A comprehensive analysis of cavitation and liquid impingement erosion data

Cavitation-erosion experimental data previously covering several materials tested in a rotating disk device and a magnetostriction apparatus were analyzed using new normalization and curve-fitting techniques. From this process a universal approach is derived which can include data from cavitation and liquid impingement studies for specific materials from different test devices

Universal approach to analysis of cavitation and liquid-impingement erosion data

Cavitation erosion experimental data was analyzed by using normalization and curve-fitting techniques. Data were taken from experiments on several materials tested in both a rotating disk device and a magnetostriction apparatus. Cumulative average volume loss rate and time data were normalized relative to the peak erosion rate and the time to peak erosion rate, respectively. From this process a universal approach was derived that can include data on specific materials from different test devices for liquid impingement and cavitation erosion studies

The MIR Flickr Retrieval Evaluation Proposal Based on User Tags and Textual Passwords

In most well known image retrieval test sets, the imagery typically cannot be freely distributed or is not representative of a large community of users. In this paper we present a collection for the MIR community comprising 69,000 images from the Flickr website which are redistributable for research purposes and represent a real community of users both in the image content and image tags. We have extracted the tags and EXIF image meta data, and also make all of these publicly available. In addition we discuss several challenges for benchmarking retrieval and classification methods and applications

Enhancing productivity of water under variable climate

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Enhancing productivity of water under variable climate

Irrigated farmingProductivityCrop productionMaizeSimulation modelsClimateForecasting

Geometry of good sets in n-fold Cartesian product

We propose here a multidimensional generalisation of the notion of link introduced in our previous papers and we discuss some consequences for simplicial measures and sums of function algebras.Comment: 17 pages, no figures, no table

An optimality criterion for sizing members of heated structures with temperature constraints

A thermal optimality criterion is presented for sizing members of heated structures with multiple temperature constraints. The optimality criterion is similar to an existing optimality criterion for design of mechanically loaded structures with displacement constraints. Effectiveness of the thermal optimality criterion is assessed by applying it to one- and two-dimensional thermal problems where temperatures can be controlled by varying the material distribution in the structure. Results obtained from the optimality criterion agree within 2 percent with results from a closed-form solution and with results from a mathematical programming technique. The thermal optimality criterion augments existing optimality criteria for strength and stiffness related constraints and offers the possibility of extension of optimality techniques to sizing structures with combined thermal and mechanical loading