PERIODIC DEFORMATION OF PARAMETRIC SURFACE

Deformation is a powerful tool for geometric modeling and design. Such a toolcan be used to create a new shape from existing shape without restarting whole design process. Anew mathematical model for producing controllable periodic deformations is proposed. By introducingcosine extension functions construct a shape operator matrix and then use the matrix to transformthe position vector of some points on the object surface so as to create the deformation effects.Because the cosine extension functions have a number of variable parameters with differentproperties, the method has corresponding interactive control means. The user can manipulate thoseparameters to get desirable periodic deformation effects. Experimental results show that the methodis feasible and applicable to engineering and research fields such as sheet metal forming bystamping and CAD.

DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION PROBLEMS INVOLVING LARGE-AMPLITUDE SLOSHING

An effective computational method is developed for dynamic analysis offluid-structure interaction problems involving large-amplitude sloshing of the fluid andlarge-displacement motion of the structure. The structure is modeled as a rigid container supportedby a system consisting of springs and dashpots. The motion of the fluid is decomposed into twoparts: the large-displacement motion with the container and the large-amplitude sloshing relative tothe container. The former is conveniently dealt with by defining a container-fixed noninertiallocal frame, while the latter is easily handled by adopting an ALE kinematical description. Thisleads to an easy and accurate treatment of both the fluid-structure interface and the fluid freesurface without producing excessive distortion of the computational mesh. The coupling between thefluid and the structure is accomplished through the coupling matrices that can be easilyestablished. Two numerical examples, including a TLD-structure system and a simplified liquid-loadedvehicle system, are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of the proposedmethod. The present work can also be applied to simulate fluid-structure problems incorporatingmultibody systems and several fluid domains.

CONSTRUCTION OF G^2 CONTINUOUS CURVES ON SURFACE WITH PLANAR CUBIC BZIER CURVES

The problem of constructing curve on parametric surface (or surface that canbe parameterized) such that it interpolates a sequence of points with prescribed tangent directionand curvature vector (or geodesic curvature) at every point and the issue of curve blending on thiskind of surface are researched. The mapping and tangent mapping from the surface to its parametricplane are introduced and thus several conclusions with differential geometry are deduced. Based onthose conclusions, the problem of interpolating (or blending) curve on a parametric surface isconverted to a similar one on its parametric plane. The final solution curve of either interpolationor blending issue is explicit and can still be expressed by parametric form. And so, unlikeexisting methods, the presented method needs not to use any surface/ surface intersectionalgorithms, usually a troublesome process, for displaying such interpolation curve. Experimentresults show the presented methods are feasible and applicable to CAD/CAM and computer graphics

DISCUSSION ON AVERAGE GENERATION OF TWODIMENSIONAL DATA SEQUENCE IN GREY SYSTEM THEORY

An unequal time interval sequence or a sequence with blanks is usually completed with average generation in grey system theory. This paper discovers that there exists obvious errors when using average generation to generate internal points of non-consecutive neighbours. The average generation and the preference generation of the sequence are discussed, the concave and convex properties show the status of local sequence and propose a new idea for using the status to build up the criteria of choosing generation coefficient. Compared with the general average method of the one-dimensional data sequence, the two-dimensional data sequence is defined and its average generation is discussed, and the coefficient decision method for the preference generation is presented.