Procedural aspects of modeling the dynamics of a three wheeled vehicle using ADAMS-CAR

We describe in some detail the process of development of a dynamic model of a three wheeled vehicle using ADAMS-CAR. We first describe the rigid body model, and then the modeling of structural flexibilities. The aim of this report is to document procedural details of such modeling, with a view to presenting more research and development oriented investigations in the future. The contents of this report may also be of interest to practicing engineers engaged in multi-body dynamics modeling of wheeled vehicles.

A stochastic thermostat algorithm for coarse-grained thermomechanical modeling of large-scale soft matters : theory and application to microfilaments

As all-atom molecular dynamics method is limited by its enormous computational cost, various coarse-grained strategies have been developed to extend the length scale of soft matters in the modeling of mechanical behaviors. However, the classical thermostat algorithm in highly coarse-grained molecular dynamics method would underestimate the thermodynamic behaviors of soft matters (e.g. microfilaments in cells), which can weaken the ability of materials to overcome local energy traps in granular modeling. Based on all-atom molecular dynamics modeling of microfilament fragments (G-actin clusters), a new stochastic thermostat algorithm is developed to retain the representation of thermodynamic properties of microfilaments at extra coarse-grained level. The accuracy of this stochastic thermostat algorithm is validated by all-atom MD simulation. This new stochastic thermostat algorithm provides an efficient way to investigate the thermomechanical properties of large-scale soft matters.

Computational fluid dynamics simulation of open ended thermoacoustic prime mover with straight and tapered resonator

A thermoacoustic refrigerator driven by a thermoacoustic primemover is an effective way to produce durable and long lasting refrigeration due to high reliability, no exotic materials, and no moving parts. Resonator geometry is also one of the important factors that influence the performance of a thermoacoustic prime mover, namely, frequency. Computational fluid dynamics simulation of performance comparison of thermoacoustic prime mover with a straight and tapered resonator is chosen for the present study under an identical stack condition with the air as a working fluid. The frequency and pressure amplitude of oscillations obtained from simulation results were found to be more in the tapered resonator than the straight resonator. Apart from computational fluid dynamics simulation, the simulation studies have also been conducted using design environment for low-amplitude thermoacoustic energy conversion, which predicts the performance of thermoacoustic primemover comparatively well. Simulation results from computational fluid dynamics and design environment for low-amplitude thermoacoustic energy conversion were compared and found to be matching well, representing the good validity of computational fluid dynamics modeling.

With a little help from our friends: how system dynamics and soft OR can learn from each other

At its inception, the paradigm of system dynamics was deliberately made distinct from that of OR. Yet developments in soft OR now have much in common with current system dynamics modeling practice. This article briefly traces the parallel development of system dynamics and soft OR, and argues that a dialogue between the two would be mutually rewarding. to support this claim, examples of soft OR tools are described along with some of the field’s philosophical grounding and current issues. Potential benefits resulting from a dialogue are explored, with particular emphasis on the methodological framework of system dynamics and the need for a complementarist approach. The article closes with some suggestions on how to begin learning from.

Modeling growth strategy in a biotechnology startup firm

The top managers of a biotechnology startup firm agreed to participate in a system dynamics modeling project to help them think about the firm's growth strategy. The article describes how the model was created and used to stimulate debate and discussion about growth management. The paper highlights several novel features about the process used for capturing management team knowledge. A heavy emphasis was placed on mapping the operating structure of the factory and distribution channels. Qualitative modeling methods (structural diagrams, descriptive variable names, and friendly algebra) were used to capture the management team's descriptions of the business. Simulation scenarios were crafted to stimulate debate about strategic issues such as capacity allocation, capacity expansion, customer recruitment, customer retention, and market growth, and to engage the management team in using the computer to design strategic scenarios. The article concludes with comments on the impact of the project.

Analytical modeling of driver response in crash avoidance maneuvering. Volume I: technical background. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Analytical modeling of driver response in crash avoidance maneuvering. Volume III: a trim model and computer program for determining ground vehicle steady state operating conditions and quasilinear stability coefficients. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

PROMETHEUS 2 - a user oriented program for human crash dynamics. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Simulation of restrained occupant dynamics during vehicle rollover. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Crashworthiness Research Division, Washington, D.C.

Freshwater Resource Supply Modeling for Developed and Undeveloped Watersheds

Globally, the current state of freshwater resource management is insufficient and impeding the chance at a sustainable future. Human interference within the natural hydrologic cycle is becoming dangerously irreversible and the need to redefine resource managerial approaches is imminent. This research involves the development of a coupled natural-human freshwater resource supply model using a System Dynamics approach. The model was applied to two case studies, Somalia, Africa and the Phoenix Active Management Area in Arizona, USA. It is suggested that System Dynamic modeling would be an invaluable tool for achieving sustainable freshwater resource management in individual watersheds. Through a series of thought experiments, a thorough understanding of the systems’ dynamic behaviors is obtainable for freshwater resource managers and policy-makers to examine various courses of action for alleviating freshwater supply concerns. This thesis reviews the model, its development and an analysis of several thought experiments applied to the case studies.

Visualizing the evolution of knowledge management capability in construction firms

A firm, as a dynamic, evolving, and quasi-autonomous system of knowledge production and application, develops knowledge management capability (KMC) through strategic learning in order to sustain competitive advantages in a dynamic environment. Knowledge governance mechanisms and knowledge processes connect and interact with each other forming learning mechanisms, which carry out double loop learning that drives genesis and evolution of KMC to modify operating routines that effect desired performance. This paper reports a study that was carried out within a context of construction contractors, a type of project-based firms, operating within the dynamic Hong Kong construction market. A multiple-case design was used to incorporate evidence from the literature and interviews, with the help of system dynamics modeling, to visualize the evolution of KMC. The study demonstrates the feasibility to visualize how a firm's KMC matches its operating environment over time. The findings imply that knowledge management (KM) applications can be better planned and controlled through evaluation of KM performance over time from a capability perspective.

Report of the 2005 Workshop on Ocean Ecodynamics Comparison in the Subarctic Pacific

I. Scientific Issues Posed by OECOS II. Participant Contributions to the OECOS Workshop A. ASPECTS OF PHYTOPLANKTON ECOLOGY IN THE SUBARCTIC PACIFIC Microbial community compositions by Karen E. Selph Subarctic Pacific lower trophic interactions: Production-based grazing rates and grazing-corrected production rates by Nicholas Welschmeyer Phytoplankton bloom dynamics and their physiological status in the western subarctic Pacific by Ken Furuya Temporal and spatial variability of phytoplankton biomass and productivity in the northwestern Pacific by Sei-ichi Saitoh, Suguru Okamoto, Hiroki Takemura and Kosei Sasaoka The use of molecular indicators of phytoplankton iron limitation by Deana Erdner B. IRON CONCENTRATION AND CHEMICAL SPECIATION Iron measurements during OECOS by Zanna Chase and Jay Cullen 25 The measurement of iron, nutrients and other chemical components in the northwestern North Pacific Ocean by Kenshi Kuma The measurement of iron, nutrients and other chemical components in the northwestern North Pacific Ocean by Kenshi Kuma C. PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, FINE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND AUTONOMOUS DRIFTERS The use of drifters in Lagrangian experiments: Positives, negatives and what can really be measured by Peter Strutton The interaction between plankton distribution patterns and vertical and horizontal physical processes in the eastern subarctic North Pacific by Timothy J. Cowles D. MICROZOOPLANKTON Microzooplankton processes in oceanic waters of the eastern subarctic Pacific: Project OECOS by Suzanne Strom Functional role of microzooplankton in the pelagic marine ecosystem during phytoplankton blooms in the western subarctic Pacific by Takashi Ota and Akiyoshi Shinada E. MESOZOOPLANKTON Vertical zonation of mesozooplankton, and its variability in response to food availability, density stratification, and turbulence by David L. Mackas and Moira Galbraith Marine ecosystem characteristics and seasonal abundance of dominant calanoid copepods in the Oyashio region by Atsushi Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Ikeda and Naonobu Shiga OECOS: Proposed mesozooplankton research in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific by Tsutomu Ikeda Some background on Neocalanus feeding by Michael Dagg Size and growth of interzonally migrating copepods by Charles B. Miller Growth of large interzonal migrating copepods by Toru Kobari F. MODELING Ecosystem and population dynamics modeling by Harold P. Batchelder III. Reports from Workshop Breakout Groups A. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL ASPECTS WITH EMPHASIS ON IRON AND IRON SPECIATION B. PHYTOPLANKTON/MICROZOOPLANKTON STUDIES C. MESOZOOPLANKTON STUDIES IV. Issues arising during the workshop A. PHYTOPLANKTON STOCK VARIATIONS IN HNLC SYSTEMS AND TROPHIC CASCADES IN THE NANO AND MICRO REGIMES B. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN SITE SELECTION FOR OECOS TIME SERIES C. TIMING OF OECOS EXPEDITIONS D. CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY V. Concluding Remarks VI. References (109 page document)

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水资源是人类赖以生存和发展的最重要的物质资源之一，水资源的可持续利用是实现社会经济可持续发展的必要前提。随着人口的增加，社会经济的发展和人民生活水平的提高，青岛市水资源供需矛盾进一步凸显。本文在分析青岛市水资源利用现状的基础上，运行系统动力学方法，研究了青岛市水资源复合系统可持续利用状况，主要结论如下： （1）采用系统动力学Vensim-PLE软件，以水资源供需平衡为核心，建立了青岛市水资源-社会-经济-生态环境复合系统动力学模型，并以青岛市2000~2008年的统计资料作为基础数据检验了模型的有效性。为了提高模拟效果，分析了模型主要参数的敏感度，发现工业供水比例对模拟结果影响最大，生活供水比例、第三产业供水比例、回用水工业供水比例、污水处理投资系数及回用水生态环境供水比例等参数的敏感度依次减小。 （2）运用所建立的系统动力学模型模拟趋势条件下青岛市2009~2030年的水资源利用及需求状况。结果表明，现状趋势方案下青岛市2009~2030年的总需水量快速增加，2020年、2030年的总需水量分别为96190.6万吨、137300万吨；水资源供需差额急速增加，缺水程度越来越大，到2030年缺水程度达到0.5055；随着青岛市污水处理能力的提高，污水回用量增加，从3000万吨左右增加到接近10000万吨；现状趋势条件下2009~2030年青岛市GDP值快速增长，人口承载力逐渐上升，但上升趋势逐渐趋缓。 （3）假设了5种水资源发展方案：现状趋势发展型，提高污水处理投资系数，提高海水淡化产量，调整各行业用水定额，调整产业结构。用建立的系统动力学模型模拟分析了在这5种方案下的青岛市水资源可持续利用能力。综合比较这5种方案的优缺点，提出优化方案。优化方案1：将污水处理投资系数由0.001提高至0.003；从2009年起海水淡

空间柔性双臂机器人系统建模、控制与仿真研究

空间柔性多臂机器人系统是高度非线性,强耦合的动力学系统,其动力学的研究是比较复杂和困难的问题.本文针对极为复杂的空间柔性双臂机器人系统,建立了其系统动力学模型,利用逆动力学控制算法对该动力学模型实现了轨迹跟踪控制,仿真结果表明该方法具有较好的控制效果,分析了在仿真过程中出现的有关数值算法的问题.

空间对接机构差动式缓冲系统动力学建模与仿真

对接技术是空间交会对接的关键技术，是建立大型空间站，进行复杂空间作业的前‘提，是我国载人航天工程实施需要迫切解决的问题。对接机构缓冲系统是对接机构的核心部分，决定着对接过程的动力学特性，对实现两航大器安全可靠的对接起着至关重要的作用。对接机构缓冲系统结构和工作原理复杂，是一个多自由度、多变量、高度非线性、多参数祸合的动力学系统，对其进行研究是对接机构研制的核心工作，具有重要的理论和实践意义。本文针对我国载人航天工程正在研制的周边式对接机构差动式缓冲系统进行了以’一厂研究：建立了对接机构缓冲系统的运动学模型，利用Lagrange方程建．立了差动式缓冲系统动力学模型，该模型综合体现了缓冲系统参数对缓冲特性的影响。同时，为缓冲系统实时动力学仿真模型的建立奠定了理论基础。首次建立了对接机构缓冲系统全真可视化实时动力学仿真模型，将约束的真实传动特性反映到仿真模型中，解决了多体动力学建模时山一于对杆自差织，合中两根丝杠佩的适动特性进行近似相等假设所造成的缓冲系统动态特J性失真问题，实现了非线性强棍合系统的实时动态仿真。 利用快速极坐标搜索法，进行了对接环工作空间的确定，基于模态测试方法提出了缓冲系统等效特性的虚拟试验方案，得到了系统的动静态力学性能参数，实现了对对接机构缓冲系统设计的验证。总结出对接机构的最大行程和缓冲阻尼特性的变化规律，建立了机构最大工作行程与机构传动链参数和缓冲元件结构参数的关系模型、系统等效缓冲阻尼特性与缓冲元件性能参数的关系模型，对缓冲系统的深入研究有很大的理论价值，对对接机构缓冲系统的工程设计具有重要的指导意义。建立了缓冲系统的缓冲力与对接环相应姿态的高阶关系模型，有效地提高了对接过程动力学仿真的精度。对接机构缓冲系统的动力学建模与仿真，对空间对接技术的研究，载．人航天一L程的顺利实施具有重要意义。对对接机构的研制具有很人的指导意义，为对接过程动力学研究和对接机构的深入设计奠定了坚实的基础。本文的研究结果，己在上海航天局八0五所对接机构的研制中得到了应用。