This paper presents a compact thermal modeling approach, which is fully parameterized according to design geometries and material physical properties. While most compact modeling approaches facilitate thermal characterization of existing package designs, our method is better suited for preliminary exploration of the design space at both the silicon level and the package level. We show that our ...

The Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) is an annual international forum for the exchange of recent research results on the mathematical and computational issues that arise in generating, analyzing, and processing geometric information in applications such as mechanical design, process planning, manufacturing, medicine, games, animation, geology, and virtual reality. The scope of act...

During the design of new technical systems, their manufacturing tolerances (i.e. system parameter uncertainties) should be determined basically by working requirements of the system and technological possibilities of the manufacturers. Therefore the determination of manufacturing tolerances can be a very important and difficult task. It is possible that system output parameter values are inadeq...

Historically, physical models have led to prohibitively expensive synthesis algorithms, and commercially available synthesizers do not yet appear to make use of them. These days, most synthesizers use either processed digital recordings (\sampling synthesis") or an abstract algorithm such as Frequency Modulation (FM). However, as computers become faster and cheaper, and as algorithms based on p...

This contribution revolves about computer models of astronomical instruments and their application in advanced calibration strategies and observation model based data analysis. The historical connection between calibration and data analysis is reviewed. The success of physical models in the analysis of observational data with strong instrumental signatures is shown, and a concept for model base...

A project aimed at constructing a physical model of the piano is described. Our goal is to calculate the sound produced by the instrument entirely from Newton's laws. The structure of the model is described along with experiments that augment and test the model calculations. The state of the model and what can be learned from it are discussed.

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the feasibility of extractive reaction of methacrylic acid from aqueous solution using a quaternary amine, tri–octyl methyl ammonium chloride (tomac) as an extractant, was studied. the diluents chosen in the present work belong to different chemical classes, n–butyl acetate, carbon tetrachloride, isoamyl alcohol, methyl isobutyl ketone, and toluene. the effect of initial acid concentration in t...