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Besides the convective fluxes, the diffusive fluxes on the control volume faces have to be determined. As apparent from Eq. (33), an expression for dO/dsc containing the nodal values of O is needed. In the case of an orthogonal grid aligned with the axes of a Cartesian coordinate frame, the expression... 

Control Volume Mass Balance. We can now combine equations (2.1), (2.5), (2.6), (2.11), and (2.13) into a mass balance on our box for Cartesian coordinates. After dividing hyV = dx dy dz and moving the diffusive flux terms to the right-hand side, this mass balance is... 

The diffusive flux rates would be treated similarly. The area of the control volume changing with radius is the reason the mass transport equation in cylindrical coordinates, given below - with similar assumptions as equation (2.18) - looks somewhat different than in Cartesian coordinates. 

Since the decision was made to work in Cartesian coordinates (our box control volume), in developing equations (2.14) and (2.18), we might as well divide the vectors into Cartesian coordinates ... 

Here N is the extensive variable associated with the conservation law (e.g., the momentum vector P), p is the fluid s mass density, and t] is the intensive variable associated with N (e.g., the velocity vector V). The volume of the control volume is given as 6V. In a cartesian coordinate system (, y, z),SV = dxdydz. The operator D/Dt is called the substantial derivative. 

Balance Equations on a Differential Control Volume When the net forces are substituted into Eq. 2.14, the 8 V cancels from each term, leaving a differential equation. As a very brief illustration, a one-dimensional momentum equation in cartesian coordinates is written as... 

In the most general case, stresses on any of the six control-volume faces can potentially contribute to a force in any direction. In a cartesian coordinate system, only stresses in a certain direction can contribute to a force in that direction. In cylindrical coordinates and other noncartesian systems, the situation is more complex. As an example of this point, consider Fig. 2.15, which is a planar representation of the z face of the cylindrical differential element. Notice two important points that are revealed in this figure. One is that the the area of the 0 face varies from rdO on one side to (r + dr)dO on the other. Therefore, in computing net forces, the area s dependence on the r coordinate must be included. Specifically,... 

In cartesian coordinates, the vector-tensor operator can be readily seen by inspection. In other coordinate systems, however, terms like the ones in the third row of the equation above result physically from the fact that control-surface areas vary, and mathematically from the fact that the derivatives of the unit vectors do not all vanish. We have recovered the expression in the previous section, which was developed entirely from vector-tensor manipulations ... 

The conservation equations for continuous flow of species K will be derived by using the idea of a control volume r t) enclosed by its control surface o t) and lying wholly within a region occupied by the continuum here t denotes the time. In this appendix only, the notation of Cartesian tensors will be used. Let i = 1, 2, 3) denote the Cartesian coordinates of a point in space. In Cartesian tensor notation, the divergence theorem for any scalar function belonging to the Kth continuum a (x, t), becomes... 

The Forward Coordinate Conversion The main challenge of industrial robot control is the conversion from path specifications given as Cartesian coordinates for position and orientation according to the ISO standard or similar Euler orientation coordinates. This challenge involves finding the inverse conversion from the pose vector Pp = X,Y,Z,A,B,cY to the joint space vector 0 = 6>i, 6>2,6>4,05,0eY To find this, one has to start with the forward conversion function. This conversion can be expressed as the function (Lien 1979) ... 

The mass balance equation, also referred to as the equation of continuity, is simply a formulation of the principles of the conservation of mass. The principle states that the rate of mass accumulation in a control volume equals the mass flow rate into the control volume minus the mass flow rate out of the control volume. In Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z), the mass balance equation for a pure fluid can be written as ... 

Consider the set of flow equations in Cartesian coordinates. Integrating it in the control volume and using the divergence theorem (Eq. A.32) gives... 

However, the right hand side decouples only approximately with respect to in- wind or lateral wind forces and with respect to the control forces ofthe absorbers as well. The floor displacements (and rotations) in Cartesian coordinates can subsequently be determined by modal superposition, x =. ... 

Far better control for the validity of the model is through visual inspection, which can then be calculated numerically. For this purpose, the sequences of prediction and measurement valnes are plotted on a Cartesian coordinate system as in Fig. 5.28, where the model predictions (outputs) are shown on the vertical axis and the measurements on the horizontal axis. In case of 100 % conformance between the model outputs and measurements, all the scatter points fall on the 1 1 (45°) line, which is not desired case, because this means that the model predicts the phenomenon 100 %. Snch a model is perfect, but it cannot be acceptable in practical studies. Any model will have certain errors, which mnst be on within the acceptable percentage ranges. 

Figure 10.1 illustrates a typical solidified control volume in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. To integrate the conservation equations, a staggered grid is employed in which the velocity component (C/e, V, and Eg) are defined... 

Beckermann and coworkers [42,43] discretized (10.29) using a control volume-based FDM, in which the transient term is treated by a fully implicit scheme. The resulting algebraic equation in cartesian coordinates can be expressed as ... 

Nichols plot A type of frequency response diagram used for analysing the frequency response of a controlled system to a disturbance signal. It involves plotting the magnitude and phase-angle measurements with frequency as a parameter. It is similar to the Nyquist plot and uses Cartesian coordinates in which the real and imaginary parts are plotted on the x and y axes. 

For the robot s task accomplishment and for reference signal generation to the position controller of each robotics joint of the mechatronics system in study, the establishment of mathematical model based in the kinematics of the system becomes necessary. Therefore, the control of a robot needs to transform the positioning data such as the linear speed and the bending radius into Cartesian coordinates, when one wants to realize robot control through a Cartesian referential. Figure 12 illustrates the mobile robot and the wheelchair control stmcture with the representative blocks of the system trajectory generation and the dynamic and kinematic models. 

Blt-M ppedImages. A bit map is a grid pattern composed of tiny cells or picture elements called pixels. Each pixel has two attributes a location and a value or set of values. Location is defined as the address of the cell in a Cartesian, ie, x andjy coordinate, system. Value is defined as the color of the pixel in a specified color system. Geometric quaUties of images are a function of the location attribute, ie, the finer the grid pattern, the more precisely can the geometric quaUties be controlled. Color quaUties are a function of the value attribute, ie, the more bytes of computer memory assigned to describe each pixel, the more precisely can the color quaUties be controlled. 

CAMSEQ/M provides the user with the capability to input complete molecular structures from the internal (disk) data base, to input cartesian or crystallographic coordinates, or to use a "joystick" controlled model-building system. In addition, a molecule may be constructed from one or more substructures with substituents attached using the joystick model-builder routines. Data input is therefore quite flexible, and the user is guided through every step by the program. 

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