Ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse radars have a definite advantage in high-range resolution imaging, and are suitable for short-range measurements, particularly at disaster sites or security scenes where optical sensors are rarely suitable because of dust or strong backlighting. Although we have already proposed an accurate imaging algorithm called Range Points Migration (RPM), its reconstructible are...

A transient thermoreflectance technique, using a 200-fs laser pulse, is demonstrated as a nondestructive method for measuring the thermal boundary resistance between a thin metallic film and dielectric substrate. Experimental results are presented for Au deposited on silicon and silicon dioxide substrates taken at room temperature and compared to a thermal model. The relevant thermal properties...

We derive and implement boundary integral methods for axisymmetric liquid bridge problems in the presence of an axial electric field. The liquid bridge is bounded by solid parallel electrodes placed perpendicular to the axis of symmetry and held at a constant potential difference. The fluid is assumed to be nonconducting and has permittivity different from that of the passive surrounding medium...

a lattice boltzmann method is applied to demonstrate the comparison results of simulating natural convection in an open end cavity using different hydrodynamic and thermal boundary conditions. the prandtl number in the present simulation is 0.71, rayleigh numbers are 104,105 and 106 and viscosities are selected 0.02 and 0.05. on-grid bounce-back method with first-order accuracy and non-slip met...

nowadays, combination of gps heights with orthometric heights, derived from precise leveling, is broadly used to obtain point-wise solutions of the geoid, which is called “gps/leveling geoid”. the “gps/leveling geoid” is commonly used to constrain the gravimetric geoid solutions in a least squares surface fitting process. in this paper, unlike the usual application, the “gps/leveling geoid” is ...

The planetary boundary layer (PBL) is an atmospheric region near the Earth’s surface. It is significant for weather forecasting and for the study of air quality and climate. In this study, the top of nocturnal residual layers—which are what remain of the daytime mixing layer—are estimated by an elastic backscatter Lidar in Wuhan (30.5◦N, 114.4◦E), a city in Central China. The ideal profile fitt...

This paper proposes the reconstruction of craniofacial fracture using rational cubic Ball curve. The idea of choosing Ball curve is based on its robustness of computing efficiency over Bezier curve. The main steps are conversion of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (Dicom) images to binary images, boundary extraction and corner point detection, Ball curve fitting with genetic algor...

the aim of this paper is to present a numerical method for singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems with a delay. the method is a combination of the asymptotic expansion technique and the reproducing kernel method (rkm). first an asymptotic expansion for the solution of the given singularly perturbed delayed boundary value problem is constructed. then the reduced regular delayed diffe...

In computer aided geometric design and computer graphics, high quality fair surfaces with G2 smoothness are sometimes required. In this paper we derive a general sixth order geometric partial differential equation from minimizing a curvature integral functional. The obtained equation is used to solve several surface modeling problems such as free-form surface design, surface blending and N-side...

Preconditioned iterative solution methods are compared with the direct Gaussian elimination method to solve dense linear systems Ax = b which originate from crack propagation problems, modeled and discretized by boundary element (BEM) techniques. Numerical experiments are presented and compared with the direct solution method available in a commercial BEM package. The experiments show that the ...