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Towards a deployable satellite gripper based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Irina Gavrilovich

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) are an emerging actuation technology which are inherent lightweight and compliant in nature, enabling the development of unique and versatile devices, such as the Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structure (DEMES). ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Boundary layer effects on the vortex shedding in a Donaldson-type hydrofoil

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Amirreza Zobeiri, Eduard Egusquiza

Structure Interaction (FSI) phenomena is becoming a relevant study field for the design or revamping of hydropower plants. The generalized trend of increasing flow rates and reducing rotor blades/stay vanes thickness in order to improve the efficiency of t ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2014

Wind-Turbine Wakes in a Convective Boundary Layer: A Wind-Tunnel Study

Fernando Porté Agel, Wei Zhang, Corey Dean Markfort

Thermal stability changes the properties of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer, and in turn affects the behaviour of wind-turbine wakes. To better understand the effects of thermal stability on the wind-turbine wake structure, wind-tunnel experiments ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Linear stability analysis of wind turbine wakes performed on wind tunnel measurements

Fernando Porté Agel, François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

Wind tunnel measurements were performed for the wake produced by a three-bladed wind turbine immersed in uniform flow. These tests show the presence of a vorticity structure in the near-wake region mainly oriented along the streamwise direction, which is d ...

Cambridge University Press2013

The effect of magnetic anisotropy on the spin configurations of patterned La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 elements

André Bisig

We study the effect of magnetocrystalline anisotropy on the magnetic configurations of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bar and triangle elements using photoemission electron microscopy imaging. The dominant remanent state is a low energy flux-closure state for both thin (1 ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Experimental investigation on the aerodynamic loads and wake flow features of a low aspect-ratio circular cylinder

Giacomo Valerio Iungo

An experimental investigation on the flow features of the wake generated from a circular cylinder with finite height and placed vertically on a plane is presented. Through force measurements the mean drag coefficient is found to be roughly invariant by var ...

Elsevier2012

The Effects of a Tripped Turbulent Boundary Layer on Vortex Shedding from a Blunt Trailing Edge Hydrofoil

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Philippe Ausoni, Amirreza Zobeiri

Experiments on vortex shedding from a blunt trailing edge symmetric hydrofoil operating at zero angle of attack in a uniform high speed flow, Re-h = 16.1 . 10(3) - 96.6 . 10(3), where the reference length h is the trailing edge thickness, are reported. The ...

2012

Characterisation of blade tip vortices by simultaneous time-resolved velocity and density field measurements

Karen Ann J Mulleners

The flow field around a helicopter is dominated by strong coherent vortices originating from the blade tip as a result of the pressure difference between suction and pressure side and a high radial velocity at the tip (Leishman, 2001; Green and Acosta, 199 ...

2012

How oblique trailing edge of a hydrofoil reduces the vortex-induced vibration

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Philippe Ausoni, Amirreza Zobeiri

The effect of hydrofoil trailing edge shape on the wake dynamic and flow induced vibration is investigated at high Reynolds number, Re = 0.5 x 10(6)-2.9 x 10(6). Two NACA 0009 hydrofoils with blunt and oblique trailing edges are tested. The velocity field ...

Elsevier2012

Effect of Hydrofoil Trailing Edge Geometry on the Wake Dynamics

Amirreza Zobeiri

In the present study, the effect of a hydrofoil trailing edge shape on the wake dynamic and its interaction with the mechanical structure is investigated. This would help better describe the physical reasons for vibration reduction when using oblique and D ...

EPFL2012

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