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Qing Ye, Yongpeng Ou, Guo Xiang and Junjie Chen
Over the years, air lubrication technology has been widely applied to maritime vessels, demonstrating its significant energy-saving and emission-reducing effects. However, the application of this technology in inland waterway transportation faces unique ...
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Omkar Walvekar and Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy
A conceptual framework is presented to determine the improvement in the aerodynamic performance of a canard aircraft fitted with distributed propellers along its main wing. A preliminary study is described with four airframe?propeller configurations pred...
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Ali S. Haider, Kush Bubbar and Alan McCall
Achieving energy maximizing control of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) not only needs a comprehensive dynamic model of the system?including nonlinear hydrodynamic effects and nonlinear characteristics of Power Take-Off (PTO)?but to treat the entire system ...
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Qing Zhang and Rongrong Xue
The flow structures and surface pressure distributions on corrugated airfoils significantly differed from those on a conventional, smooth airfoil. An unsteady, two-dimensional computational simulation was carried out to investigate the flow behavior and ...
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Ruifan Hu, Yongliang Chen, Jifei Wu and Shuling Tian
At cryogenic temperatures, gases exhibit significant deviations from ideal behaviour, and the commonly employed gas model may inadequately represent the thermodynamic properties of cryogenic gases, subsequently impacting numerical simulations using vario...
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Mark Orzech
Accurate prediction of ocean surface wave attenuation in polar marginal ice zones remains a challenge. In this article, an alternative approach to the problem is introduced, in which the ice layer is represented with a modified version of the vegetation ...
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Yuhang Ma, Jiecheng Du, Tihao Yang, Yayun Shi, Libo Wang and Wei Wang
Robust optimization design (ROD) is playing an increasingly significant role in aerodynamic shape optimization and aircraft design. However, an efficient ROD framework that couples uncertainty quantification (UQ) and a powerful optimization algorithm for...
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Kai Wang, Zhonghua Han, Keshi Zhang and Wenping Song
Most existing aerodynamic shape optimization (ASO) studies do not take the balanced pitching moment into account and thus the optimized configuration has to be trimmed to ensure zero pitching moment, which causes additional drag and reduces the benefit o...
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José D. Hoyos, Camilo Echavarría, Juan P. Alvarado, Gustavo Suárez, Juliana A. Niño and Jorge I. García
An aero-structural algorithm to optimize a flying wing in cruise conditions for preliminary design is developed using two-way interaction between the structure and aerodynamics. A particle swarm routine is employed to solve the multi-objective optimizati...
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William Lambert, Stefano Brizzolara and Craig Woolsey
Near-surface simulation methods for shallowly submerged underwater vehicles are necessary for the population of a variety of free-surface-affected, coefficient-based maneuvering and seakeeping models. Simulations vary in complexity and computational cost...
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