Space-Use Interactions Described Through Computer Vision

This paper examines analytical procedures aimed at the study of the functional condition of architectural artefacts and, as a result, the promotion of a better understanding of the connections established with spatial conditions. The goal is to contribute to the development of techniques based on computer vision of mobility and users’...

The use and predictive capability of CFD for fully developed natural fires in large compartments

The purpose of the present study is to explore and validate the efficiency and accuracy of the predictive capability of CFD models for fully developed natural fires in large compartments. The FDS CFD software was used to simulate three large-scale fire tests. The fire tests (nine in total) had been carried out in 1993 at Cardington UK, in...

Partitioned FSI strategy for simulations of a thin elastic valve

We present a Fictitious Domain (FD)/Lagrange multiplier method to approximate a thin valve movement immersed in an incompressible fluid. We developed a partitioned FSI algorithm that is able to keep the fluid and structure codes independent and which involve only minor modifications to each one . We propose a quantitative comparison between FD...