The Challenge Realistic modeling, simulation, and rendering of fluid media have applications in various domains including virtual reality training, engineering visualization, medical simulation, computer animation, and electronic games. Often the computational expense involved in simulating complex fluid phenomena limits the resolution at which these simulations can be performed. This limitatio...

In conventional power plants trash-racks are provided at the intakes to protect the turbines. In pumped storage plants, the draft tube or tailrace must also have trash-racks to protect the units while pumping. Because the loads believed to cause many failures of trash-racks are dynamic in nature, it is important to understand the dynamic characteristics of trash-rack structures in general and a...