9,770 research outputs found
Aeroplane design study STOL airliner (A71). Part 1- configuration description and data
The interest in STOL airliners was reflected in the
choice of a 100-118 passenger short range aircraft of this
type as the 1971 design project. In addition to the use of
the study for detailed investigation by the students of
Aircraft Design it also served as the basis for an
investigation of the low speed lift and control problems
of STOL aircraft.
This report is concerned with a description of the
configuration adopted and specification of geometric and
aerodynamic data. As such it is the first part of the
complete reporting of the investigation, subsequent parts
being concerned with the more detailed work.
The aircraft was designed to operate from 2000 ft long
single runways and have a cruising speed of up to 11 - 0.83
at 30,000 ft altitude. The estimated gross weight is
115,000 lb and when landing at 100,000 lb weight the approach
speed is 79 knots. The high lift coefficients necessitated
by this are obtained either by externally blown jet flaps or
an augmenter wing arrangement
Ozonation of cooling tower waters
Continuous ozone injection into water circulating between a cooling tower and heat exchanger with heavy scale deposits inhibits formation of further deposits, promotes flaking of existing deposits, inhibits chemical corrosion and controls algae and bacteria
Energy efficient engine: Turbine intermediate case and low-pressure turbine component test hardware detailed design report
A four stage, low pressure turbine component has been designed to power the fan and low pressure compressor system in the Energy Efficient Engine. Designs for a turbine intermediate case and an exit guide vane assembly also have been established. The components incorporate numerous technology features to enhance efficiency, durability, and performance retention. These designs reflect a positive step towards improving engine fuel efficiency on a component level. The aerodynamic and thermal/mechanical designs of the intermediate case and low pressure turbine components are presented and described. An overview of the predicted performance of the various component designs is given
Energy efficient engine high-pressure turbine detailed design report
The energy efficient engine high-pressure turbine is a single stage system based on technology advancements in the areas of aerodynamics, structures and materials to achieve high performance, low operating economics and durability commensurate with commercial service requirements. Low loss performance features combined with a low through-flow velocity approach results in a predicted efficiency of 88.8 for a flight propulsion system. Turbine airfoil durability goals are achieved through the use of advanced high-strength and high-temperature capability single crystal materials and effective cooling management. Overall, this design reflects a considerable extension in turbine technology that is applicable to future, energy efficient gas-turbine engines
Volume-reflecting dielectric heat shield
White, volume-reflecting dielectric material absorbs essentially none of the incident radiant energy, and continues to reflect even though in severe environment its surface is melted and is being vaporized. Process of overall reflectance in dielectric material, involving internal refractions and reflections, is similar to process of reflection in paints
Multiplicity, Invariants and Tensor Product Decomposition of Tame Representations of U(\infty)
The structure of r-fold tensor products of irreducible tame representations
of the inductive limit U(\infty) of unitary groups U(n) are are described,
versions of contragredient representations and invariants are realized on
Bargmann-Segal-Fock spaces.Comment: 48 pages, LaTeX file, to appear in J. Math. Phy
Robust active magnetic dearing control using stabilizing dynamical compensators
The robust control of active magnetic bearings, based on a linearised interval model, is considered. Through robust stability analysis, all the first-order robust stabilizing dynamical compensators for the interval system are obtained. Disturbance attenuation and minimum control effort are also addressed. The approach is applied to a high-speed flywheel supported by two active and two passive magnetic bearings. Simulation and experimental results both show that it is simple, effective, and robust
Robust magnetic bearing control using stabilizing dynamical compensators
Abstract—This paper considers the robust control of an active radial magnetic bearing system, having a homopolar, external rotor topology, which is used to support an annular fiber composite flywheel rim. A first-order dynamical compensator, which uses only position feedback information, is used for control, its design being based on a linearized one-dimensional second-order model which is treated as an interval system in order to cope with parameter uncertainties. Through robust stability analysis, a parameterization of all first-order robustly stabilizing dynamical compensators for the interval system is initially obtained. Then, by appropriate selection of the free parameters in the robust controller, the H2 norm of the disturbance-output transfer function is made arbitrarily small over the system parameter intervals, and the norm of the input–output transfer function is made arbitrarily close to a lower bound. Simulation and experimental
results demonstrate both stability and performance robustness of the developed controller
The Schwinger SU(3) construction - I: Multiplicity problem and relation to induced representations
The Schwinger oscillator operator representation of SU(3) is analysed with
particular reference to the problem of multiplicity of irreducible
representations. It is shown that with the use of an unitary
representation commuting with the SU(3) representation, the infinity of
occurrences of each SU(3) irreducible representation can be handled in complete
detail. A natural `generating representation' for SU(3), containing each
irreducible representation exactly once, is identified within a subspace of the
Schwinger construction; and this is shown to be equivalent to an induced
representation of SU(3).Comment: Latex, 25 page
Characteristics of long-duration inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in rat neocortical neurons in vitro
1. The characteristics of long-duration inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (l-IPSPs) which are evoked in rat frontal neocortical neurons by local electrical stimulation were investigated with intracellular recordings from anin vitro slice preparation.
2. Stimulation with suprathreshold intensities evoked l-IPSPs with typical durations of 600–900 msec at resting membrane potential. Conductance increases of 15–60% were measured at the peak amplitude of l-IPSPs (150–250 msec poststimulus).
3. The duration of the conductance increases during l-IPSPs displayed a significant voltage dependence, decreasing as the membrance potential was depolarized and increasing with hyperpolarization.
4. The reversal potential of l-IPSPs is significantly altered by reductions in the extracellular potassium concentration. Therefore it is concluded that l-IPSPs in rat neocortical neurons are generated by the activation of a potassium conductance.
5. l-IPSPs exhibit stimulation fatigue. Stimulation with a frequency of 1 Hz produces a complete fatigue of the conductance increases during l-IPSPs after approximately 20 consecutive stimuli. Recovery from this fatigue requires minutes.
6. l-IPSPs are not blocked by bicuculline but are blocked by baclofen
- …