A fully automated optimization process is provided for the design of ducted propellers under open water conditions, including 3D geometry modeling, meshing, optimization algorithm and CFD analysis techniques. The deve...A fully automated optimization process is provided for the design of ducted propellers under open water conditions, including 3D geometry modeling, meshing, optimization algorithm and CFD analysis techniques. The developed process allows the direct integration of a RANSE solver in the design stage. A practical ducted propeller design case study is carried out for validation. Numerical simulations and open water tests are fulfilled and proved that the optimum ducted propeller improves hydrodynamic performance as predicted.展开更多
This paper presents an optimal solver for the Morley element problem for the boundaryvalue problem of the biharmonic equation by decomposing it into several subproblems and solving these subproblems optimally. The opt...This paper presents an optimal solver for the Morley element problem for the boundaryvalue problem of the biharmonic equation by decomposing it into several subproblems and solving these subproblems optimally. The optimality of the proposed method is mathematically proved for general shape-regular grids.展开更多
Most traditional artificial intelligence(AI)systems of the past decades are either very limited,or based on heuristics,or both.The new millennium,however,has brought substantial progress in the field of theoretically ...Most traditional artificial intelligence(AI)systems of the past decades are either very limited,or based on heuristics,or both.The new millennium,however,has brought substantial progress in the field of theoretically optimal and practically feasible algorithms for prediction,search,inductive inference based on Occam’s razor,problem solving,decision making,and reinforcement learning in environments of a very general type.Since inductive inference is at the heart of all inductive sciences,some of the results are relevant not only for AI and computer science but also for physics,provoking nontraditional predictions based on Zuse’s thesis of the computer-generated universe.We first briefly review the history of AI since Godel’s 1931 paper,then discuss recent post-2000 approaches that are currently transforming general AI research into a formal science.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51009090)the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering(Grant No.GKZD010063)
文摘A fully automated optimization process is provided for the design of ducted propellers under open water conditions, including 3D geometry modeling, meshing, optimization algorithm and CFD analysis techniques. The developed process allows the direct integration of a RANSE solver in the design stage. A practical ducted propeller design case study is carried out for validation. Numerical simulations and open water tests are fulfilled and proved that the optimum ducted propeller improves hydrodynamic performance as predicted.
基金Acknowledgments. The authors would like to thank Professor Jinchao Xu for his valuable suggestions and comments. The author C. Feng is partially supported by the NSFC Grants NO. 11571293 and 11201398, the Project of Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department （14B044）, Specialized research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China Grant 20124301110003 and Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China （14JJ2063） S. Zhang is partially supported by the NSFC Grants NO. 11101415 and 11471026, and the SRF for ROCS, SEM.
文摘This paper presents an optimal solver for the Morley element problem for the boundaryvalue problem of the biharmonic equation by decomposing it into several subproblems and solving these subproblems optimally. The optimality of the proposed method is mathematically proved for general shape-regular grids.
文摘Most traditional artificial intelligence(AI)systems of the past decades are either very limited,or based on heuristics,or both.The new millennium,however,has brought substantial progress in the field of theoretically optimal and practically feasible algorithms for prediction,search,inductive inference based on Occam’s razor,problem solving,decision making,and reinforcement learning in environments of a very general type.Since inductive inference is at the heart of all inductive sciences,some of the results are relevant not only for AI and computer science but also for physics,provoking nontraditional predictions based on Zuse’s thesis of the computer-generated universe.We first briefly review the history of AI since Godel’s 1931 paper,then discuss recent post-2000 approaches that are currently transforming general AI research into a formal science.
