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Cuiping Chen, Xuebing Zhu, Zhi Zhao, Dezhi Du and Kaixiang Li
Brassica rapa, a major oilseed crop in high-altitude areas, is well known for its indeterminate inflorescences. However, this experiment revealed an intriguing anomaly within the plot: a variant displaying a determinate growth habit (520). Determinate in...
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Saleh B. Alsaidi, Jeongmoo Huh and Mohamed Y. E. Selim
The performance of two solid biomass wastes, date stone and jojoba solid waste, was experimentally examined for their potential application in combustion and propulsion systems. The fuels were tested in a hybrid rocket-like combustion environment, and th...
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Junjie Pan, Xin Lin, Zezhong Wang, Ruoyan Wang, Kun Wu, Jinhu Liang and Xilong Yu
This study investigated combustion characteristics of composite fuel grains designed based on a modular fuel unit strategy. The modular fuel unit comprised a periodical helical structure with nine acrylonitrile?butadiene?styrene helical blades. A paraffi...
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Yacong Hou, Yubo Liu, Lei Chen, Ding Weng, Yuan Ma, Yadong Yu, Yang Wu and Jiadao Wang
Smart surfaces with controllable friction have generated considerable attention lately. However, most composites prepared with traditional fillers cannot achieve ?real-time? friction conversion. Herein, a new smart surface was designed to achieve differe...
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Daniele Cardillo, Francesco Battista, Giuseppe Gallo, Stefano Mungiguerra and Raffaele Savino
Firing test campaigns were carried out on a 200 N thrust-class hybrid rocket engine, using gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer and a paraffin-wax-based fuel. Different fuel grain lengths were adopted to extend the fuel characterization under different operatin...
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Dayong Ning, Xiaokang He, Jiaoyi Hou, Gangda Liang and Kang Zhang
The abundance of resources in the deep sea continues to inspire mankind?s desire for exploration. However, the extreme environments pose a huge challenge for designing deep-sea mechanical devices that are primarily driven by hydraulic and electric motor ...
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Ruoyan Wang, Xin Lin, Zezhong Wang, Kun Wu, Zelin Zhang, Jiaxiao Luo, Fei Li and Xilong Yu
The combustion characteristics of a swirl-radial-injection composite fuel grain were experimentally and numerically investigated. This composite grain permits swirl-radial oxidizer injection based on three hollow helical blades, each having a constant ho...
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Chunhui Wang, Jiaan Wang, Chao Wang, Zeping Wang and Yuan Zhang
The marginal ice zone (MIZ) is located at the junction of ice-covered areas and open water, where waves cause ice floes to break up and change their state of motion, thus threatening the safety of ships navigating the ice. This study employs the Structur...
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Tsuyoshi Oishi, Mitsuru Tamari and Takashi Sakurai
Hybrid rockets are safe and inexpensive; however, boundary-layer combustion poses a problem in achieving a fuel regression rate equivalent to that of solid propellants. The fundamental combustion conditions, such as the fuel regression rate of LT421, a p...
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Maël Renault and Vaios Lappas
The recent growth in maturity of paraffin-based hybrid propulsion systems reassesses the possibility to design an alternative Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) propelled by a European hybrid motor. As part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign, a Hybrid MAV w...
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