A parametric 3D geological modeling method considering stratigraphic interface topology optimization and coding expert knowledge

M Lyu, B Ren, B Wu, D Tong, S Ge, S Han - Engineering Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Parametric 3D geological modeling facilitates the efficient updating of geological models. A
comprehensive review of existing geological modeling methods reveals that two critical …

High-fidelity modeling of multirotor aerodynamic interactions for aircraft design

EJ Alvarez, A Ning - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Electric aircraft technology has enabled the use of multiple rotors in novel concepts for urban
air mobility. However, multirotor configurations introduce strong aerodynamic and …

Sub-pixel mapping of remote sensing images based on radial basis function interpolation

Q Wang, W Shi, PM Atkinson - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new sub-pixel mapping (SPM) method based on radial basis function (RBF)
interpolation is proposed for land cover mapping at the sub-pixel scale. The proposed …

Stable vortex particle method formulation for meshless large-eddy simulation

EJ Alvarez, A Ning - AIAA Journal, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
A novel formulation of the vortex particle method (VPM) is developed for large-eddy
simulation (LES) in a meshless scheme that is numerically stable. A new set of VPM …

Partitioned fluid-structure interaction on massively parallel systems

BW Uekermann - 2016 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Today's multi-physics simulations suffer from a lack of either flexibility or scalability. Only
reconciling both will allow for translating the higher compute power of the forthcoming exa …

FLOWUnsteady: an interactional aerodynamics solver for multirotor aircraft and wind energy

EJ Alvarez, J Mehr, A Ning - AIAA Aviation 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3218. vid The ability to accurately
and rapidly assess unsteady interactional aerodynamics is a shortcoming and bottleneck in …

PetRBF—A parallel O (N) algorithm for radial basis function interpolation with Gaussians

R Yokota, LA Barba, MG Knepley - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2010 - Elsevier
We have developed a parallel algorithm for radial basis function (rbf) interpolation that
exhibits O (N) complexity, requires O (N) storage, and scales excellently up to a thousand …

A level set method for topological shape optimization of 3D structures with extrusion constraints

H Li, P Li, L Gao, L Zhang, T Wu - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new level set method for topological shape optimization of 3D
structures considering manufacturing constraints. First, the boundary of structure is implicitly …

Spatial–spectral radial basis function-based interpolation for Landsat ETM+ SLC-off image gap filling

Q Wang, L Wang, Z Li, X Tong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scan-line corrector (SLC) of the Landsat 7 ETM+ failed permanently in 2003, resulting in
about 22% unscanned gap pixels in the SLC-off images, affecting greatly the utility of the …

Reviving the vortex particle method: A stable formulation for meshless large eddy simulation

EJ Alvarez, A Ning - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03658, 2022 - arxiv.org
The vortex particle method (VPM) is a mesh-free approach to computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) solving the Navier-Stokes equations in their velocity-vorticity form. The VPM uses a …