Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements: XIV

Section 1: Computational and experimental methods Heat and moisture transport in porous materials involving cyclic wetting and drying; Influence of material characteristics of concrete and thermal insulation on the service life of exterior renders; A procedure for adaptive evaluation of numerical and experimental data; Gear predictor of manual transmission vehicles based on artificial neural network; Non-thermal, chemical destruction of PCB from Sydney tar ponds soil extract Section 2: Experimental and computational analysis Multi-scale FE analyses of sheet formability based on SEM-EBSD crystal texture measurement; Direct simulation of sounds generated by collision between water drop and water surface; Experimental and numerical analysis of concrete slabs prestressed with composite reinforcement; Measures in the underground work method to determine the mathematical relations that predicts rock behaviour; Implementation and validation of a strain rate dependent model for carbon foam; Statics and dynamics of carbon fibre reinforcement composites on steel orthotropic decks; Study of the thermo-physical properties of bitumen in hydrocarbon condensates Section 3: Direct, indirect and in-situ measurements Modelling energy consumption in test cells; Evaluation of insulation systems by in situ testing; Monitoring coupled moisture and salt transport using single vertical suction experiment; Application of image analysis for the measurement of liquid metal free surface; Damage assessment by automated quantitative image analysis - a risky undertaking Section 4: Detection and signal processing Antenna radiation patterns indication on the basic measurement of field radiation in the near zone; Sub-ppb NOx detection by a cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy system with blue and infrared diode lasers; Multispectral detection circuits in special applications; Modification of raised cosine weighting functions family; Technique for the electric and magnetic parameter measurement of powdered materials; Acoustic watermark server effectiveness; Intrapulse analysis of radar signal; Neural detection of parameter changes in a dynamic system using time-frequency transforms Section 5: Data processing A versatile software-hardware system for environmental data acquisition and transmission; Modelling of the precise movement of a ship at slow speed to minimize the trajectory deviation risk; Automated safe control of a Self-propelled Mine Counter Charge in an underwater environment; A novel financial model of long term growing stocks for the Taiwan stock market Section 6: Fluid flow On the differences of transitional separated-reattached flows over leading-edge obstacles of varying geometries; A second order method for solving turbulent shallow flows; Numerical analysis of compressible turbulent helical flow in a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube; Turbulence: a new zero-equation model; Mesh block refinement technique for incompressible flows in complex geometries using Cartesian grids; Application of the finite volume method for the supersonic flow around the axisymmetric cone body placed in a free stream; Some aspects and aerodynamic effects in repairing battle damaged wings Section 7: Heat transfer and thermal processes Natural and mixed convection in inclined channels with partial openings; Heat flux reconstruction in the grinding process from temperature data; Analysis of non-isothermal fluid flow past an in-line tube bank; Transport phenomenon in a jet type mold cooling pipe; Two-phase modelling of nanofluid heat transfer in a microchannel heat sink; Numerical investigation of sensible thermal energy storage in high temperature solar systems; Dynamic modelling of the thermal space of the metallurgical walking beams furnaces Section 8: Material characterisation Investigation of shape recovery stress for ferrous shape memory alloy; Growth behavior of small surface cracks in coarse and ultrafine grained copper Section 9: Structural and stress analysis Numerical simulation of structures using generalized models for data uncertainty; A dynamic model for the study of gear transmissions; Long-term behaviour of concrete structures reinforced with pre-stressed GFRP tendons; Application of the finite element method for static design of plane linear systems with semi-rigid connections; Blade loss studies in low-pressure turbines - from blade containment to controlled blade-shedding Section 10: Industrial applications Finding the optimalA" size and location of treatment plants for a Jatropha oil plantation project in Thailand; An industrial ship system for the flat development of undevelopable surfaces: algorithm and implementation Section 11: Forest fires Assessment of the plume theory predictions of crown scorch or crown fire initiation using transport models; Spotting ignition of fuel beds by firebrands; Impact of fuel-break structure on fire behaviour simulated with FIRETEC; A new model of information systems for public awareness about wildfires; Combustion modelling for forest fires: from detailed to skeletal and global models