Surface mesh generation is one time-consuming step in preparing an unstructured mesh model. However, its parallelisation attracts little attention. In this study, a fine-grained parallel surface meshing algorithm is proposed by taking advantage of the parallelism within the meshing process of a single face. Compared with the scheme which meshes the faces individually in parallel, the proposed a...

One of the serious issues that China faces during its fast economic development is the low input–output efficiency of water and energy resources and growing water pollution. With the current economic development model of China, economic growth still requires large input of water resource and energy resource. This paper has focused on the total factor efficiency of water resource and energy reso...

For subdivision surfaces, it is important to characterize local shape near flat spots and points where the surface is not twice continuously differentiable. Applying general principles derived in [PR0x], this paper characterizes shape near such points for the subdivision schemes devised by Catmull and Clark and by Loop. For generic input data, both schemes fail to converge to the hyperbolic or ...

Three-phase voltage source converters (VSC) are commonly used to convert ac power from a three-phase grid to a regulated dc voltage with unity input power factor. The control of the VSC is normally achieved by an outer voltage feedback loop and a sinusoidal pulse-widthmodulated (SPWM) inner current loop. However, the nonideal power grid and the presence of other interacting loads give rise to n...

The synthesis of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-SWNTs) by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) was achieved at 500-600 °C, using ethylene as the carbon source and 1 nm Fe film as the catalyst. For growth of high-quality VA-SWNTs in a plasma sheath, it is crucial to alleviate the undesirable ion bombardment etching effects by the optimization of plasma input p...

A functional risk curve gives the probability of an undesirable event in function of the value of a critical parameter of a considered physical system. In several applicative situations, this curve is built using phenomenological numerical models which simulate complex physical phenomena. Facing to cpu-time expensive numerical models, we propose to use the Gaussian process model to build functi...

In many cases, optimal operation for a plant is the same as maximum throughput. In this case a rigorous model for the plant is not necessary if we are able to identify the bottleneck. Optimal operation is the same as maximum throughput in the bottleneck. If the bottleneck does not move, this can be realized with singleloop controller from the throughput manipulator to the bottleneck. However, i...

The DC content in single-bit domain is both undesirable and hard to remove. In this paper we propose a single-bit multiplierless DC-blocker structure. The input is assumed to be sigma-delta modulated bitstream. This DC-blocker is designed using a delta modulator topology with a sigma-delta modulator (SDM) embedded in its feedback path. Its performance is investigated in terms of the overall sig...

Recent progress in coded imaging has enabled us to recover sharp images from undesirable image blurs caused by depth and motion. However, the existing methods are limited to single types of blurs, such as depth blur or motion blur. The coded imaging must also tackle the problem of image noise caused by decreasing of input light. In this paper, we propose a method, which enables us to deblur bot...