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Three-dimensional periodic boundary layers
Three-dimensional periodic boundary layers on an arbitrary surface are considered assuming that the outer flow is a known periodic potential flow. It is shown that, if the Strouhal number and the Reynolds numb...
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Some aspects of dynamics of bubbly liquids
The formulation of dynamics of a liquid containing gas bubbles or vapor bubbles is presented. It is applied to sound waves and one-dimensional flow problems.
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Flow through a helically coiled annulus
In this paper the flow is studied of an incompressible viscous fluid through a helically coiled annulus, the torsion of its centre line taken into account. It has been shown that the torsion affects the second...
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The deviation of heat transfer calculation for laminar free convection of gas due to ignoring the variable thermophysical properties
According to the similarity transformation method described in [1–3], the ordinary differential governing equations of laminar free convection of gases with Boussinesq's approximation are set up. The equations...
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High-Tc superconducting microwave phase shifter
The relation between the surface impedance ZS(=RS−jXS) of superconductors and DC current I has been derived to determine the propagation constant of a superconducting microstrip line, and the relation between the...
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Elemental mechanisms of hydrodynamic instabilities
The elemental mechanisms for many hydrodynamic instabilities can be identified as negative dam**, negative diffusion or ellipticity. Identifications of some well-known hydrodynamic instabilities are made. Mo...
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On hydrodynamic instabilities, chaos and phase transition
Ellipticity as the underlying mechanism for instabilities of physical systems is highlighted in the study of model nonlinear evolution equations with dissipation and the study of phase transition in Van der Wa...
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A Stable Neuro-Adaptive Controller for Rigid Robot Manipulators
In this paper a controller based on neural networks is proposed toachieve output trajectory tracking of rigid robot manipulators. Neuralnetworks used here are one hidden layer ones so that their outputs depend...
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Water waves in an elastic vessel
Linear and nonlinear analyses of water waves in an elastic vessel are carried out to study the dramatic phenomena of Dragon Wash as well as related controllable experiments. It is proposed that the capillary e...
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A numerical algorithm for the diffusion equation using 3D FEM and the Arnoldi method
In this paper we introduce a new computational method for solving the diffusion equation. In particular, we construct a “generalized” state-space system and compute the impulse response of an equivalent trunca...
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Some Prominent Characteristics of the Modified Elliptic Low-Pass Function
A modified elliptic low-pass filter function with progressively diminishing ripples in both the passband and the stopband is proposed and analyzed. The modified elliptic function is realizable by the passive d...
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Theory of water waves in an elastic vessel
Recent experiments related to the Dragon Wash phenomena showed that axisymmetric capillary waves appear first from excitation, and circumferential capillary waves appear after increase of the excitation streng...
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Thermoelastic Interaction between a Crack and a Circular Inhomogeneity
A problem of a circular elastic inclusion interacting with a crack under the thermal loading (heat flux at infinity) is revisited, and the system of singular integral equations with logarithmic kernels is obta...
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A Freeform Surface Modelling System Based on Laser Scan Data for Reverse Engineering
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Integration of document index with perception index
We propose the perception index (PI) that contains attributes associated with a focal keyword restricted by fuzzy term(s) used in fuzzy queries on the Internet. The PI assists the user to reflect his/her perc...
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Design of a New High Speed Amplifier Circuit for the Analog Subsystems
A high speed CMOS amplifier circuit with a new architecture especially suited for analog subsystems and a simple high speed CMOS comparator utilizing the proposed CMOS amplifier circuit are presented. The prop...
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A new rapid manufacturing process for multi-face high-speed machining
High-speed machining is known as one of the most effective rapid prototy** and/or manufacturing (RPM) processes that provides the various machining materials with excellent quality and dimensional accuracy. ...
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Calculation and verification of rotation angle of a four-axis hotwire cutter for transfer-type variable lamination manufacturing using expandable polystyrene foam
Most rapid prototy** (RP) processes adopt a solid CAD model sliced into thin layers of constant thickness in the building direction. Each cross-sectional layer is successively deposited and, simultaneously, ...
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A simulated annealing algorithm for integration of shop floor control strategies in semiconductor wafer fabrication
The semiconductor manufacturing industry is one of the most important industries in Taiwan. Wafer fabrication is an essential process in semiconductor manufacturing. However, controlling the production system ...
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Development of a scalable finite element solution to the Navier–Stokes equations
A scalable numerical model to solve the unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes equations is developed using the Galerkin finite element method. The coupled equations are decoupled by the fractional-step method ...