Modeling and Simulation in Engineering

InTech, 2012. 309 p. ISBN:535100126, 9789535100126 This book provides an open platform from which to establish and share knowledge developed by scholars, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, about various applications of computer aided modeling and simulation in the design process of products in various engineering fields. The book consists of 12 chapters arranged in an order reflecting the multidimensionality of applications related to modeling and simulation. The chapters are in two sections: 3D Modeling (seven chapters), and Virtual Prototyping (five chapters). Contents Preface Part 1 3D Modeling Image-Laser Fusion for In Situ 3D Modeling of Complex Environments: A4D Panoramic-Driven Approach DART: A 3D Model for Remote Sensing Images and Radiative Budget of Earth Surfaces 3D Modelling from Real Data 3D Modeling of a Natural Killer Receptor, Siglec-7: Critical Amino Acids for Glycan- Binding and Cell Death-Inducing Activity Applications of Computational 3D-Modeling in Organismal Biology Open Source 3D Game Engines for Serious Games Modeling Refinement of Visual Hulls for Human Performance Capture Part 2 Virtual Prototyping Analytical Compact Models Virtual Prototyping for Rapid Product Development Oriented Multi-Body System Virtual Prototyping Technology for Railway Vehicle Enabling and Analyzing Natural Interaction with Functional Virtual Prototypes Fluid Pressurization in Cartilages and Menisci in the Normal and Repaired Human Knees Cover 1 Modeling and Simulation in Engineering 2 © 3 Contents 5 Preface 8 Part 1 3D Modeling 12 1 Image-Laser Fusion for In Situ 3D Modeling of Complex Environments: A 4D Panoramic-Driven Approach 14 2 DART: A 3D Model for Remote Sensing Images and Radiative Budget of Earth Surfaces 40 3 3D Modelling from Real Data 80 4 3D Modeling of a Natural Killer Receptor, Siglec-7: Critical Amino Acids for Glycan- Binding and Cell Death-Inducing Activity 114 5 Applications of Computational 3D–Modeling in Organismal Biology 128 6 Open Source 3D Game Engines for Serious Games Modeling 154 7 Refinement of Visual Hulls for Human Performance Capture 170 Part 2 Virtual Prototyping 186 8 Analytical Compact Models 188 9 Virtual Prototyping for Rapid Product Development 214 10 Oriented Multi-Body System Virtual Prototyping Technology for Railway Vehicle 236 11 Enabling and Analyzing Natural Interaction with Functional Virtual Prototypes 272 12 Fluid Pressurization in Cartilages and Menisci in the Normal and Repaired Human Knees 288 This book provides an open platform to establish and share knowledge developed by scholars, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, about various applications of the modeling and simulation in the design process of products, in various engineering fields. The book consists of 12 chapters arranged in two sections (3D Modeling and Virtual Prototyping), reflecting the multidimensionality of applications related to modeling and simulation. Some of the most recent modeling and simulation techniques, as well as some of the most accurate and sophisticated software in treating complex systems, are applied. All the original contributions in this book are jointed by the basic principle of a successful modeling and simulation process: as complex as necessary, and as simple as possible. The idea is to manipulate the simplifying assumptions in a way that reduces the complexity of the model (in order to make a real-time simulation), but without altering the precision of the results