Jian Song^*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.2, pp. 345-354, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.017382

Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics is used to assess the thermal (heat transfer) performances of an automobile engine considering different grille opening and closing degrees. For this purpose the entire vehicle is modelled and three fundamental aspects are examined, namely, the open area of the air intake grille, the position of the upper and lower grilles and their shape. The results show that the opening area and position of the grille have some influence also on the aerodynamic characteristics of the automobile. With an increase in the opening angle of the grille, the C_D (Drag Coefficient) value of the whole vehicle becomes… More >

Mamdouh El Haj Assad¹, Ibrahim Mahariq^2,*, Zaher Al Barakeh², Mahmoud Khasawneh², Mohammad Ali Amooie³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3767-3781, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018872

Abstract CO₂ emission is considerably dependent on energy consumption and on share of energy sources as well as on the extent of economic activities. Consequently, these factors must be considered for CO₂ emission prediction for seven middle eastern countries including Iran, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar. In order to propose a predictive model, a Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLP ANN) is applied. Three transfer functions including logsig, tansig and radial basis functions are utilized in the hidden layer of the network. Moreover, various numbers of neurons are applied in the structure of the models. It… More >

Mohamed Abdel-Basset¹, Reda Mohamed¹, Ripon K. Chakrabortty², Michael J. Ryan², Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Mohamed Abouhawwash^4,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 2883-2901, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017854

Abstract This paper proposes a new pre-processing technique to separate the most effective features from those that might deteriorate the performance of the machine learning classifiers in terms of computational costs and classification accuracy because of their irrelevance, redundancy, or less information; this pre-processing process is often known as feature selection. This technique is based on adopting a new optimization algorithm known as generalized normal distribution optimization (GNDO) supported by the conversion of the normal distribution to a binary one using the arctangent transfer function to convert the continuous values into binary values. Further, a novel restarting strategy (RS) is proposed… More >

Yipu Wang¹, Yonghua Wang^1,2,*, Zheming Liu¹, Huadong Yu¹, Jinkai Xu¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.5, pp. 923-941, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.014138

Abstract Noise pollution is one of the contemporary environmental pollution, which seriously damages people’s green and healthy life. In order to further improve the low frequency sound absorption performance of microperforated panel (MPP), a new plastocene coupled microperforated plate (PCMPP) is proposed. The acoustic properties of PCMPP with different apertures and perforation ratio were measured by transfer function method and compared with that of conventional MPPs. It is found that when the aperture was 0.8 mm, the peak value of sound absorption coefficient of PCMPP decreased by 150 Hz compared with MPP. In a certain range, PCMPP with larger apertures showed… More >

Yajie Sun^{1, 2, *}, Yanqing Yuan², Qi Wang², Sai Ji^{1, 2}, Lihua Wang³, Shao’en Wu⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1647-1656, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06331

Abstract In order to identify the location and magnitude of the impact force accurately, determine the damage range of the structure and accelerate the health monitoring of key components of the composite, this paper studies the location and magnitude of the impact force of composite plates by an inverse method. Firstly, a PZT sensor mounted on the material plate is used to collect the response signal generated by the impact force, which is from several impact locations, and establish transfer functions between the impact location and the PZT sensor. Secondly, this paper applies several forces to any location on the material… More >

Guangzheng Yu^1,*, Yu Liu^1,2, Bosun Xie¹, Huali Zhou¹

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.4, pp. 151-159, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04644

Abstract To accelerate head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) measurement, two or more independent sound sources are usually employed in the measurement system. However, the multiple scattering between adjacent sound sources may influence the accuracy of measurement. On the other hand, the directivity of sound source could induce measurement error. Therefore, a model consisting of two spherical sound sources with approximate omni-directivity and a rigid-spherical head is proposed to evaluate the errors in HRTF measurement caused by multiple scattering between sources. An example of analysis using multipole re-expansion indicates that the error of ipsilateral HRTFs are within the bound of ± 1.0 dB… More >

K.G. Vinod¹, S. Gopalakrishnan¹, R. Ganguli¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 197-208, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.016.197

Abstract A spectral finite element formulation for a rotating beam subjected to small duration impact is presented in this paper. The spatial variation in centrifugal force is modeled in an average sense. Spectrum and dispersion plots are obtained as a function of rotating speed. It is shown that the flexural wave tends to behave non-dispersively at very high rotation speeds. The numerical results are simulated for two rotating waveguides of different dimensions. The results show that there is a steep increase in responses with the response peaks and the reflected signals almost vanishing at higher rotating speeds. The solution obtained in… More >