Author:Van der Merwe, SW; Groenwold, AA; Loveday, Philip W; Thiart, GDDate:Jan 2010The valveless micropump holds great potential for the biomedical community in applications such as drug delivery systems, blood glucose monitoring, and many others. In this paper, the authors investigate the characteristics of a planar ...Read more
Author:Grobler, Jan-Hendrik; de Villiers, R; Cooper, Antony KDate:Jan 2010A method is proposed for the modelling of fluid-solid interaction in applications where fluid forces dominate. Data are transferred between two stand-alone codes: a dedicated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code capable of free surface ...Read more
Author:Kok, SDate:Jan 2011A new method is proposed to predict the irradiation induced property changes in nuclear; graphite, including the effect of a change in irradiation temperature. The currently used method; to account for changes in irradiation temperature, the ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, A; Land, KDate:Jan 2010For intra-cavity laser beam control, a small, low-cost deformable mirror is required. This mirror can be used to correct for time- dependent phase aberrations to the laser beam, such as those caused by thermal expansion of materials. A ...Read more
Author:Bogaers, Alfred EJ; Kok, S; Malan, AGDate:Jan 2010In this paper, we implement the method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to generate a reduced order model (ROM) of an optimization based mesh movement technique. In the study it is shown that POD can be used effectively to generate a ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; de Villiers, R; Greben, JM; van der Bergh, F; Gledhill, Irvy MADate:Jan 2010A variety of concrete armour units laid on top of rubble mounds are used to protect breakwaters and other harbour infrastructure. Coastal engineers build three-dimensional physical scale models to understand the dynamic processes caused by ...Read more
Author:Mukaro, R; Govender, K; Gledhill, Irvy MA; Kokwe, NLDate:Jan 2010In this paper we report on the laboratory investigations of breaking water waves. Measurements of the water levels and instantaneous fluid velocities were conducted in water waves breaking on a sloping beach within a glass flume. Instantaneous ...Read more