简介：Anewmeshfreemethodproposedbytheauthorswaspresented,inwhichthederivativesateachnodewereconstructedusingwholederivativeformulasthroughthenodesselectedaroundthenodeusinglocalCartesianframeinanautonomousmanner,sothatwithoutanyelementitcouldbeconsideredasacompletelymeshfreemethod.Themethodwastestedwithanumericalexample,andreliablesolutionwasobtainedwithhighaccuracyandefficiency.

简介：Withthedevelopmentofadvancedimagingtechnology,digitalimagesarewidelyused.Thispaperproposesanautomaticquadrilateralmeshgenerationalgorithmformulti-colourimagedstructures.Ittakesanoriginalarbitrarydigitalimageasaninputforautomaticquadrilateralmeshgeneration,thisincludesremovingthenoise,extractingandsmoothingtheboundarygeometriesbetweendifferentcolours,andautomaticall-quadmeshgenerationwiththeaboveboundariesasconstraints.Anapplicationexampleis...

简介：Inthispaper,anewmethodoftopologicalcleanupforquadrilateralmeshispresented.Themethodfirstselectsapatchofmesharoundanirregularnode.Itthenseeksthebestconnectionoftheselectedpatchaccordingtoitsirregularvalenceusinganewtopologicaloperation:smallpolygonreconnection(SPR).Byreplacingtheoriginalpatchwithanoptimalonethathaslessirregularvalence,meshqualitycanbeimproved.Threeapplicationsbasedontheproposedapproachareenumerated:(1)improvingthequalityofaquadrilateralmesh,(2)convertingatriangularmeshtoaquadrilateralone,and(3)adaptingatrianglegeneratortoaquadrilateralone.Thepresentedmethodishighlyeffectiveinallthreeapplications.

简介：Thereliabilityandaccuracyofnumericalresultsofmicroparticlefluidizationinaconicalbed,affectedsimultaneouslybymeshrefinement,thegridconfigurationandthewallboundarycondition(BC),areanalyzed.Specifically,pressuregradientsandvelocityprofilesoftitaniapowderarestudiedforaconicalbed.TheGidaspowdragcorrelationanddifferentwallBCsareconsideredusingaEulerian-Euleriantwo-fluidmodel.Predictionsofthepressurefluctuation,powerspectraofthecorrespondingpressurefluctuations,bedpressuredrop,minimumfluidizationvelocity,axialsolidvelocity,bedexpansionratio,andparticlesizedistributionarecomparedwithexperimentaldata.Meshsensitivityanalysisusinghexahedralandtetrahedralcellswithauniformmeshandnear-wallmeshrefinemenrisconductedtoinvestigatetheeffectsofmeshconfigurationsinestimatingparticleflowpatterns.Simulationsshowthatsignificantsavingsintermsofcomputationaltimearerealizedbychoosingauniformmeshwhilethehexahedralstructure,thenear-wallmeshrefinement,andthefree-slipBCgivetheclosestfittotheexperimentaldata.