Bilal Hassan^1,*, Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi², Mubashir Ali³, Yusra Siddiqi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 2727-2743, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039275

Abstract Following the success of soft biometrics over traditional biometrics, anthropometric soft biometrics are emerging as candidate features for recognition or retrieval using an image/video. Anthropometric soft biometrics uses a quantitative mode of annotation which is a relatively better method for annotation than qualitative annotations adopted by traditional biometrics. However, one of the most challenging tasks is to achieve a higher level of accuracy while estimating anthropometric soft biometrics using an image or video. The level of accuracy is usually affected by several contextual factors such as overlapping body components, an angle from the camera, and ambient conditions. Exploring and developing… More >

Xiaochen Wang^1,*, Wei Tian², Shengxi Zhou², Peng Li¹, Zhichun Yang², Yiren Yang¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010582

Abstract The complex damping influences on the instability characteristics of the panel aero-thermo-elastic system are theoretically investigated from the energy perspectives. Firstly, by assuming a constant, uniform thermal loading and adopting the piston theory, the panel aeroelastic governing equation is obtained. After deriving the panel buckling and vibration modes, the reduced order model can be built and adopted to investigate the system primary instability in the modal coordinates. Then, introducing the modal damping coefficients ratio η > 0, the critical parameters of the panel flutter oscillation are theoretically evaluated based on the on-conservative energy balance principle, thus the system instability characteristics… More >

Jiahao Liu¹, Moubin Liu^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010056

Abstract The dynamic failure process of structures under impact and explosive loading is very common in both military and industrial fields. However, the conventional mesh-based method has some shortcomings, such as large mesh distortion and sliding surface treatment. Some typical phenomena are difficult to be simulated. The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has natural advantages in treating large material deformations in impact and explosion problems [1]. To make the SPH method suitable for the impact and explosion problems, it is also improved by some treatments [2] to avoid inherent stress instability and unphysical oscillation. However, numerical calculations for 3D engineering applications,… More >

Guo Li¹, Shaochen Bao², Shuiting Ding³, Zhenlei Li^2,*, Liangliang Zuo¹, Shuyang Xia¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09927

Abstract Advanced air-cooling turbine blades are capable of operating above the melting temperature of Nickel-based superalloy, which accordingly withstand complex thermomechanical fatigue loads during service life. This paper considers the problem of realizing gas turbine representative thermal gradients in the elevated temperature fatigue test, while ensuring the thermal gradient induced stress inside the specimens. For this purpose, a novel temperature control device utilizing impingement cooling, which supplies cooling air inside the gauge section and releases toward the inner wall, was constructed in tubular fatigue specimens. A single induction coil was arranged outside the gauge section, providing heat sources to establish thermal… More >

Naveen G. Patil, Tapano Kumar Hotta^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-13, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.16

Abstract The manuscript deals with the critical review for cooling of discrete heated electronic components using liquid jet impingement. Cooling of electronic components has been a lead area of research in recent years. Due to the rapid growth of electronic industries, there is an enormous rise in the system power consumption, and the reduction in the size of electronic components has led to a rapid increase in the heat dissipation rate per unit volume of components. The present paper deals with the role of liquid jet impingement (heat flux removal rate 200 - 600 W/cm²) for cooling of electronic components. The… More >

Sibel Day^*, Nilüfer Koçak-Şahin

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.8, pp. 2461-2471, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.029920

Abstract Aromatic and medicinal plant species having small seeds have field emergence problems due to low nutrient supply. Therefore, Pimpinella anisum seeds were hydro and osmoprimed with 100 mM MgCl₂, CaCl₂, and ZnCl₂, for 2, 4, and 8 h each to compare their growth attributes during germination and seedling establishment stages. Nontreated seeds were used as control. Both hydro and osmo primed seeds were dried for 48 h before, they were sown in plastic trays in growth room conditions to see the impact of treatments on seedling emergence and growth. The maximum root length (12.90 cm), fresh weight (256.30 mg plant⁻¹),… More >

Junru Liu, Yonggui Lv^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2421-2439, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.040262

Abstract Numerous clothing enterprises in the market have a relatively low efficiency of assembly line planning due to insufficient optimization of bottleneck stations. As a result, the production efficiency of the enterprise is not high, and the production organization is not up to expectations. Aiming at the problem of flexible process route planning in garment workshops, a multi-object genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the assembly line balance optimization problem and minimize the machine adjustment path. The encoding method adopts the object-oriented path representation method, and the initial population is generated by random topology sorting based on an in-degree selection mechanism.… More >

Nian Wang, Mingjie Zhang, Sulaiman Alsaleem, Lesley M. Wright, Je-Chin Han^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.13, pp. 1-13, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.13.9

Abstract This study investigates turbine blade, leading edge cooling from normal or tangential impinging jets. These jets impinging on a semi-cylindrical, inner surface are constrained to discharge in a single direction. The downstream jets are affected by the crossflow originating from the upstream jets. To understand the thermal flow physics, numerical simulations are performed using the realizable k- turbulence model. Both the experimental and numerical results show crossflow is more detrimental to normal impinging jets than the tangential jets. Furthermore, with a significant temperature drop across the jet plate, designers must correctly interpret jet impingement results. More >

S. Anand^a, S. Suresh^a, R. Dhanuskodi^b, D. Santhosh Kumar^b,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.14, pp. 1-9, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.14.8

Abstract The present work investigates the wall temperature prediction at supercritical pressure of water by CFD and compares the prediction of CFD and that of 11 empirical correlations available in literature. Supercritical-water heat transfer experimental data, covering a mass flux range of 400-1500 kg/m²s, heat flux range of 150-1000 kW/m², at pressure 241 bar and diameter 10 mm tube, were obtained from literature. CFD simulations have been carried out for those operating conditions and compared with experimental data. Around 362 experimental wall temperature data of both heat transfer enhancement and heat transfer deterioration region have been taken for comparison. A visual… More >

L. Restivo, T. Apostolidis, C. Julian-Reynier

Psycho-Oncologie, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 323-336, 2022, DOI:10.3166/pson-2022-0207

Abstract Aim: The aim of this study is, first, to identify available scales assessing illness representations and, second, to analyze their use in empirical works with cancer patients.
Procedure: This includes literature review.
Results: Seven measuring tools are available in the literature. Only one of them is cancer specific; 29 of the 33 included studies use one of the three Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) versions.
Conclusion: We propose to combine these scales’ applications with other methods based on different approaches focused on sociocultural context.

Résumé
Objectif : Dresser un bilan des outils quantitatifs disponibles pour mesurer les représentations de la… More >