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Post evaluation of close range photogrammetry experiments ?

I am performing a simple close range photogrammetry test and comparing outcomes of photogrammetry tools such as VisualSFM, Meshroom, Colmap etc. Kindly advice, what post evaluation tests/ criteria...

13 February 2021 6,410 3 View

In your experience what is the difference between G.652D and G.655D optical fiber. In field and in lab?

In our current era there is a big confusion about the usage of G.652 and G.655 optical fiber cable. Theoretically G.655 is much better than G.652 but the operator feel that G.652 is giving almost...

11 February 2021 4,006 8 View

Various schools have emerged in the study of comparative literature. Mention the most prominent of them in a nutshell.?

Various schools have emerged in the study of comparative literature. Mention the most prominent of them in a nutshell. And he talked about one of them?

09 February 2021 1,099 8 View

Data balancing before test/train split or only training data balancing. which is correct?

While reviewing technical articles, I encounter some papers where authors have used data balancing before splitting test and train (on full data), and some only balanced training data and let the...

04 February 2021 1,446 0 View

How can we measure disease severity of a pathogen in a crop?

severity index, measuring method and procedure detailed

01 February 2021 1,160 11 View

Why can't ANSYS Mechanical APDL detect the volume of my design ?

The 1st image shows the moment when I import my design(IGES) into the Mechanical APDL. The 2nd image occurs when I wanted to Operate>Boolean>Divide Volume By Area. The design is a regular...

28 January 2021 2,962 3 View

Permanent Fluid temperature initialization in Ansys Fluent?

Dear researchers, I am coupling Design Optimization with ANSYS Fluent in Workbench 2020 R2. I can do the analysis. I am patching the initial Temperature values of the zones. However, the patch...

28 January 2021 4,265 2 View

What is role of chronopharmacology or circadian rhythms in metabolic diseases including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases?

Chronopharmacology is branch of biological science which deals with daily life, sleep and wake, day and night, feeding and fasting and other effects. we can manage many diseases including...

18 January 2021 9,045 3 View

Why there is no effective vaccine against Congo Fever (CCHFV)?

Why there is no licensed vaccine available against congo fever? Besides what should be done to make the globally recognized Congo Vaccine?

11 January 2021 4,475 4 View

Human brain is compared to hardware in a computer while mind is compared to software to computer. How far is this comparasion suitable ?

Every function of mind works in the brain. Study of divisions of mind for memory, thinking, analysis, conscious and subconscious mind is important for successful use of the mind.

10 January 2021 5,282 32 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

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Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

How to define and get results (stresses) for certain points of a model in abaqus, using python? When the size of the model changes?

I want to do a parameter study of a aixsymmetric cylinder in Abaqus. I want to create several jobs where I get the stresses for 3 different points in my model. These points are defined. I wrote a...

01 March 2021 10,078 1 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to assign different material properties to each element in Abaqus ?

Hello, I am writing a python script to generate my model and write the input file. The problem is I have 1000 elements in my mesh and I want to assign different material properties to each...

01 March 2021 9,511 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View