This research introduces an evolutionary design database model to describe design requirements and design results developed at different design stages from conceptual design to detailed design. In this model, the evolutionary design database is represented by a sequence of worlds corresponding to the design descriptions at different design stages. The design requirements and design results in e...

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A full scale physical model of a thin slab caster with a four-hole design submerged entry nozzle (SEN) was constructed. On the basis of the dimensionless Reynolds and Froude similitude criteria, the fluid flow in a full-scale model is similar to that of the actual system and, hence, the data obtained from the water model can be applied to the actual system. In order to determine the optimum ope...

For materials that harbour a continuous phase transition, the susceptibility of the material to various fields can be used to understand the nature of the fluctuating order and hence the nature of the ordered state. Here we use anisotropic biaxial strain to probe the nematic susceptibility of URu2Si2, a heavy fermion material for which the nature of the low temperature 'hidden order' state has ...

F005. Hubbard, B. B. [1998] The world according to wavelets the story of a mathematical technique in the making. 2 Edition, A K Peters. Qian, S. [2002] Introduction to time-frequency and wavelet transforms.

Process capability maturity modeling elaborated by the Software Engineering community became applicable for any process-oriented activity assessment and improvement. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the solution of learning improvement problem based on process quality attributes modeling approach. Twodimensional Learning process model is developed based on R. Marzano taxonomy of le...

In the context of mesh adaptation, Riemannian metric spaces have been used to prescribe orientation, density and stretching of anisotropic meshes. Such structures are used to compute lengths in adaptive mesh generators. In this report, a Riemannian metric space is shown to be more than a way to compute a distance. It is proven to be a reliable continuous mesh model. In particular, we demonstrat...

We study rating systems, such as the famous ELO system, applied to a large number of players. We assume that each player is characterized by an intrinsic inner strength and follow the evolution of their rating evaluations by deriving a new continuous model, a kinetic-like equation. We then investigate the validity of the rating systems by looking at their large time behavior as one would ideall...