THERM_VENATION: Active Thermal Façade Venation: Fabricating a concrete twin-wall façade panel optimised for integrated heat exchange system

Passive measures to tackle increasing energy demands of modern buildings are aimed to generate energy from the roof or the ground beneath and by improving insulation to isolate indoors and outdoors. The author targets the opaque facade sections of a building to develop an active panel to exchange solar thermal energy with his project THERM...

Artificial Neural Networks for Flow Field Inference: A machine learning approach

Due to their powerful approximation capabilities, artificial neural networks have seen a wide interest in various fields. A particular application is the use of an artificial neural network to predict solutions of the governing equations for fluid flow i.e. the Navier-Stokes equations. This is done by taking the space and time variables as the...

The effect of power-density distribution on weld pool behaviour during laser welding

Welding is an extensively used technology by different industries such as aerospace, automotive and marine industry. Welding involves the temporal melting of materials in order to join them together. The quality of the weld is known to depend on the fluid flow and heat transfer in the material. A way to influence the heat transfer and fluid flow...

Improving the accuracy of the topology optimization of turbulent flows

Silicon based power semiconductors have long been used as the standard in ‘semiconductor technology in power conversion applications’. Recent developments replaces the Silicon with Silicon Carbide as it results in superior performance of the power conversion applications. However, due to the increased performance, challenges...