Optimal Structural Parameters for a Plastic Centrifugal Pump Inducer

The aim of the study is to determine the optimal structural parameters for a plastic centrifugal pump inducer within the framework of an orthogonal experimental method.For this purpose,a numerical study of the related flow field is performed using CFX.The shaft power and the head of the pump are taken as the evaluation indicators.Accordingly,the examined variables are the thickness(S),the blade cascade degree(t),the blade rim angle(β1),the blade hub angle(β2)and the hub length(L).The impact of each structural parameter on each evaluation index is examined and special attention is paid to the following combinations:S2 mm,t 2,β1235°,β2360°and L 140 mm(corresponding to a maximum head of 98.15 m);S 5 mm,t 1.6,β1252°,β2350°and L 140 mm(corresponding to a minimum shaft power of 63.06 KW).Moreover,using least squares and fish swarm algorithms,the pump shaft power and head are further optimized,yielding the following optimal combination:S 5 mm,t 1.9,β1252°,β2360°and L 145 mm(corresponding to the maximum head of 91.90 m,and a minimum shaft power of 64.83 KW).

A split target detection and tracking algorithm for ballistic missile tracking during the re-entry phase

In the re-entry phase of a ballistic missile,decoys can be deployed as a mean to overburden enemy defenses.This results in a single track being split into multiple track-lets.Tracking of these track-lets is a critical task as any miss in the tracking procedure can become a cause of a major threat.The tracking process becomes more complicated in the presence of clutter.The low detection rate is one of the factors that may contribute to increasing the difficulty level in terms of tracking in the cluttered environment.This work introduces a new algorithm for the split event detection and target tracking under the framework of the joint integrated probabilistic data association(JIPDA)algorithm.The proposed algorithm is termed as split event-JIPDA(SE-JIPDA).This work establishes the mathematical foundation for the split target detection and tracking mechanism.The performance analysis is made under different simulation conditions to provide a clear insight into the merits of the proposed algorithm.The performance parameters in these simulations are the root mean square error(RMSE),confirmed true track rate(CTTR)and confirmed split true track rate(CSTTR).

Optimization of the Structural Parameters of a Plastic Centrifugal Pump in the Framework of a Flow Field Analysis

In order to determine the optimal structural parameters of a plastic centrifugal pump in the framework of an orthogonal-experiment approach,a numerical study of the related flow field has been performed using CFX.The thickness S,outlet angleβ2,inlet angleβ1,wrap angle,and inlet diameter D1 of the splitter blades have been considered as the variable factors,using the shaft power and efficiency of the pump as evaluation indices.Through a parametric analysis,the relative importance of the influence of each structural parameter on each evaluation index has been obtained,leading to the following combinations:β119°,β235°,S 2 mm,wrap angle 154°,and D185 mm(corresponding to the maximum efficiency of 75.48%);β119°,β220°,S 6 mm,wrap angle 158°,and D181 mm(corresponding to the minimum shaft power of 75.48%).Moreover,the grey correlation method has been applied to re-optimize the shaft power and efficiency of the pump,leading to the following optimal combination:β119°,β215°,S 4 mm,D181 mm,and wrap angle 152°(corresponding to the maximum efficiency of 71.81%and minimum shaft power of 2.187 kW).

Optimization of the Structural Parameters of a Plastic Centrifugal Pump

The structural design parameters of a plastic centrifugal pump were calculated and modeled,and flow field simulation analysis of the model was performed using CFD,in the framework of an orthogonal design method(or experiment).The inlet mounting angleβ1,outlet mounting angleβ2,wrap angleϕ,and impeller inlet diameter D1 of the pump impeller were the four factors assumed for the application of the orthogonal experiment,using the efficiency and Net Positive Suction Head(NPSH)as evaluation indices.Moreover,taking the maximum efficiency and minimum NPSH of the plastic centrifugal pump as the evaluation factors,the parameters of the pump impeller were re-optimized through the Taguchi algorithm(leading to the following optimal combination:inlet diameter 35 mm,inlet angle 26°,outlet angle 27°,and wrap angle 110°).The minimum NPSH and the maximum efficiency have been found to be 0.957%and 61.5%,respectively.

Scaling Notebooks as Re-configurable Cloud Workflows

Literate computing environments,such as the Jupyter(i.e.,Jupyter Notebooks,JupyterLab,and JupyterHub),have been widely used in scientific studies;they allow users to interactively develop scientific code,test algorithms,and describe the scientific narratives of the experiments in an integrated document.To scale up scientific analyses,many implemented Jupyter environment architectures encapsulate the whole Jupyter notebooks as reproducible units and autoscale them on dedicated remote infrastructures(e.g.,highperformance computing and cloud computing environments).The existing solutions are stl limited in many ways,e.g.,1)the workflow(or pipeline)is implicit in a notebook,and some steps can be generically used by different code and executed in parallel,but because of the tight cell structure,all steps in the Jupyter notebook have to be executed sequentially and lack of the flexibility of reusing the core code fragments,and 2)there are performance bottlenecks that need to improve the parallelism and scalability when handling extensive input data and complex computation.In this work,we focus on how to manage the workflow in a notebook seamlessly.We 1)encapsulate the reusable cells as RESTful services and containerize them as portal components,2)provide a composition tool for describing workflow logic of those reusable components,and 3)automate the execution on remote cloud infrastructure.Empirically,we validate the solution's usability via a use case from the Ecology and Earth Science domain,illustrating the processing of massive Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR)data.The demonstration and analysis show that our method is feasible,but that it needs further improvement,especially on integrating distributed workflow scheduling,automatic deployment,and execution to develop as a mature approach.