Main description:

As computer models become more reliable and able to represent more realistic problems, detailed data is leading to the development of appropriate new types of experiments. Experimental measurements are conditioned to the requirements of the computational models. Hence it is important that scientists working on experiments communicate with researchers developing computer codes, as well as those carrying out measurements on prototypes. The orderly and progressive concurrent development of all these fields is essential for the progress of engineering sciences. CMEM 2009 is the Fourteenth International Conference in this well established series on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. These successful meetings provide a unique forum for the review of the latest work on the interaction between computational methods and experimental measurements.The topics include: Computational and Experimental Methods; Experimental and Computational Analysis; Direct, Indirect and In-Situ Measurements; Detection and Signal Processing; Data Processing; Fluid Flow; Heat Transfer and Thermal Processes; Material Characterisation; Structural and Stress Analysis; Industrial Applications; Forest Fires.

Contents:

Section 1: Computational and experimental methods Heat and moisture transport in porous materials involving cyclic wetting and drying; Influence of material characteristics of concrete and thermal insulation on the service life of exterior renders; A procedure for adaptive evaluation of numerical and experimental data; Gear predictor of manual transmission vehicles based on artificial neural network; Non-thermal, chemical destruction of PCB from Sydney tar ponds soil extract Section 2: Experimental and computational analysis Multi-scale FE analyses of sheet formability based on SEM-EBSD crystal texture measurement; Direct simulation of sounds generated by collision between water drop and water surface; Experimental and numerical analysis of concrete slabs prestressed with composite reinforcement; Measures in the underground work method to determine the mathematical relations that predicts rock behaviour; Implementation and validation of a strain rate dependent model for carbon foam; Statics and dynamics of carbon fibre reinforcement composites on steel orthotropic decks; Study of the thermo-physical properties of bitumen in hydrocarbon condensates Section 3: Direct, indirect and in-situ measurements Modelling energy consumption in test cells; Evaluation of insulation systems by in situ testing; Monitoring coupled moisture and salt transport using single vertical suction experiment; Application of image analysis for the measurement of liquid metal free surface; Damage assessment by automated quantitative image analysis - a risky undertaking Section 4: Detection and signal processing Antenna radiation patterns indication on the basic measurement of field radiation in the near zone; Sub-ppb NOx detection by a cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy system with blue and infrared diode lasers; Multispectral detection circuits in special applications; Modification of raised cosine weighting functions family; Technique for the electric and magnetic parameter measurement of powdered materials; Acoustic watermark server effectiveness; Intrapulse analysis of radar signal; Neural detection of parameter changes in a dynamic system using time-frequency transforms Section 5: Data processing A versatile software-hardware system for environmental data acquisition and transmission; Modelling of the precise movement of a ship at slow speed to minimize the trajectory deviation risk; Automated safe control of a Self-propelled Mine Counter Charge in an underwater environment; A novel financial model of long term growing stocks for the Taiwan stock market Section 6: Fluid flow On the differences of transitional separated-reattached flows over leading-edge obstacles of varying geometries; A second order method for solving turbulent shallow flows; Numerical analysis of compressible turbulent helical flow in a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube; Turbulence: a new zero-equation model; Mesh block refinement technique for incompressible flows in complex geometries using Cartesian grids; Application of the finite volume method for the supersonic flow around the axisymmetric cone body placed in a free stream; Some aspects and aerodynamic effects in repairing battle damaged wings Section 7: Heat transfer and thermal processes Natural and mixed convection in inclined channels with partial openings; Heat flux reconstruction in the grinding process from temperature data; Analysis of non-isothermal fluid flow past an in-line tube bank; Transport phenomenon in a jet type mold cooling pipe; Two-phase modelling of nanofluid heat transfer in a microchannel heat sink; Numerical investigation of sensible thermal energy storage in high temperature solar systems; Dynamic modelling of the thermal space of the metallurgical walking beams furnaces Section 8: Material characterisation Investigation of shape recovery stress for ferrous shape memory alloy; Growth behavior of small surface cracks in coarse and ultrafine grained copper Section 9: Structural and stress analysis Numerical simulation of structures using generalized models for data uncertainty; A dynamic model for the study of gear transmissions; Long-term behaviour of concrete structures reinforced with pre-stressed GFRP tendons; Application of the finite element method for static design of plane linear systems with semi-rigid connections; Blade loss studies in low-pressure turbines - from blade containment to controlled blade-shedding Section 10: Industrial applications Finding the optimalA" size and location of treatment plants for a Jatropha oil plantation project in Thailand; An industrial ship system for the flat development of undevelopable surfaces: algorithm and implementation Section 11: Forest fires Assessment of the plume theory predictions of crown scorch or crown fire initiation using transport models; Spotting ignition of fuel beds by firebrands; Impact of fuel-break structure on fire behaviour simulated with FIRETEC; A new model of information systems for public awareness about wildfires; Combustion modelling for forest fires: from detailed to skeletal and global models