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Cae Tools For Modeling Inertia And Aerodynamic Properties Of An R/c Airplane
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Recently there has been significant research in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). For efficient deployment and operation of these vehicles, it is imperative that one understands the physical system. This in turn ...
Characterization Of Thermal Challenges In Electronics : Leakage Current, Co-architectural Design And Rack Level Cooling
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Since the advent of transistors and integrated circuits the complexity and functionality of the electronic products has gone up. In line with this, the scaling of the products is catching up at all levels of packaging. ...
Thermal Design Optimization Of Internally Cooled Turbine Blades
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
This paper outlines the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) Optimization to enhance the design of a 3-dimensional internally cooled turbine blade. The optimization code utilizes principles ...
High Temperature Microporous Coatings: The Effects Of Wetting And Wicking On Nucleate Boiling And Chf
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Porous coatings have long been a method to enhance boiling heat transfer. Previous researchers have thoroughly explained most of the physics behind the enhancement, but some holes still exist. Correlations, setup to ...
A Generic Methodology For Flight Test And Safety Evaluation At Conceptual Design
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The current research is dedicated to the application of a simulation suite that emulates flight testing and is applicable to the aircraft conceptual and preliminary design environment. The configuration concept available ...
Dymore Finite Element Analysis Of The Paired Blade Tiltrotor Conceptual Design And A Comparable Conventional Tiltrotor Design
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Increasing the solidity of tiltrotors above that of current designs presents challenges associated with control system packaging and control couplings. The paired blade rotor concept addresses these issues by placing two ...
Finite Element Analysis Of Helicopter Main Rotor Hub Plates To Evaluate The Possibility Of Increasing The Time To Retirement
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Rotorcraft main rotor systems have multiple components that are subject to very high loads and moments. These loads and moments dictate the life expectancy of the parts based upon the components material of composition. ...
Thermal Analysis Of Pulse Detonation Engines
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The pulse detonation engine (PDE) is a compact system that can be modeled thermodynamically by the Humphrey cycle and is capable of high efficiency. The rapid heat release for stochiometric fuel/oxidizer ratios results in ...
A Process For Ice Detector Placement Using 3-D Eulerian Droplet Impingement Analysis
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Ice detectors invoke an aircraft's ice protection systems, which reduce the risks of flight into known icing conditions. A process has been developed to place ice detectors on aircraft using high fidelity computational ...
On The Design Of A Biodegradable POC-HA Polymeric Cardiovascular Stent
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The current state of the art in coronary stent technology is mainly populated by metallic stents usually coated with certain drugs to increase biocompatibility, even though experimental biodegradable stents have appeared ...