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Aeroelastic characterisation of a bio-inspired flapping membrane wing
Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Esra Uksul, Jules Ange Philippe Richeux
Natural fliers like bats exploit the complex fluid-structure interaction between their flexible membrane wings and the air with great ease. Yet, replicating and scaling the balance between the structural and fluid-dynamical parameters of unsteady membrane ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2022Aerodynamic study of a Hyperloop pod equipped with compressor to overcome the Kantrowitz limit
This paper describes an investigation of the aerodynamic performance of a Hyperloop pod equipped with an axial compressor using CFD simulation. The compressor is expected to reduce the drag if the operational speed of the pod exceeds the Kantrowitz Limit ( ...
2021Crack front waves: A 3D dynamic response to a local perturbation of tensile and shear cracks
Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Damien Spielmann, Fatima-Ezzahra Fekak
Crack front waves are long-lived perturbations propagating along the crack front. They are triggered by heterogeneities on the crack plane, as for instance tough asperities, which disturb the crack front shape. Crack front waves are thought to leave a trac ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020Comparative study between Cubic and Ellipsoidal Fokker-Planck kinetic models
Motivated by improving the performance of particle-based Monte-Carlo simulations in the transitional regime, Fokker–Planck kinetic models have been devised and studied as approximations of the Boltzmann collision operator. By generalizing the linear drift ...
2019Measurements of ion velocity and wave propagation in a hollow cathode plume
The mechanism responsible for the production of energetic ions in the plume of hollow cathodes for electric propulsion is still an open issue. These ions are of concern to cathode and thruster lifetime, particularly for cathodes operating at high (>20 A) d ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019Two-fluid plasma model for radial Langmuir probes as a converging nozzle with sonic choked flow, and sonic passage to supersonic flow
Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne
Using the Lambert function, Guittienne et al. [Phys. Plasmas 25, 093519 (2018)] derived two-fluid solutions for radial Langmuir probes in collisionless and isothermal plasma. In this Brief Communication, we point out the close analogy with classical compre ...
2019The microfluidic nebulator: production of submicrometer sized airborne drops
Many powders employed in the food and pharmaceutical industries are produced through spray drying because it is a cost efficient process that offers control over the particle size. However, most commercially available spray-driers cannot produce drops with ...
Royal Soc Chemistry2017Future of flight: From the return of supersonic travel to pods that clip onto planes
Modular aircraft for flexible transportation The modular Clip-Air aircraft decouples the transportation module - a flying wing - from its load - capsules that can carry passengers, freight, or fuel. This project is laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s air ...
2016Wave propagation in periodic buckled beams. Part I: Analytical models and numerical simulations
Alessandro Spadoni, Florian Paul Robert Maurin
Periodic buckled beams possess a geometrically nonlinear, load-deformation relationship and intrinsic length scales such that stable, nonlinear waves are possible. Modeling buckled beams as a chain of masses and nonlinear springs which account for transver ...
Elsevier Science Bv2016Impact of rotating and fixed nozzles on vortex breakdown in compressible swirling jet flows
François Gallaire, Leonhard Kleiser
Vortex breakdown of swirling, round jet flows is investigated in the compressible, subsonic regime by means of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). This is achieved by solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a cylindrical grid using high-order sp ...
Elsevier2016