An articulated shape is composed of a set of rigid parts connected by some flexible junctions. The junction has been demonstrated to be a critical local feature in many visual tasks such as feature recognition, segmentation, matching, motion tracking and functional prediction. However, efficient description and detection of junctions still remain a research challenge due to high complexity of a...

Vortex induced vibrations (VIV) of long flexible risers subjected to ocean currents exhibit a strongly nonlinear phenomenon. Although significant efforts have been done for the frequency or time-frequency analysis of this complicated phenomenon, an effective method is still lacking. The objective of this paper is to provide a new method — a Prony-based method — for analyzing the time-varying fr...

The majority of current genetic algorithms (GAs), while inspired by natural evolutionary systems, are seldom viewed as biologically plausible models. This is not a criticism of GAs, but rather a reflection of choices made regarding the level of abstraction at which biological mechanisms are modeled, and a reflection of the more engineering-oriented goals of the evolutionary computation communit...

Tension Leg Platform design is a challenging and popular area of research in the offshore oil industry. In order to compete in the International Student Offshore Design Competition (ISODC), a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) was designed. Our TLP design addresses five fundamental areas of technical competency (General Arrangement and Overall Hull/System Design, Weight, Buoyancy and Stability, Global ...

Keywords: Flow around a circular cylinder Vortex-induced vibration Flow control Steady suction Mitigation of vortex-induced vibration a b s t r a c t In the present study, a flow control method is employed to mitigate vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of a circular cylinder by using a suction flow method. The VIV of a circular cylinder was first reproduced in a wind tunnel by using a spring–mass s...

this paper carries out the experimental research and analysis on the vortex-excited vibration suppression effect of the spiral stripe strake via the laser particle velocimeter (PIV) under vortex speed U=0.6 m/s and attack angle α=300 and discusses the VIV suppression mechanism of the spiral stripe strake by using the numerical simulation of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in order to obj...

Transverse Modal Vibrations of Vertical Tensioned Risers. A simplified Analytical Approach — The paper examines the physics of riser transverse modal vibrations of the type induced by VIV (Vortex Induced Vibrations). It presents a simplified analytical solution for such vibrations of vertical tensioned risers with uniform linear characteristics. The solution leads to simple expressions for the ...

Inspiration is an important aspect of human creativity and one that creative systems are only recently implementing. In this research, we describe and implement a transmedia creative inspiration model for generative art systems. Our implementation of this model is Visual Information Vases (VIV), an artificially intelligent ceramicist that creates 3D-printable vases using inspiration from a user...

The exact results for thermodynamical properties of one-dimensional spin-1 2 isotropic XY model with Dzyaloshinskii-Mo-riya interaction in random lorentzian transverse field are obtained. This permits to discuss some approximate methods of disordered spin systems theory. The approximate scheme of examining the thermodynamics of one-dimensional spin-1 2 XXZ Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-M...

A novel piezoelectric energy harvester equipped with two piezoelectric beams and two cylinders was proposed in this work. The energy harvester can convert the kinetic energy of water into electrical energy by means of vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and wake-induced vibration (WIV). The effects of load resistance, water velocity and cylinder diameter on the performance of the harvester were inve...