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Effects of Gurney Flaps on the Performance of a Horizontal Axis Ocean Current Turbine
Published 2023-11-01“…The effect of the Gurney flaps on the turbine is evaluated after the validation of the utilized numerical method is completed using the wind tunnel experimental data of the two-dimensional NACA 63415 airfoil and the water tunnel experimental data of the NACA 638xx series rotor on the clean blade. …”
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Experimental Research of Symmetrical Airfoil Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Excited by Vortex-Induced Flutter Coupling
Published 2022-12-01“…The airfoil symmetrically arranged on both sides of the cylindrical bluff body induces the cantilever beam to produce bending and torsional composite vibrations at high wind velocities, realizing energy harvest in the two degrees of freedom motion direction, which can effectively improve the output power of the energy harvester. Based on a wind tunnel experimental platform, the effect of key parameters matching impedance and the diameter of the cylindrical bluff body on the output performance of the VFPEH is investigated, together with the output performance of the classical vortex-induced energy harvester (VEH), the flutter energy harvester (FEH) and the VFPEH. …”
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Scaling Effects on Morphing Structures: Preliminary Guidelines for Managing the Effects on a Case Study
Published 2023-09-01“…The characterization and demonstration of the concepts in a representative environment, such as wind tunnel test facilities, are some of the most relevant steps needed for the maturation of the engineering technique. …”
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Host Plant Species of <i>Bemisia tabaci</i> Affect Orientational Behavior of the Ladybeetle <i>Serangium japonicum</i> and Their Implication for the Biological Control Strategy of...
Published 2020-07-01“…In this study, greenhouse cage experiments and bioassays with wind tunnels, a Y-tube olfactometer and <i>B. tabaci</i>-induced plant volatiles were executed to clarify this behavior. …”
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Exploring the Effectiveness of Visualization Techniques for NACA Symmetric Airfoils at Extremely Low Reynolds Numbers
Published 2023-07-01“…According to this, the study compares the results obtained using a classical flow visualization technique, ink injection in water, with those obtained through the employment of a laser-based measurement and visualization technique, called PIV, in a low-speed wind tunnel. The article briefly presents both techniques and highlights the importance of flow visualization in the analysis of aerodynamic bodies. …”
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Experimental Study on Wind Loading Characteristics of Trains under Stationary Tornado-like Vortices
Published 2022-09-01“…Apparent discrepancies were observed between tornado-induced wind loading and lateral wind loading obtained from conventional boundary-layer wind tunnel tests. The wind pressure and wind load on the car surface are mainly affected by the combined effects of the aerodynamic flow-structure interaction and the pressure drop accompanying the tornado within 1.5 times the vortex core’s radius, and the impact of tornado-like vortices on the train car is almost negligible as the distance from the train car to the tornado’s center exceeds three times vortex core’s radius. …”
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Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Low Wind Speed Environment: Effect of Scoop Harmony Blade
Published 2024-01-01“…The investigation was conducted in a Longwin LW-9300R subsonic wind tunnel at 0 ms-1 to 10 ms-1 wind speed condition from three wind turbine blades specified as Solid Harmony, Scoop Harmony and Conventional Savonius blade with angle of 90º, 135º and 180º to determine the highest RPM productivity. …”
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The Use of Capsuled Paraffin Wax in Low-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage Applications: An Experimental and Numerical Investigation
Published 2021-01-01“…The module was tested in a specially designed wind tunnel where the Reynolds numbers of between 15,250 to 52,750 were achieved. …”
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Design and Development of Bladeless Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy–Harvesting Wind Turbine
Published 2022-08-01“…The mast’s vibration energy under different wind intensities was also experimentally tested using a scaled model in the wind tunnel. The level of converted electric power was measured and monitored using piezoelectric sensors mounted at different locations on the mast. …”
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STATISTICAL MODEL OF AERODYNAMIC IMPACT ON THE LARGE-SPAN COVERAGE
Published 2023-09-01“…As an object of research, a model of a hangar building was chosen for the maintenance of two AirbusA-380 aircraft at a scale of 1: 500 blown in a wind tunnel at five directions of wind flow at angles of 0 °, 30 °, 45 °, 60 °, 90 ° to the front of the structure ... …”
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An open carbon–phenolic ablator for scientific exploration
Published 2023-08-01“…We characterized the thermal protection performance of HARLEM in arcjet experiments conducted in the plasma wind tunnel PWK1 of the Institute of Space Systems at the University of Stuttgart. …”
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Free-vortex models for wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment – a validation study on far-wake effects
Published 2023-12-01“…For this purpose, wake models should provide sufficiently accurate power predictions at a low computational expense to enable real-time control optimisation. Three sets of wind tunnel data are used for validation: flow measurements under steady yaw misalignment, time-resolved flow measurements for a step change in yaw, and turbine output measurements with yaw control and simulated wind direction variation. …”
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Efficiency Increase through Model Predictive Thermal Control of Electric Vehicle Powertrains
Published 2022-02-01“…Thermal models based on the lumped parameter thermal network approach were developed and validated as part of the system-level validation against a US06 wind tunnel measurement. After the build-up and implementation of the MPC, various simulations were conducted. …”
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On the Formation and Accumulation of Solid Carbon Particles in High-Enthalpy Flows Mimicking Re-Entry in the Titan Atmosphere
Published 2020-06-01“…First experimental tests have been conducted using a wind tunnel driven by an industrial arc-heated facility operating with nitrogen as working gas (the SPES, i.e., the Small Planetary Entry Simulator). …”
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Concerted phenotypic flexibility of avian erythrocyte size and number in response to dietary anthocyanin supplementation
Published 2023-02-01“…We fed thirty hand-raised European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) two semisynthetic diets (with or without anthocyanin supplement) and manipulated the extent of flight activity in a wind tunnel (daily flying or non-flying for over two weeks) to test for their interactive effects on functionally important haematological variables. …”
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Experimental Performance of a Novel Dual−Stage Counter−Rotating Small Wind Turbine and Forming a Validatable CFD Computational Model
Published 2023-07-01“…This paper publishes the experimental performance results of a novel small dual−stage wind turbine at different speeds under wind tunnel testing. The results confirm its superiority at low wind speeds <7 m/s, which is consistent with natural wind conditions in most countries around the world. …”
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Simulation study on the structural optimization of composite insulators based on contaminant deposition
Published 2023-12-01“…In this study, we construct a simulation model for composite insulator contaminant deposition using the COMSOL simulation software, and the rationality of the simulation model and method is verified through wind tunnel experiments. Taking the FXBW4-110/100 composite insulator as an example, we adopt a progressive optimization plan to explore the impacts of shed spacing s, and shed inclination angles α and β on its contaminant deposition characteristics under DC and AC voltages. …”
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Analysis of aerodynamic and aeroacoustics of full scale landing gear
Published 2022-10-01“…Based on the FL-52 acoustic wind tunnel test technology, the coupled scale adaptive model and the acoustic disturbance equation, the results on aerodynamic noise of a full-scale landing gear model are analyzed. …”
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Active aerodynamic drag reduction on morphable cylinders
Published 2018“…First, we characterize the relation between groove depth and pneumatic loading through a combination of precision mechanical experiments and finite element simulations. Second, wind tunnel tests are used to measure the aerodynamic drag coefficient (as a function of Reynolds number) of the grooved samples, with different levels of periodicity and groove depths. …”
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