样条应用与曲线光顺

样条是船舶CAD设计的基本工具。它代替传统的近似计算方法,简单灵活地实现设计中的计算问题,方便快速地实现图形输出,是设计人员必备技术。文章介绍三次样条的性质,曲线拟合、光顺的计算方法,展示样条在设计中如何应用。

Application of Three-Dimensional Visual Simulation in Tidal Defense Engineering

Any tidal defense engineering involves the collection and analysis of massive information about engineering structures and their surrounding environment. Traditional method, which is carried out mainly by means of twodimensional drawings and textures, is not efficient and intuitive enough to analyze the whole project and reflect its spatial relationship. Three-dimensional visual simulation provides an advanced technical means of solving this problem. In this paper, triangular irregular network (TIN) model simplified by non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) technique was used to establish the digital terrain model (DTM) of a super large region. Simulation of dynamic water surface was realized by combining noise function with sine wave superposition method. Models of different objects were established with different modeling techniques according to their characteristics. Application of texture mapping technology remarkably improved the authenticity of the models. Taking the tidal defense engineering in the new coastal region of Tianjin as a case study, three-dimensional visual simulation and dynamic roaming of the study area were realized, providing visual analysis and visible demonstration method for the management and emergency decision-making associated with construction.

A Novel Approach for Numerical Computation of Fokker-Planck Equation

This paper present an implementation of＂modified cubic B-spline differential quadrature method （MCB-DQM）＂ proposed by Arora ＆ Singh （Applied Mathematics and Computation Vol. 224（1） （2013） 161-177） for numerical computation of Fokker-Planck equations. The modified cubic B-splines are used as set of basis functions in the differential quadrature to compute the weighting coefficients for the spatial derivatives, which reduces Fokker-Planck equation into system of first-order ordinary differential equations （ODEs）, in time. The well known SSP-RK43 scheme is then applied to solve the resulting system of ODEs. The efficiency of proposed method has been confirmed by three examples having their exact solutions. This shows that MCB-DQM results are capable of achieving high accuracy. Advantage of the scheme is that it can be applied very smoothly to solve the linear or nonlinear physical problems, and a very less storage space is required which causes less accumulation of numerical errors.

Smoothing methods based on coordinate transformation in a linear space and application in airfoil aerodynamic design optimization

In detailed aerodynamic design optimization,a large number of design variables in geometry parameterization are required to provide sufficient flexibility and obtain the potential optimum shape.However,with the increasing number of design variables,it becomes difficult to maintain the smoothness on the surface which consequently makes the optimization process progressively complex.In this paper,smoothing methods based on B-spline functions are studied to improve the smoothness and design efficiency.The wavelet smoothing method and the least square smoothing method are developed through coordinate transformation in a linear space constructed by B-spline basis functions.In these two methods,smoothing is achieved by a mapping from the linear space to itself such that the design space remains unchanged.A design example is presented where aerodynamic optimization of a supercritical airfoil is conducted with smoothing methods included in the optimization loop.Affirmative results from the design example confirm that these two smoothing methods can greatly improve quality and efficiency compared with the existing conventional non-smoothing method.

A Unified Approach to Construct Generalized B-Splines for Isogeometric Applications

Abstract Generalized B-splines have been employed as geometric modeling and numerical simu- lation tools for isogeometric analysis （IGA for short）. However, the previous models used in IGA, such as trigonometric generalized B-splines or hyperbolic generalized B-splines, are not the unified mathematical representation of conics and polynomial parametric curves/surfaces. In this paper, a unified approach to construct the generalized non-uniform B-splines over the space spanned by {α（t）,β（t）,ξ（t）, η（t）, 1, t,……. , tn-4} is proposed, and the corresponding isogeometric analysis framework for PDE solving is also studied. Compared with the NURBS-IGA method, the proposed frameworks have several advantages such as high accuracy, easy-to-compute derivatives and integrals due to the non-rational form. Furthermore, with the proposed spline models, isogeometric analysis can be performed on the computational domain bounded by transcendental curves/surfaces, such as the involute of circle, the helix/helicoid, the catenary/catenoid and the cycloid. Several numerical examples for isogeometrie heat conduction problems are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

EFFICIENT ESTIMATION OF SEEMINGLY UNRELATED ADDITIVE NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION MODELS

This paper is concerned with the estimating problem of seemingly unrelated(SU)nonparametric additive regression models.A polynomial spline based two-stage efficient approach is proposed to estimate the nonparametric components,which takes both of the additive structure and correlation between equations into account.The asymptotic normality of the derived estimators are established.The authors also show they own some advantages,including they are asymptotically more efficient than those based on only the individual regression equation and have an oracle property,which is the asymptotic distribution of each additive component is the same as it would be if the other components were known with certainty.Some simulation studies are conducted to illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed procedure.Applying the proposed procedure to a real data set is also made.