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Advances In The Quantification Of Turbulence: A Wind Resource Characteristic, Thomas Woolmington, Keith Sunderland, Jonathan Blackledge, Michael Conlon
Advances In The Quantification Of Turbulence: A Wind Resource Characteristic, Thomas Woolmington, Keith Sunderland, Jonathan Blackledge, Michael Conlon
Conference papers
Wind resource assessment is a critical parameter in a diverse range of considerations within the built environment. Engineers and scientists, engaging in building design, energy conservation/application and air-quality/air-pollution control measures, need to be cognisant of how the associated wind resource imposes increased complexities in their design and modelling processes. In this regard, the topographical heterogeneities within these environments, present significant challenges to quantifying the resource and its turbulent characteristics. Indeed, from the perspective of assessing the wind resource within the built environment, topographical heterogeneity is the primary proponent of turbulence and the main inhibitor to acquiring meaningful measurements.
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Simulation Of Textured Audio Harmonics Using Random Fractal Phaselets, Jonathan Blackledge, Derry Fitzgerald, Ruairi Hickson
Simulation Of Textured Audio Harmonics Using Random Fractal Phaselets, Jonathan Blackledge, Derry Fitzgerald, Ruairi Hickson
Conference papers
We present a method of simulating audio signals using the prin- ciples of random fractal geometry which, in the context of this paper, is concerned with the analysis of statistically self-affine ‘phaselets’. The approach is used to generate audio signals that are characterised by texture and timbre through the Fractal Dimension such as those associated with bowed stringed instruments. The paper provides a short overview on potential simulation methods us- ing Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing and on the problems associated with using a deterministic approach based on solutions to the acoustic wave equation. This serves to quantify the …