In this paper,the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the elliptic interface problems in two-dimensional domains.The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves.It is shown that th...In this paper,the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the elliptic interface problems in two-dimensional domains.The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves.It is shown that the error estimates in L;-norm for the solution and the flux are O(h;|log h|)and O(h|log h|;),respectively.In numerical experiments,the successive substitution iterative methods are used to solve the LDG schemes.Numerical results verify the efficiency and accuracy of the method.展开更多
There are some curved interfaces in ocean acoustic waveguides. To compute wave propagation along the range with some marching methods, a flattening of the internal interfaces and a transforming equation are needed. In...There are some curved interfaces in ocean acoustic waveguides. To compute wave propagation along the range with some marching methods, a flattening of the internal interfaces and a transforming equation are needed. In this paper a local or-thogonal coordinate transform and an equation transformation are constructed to flatten interfaces and change the Helmholtz equation as a solvable form. For a waveguide with a flat top, a flat bottom and n curved interfaces, the coefficients of the trans-formed Helmholtz equation are given in a closed formulation which can be thought of as an extension of the formal work related to the equation transformation with two curved internal interfaces. In the transformed horizontally stratified waveguide, the one-way reformulation based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map is then used to reduce the boundary value problem to an initial value problem. Numerical implementation of the resulting operator Riccati equation uses a large range step method to discretize the range variable and a truncated local eigenfunction expansion to approximate the operators. This method is particularly useful for solving long range wave propagation problems in slowly varying waveguides. Furthermore, the method can also be applied to wave propagation problems in acoustic waveguides associated with varied density.展开更多
Through equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations,we have demonstrated the inhibitory effect of composition graded interface on thermal transport behavior in lateral heterostructures.Specifically,...Through equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations,we have demonstrated the inhibitory effect of composition graded interface on thermal transport behavior in lateral heterostructures.Specifically,we investigated the influence of composition gradient length and heterogeneous particles at the silicene/germanene(SIL/GER)heterostructure interface on heat conduction.Our results indicate that composition graded interface at the interface diminishes the thermal conductivity of the heterostructure,with a further reduction observed as the length increases,while the effect of the heterogeneous particles can be considered negligible.To unveil the influence of composition graded interface on thermal transport,we conducted phonon analysis and identified the presence of phonon localization within the interface composition graded region.Through these analyses,we have determined that the decrease in thermal conductivity is correlated with phonon localization within the heterostructure,where a stronger degree of phonon localization signifies poorer thermal conductivity in the material.Our research findings not only contribute to understanding the impact of interface gradient-induced phonon localization on thermal transport but also offer insights into the modulation of thermal conductivity in heterostructures.展开更多
The capability and reliability are crucial characteristics of mobile robots while navigating in complex environments. These robots are expected to perform many useful tasks which can improve the quality of life greatl...The capability and reliability are crucial characteristics of mobile robots while navigating in complex environments. These robots are expected to perform many useful tasks which can improve the quality of life greatly. Robot localization and decisionmaking are the most important cognitive processes during navigation. However, most of these algorithms are not efficient and are challenging tasks while robots navigate through complex environments. In this paper,we propose a biologically inspired method for robot decision-making, based on rat’s brain signals. Rodents accurately and rapidly navigate in complex spaces by localizing themselves in reference to the surrounding environmental landmarks. Firstly, we analyzed the rats’ strategies while navigating in the complex Y-maze, and recorded local field potentials(LFPs), simultaneously.The recorded LFPs were processed and different features were extracted which were used as the input in the artificial neural network(ANN) to predict the rat’s decision-making in each junction. The ANN performance was tested in a real robot and good performance is achieved. The implementation of our method on a real robot, demonstrates its abilities to imitate the rat’s decision-making and integrate the internal states with external sensors, in order to perform reliable navigation in complex maze.展开更多
The significant challenge in human computer interaction is to create tangible interfaces that will make digital world accessible through augmented physical surfaces like walls and windows. In this paper, various acous...The significant challenge in human computer interaction is to create tangible interfaces that will make digital world accessible through augmented physical surfaces like walls and windows. In this paper, various acoustic source localization methods are proposed which have the potential to covert a physical object into a tracking sensitive interface. The Spatial Likelihood method has been used to locate acoustic source in real time by summing the spatial likelihood from all sensors. The source location is obtained from searching the maximum in the likelihood map. The data collected from the sensors is pre-processed and filtered for improvement of the accuracy of source localization. Finally a sensor fusion algorithm based on least squared error is presented to minimize the error while positioning the source. Promising results have been achieved experimentally for the application of acoustic tangible interfaces.展开更多
The strain distributions near the interface when the elbow steel fiber is pulled out from the half-mould concrete matrix are directly measured using a combined method of single fiber pull-out test and digital image co...The strain distributions near the interface when the elbow steel fiber is pulled out from the half-mould concrete matrix are directly measured using a combined method of single fiber pull-out test and digital image correlation. Meanwhile, the real-time processes of the bonding, debonding and sliding at the interface are observed. The micro-mechanism of the strain localization in the failure process of interface when debonding occurs and the strengthening mechanism at the imbedded fiber are discussed. The experimental results show that the meso-scale strain localization gives rise to the localization of shear damage near the fiber interface. This strain localization characterized by the debonding process near the interface occurs, develops and moves gradually at an apparently regular interval. At the elbow part of the imbedded fiber, the peak value of the shearing stress occurs. But the primary debonding does not occur at this place because the strength of the shear damage is increased at the local area of the elbow part in the concrete, displaying an apparent reinforced effect at the end of the fiber.展开更多
In both industrial and research areas of electronic engineering,Sound Source Localization for robot control has always been an interesting subject to be further studied.Under some dangerous situation,especially when a...In both industrial and research areas of electronic engineering,Sound Source Localization for robot control has always been an interesting subject to be further studied.Under some dangerous situation,especially when a special driver is required to implement a particular task,the device should be able to combine robotics control technology with Sound Source Localization,and take actions according to the different response patterns.In this research project,a multifunc-tional model driver,named "Mobile Island",has been designed and built up by integrating the Emulator 8051 micro-controller,Intel 8255 interfaces,some components and other necessary devices.The intelligent Mobile Island imple-mented by C language programs can operate under three control modes.In the sound control Mode 1,the model driver can detect and track a target by Sound Source Localization and then turn and move toward the destination.In the keypad control Mode 2,it can be controlled by a manual keypad.In the free run Mode 3,Mobile Island can move and turn by itself.When finding an object in front,it will turn away before moving forward again,so that it can avoid crashing on the obstacle.展开更多
To investigate the possible failure modes of the thermal barrier coating (TBC) used to protect the scramjet combustion chamber, the local heating via laser beam irradiation was utilized to simulate the service conditi...To investigate the possible failure modes of the thermal barrier coating (TBC) used to protect the scramjet combustion chamber, the local heating via laser beam irradiation was utilized to simulate the service condition of high thermal flux and high temperature gradient. Firstly, the experimental method and process were described and the typical fracture morphology of the TBC under test were provided. Then, the theoretical and finite element modeling were carried out to study the temperature, deformation and stresses of the specimen when the top ceramic coat was subjected to local heating, and to demonstrate the mechanism on the failure of the TBC. It is revealed that the interface delamination shall appear and ultimately lead to the failure of the TBC under such thermal loading of local quick heating. According to the outcome of this study, the driving force of the interface delamination is influenced greatly by the key structural parameters and performance matching. Moreover, by utilizing the rules of the effects of these parameters on the fracture driving force, there is some possibility for the designer to optimize the performances of the TBC.展开更多
We proposed absorbing interface conditions for the simulation of linear wave propagation on non-uniform meshes.Based on the superposition principle of second-order linear wave equations,we decompose the interface cond...We proposed absorbing interface conditions for the simulation of linear wave propagation on non-uniform meshes.Based on the superposition principle of second-order linear wave equations,we decompose the interface condition problem into two subproblems around the interface:for the first one the conventional artificial absorbing boundary conditions is applied,while for the second one,the local analytic solutions can be derived.The proposed interface conditions permit a two-way transmission of low-frequency waves across mesh interfaces which can be supported by both coarse and fine meshes,and perform a one-way absorption of high-frequency waves which can only be supported by fine meshes when they travel from fine mesh regions to coarse ones.Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed absorbing interface conditions.展开更多
In this paper, the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the parabolic interface problems in two-dimensional convex polygonal domains. The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves...In this paper, the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the parabolic interface problems in two-dimensional convex polygonal domains. The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves. The proposed method is proved to be L2 stable and the order of error estimates in the given norm is O(h|logh|^1/2). Numerical experiments show the efficiency and accuracy of the method.展开更多
In this paper,a new sharp-interface approach to simulate compressible multiphase flows is proposed.The new scheme consists of a high order WENO finite volume scheme for solving the Euler equations coupled with a high ...In this paper,a new sharp-interface approach to simulate compressible multiphase flows is proposed.The new scheme consists of a high order WENO finite volume scheme for solving the Euler equations coupled with a high order pathconservative discontinuous Galerkin finite element scheme to evolve an indicator function that tracks the material interface.At the interface our method applies ghost cells to compute the numerical flux,as the ghost fluid method.However,unlike the original ghost fluid scheme of Fedkiw et al.[15],the state of the ghost fluid is derived from an approximate-state Riemann solver,similar to the approach proposed in[25],but based on a much simpler formulation.Our formulation leads only to one single scalar nonlinear algebraic equation that has to be solved at the interface,instead of the system used in[25].Away from the interface,we use the new general Osher-type flux recently proposed by Dumbser and Toro[13],which is a simple but complete Riemann solver,applicable to general hyperbolic conservation laws.The time integration is performed using a fully-discrete one-step scheme,based on the approaches recently proposed in[5,7].This allows us to evolve the system also with time-accurate local time stepping.Due to the sub-cell resolution and the subsequent more restrictive time-step constraint of the DG scheme,a local evolution for the indicator function is applied,which is matched with the finite volume scheme for the solution of the Euler equations that runs with a larger time step.The use of a locally optimal time step avoids the introduction of excessive numerical diffusion in the finite volume scheme.Two different fluids have been used,namely an ideal gas and a weakly compressible fluid modeled by the Tait equation.Several tests have been computed to assess the accuracy and the performance of the new high order scheme.A verification of our algorithm has been carefully carried out using exact solutions as well as a comparison with other numerical reference solutions.The material interface is resolved sharply and accurately without spurious oscillations in the pressure field.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11571002,11461046)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province,China(20151BAB211013,20161ACB21005)+2 种基金Science and Technology Project of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education,China(150172)Science Foundation of China Academy of Engineering Physics(2015B0101021)Defense Industrial Technology Development Program(B1520133015)
文摘In this paper,the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the elliptic interface problems in two-dimensional domains.The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves.It is shown that the error estimates in L;-norm for the solution and the flux are O(h;|log h|)and O(h|log h|;),respectively.In numerical experiments,the successive substitution iterative methods are used to solve the LDG schemes.Numerical results verify the efficiency and accuracy of the method.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10571162)the Natural Science Foundation of Zheji-ang Province, China (No. Y605181)
文摘There are some curved interfaces in ocean acoustic waveguides. To compute wave propagation along the range with some marching methods, a flattening of the internal interfaces and a transforming equation are needed. In this paper a local or-thogonal coordinate transform and an equation transformation are constructed to flatten interfaces and change the Helmholtz equation as a solvable form. For a waveguide with a flat top, a flat bottom and n curved interfaces, the coefficients of the trans-formed Helmholtz equation are given in a closed formulation which can be thought of as an extension of the formal work related to the equation transformation with two curved internal interfaces. In the transformed horizontally stratified waveguide, the one-way reformulation based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map is then used to reduce the boundary value problem to an initial value problem. Numerical implementation of the resulting operator Riccati equation uses a large range step method to discretize the range variable and a truncated local eigenfunction expansion to approximate the operators. This method is particularly useful for solving long range wave propagation problems in slowly varying waveguides. Furthermore, the method can also be applied to wave propagation problems in acoustic waveguides associated with varied density.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.12104291)。
文摘Through equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations,we have demonstrated the inhibitory effect of composition graded interface on thermal transport behavior in lateral heterostructures.Specifically,we investigated the influence of composition gradient length and heterogeneous particles at the silicene/germanene(SIL/GER)heterostructure interface on heat conduction.Our results indicate that composition graded interface at the interface diminishes the thermal conductivity of the heterostructure,with a further reduction observed as the length increases,while the effect of the heterogeneous particles can be considered negligible.To unveil the influence of composition graded interface on thermal transport,we conducted phonon analysis and identified the presence of phonon localization within the interface composition graded region.Through these analyses,we have determined that the decrease in thermal conductivity is correlated with phonon localization within the heterostructure,where a stronger degree of phonon localization signifies poorer thermal conductivity in the material.Our research findings not only contribute to understanding the impact of interface gradient-induced phonon localization on thermal transport but also offer insights into the modulation of thermal conductivity in heterostructures.
基金supported by the Japanese Government,Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 2014 to 2016 under Grant No.26330296
文摘The capability and reliability are crucial characteristics of mobile robots while navigating in complex environments. These robots are expected to perform many useful tasks which can improve the quality of life greatly. Robot localization and decisionmaking are the most important cognitive processes during navigation. However, most of these algorithms are not efficient and are challenging tasks while robots navigate through complex environments. In this paper,we propose a biologically inspired method for robot decision-making, based on rat’s brain signals. Rodents accurately and rapidly navigate in complex spaces by localizing themselves in reference to the surrounding environmental landmarks. Firstly, we analyzed the rats’ strategies while navigating in the complex Y-maze, and recorded local field potentials(LFPs), simultaneously.The recorded LFPs were processed and different features were extracted which were used as the input in the artificial neural network(ANN) to predict the rat’s decision-making in each junction. The ANN performance was tested in a real robot and good performance is achieved. The implementation of our method on a real robot, demonstrates its abilities to imitate the rat’s decision-making and integrate the internal states with external sensors, in order to perform reliable navigation in complex maze.
文摘The significant challenge in human computer interaction is to create tangible interfaces that will make digital world accessible through augmented physical surfaces like walls and windows. In this paper, various acoustic source localization methods are proposed which have the potential to covert a physical object into a tracking sensitive interface. The Spatial Likelihood method has been used to locate acoustic source in real time by summing the spatial likelihood from all sensors. The source location is obtained from searching the maximum in the likelihood map. The data collected from the sensors is pre-processed and filtered for improvement of the accuracy of source localization. Finally a sensor fusion algorithm based on least squared error is presented to minimize the error while positioning the source. Promising results have been achieved experimentally for the application of acoustic tangible interfaces.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10972097,11062007)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Programof Higher Education of China(No.20101514120005)the Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2010MS0703)
文摘The strain distributions near the interface when the elbow steel fiber is pulled out from the half-mould concrete matrix are directly measured using a combined method of single fiber pull-out test and digital image correlation. Meanwhile, the real-time processes of the bonding, debonding and sliding at the interface are observed. The micro-mechanism of the strain localization in the failure process of interface when debonding occurs and the strengthening mechanism at the imbedded fiber are discussed. The experimental results show that the meso-scale strain localization gives rise to the localization of shear damage near the fiber interface. This strain localization characterized by the debonding process near the interface occurs, develops and moves gradually at an apparently regular interval. At the elbow part of the imbedded fiber, the peak value of the shearing stress occurs. But the primary debonding does not occur at this place because the strength of the shear damage is increased at the local area of the elbow part in the concrete, displaying an apparent reinforced effect at the end of the fiber.
基金This paper is an introduction of the Research Project of‘LEC254’,which is held by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
文摘In both industrial and research areas of electronic engineering,Sound Source Localization for robot control has always been an interesting subject to be further studied.Under some dangerous situation,especially when a special driver is required to implement a particular task,the device should be able to combine robotics control technology with Sound Source Localization,and take actions according to the different response patterns.In this research project,a multifunc-tional model driver,named "Mobile Island",has been designed and built up by integrating the Emulator 8051 micro-controller,Intel 8255 interfaces,some components and other necessary devices.The intelligent Mobile Island imple-mented by C language programs can operate under three control modes.In the sound control Mode 1,the model driver can detect and track a target by Sound Source Localization and then turn and move toward the destination.In the keypad control Mode 2,it can be controlled by a manual keypad.In the free run Mode 3,Mobile Island can move and turn by itself.When finding an object in front,it will turn away before moving forward again,so that it can avoid crashing on the obstacle.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11002145)
文摘To investigate the possible failure modes of the thermal barrier coating (TBC) used to protect the scramjet combustion chamber, the local heating via laser beam irradiation was utilized to simulate the service condition of high thermal flux and high temperature gradient. Firstly, the experimental method and process were described and the typical fracture morphology of the TBC under test were provided. Then, the theoretical and finite element modeling were carried out to study the temperature, deformation and stresses of the specimen when the top ceramic coat was subjected to local heating, and to demonstrate the mechanism on the failure of the TBC. It is revealed that the interface delamination shall appear and ultimately lead to the failure of the TBC under such thermal loading of local quick heating. According to the outcome of this study, the driving force of the interface delamination is influenced greatly by the key structural parameters and performance matching. Moreover, by utilizing the rules of the effects of these parameters on the fracture driving force, there is some possibility for the designer to optimize the performances of the TBC.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2020YFA0714200)by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Nos.12125103,12071362)+1 种基金by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(Nos.2021AAA010,2019CFA007)by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.The numerical calculations have been done at the Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University.
文摘We proposed absorbing interface conditions for the simulation of linear wave propagation on non-uniform meshes.Based on the superposition principle of second-order linear wave equations,we decompose the interface condition problem into two subproblems around the interface:for the first one the conventional artificial absorbing boundary conditions is applied,while for the second one,the local analytic solutions can be derived.The proposed interface conditions permit a two-way transmission of low-frequency waves across mesh interfaces which can be supported by both coarse and fine meshes,and perform a one-way absorption of high-frequency waves which can only be supported by fine meshes when they travel from fine mesh regions to coarse ones.Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed absorbing interface conditions.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11171038)Youth Foundation of Tianyuan Mathematics(Grant No.11126279)+1 种基金The Science Foundation of China Academy of Engineering Physics(Grant No.2013A0202011)Defense Industrial Technology Development Program(Grant No.B1520133015)
文摘In this paper, the minimal dissipation local discontinuous Galerkin method is studied to solve the parabolic interface problems in two-dimensional convex polygonal domains. The interface may be arbitrary smooth curves. The proposed method is proved to be L2 stable and the order of error estimates in the given norm is O(h|logh|^1/2). Numerical experiments show the efficiency and accuracy of the method.
文摘In this paper,a new sharp-interface approach to simulate compressible multiphase flows is proposed.The new scheme consists of a high order WENO finite volume scheme for solving the Euler equations coupled with a high order pathconservative discontinuous Galerkin finite element scheme to evolve an indicator function that tracks the material interface.At the interface our method applies ghost cells to compute the numerical flux,as the ghost fluid method.However,unlike the original ghost fluid scheme of Fedkiw et al.[15],the state of the ghost fluid is derived from an approximate-state Riemann solver,similar to the approach proposed in[25],but based on a much simpler formulation.Our formulation leads only to one single scalar nonlinear algebraic equation that has to be solved at the interface,instead of the system used in[25].Away from the interface,we use the new general Osher-type flux recently proposed by Dumbser and Toro[13],which is a simple but complete Riemann solver,applicable to general hyperbolic conservation laws.The time integration is performed using a fully-discrete one-step scheme,based on the approaches recently proposed in[5,7].This allows us to evolve the system also with time-accurate local time stepping.Due to the sub-cell resolution and the subsequent more restrictive time-step constraint of the DG scheme,a local evolution for the indicator function is applied,which is matched with the finite volume scheme for the solution of the Euler equations that runs with a larger time step.The use of a locally optimal time step avoids the introduction of excessive numerical diffusion in the finite volume scheme.Two different fluids have been used,namely an ideal gas and a weakly compressible fluid modeled by the Tait equation.Several tests have been computed to assess the accuracy and the performance of the new high order scheme.A verification of our algorithm has been carefully carried out using exact solutions as well as a comparison with other numerical reference solutions.The material interface is resolved sharply and accurately without spurious oscillations in the pressure field.