Yaohua Zhang^a,*, Yoshio Utaka^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.1, pp. 1-12, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.1.3003

Abstract This paper reviews recent research on microlayer formed by confined vapor bubbles during boiling in mini/microchannels. Experimental measurements, simulations and theoretical studies are described and compared. As a reference to clarify the mechanism for the formation of a microlayer, Taylor flow (i.e. elongated bubble flow in mini/micro circular tubes under adiabatic conditions and at Re << 1) and elongated bubble flow at high velocity, with consideration of the influence of inertia, are also reviewed. Compared to the steady adiabatic conditions, one of the distinct points for the boiling condition is that the bubble grows exponentially due to rapid evaporation of… More >

Zhonglu Lin^1,2, Dongfang Liang², Yu Zhang^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 1-9, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010442

Abstract Fish schools are capable of simultaneous linear acceleration. To reveal the underlying hydrodynamic mechanism, we numerically investigate how Reynolds number Re = 1000−2000, Strouhal number St = 0.2−0.7 and wavelength λ = 0.5−2 affects the mean net thrust of two side-by-side NACA0012 hydrofoils undulating in anti-phase. In total, 550 cases are simulated using immersed boundary method. The thrust is strengthened by wavelength and Strouhal number, yet only slightly by the Reynolds number. We apply the symbolic regression algorithm to formulate this relationship as a high-level summary. More >

Dongping Tian^1,*, Bingchun Li¹, Jing Liu¹, Chen Liu¹, Ling Yuan¹, Zhongzhi Shi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 2783-2807, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039531

Abstract Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a stochastic computation technique that has become an increasingly important branch of swarm intelligence optimization. However, like other evolutionary algorithms, PSO also suffers from premature convergence and entrapment into local optima in dealing with complex multimodal problems. Thus this paper puts forward an adaptive multi-updating strategy based particle swarm optimization (abbreviated as AMS-PSO). To start with, the chaotic sequence is employed to generate high-quality initial particles to accelerate the convergence rate of the AMS-PSO. Subsequently, according to the current iteration, different update schemes are used to regulate the particle search process at different evolution stages.… More >

Chun Sha^1,*, Chaohui Yue², Wenchen Wang³

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.5, pp. 369-381, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.027948

Abstract Convolution neural networks in deep learning can solve the problem of damage identification based on vibration acceleration. By combining multiple 1D DenseNet submodels, a new ensemble learning method is proposed to improve identification accuracy. 1D DenseNet is built using standard 1D CNN and DenseNet basic blocks, and the acceleration data obtained from multiple sampling points is brought into the 1D DenseNet training to generate submodels after offset sampling. When using submodels for damage identification, the voting method ideas in ensemble learning are used to vote on the results of each submodel, and then vote centrally. Finally, the cantilever damage problem… More >

ShiJie Luo¹, Feng Yang¹, Yingjun Wang^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09474

Abstract The isogeometric analysis Method (IGA) is an efficient and accurate engineering analysis method. However, in order to obtain accurate analysis results, the grid must be refined, and the increase of the number of refinements will lead to large-scale equations, which will increase the computational cost. Compared with the traditional equation solvers such as preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG), generalized minimal residual (GMRES), the advantage of multigrid method is that the convergence rate is independent of grid scale when solving large-scale equations. This paper presents an adaptive weighted Jacobi method to improve the convergence of geometric multigrid method to efficiently solve… More >

Shuo Yang¹, Yongxing Shen^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09207

Abstract Fatigue refers to repeated cyclic loading well below the ultimate failure stress of the structure. It accounts for most mechanical failures, and thus deserves serious consideration in engineering practice. Phase field approach is a powerful tool for fracture simulation, which tracks arbitrary and complicated crack paths without extra criterion. This approach has been widely applied to various cracking problems, such as shell fracture, beam fracture , etc. The phase field approach for fracture has been adapted for fatigue fracture in recent years. Due to the mesh requirement of the phase field approach and the large amount of load steps of… More >

Lei Yu¹, Hongjun Wang^1,*, Yubin Yue¹, Shucong Liu¹, Xiangxiang Mao², Fengshou Gu³

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 315-336, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.024899

Abstract In recent years, high-end equipment is widely used in industry and the accuracy requirements of the equipment have been risen year by year. During the machining process, the high-end equipment failure may have a great impact on the product quality. It is necessary to monitor the status of equipment and to predict fault diagnosis. At present, most of the condition monitoring devices for mechanical equipment have problems of large size, low precision and low energy utilization. A wireless self-powered intelligent spindle vibration acceleration sensor system based on piezoelectric energy harvesting is proposed. Based on rotor sensing technology, a sensor is… More >

Pramote Charongrattanasakul¹, Wimonmas Bamrungsetthapong^2,*, Poom Kumam³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 1631-1651, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036179

Abstract A novel adaptive multiple dependent state sampling plan (AMDSSP) was designed to inspect products from a continuous manufacturing process under the accelerated life test (ALT) using both double sampling plan (DSP) and multiple dependent state sampling plan (MDSSP) concepts. Under accelerated conditions, the lifetime of a product follows the Weibull distribution with a known shape parameter, while the scale parameter can be determined using the acceleration factor (AF). The Arrhenius model is used to estimate AF when the damaging process is temperature-sensitive. An economic design of the proposed sampling plan was also considered for the ALT. A genetic algorithm with… More >

Sizhe Tang¹, Mengmeng Cui^1,*, Lianyong Qi², Xiaolong Xu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 5-42, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.023684

Abstract With the rapid development of deep learning, the size of data sets and deep neural networks (DNNs) models are also booming. As a result, the intolerable long time for models’ training or inference with conventional strategies can not meet the satisfaction of modern tasks gradually. Moreover, devices stay idle in the scenario of edge computing (EC), which presents a waste of resources since they can share the pressure of the busy devices but they do not. To address the problem, the strategy leveraging distributed processing has been applied to load computation tasks from a single processor to a group of… More >

Ahmad Taher Azar^1,2,*, Zafar Iqbal Khan², Syed Umar Amin², Khaled M. Fouad^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 2021-2037, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032183

Abstract This paper proposes Parallelized Linear Time-Variant Acceleration Coefficients and Inertial Weight of Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PLTVACIW-PSO). Its designed has introduced the benefits of Parallel computing into the combined power of TVAC (Time-Variant Acceleration Coefficients) and IW (Inertial Weight). Proposed algorithm has been tested against linear, non-linear, traditional, and multiswarm based optimization algorithms. An experimental study is performed in two stages to assess the proposed PLTVACIW-PSO. Phase I uses 12 recognized Standard Benchmarks methods to evaluate the comparative performance of the proposed PLTVACIW-PSO vs. IW based Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms, TVAC based PSO algorithms, traditional PSO, Genetic algorithms (GA),… More >