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Alba Matínez-López, Héctor Rubén Díaz Ojeda, Marcos Míguez González and África Marrero
Fulfilment of the progressive environmental normative involves a singular challenge for Short Sea Shipping (SSS), since it must maintain its competitiveness versus other transport alternatives. For this reason, over the last decade SSS vessels have been ...
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Alessandro Scarpellini, Valentina Finazzi, Paolo Schito, Arianna Bionda, Andrea Ratti and Ali Gökhan Demir
This work demonstrates the advantages of using laser powder bed fusion for producing a rudder bulb of a moth class sailing racing boat via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). The component was designed to reduce weight using an AlSi7Mg0.6 alloy and incorpora...
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Daniela Benites-Munoz, Luofeng Huang, Enrico Anderlini, José R. Marín-Lopez and Giles Thomas
To estimate the response of wave energy converters to different sea environments accurately is an ongoing challenge for researchers and industry, considering that there has to be a balance between guaranteeing their integrity whilst extracting the wave e...
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Lenka Kabo?ová, Du?an Katunský and Stanislav Kmet
In the climate change era, the tendency to utilize computer-aided strategies in architectural design enables the incorporation of the influences of ambient conditions into the design process. Such a design strategy can consequently contribute to creating...
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Stefan Harries and Sebastian Uharek
The paper shows the application of a flexible approach of partially-parametric modelling on the basis of radial basis functions (RBF) for the modification of an existing hull form (baseline). Different to other partially-parametric modelling approaches, ...
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Maarten Klapwijk and Sébastien Lemaire
Increased graphical capabilities of contemporary computer hardware make ray tracing possible for a much wider range of applications. In science, and numerical fluid mechanics in particular, visual inspections still play a key role in both understanding f...
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Ngoc-Duc Nguyen, Hyeung-Sik Choi and Sung-Wook Lee
This paper presents the modeling of a new ray-type hybrid underwater glider (RHUG) and an experimental approach used to robustly and adaptively control heading motion. The motions of the proposed RHUG are divided into vertical-plane motions and heading m...
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Zhiqing Zhao, Siyi Zhang and Yizhan Peng
In ancient Chinese architecture, Feng Shui was a prevalent practice used to enhance the built environment. This study utilized computer simulation techniques to assess the effectiveness of Long?Hu Sand layout Feng Shui in the Bailudong Academy complex in...
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Dann De la Torre, Veneranda Garcés-Chávez, Juan De Dios Sanchez-Lopez, Kevin A. O?Donnell, Juan Ivan Nieto-Hipólito and Rosario Isidro Yocupicio-Gaxiola
In this work, we report an optofluidic system for manipulation of orientation of zeolite crystals near the bottom of a rectangular cross-sectional, straight, quartz microfluidic channel. Manipulation is accomplished by using two computer-controlled syrin...
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Di Zhu, Zilong Hu, Yan Chen, Chao Wang, Youchao Yang, Jiahao Lu, Xijie Song, Ran Tao, Zhengwei Wang and Wensheng Ma
Two-stage double-suction centrifugal pumps have both a large flow and high head. However, due to the complexity of their flow passage components, efficiency has always been a major problem, and the corresponding head is also prone to insufficiency. In th...
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Gabriel-Alexandru Constantin, Mariana-Gabriela Munteanu, Gheorghe Voicu, Gigel Paraschiv and Elena-Madalina ?tefan
The baking process in tunnel ovens can be influenced by many parameters. Among these, the most important can be considered as: the baking time, the volume of dough pieces, the texture and humidity of the dough, the distribution of temperature inside the ...
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Ana-Maria Chiro?ca and Liliana Rusu
An alternative to experiments is the use of numerical model tests, where the performances of ships can be evaluated entirely by computer simulations. In this paper, the free surface viscous flow around a bare hull model is simulated with three Computatio...
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Daniel Hernández-Cervantes, Xitlali Delgado-Galván, José L. Nava, P. Amparo López-Jiménez, Mario Rosales and Jesús Mora Rodríguez
In Water Distribution Networks, the chlorine control is feasible with the use of water quality simulation codes. EPANET is a broad domain software and several commercial computer software packages base their models on its methodology. However, EPANET ass...
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Yixiang Liao and Dirk Lucas
The flashing phenomenon is relevant to nuclear safety analysis, for example by a loss of coolant accident and safety release scenarios. It has been studied intensively by means of experiments and simulations with system codes, but computational fluid dyn...
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Luis Ma. Bo-ot, Yao-Hong Wang, Che-Ming Chiang and Chi-Ming Lai
This study attempted to address the existing urban design needs and computer-aided thermal engineering and explore the optimal green space layout to obtain an acceptable thermal environment at the neighborhood scale through a series of building energy an...
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M. R. Ajith Kumar, Jaan H. Pu, Prashanth R. Hanmaiahgari and Martin F. Lambert
A problem with 1-D water hammer modelling is in the application of accurate unsteady friction. Moreover, investigating the time response of fluid dynamics and unsteady turbulence structures during the water hammer is not possible with a 1-D model. This r...
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Jia Yuan, Zhen Liu, Hua Geng, Songtao Zhang, Lihua Liang and Peng Zhao
In order to reduce the offshore wind power operation and maintenance vessel motion induced by severe sea states, a suitable stabilizer with the ship based on linear quadratic regulator strategy is proposed in this paper. First of all, the dynamics of the...
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Aniket R. Khade, Vijaya D. Damodara and Daniel H. Chen
A fuel mixture of ammonia and natural gas as a low-carbon alternative for future power generation and transportation is an attractive option. In this work, a 50-species reduced mechanism, NH3NG, suitable for computational fluid dynamics simulations (CFD)...
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Anatolijs Borodinecs, Kristina Lebedeva, Natalja Sidenko and Aleksejs Prozuments
Evaporative cooling is widely recognized as an energy efficient and environmentally-friendly air conditioning solution, and it has drawn a lot of market interest in recent years. However, this technology is accompanied by several challenges. For instance...
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Jinsheng Wang, Shihao Xue and Guoji Xu
To facilitate the establishment of the probabilistic model for quantifying the vulnerability of coastal bridges to natural hazards and support the associated risk assessment and mitigation activities, it is imperative to develop an accurate and efficient...
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