Nowadays, with the advances of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) packages, some of the engineering and design problems such as stress or thermal deformation can be successfully solved. These are convenient for better incorporating the design constraints of various tasks such as injection molded parts, or rapid prototyping and tooling. Mesh generation is the major step of finite element method for n...

Baby boomers will begin entering old age in 2011. They will be the largest and most diverse cohort ever to experience this life-course transition. The sheer number of baby boomers has challenged institutions time after time (Dychtwald, 1990). Despite extensive speculation regarding the political, economic, and social impact that the aging of baby boomers will have on American society, no one ha...

We argue that the giant graviton configurations known from the literature have a complementary, microscopical description in terms of multiple gravitational waves undergoing a dielectric (or magnetic moment) effect. We present a non-Abelian effective action for these gravitational waves with dielectric couplings and show that stable dielectric solutions exist. These solutions agree in the large...

In this work, we introduce a new method for generating Lagrangian computational meshes from Eulerian-based data. We focus specifically on shock physics problems that are relevant to Eulerian-based codes that generate volume fraction data on a Cartesian grid. A step-by-step procedure for generating an allhexahedral mesh is presented. We focus specifically on the challenges of developing a parall...

Numerical stability and accuracy of finite-difference schemes on a skewed non-uniform mesh are investigated to provide guidelines for mesh design and for devising appropriate solution methods when mesh skewness is unavoidable. In the current analysis, a linear advection–diffusion equation in a Cartesian coordinate system is transformed into a curvilinear one corresponding to a skewed mesh. A fi...

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to mesh implicit surfaces which produces meshes both with a good triangle aspect ratio as well as a good approximation quality. The number of vertices of the output mesh is defined by the end-user. For this goal, we perform a two-stage processing : an initialization step followed by an iterative optimization step. The initialization step consists in cap...

A central problem in time series analysis is prediction of a future observation. The theory of optimal linear prediction has been well understood since the seminal work of A. Kolmogorov and N. Wiener during World War II. A simplifying assumption is to assume that one-step-ahead prediction is carried out based on observing the infinite past of the time series. In practice, however, only a finite...

This paper describes a hierarchical registration process using the iterative closest point algorithm combined with a Progressive Mesh. To find the exact pose of objects in a robotic bin picking process we simulate the appearance of object poses and compare them with the real range data provided by laser range sensors. The coarse pose is estimated in a first step and then refined with the well k...