The Cell Method for Electrical Engineering and Multiphysics Problems
An Introduction
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Dynamic Behaviour and Magneto-Mechanical Efficiency of a Contactless Magnetic Transmission
This paper addresses the analysis of torsional dynamic behaviour in a magnetic transmission, where the torque is transferred in a contactless way between two coaxial rotors with permanent magnets through the i...
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From Preliminary Design to Prototy** and Validation of Energy Harvester for Shoes
Powering a remote wireless sensor is a challenging task if batteries are not suitable or enough capacious and their substitution is not feasible. In this project a remote wireless sensor is placed inside train...
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Tonti Diagrams
Tonti diagrams [1], also known as classification diagrams, allow a graphical representation of many physical theories to be made, e.g. heat conduction, which will be used as an example in this chapter, electro...
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Robust Optimization of Magneto-Mechanical Energy Harvesters for Shoes
Powering a remote wireless sensor is a challenging task if batteries are not suitable or enough capacious and their substitution is not feasible. A remote wireless sensor can be placed inside a shoe with the a...
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Topological Equations
The cell method (CM) is a numerical scheme which implements the classification of global variables, presented in the previous chapter, in a numerical algorithm. This chapter is devoted to the explanation of ho...
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Implementation
The practical implementation of the cell method, which was presented in the previous parts of the book, can be performed in a very simple and compact way using a high-level programming language. In the followi...
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Constitutive Equations
A brief outline of some common characteristics of the computation of constitutive equations is presented hereafter and the formulation of the constitutive problem will then be detailed for two different kinds ...
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Multiphysics Problems
The formulation of different physical laws, in terms of algebraic operators, was presented in the previous chapters. From an analysis of the Tonti diagrams, it emerges that they are not related to a specific p...
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Classical Physical Problems
The cell method presented in the previous chapters can be applied to different classes of physical problems. Some of these classes are presented in this chapter, in both static and time-varying formulations, t...
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Tonti Diagrams and Algebraic Methods for the Solution of Coupled Problems
Tonti diagrams highlight a common structure of several physical laws describing different phenomena. From a computational viewpoint, this underlying common structure allows to build topological operators (disc...
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Nonlinear Dynamics of an Electro-Mechanical Energy Scavenger
This paper presents a very compact electro-mechanical wideband energy harvester optimized for tire applications. The energy conversion process of the device takes into account the simulation of different pheno...
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Immune Procedure for Optimal Scheduling of Complex Energy Systems
The management of complex energy systems where different power sources are active in a time varying scenario of costs and prices needs efficient optimization approaches. Usually the scheduling problem is is fo...
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Multiobjective Optimization by a Modified Artificial Immune System Algorithm
The aim of this work is to propose and validate a new multiobjective optimization algorithm based on the emulation of the immune system behavior. The rationale of this work is that the artificial immune system ha...
