This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in the pediatric daycare unit, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia to determine the prevalence of craniofacial deformities (CFD) and the association between these deformities and different clinical presentations among thalassemia patients. Patients were classified as either craniofacial deformity positive (CFD+) or craniofacial deformity negat...

A-Type heat exchangers are used to meet required heat load with minimum duct dimensions in air-conditioning applications. This greatly reduces the air-conditioning system footprint in residential and commercial applications. The angle and tube spacing of the A-type heat exchangers should be optimized for minimum duct size and maximum heat load. However, existing air side heat transfer and press...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a widely used numerical method for simulating complex systems, with applications ranging from aerodynamic science to hydrology. The latticeBoltzmann method is a relatively recent technique that has been shown to be as accurate as traditional CFD methods, but with the ability to integrate arbitrarily complex geometries at a reduced computational cost. Althou...

In the last two decades, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has shown great potential as a powerful and cost-efficient tool to troubleshoot existing disinfection contactors and improve future designs for water treatment industry. However, numerous challenges in the simulation of water disinfection processes still remain. This review summarizes past CFD studies of the hydraulic and associated di...

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models are ubiquitous in aerodynamic design. Variable-fidelity optimization algorithms have proven to be computationally efficient and therefore suitable to reduce high CPU-cost related to the design process solely based on accurate CFD models. A convenient way of constructing the variable-fidelity models is by using the high-fidelity solver, but with a varying...

Classification algorithms often handle large amounts of labeled data. When a label is the result of a very expensive computer experiment (in terms of computational time), sequential selection of samples can be used to limit the overall cost of acquiring the labeled data. This paper outlines the concept of sequential design for classification, and the extension of an existing stateof-the-art res...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the performance of a specially designed micro wind turbine for urban environment where the wind speed is usually low. Differing from the traditional wind turbine that can be connected directly to the grid, the micro wind turbine is linked to a small generator and mainly used for local applications. The advantage of the micro wind turbine is that, apart fr...

Image-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a popular tool for the prediction of in vivo flow profiles and hemodynamic wall parameters. Currently, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is most widely used for in vivo geometry acquisition. For superficial arteries such as the carotids and the femoral artery, three-dimensional (3-D) extravascular ultrasound (3-DUS) could be a cost-effect...

A leading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FLUENT is ported to the NCSA IA-32 Linux cluster with Myrinet interconnect. Scripts are written to integrate FLUENT with the open-source PBS scheduling system. Scalable performance of FLUENT is benchmarked with two engineering problems from Caterpillar Inc. and Fluent, Inc. A maximum of 64 processors are used to accommodate up to 10 million ...