During the continuous casting of steel, transient flow events can be very important to the generation of quality problems, such as shear entrainment, surface level fluctuations and bubble entrainment. These phenomena can be better predicted using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models than the K-ε models, which have been extensively studied. In this work the turbulent transient flow in a water mode...

Since precise shadows can be generated in real-time, graphics applications often use the shadow volume algorithm. This algorithm was limited to manifold casters, but recently has been extended to general non-manifold casters with oriented triangles. We provide a further extension to general non-manifold meshes and an additional extension to shadows of transparent casters. To achieve these, we f...

Power Assist Wheelchair (PAW) has being developed for users and caregivers in current high aging society. As a human-machine system, it is important for PAW to sense the human force and operation. In this paper, a Disturbance Observer (DOB) based force estimator is applied to PAW to estimate external forces including the human force, the rolling resistance and the sliding resistance. The rollin...

In this work, we focus on the problem of reconstructing a volume (scalar 3D field) based on non-uniform point samples and then rendering the volume by exploiting the processing power of GPUs. In the first part involving the reconstruction, we motivate our choice of tensor-product uniform B-splines for the discretized representation of the continuous volume. They allow for highly efficient, scal...

This paper presents a physically plausible soft-shadow algorithm that can be executed real-time by current GPUs. The method works with a single shadow map, requires no preor post-processing, and can also handle self shadowing. The main novelty of the method is in the interpretation of the shadow map. A lexel with depth information is considered as the geometric definition of an elementary shado...

An international track wheelchair (ITWC) with a center of gravity directional controller (COGDC) is described in this paper. The rules for international track competition disallow devices designed solely for steering. Equipment has been disqualified for having steering handles, crown compensators, and other lever systems. However, the rules do allow tie-rod linkage and the use of springs for da...

Steel production is an extremely complex process and finding its coherent schedules for the wide variety of production steps in a dynamic environment, where disturbances frequently occur, is a challenging task. In the steel production process, the blast furnace continuously produces liquid iron, which is transformed into liquid steel in the melt shop. The majority of the molten steel passes thr...