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Finesse (aérodynamique)

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Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake

Current drones are developed with a fixed morphology that can limit their versatility and mission capabilities. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not only extend dynamic performances, but also provide new functionalities. ...

SPIE2017

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Flavio Noca, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Matteo Di Luca

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

A simple one-dimensional model for urban canopy flows

Fernando Porté Agel, Wai Chi Cheng

In urban canopy parameterizations, an urban canopy is usually modelled as a drag force on the flow, and the turbulent shear stress is parametrized by various methods. One of the most common methods to parametrize the turbulent shear stress in urban canopie ...

2016

Hyperthermia with rotating magnetic nanowires inducing heat into tumor by fluid friction

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Anne-Gabrielle Pawlowski, Bastien De Marco, William Bovy

A magnetic hyperthermia cancer treatment strategy that does not operate by means of conventional heating mechanisms is presented. The proposed approach consists of injecting a gel with homogeneously distributed magnetic nanowires into a tumor. Upon the app ...

American Institute of Physics2016

The effect of the phase angle between the forewing and hindwing on the aerodynamic performance of a dragonfly-type ornithopter

Jamie Paik, Alice Ghislaine Concordel

Dragonflies achieve agile maneuverability by flapping four wings independently. Different phase angles between the flapping forewing and hindwing have been observed during various flight modes. The aerodynamic performance depends on phase angle control, as ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Flow adjustment in a finite size wind farm in a neutral ABL

Varun Sharma, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons

It is now well-recognized that in the presence of an asymptotically large wind farm, the ABL adjusts to this ‘enhanced’ roughness to form a fully developed ‘wind turbine array boundary layer’ (WTABL), where the driving force of the ABL is in balance with t ...

2016

Programming complex shapes in thin nematic elastomer and glass sheets

Marius Christopher Lemm

Nematic elastomers and glasses are solids that display spontaneous distortion under external stimuli. Recent advances in the synthesis of sheets with controlled heterogeneities have enabled their actuation into nontrivial shapes with unprecedented energy d ...

2016

Stability analysis of boundary layers controlled by miniature vortex generators

Lorenzo Siconolfi

It is currently known that Tollmien–Schlichting (TS) waves can be attenuated by the introduction of spanwise mean velocity gradients in an otherwise two-dimensional boundary layer (BL). The stabilizing effect, associated with an extra turbulence production ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Real-Time Optimization via Directional Modifier Adaptation, with Application to Kite Control

Sean Costello

The steady advance of computational methods makes model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. The traditional remedy is to update the model parameters, but th ...

EPFL2015

Relevance of the Drag Force during Controlled Translocation of a DNA–Protein Complex through a Glass Nanocapillary

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Roman Bulushev

Combination of glass nanocapillaries with optical tweezers allowed us to detect DNA-protein complexes in physiological conditions. In this system, a protein bound to DNA is characterized by a simultaneous change of the force and ionic current signals from ...

American Chemical Society2015

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