Effect of the Oscillation of Left Heated Wall on Heat Transfer Enhancement for a Square Cavity Domain

The vibration of a left vertical hot wall in a square cavity with thermally insulated vertical walls facing unsteady natural convection is investigated numerically. The cavity is filled with an ideal gas and the top wall is exposed to free stream conditions. Using the primitive variables of velocity and pressure, the staggered grid technique and the marker-and-cell (MAC) method is used to solve the governing equations using the Boussinesq approximation for natural convection. The numerical solution is obtained by using Matlab platform. Sample results are shown in the form of contour plots for pressure, velocity vectors, vorticity, and temperature fields for fixed values of Reynolds number. Detailed analyses of unsteady laminar flow and thermal fields are exhibited over broad ranges of Reynolds number and frequency of the oscillating wall. Systematically-organized computational results based on the MAC method with an explicit formulation indicate enhancement of heat transfer demonstrated by higher average Nusselt number values for selected values of the Reynolds number.

A CAE Approach for Pretest Analysis of Vehicle Body Frame Vibration Test

Pretest analysis is a crucial step of the process for experimental modal analysis, directly affect the test accuracy. A general procedure for pretest analysis of a vehicle body frame has been presented using CAE approach with software Virtual Lab. After the modal parameters are acquired from FEM analysis, the CAE based MAC method is used to optimize the measurement location and direction. The selection of an appropriate set of measurement locations and directions including initial accelerometers placement and test excitation point location are defined based on MAC method by Virtual Lab correlation part. Finally, for purpose of validation, the FEM modal analysis is compared with operational modal analysis. The results comparison showing that the present pretest analysis approach is more accuracy and efficiency.

Path Tracking Control for a Wheeled Mobile Robot

In this paper a model algorithm control (MAC) method is proposed to do the path tracking control of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR). This mobile robot is a three-wheel differentially steered wheeled mobile robot subject to nonholonomic constraints. The kinematic model of this mobile robot is presented and used as the mobile robot model to be controlled. Simulations are conducted to show the performance and feasibility of the proposed control strategy for the path tracking of a wheeled mobile robot.