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2022-06-01

Rezaei, Farshad, Paraschivoiu, Marius

The current study demonstrates the very high performance of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) on the roof-top corner of a building using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). A small-scale VAWT with high rotational velocity is validated using the SST k-ω turbulence model. It is shown that this...

2022-06-01

Zar, H. Ali, Goharimanesh, M., Janabi-Sharifi, F.

In this paper, estimation of the applied force on a planar catheter is considered. An image processing approach has been chosen as the most suitable tool. For this purpose, we create a comprehensive database of catheters with different shapes and operating forces. Using image processing...

2022-06-01

Zarghanishiraz, Reza, Mojtaba, Zabihi, Little, Jonathan, Komisar, Vivki, Li, Ri

For centuries, people have been fighting airborne transmitting diseases like the common cold virus, influenza or Measles and Tuberculosis as examples of more fatal diseases. Certainly, one of the most catastrophic viruses among the airborne transmitting diseases is Covid-19 which has taken...

2022-06-01

Ansari, Amir, Abediasl, Hamidreza, Patel, Parth Rakeshkumar, Hosseini, Vahid, Koch, Charles Robert, Shahbakhti, Mahdi

Estimation of instantaneous fuel consumption of fleet vehicles to identify the causes of high fuel consumption and determine the optimum vehicle type for different applications and driving cycles is essential for the design of an intelligent fleet management system. Developing a practical and...

2022-06-01

Khamsepour, Peyman, Akbarnozari, Ali, Garmeh, Saeed, Moreau, Christian, Dolatabadi, Ali

Cold spray is a deposition method developed for manufacturing metallic coatings by impacting high-velocity metallic powders on a substrate surface at around room temperature. Because of the low temperature of impacted particles, no oxidation or phase transformations occur during spraying....

2022-06-01

Li, Haining, Liu, Kefu, Deng, Jian, Li, Bing

In this paper, a piezoelectric energy harvester with a grounded and tunable multi-stable nonlinear energy sink (NES) has been developed to achieve vibration suppression (VS) and energy harvesting (EH) simultaneously. The NES consists of a cantilever beam whose free end is attached by a small...

2022-06-01

Arab, Ashkan, Caceres, Alan, Singh, Rajwinder, Eybel, Roger, Medraj, Mamoun

Corrosion is one of the most important issues in the aerospace industry and the production of the components of an aircraft. Therefore, certain components of an aircraft are coated in order to provide adequate corrosion protection in service. One of those components is the landing gear of an ...

2022-06-01

Kehoe, P., Gibb, K., Hurley, J., Chan, A., Green, J., Langlois, R., Greenwood, K., Aubertin, C., Ibey, A., Redpath, S.

Neonatal infants in need of advanced care, often require transportation via road ambulance to neonatal intensive care units. The ambulance exposes these vulnerable infants to potentially harmful noise and vibration. To better understand the levels of vibration, this paper maps the magnitude of...

2022-06-01

Ajorkar, Abbas, He, Yuping

This paper presents a design approach for tuning autonomous driving controllers of road vehicles. In this regard, a bicycle vehicle model and a model predictive control (MPC) algorithm have been applied to the tracking-control lateral of autonomous vehicles. Additionally, in order to maximize...

2022-06-01

Wu, Jing, Luo, Hao, Zhong, Lexuan

Adequate ventilation with an effective airflow pattern and the air handling unit equipped with air purifier devices are common contaminant control methods for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Air cleaner purification performance, ventilation modes, and contaminant...