function while the mean prediction is used for the rest. The DTS-CMA-ES improves upon the state-of-the-art surrogate continuous optimizers in several benchmark tests.

Single photon emission tomography (SPECT) data from myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) are normally displayed as a set of three slices orthogonal to the left ventricular (LV) long axis for both ECG-gated (GSPECT) and non-gated SPECT studies. The total number of slices presented for assessment depends on the size of the heart, but is typically in excess of 30.  A requirement for data presentation is that images should be orientated about the LV axis; therefore, a set of radial slice would fulfill this need. Radial slices are parallel to the LV long axis and arranged diametrically. They could provide a suitable alternative to standard orthogonal slices, with the advantage of requiring far fewer slices to adequately represent the data. In this study a semi-automatic method was developed for displaying MPI SPECT data as a set of radial slices orientated about the LV axis, with the aim of reducing the number of slices viewed, without loss of information and independent on the size of the heart. Input volume data consisted of standard short axis slices orientated perpendicular to the LV axis chosen at the time of reconstruction.  The true LV axis was determined by first determining the boundary on a central long axis slice, the axis being in the direction of the y-axis in the matrix. The skeleton of the myocardium were found and the true LV axis determined for that slice. The angle of this axis with respect to the y-axis was calculated. The process was repeated for an orthogonal long axis slice. The input volume was then rotated by the angles calculated. Radial slices generated for presentation were integrated over a sector equivalent to the imaging resolution (1.2 cm); assuming the diameter of the heart is about 8cm then non-gated data could be represented by 20 radial slices integrated over an 18 degree section. Gated information could be represented with four slices spaced at 45 intervals, integrated over a 30 degree sector.

The effects of impeller-diffuser interaction are investigated through numerically simulating the modified wedge vane profiles. Steady and time-accurate, 3D- viscous RANSsolver is used to perform flow field computations. The original design is modified to obtain better aerodynamic performance. Five morechanges are made to the leading edge profile of the new design, in order to assess different degrees of unsteadiness. These changes show that their contribution on stageefficiency is rather minor, while they have a huge reduction on blade loadings. Moreover, it is shown that the shorter radial distance of vaneless space does not necessarilymean an increased loading thanks to the eliminating in-phase fluctuations on pressureand suction sides. It is found that the impeller reacts to the upstream static pressure disturbance, whichis caused by the applied geometry change and its resultant flow field in the wedge diffuser, but not to the radial location of a certain profile. In addition, the results indicatethat the wedge diffuser aerodynamic performance is driven by time-averaged flow fieldbehaviour.