We are pleased to introduce this special thematic section on Nanofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer that is being included in Acta Mechanica Sinica(AMS).This thematic issue consists of 6 papers selected from papers tha...We are pleased to introduce this special thematic section on Nanofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer that is being included in Acta Mechanica Sinica(AMS).This thematic issue consists of 6 papers selected from papers that were presented at the 18th International Symposium on Numer-ical Analysis of Fluid Flows,Heat and Mass Transfer-Nu-merical Fluids 2023,held in Heraklion,Crete Greece,11-17 September 2023,and invited through a general call.The symposium covers various subjects:from new numerical methods and fundamental research until engineering appli-cations,and it is a part of the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics(ICNAAM),held annually.展开更多
This research aims at developing an innovative methodology and the related computational workflow to design energy efficient buildings equipped with climate responsive building skins able to respond dynamically to env...This research aims at developing an innovative methodology and the related computational workflow to design energy efficient buildings equipped with climate responsive building skins able to respond dynamically to environmental conditions changing over the time.This methodology,called Adaptive Building and Skin(AB&S),is applicable in different climate zones and consists of a computational form-finding method,which supports architects and engineers in the buildings’design process resulting in buildings with optimized energy performance and a high level of indoor and outdoor comfort under changing environmental conditions.The innovativeness of AB&S lies in the fact that it includes the entire design process and considers several internal and external inputs to find the best solutions at all scales of a project:starting from the micro urban-scale with the design of the site and of the building shape,down to the building-scale and finally the skin-scale.Applicability and functionality of AB&S has been tested and improved in the design of office buildings located in specific cities located in different climate zones(cold,temperate,tropical and subtropical).Results of the application in Berlin,Germany,are presented in detail in this paper.展开更多
In this opinion paper,we,a group of scientists from environmental-,geo-,ocean-and information science,argue visual data exploration should become a common analytics approach in Earth system science due to its potentia...In this opinion paper,we,a group of scientists from environmental-,geo-,ocean-and information science,argue visual data exploration should become a common analytics approach in Earth system science due to its potential for analysis and interpretation of large and complex spatio-temporal data.We discuss the challenges that appear such as synthesis of heterogeneous data from various sources,reducing the amount of information and facilitating multidisciplinary,collaborative research.We argue that to fully exploit the potential of visual data exploration,several bottlenecks and challenges have to be addressed:providing an efficient data management and an integrated modular workflow,developing and applying suitable visual exploration concepts and methods with the help of effective and tailored tools as well as generating and raising the awareness of visual data exploration and education.We are convinced visual data exploration is worth the effort since it significantly facilitates insight into environmental data and derivation of knowledge from it.展开更多
文摘We are pleased to introduce this special thematic section on Nanofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer that is being included in Acta Mechanica Sinica(AMS).This thematic issue consists of 6 papers selected from papers that were presented at the 18th International Symposium on Numer-ical Analysis of Fluid Flows,Heat and Mass Transfer-Nu-merical Fluids 2023,held in Heraklion,Crete Greece,11-17 September 2023,and invited through a general call.The symposium covers various subjects:from new numerical methods and fundamental research until engineering appli-cations,and it is a part of the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics(ICNAAM),held annually.
文摘This research aims at developing an innovative methodology and the related computational workflow to design energy efficient buildings equipped with climate responsive building skins able to respond dynamically to environmental conditions changing over the time.This methodology,called Adaptive Building and Skin(AB&S),is applicable in different climate zones and consists of a computational form-finding method,which supports architects and engineers in the buildings’design process resulting in buildings with optimized energy performance and a high level of indoor and outdoor comfort under changing environmental conditions.The innovativeness of AB&S lies in the fact that it includes the entire design process and considers several internal and external inputs to find the best solutions at all scales of a project:starting from the micro urban-scale with the design of the site and of the building shape,down to the building-scale and finally the skin-scale.Applicability and functionality of AB&S has been tested and improved in the design of office buildings located in specific cities located in different climate zones(cold,temperate,tropical and subtropical).Results of the application in Berlin,Germany,are presented in detail in this paper.
文摘In this opinion paper,we,a group of scientists from environmental-,geo-,ocean-and information science,argue visual data exploration should become a common analytics approach in Earth system science due to its potential for analysis and interpretation of large and complex spatio-temporal data.We discuss the challenges that appear such as synthesis of heterogeneous data from various sources,reducing the amount of information and facilitating multidisciplinary,collaborative research.We argue that to fully exploit the potential of visual data exploration,several bottlenecks and challenges have to be addressed:providing an efficient data management and an integrated modular workflow,developing and applying suitable visual exploration concepts and methods with the help of effective and tailored tools as well as generating and raising the awareness of visual data exploration and education.We are convinced visual data exploration is worth the effort since it significantly facilitates insight into environmental data and derivation of knowledge from it.
