Publications associées à Axial fan design

The influence of splitter blades and meridional profiles on the performance of small-scale turbopumps for ORC applications; analysis, neural network modeling and optimization

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Sajjad Zakeralhoseini

This work presents the influence of splitters on the performance of small-scale turbopumps for organic Rankine cycle applications numerically. Different design parameters, such as impeller diameter at the outlet, number of blades, blade angle at the traili ...

2023

Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Flows: A New Evaluation of Actuator Disk Models

Fernando Porté Agel, Tristan Revaz

Large-eddy simulation (LES) with actuator models has become the state-of-the-art numerical tool to study the complex interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and wind turbines. In this paper, a new evaluation of actuator disk models (ADMs) ...

2021

Dynamic Thermal Management with Proactive Fan Speed Control Through Reinforcement Learning

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Federico Terraneo, Gabor Andras Csordas

Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) has become a major challenge since it directly affects Multiprocessors Systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) performance, power consumption, and reliability. In this work, we propose a transient fan model, enabling adaptive fan speed co ...

IEEE2020

Optimal spanwise-periodic control for recirculation length in a backward-facing step flow

François Gallaire, Edouard Boujo, Eunok Yim, Isha Shukla

Three-dimensional control is considered in the flow past a backward-facing step (BFS). The BFS flow at Reynolds number Re = 500 (defined with the step height and the maximum inlet velocity) is two-dimensional and linearly stable but increasingly receptive ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

A hybrid control strategy for force and precise end effector positioning of a twisted string actuator

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez

We propose a new control approach for the twisted string actuation (TSA) system; a hybrid control scheme consisting of two nested loops, considering the motor angle and the axial force at the clamping point of the actuator as the system outputs. We show th ...

2021

Thermomechanical behavior of underground energy infrastructures

Jacopo Zannin

The employment of geostructures as structural supports and as heat exchangers represent an effective, renewable and sustainable way to satisfy thermal needs of the built environment. The structural support of conventional geotechnical structures is coupled ...

EPFL2020

Full-scale testing of stiffened extended shear tab connections under combined axial and shear forces

Dimitrios Lignos

Owing to the lack of a comprehensive published procedure for the design of stiffened extended shear tabs, practicing engineers usually follow design guides for unstiffened shear tabs. The results of recent laboratory experiments and numerical analyses have ...

2019

Coherent Structure Interaction During Unsteady Separation

Karen Ann J Mulleners

Unsteady flow separation in rotationally augmented flow fields plays a significant role in the aerodynamic performance of industrial rotors, including wind turbines. Current computational models underestimate the aerodynamic loads due to the inaccurate pre ...

2019

Unsteady Flow Numerical Simulations on Internal Energy Dissipation for a Low-Head Centrifugal Pump at Part-Load Operating Conditions

François Avellan, Xiaoran Zhao

Dredge pumps are usually operated at part-load conditions, in which the low-solidity centrifugal impeller could experience large internal energy dissipation, related to flow separation and vortices. In this study, SST k- and SAS-SST turbulence models were ...

2019

Mitigating tip vortex cavitation by a flexible trailing thread

Mohamed Farhat, Ali Amini

Tip Vortex Cavitation (TVC) is a major issue in design and operation of axial hydraulic machines. We investigate the capacity of a flexible trailing thread in alleviating TVC by analyzing the flow-induced motion. For this purpose, a nylon thread with three ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019