Texas Tech University

Ongoing Research

Unsupervised Deep Learning of Turbulent Heat Transfer
via Generative Adversarial Networks

Nicholas J. Ward*1, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire*1

Methodology

Introduction

  • Extensive importance of fluids simulations
    • Atmospheric flows, heat exchangers
    • Current methods are costly
  • Correlation between temperature and velocity
  • Machine learning for fluid dynamics [3]
    • Deep learning
    • Generative adversarial networks (GANs)
  • Application of machine learning for studyingturbulence

Motivation

  • Previous works provided insight on modeling turbulence
    • Fluids modeling: direct numerical simulation (DNS),near-wall physics
    • Artificial intelligence: data-driven models,supervised/unsupervised learning
  • Simulate at reduced computational expense
  • Improve data-driven models in turbulence research
  • Apply deep learning for predicting turbulent heattransfer

Research question

Can turbulent heat transfer be eficiently predicted with wall variables?

  • Predict heat transfer from wall variables
  • Extrapolate temperature gradients to higher Reynolds numbers

1: Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

 


 

Prognostics and Health Management of Wind Energy Infrastructure Systems

Yasar Yanik^1, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire^1, João Paulo Dias^2, Edgard Haenisch Porto^3, Diogo Stuani Alves^3, Tiago Henrique Machado^3, Gregory BregionDaniel^3, Helio Fiori de Castro^3, Katia Lucchesi Cavalca^3

Rotary machinery experimental setupconfiguration

Introduction

  • A digital twin (DT) is a combination of integrated multi-physics, multi-scale, probabilistic simulation of a complex product
  • Verification and validation (V&V) is the method of determining if the criteria for apart or a system are accurate and complete
  • Applications; aerospace, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, automobile, city, agriculture, electricity

Motivation

  • Implementing V&V of a single componentinstead of a full system in DT
  • Enhancing the model's credibility which is carried out by V&V as an essential initialservice in DT
  • Providing quick access to asset data or information and a reduction in manual data transfer effort

Research question

Does implementing V&V using DT improve access to data and reduce the effort of data exchange?

  • To conduct a code and calculation verification
  • To validate simulations against experiments
  • To demonstrate easy access to assetinformation or data

1 : Texas Tech University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2 : Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Departmentof Mechanical and Civil Engineering, 3 : University of Campinas, Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

 

Prediction of the remaining useful life of a battery with limited data and no temporal identifier

Camilo Lopez-Salazar^1, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire^1, Shweta Dabetwa^r2, and Fisseha Alemayehu^3

Methodology

Introduction

  • Li-ion batteries are ubiquitous
  • Unavailability of battery data makes it difficult to perform prognostics (deep learning)
  • Is it possible to predict the remaining use fullife (RUL) of batteries having only three data points without a temporal identifier?

Motivation

  • High unpredictability of battery state of healthparameters and experimental data unavailability
  • Learning methods can handle complex regression tasks but they require large amounts of high-quality data
  • There is a literature gap on predicting the RUL of batteries without temporal information
  • By estimating RUL of batteries on an ongoing basis, adaptative actions can be made during the mission to extend the maintenance-free operation window

Research question

Can the remaining useful life(RUL) of a battery be predictedwith no temporal identifier?

1 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of MassachusettsLowell, 3 College of Engineering, West Texas A&M University

 

 

 

Can entropy be used to predict the incipient failure of systems?

Nazir L. Gandur^1, Camilo A. Lopez-Salazar^1, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire^1

Can entropy be used to predict the incipient failure of systems?

Motivation

  • Entropy is used to quantify dynamic complexity from an arbitrary time series
  • Incipient failure (IF) is an imperfection in the condition of an item from which a degraded or critical failure can be expected to result if corrective action is not taken
  • Remaining useful life (RUL) is an estimate of the amount of time that an item is estimated to be able to function before replacement
  • Data can be used to better predict IF and RUL
  • Avoid catastrophic failure

Research question

Can Multi-scale Divesirty Entropy be used to develop a framework to predict the IF of a system?

1 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University,