CEAS/AIAA/ICASE/NASA Langley International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 1999

These proceedings represent a collection of the latest advances in aeroelasticity and structural dynamics from the world community. Research in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelasticity, structural modeling and optimization, active control and adaptive structures, landing dynamics, certification and qualification, and validation testing are highlighted in the collection of papers. The wide range of results will lead to advances in the prediction and control of the structural response of aircraft and spacecraft

Non-intrusive reduced order modelling for aerodynamic applications

During the design and optimisation of aerodynamic components, the simulations to be performed involve a large number of parameters related to the geometry and flow conditions. In this scenario, the simulation of all possible configurations is not af-fordable. To overcome this problem, the present work proposes a novel multi-output neural network (NN) for the prediction of aerodynamic coefficients of aerofoils and wings using compressible flow data. Contrary to existing NNs that are designed to predict aerodynamic quantities of interest, the proposed network considers as output the pressure or stresses at a number of selected points on the aerodynamic surface. The proposed approach is compared against the more traditional networks where the aero-dynamic coefficients are directly the outputs of the network. Furthermore, a detailed comparison of the proposed NN against the popular proper orthogonal decomposi-tion (POD) method is presented. The numerical results, involving high dimensional problems with flow and geometric parameters, show the benefits of the proposed ap-proach.The proposed NN is used to accelerate the evaluation of the objective function in an inverse aerodynamic shape design problem. The optimisation algorithm uses the gradient-free modified cuckoo search method. Applications in two and three dimen-sions are shown, demonstrating the potential of the proposed framework in the con-text of both optimisation and inverse design problems. The performance of the pro-posed optimisation framework is also compared against existing frameworks where the more traditional NNs are employed

MS FT-2-2 7 Orthogonal polynomials and quadrature: Theory, computation, and applications

Quadrature rules find many applications in science and engineering. Their analysis is a classical area of applied mathematics and continues to attract considerable attention. This seminar brings together speakers with expertise in a large variety of quadrature rules. It is the aim of the seminar to provide an overview of recent developments in the analysis of quadrature rules. The computation of error estimates and novel applications also are described

Generalized averaged Gaussian quadrature and applications

A simple numerical method for constructing the optimal generalized averaged Gaussian quadrature formulas will be presented. These formulas exist in many cases in which real positive GaussKronrod formulas do not exist, and can be used as an adequate alternative in order to estimate the error of a Gaussian rule. We also investigate the conditions under which the optimal averaged Gaussian quadrature formulas and their truncated variants are internal

Automated Analysis of 3D Stress Echocardiography

__Abstract__ The human circulatory system consists of the heart, blood, arteries, veins and capillaries. The heart is the muscular organ which pumps the blood through the human body (Fig. 1.1,1.2). Deoxygenated blood flows through the right atrium into the right ventricle, which pumps the blood into the pulmonary arteries. The blood is carried to the lungs, where it passes through a capillary network that enables the release of carbon dioxide and the uptake of oxygen. Oxygenated blood then returns to the heart via the pulmonary veins and flows from the left atrium into the left ventricle. The left ventricle then pumps the blood through the aorta, the major artery which supplies blood to the rest of the body [Drake et a!., 2005; Guyton and Halt 1996]. Therefore, it is vital that the cardiovascular system remains healthy. Disease of the cardiovascular system, if untreated, ultimately leads to the failure of other organs and death