383 research outputs found
Women\u27s Self-Definition Through Poetry
This project looks at five female poets across history – Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Forough Farrokhzad, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath – to explore the various challenges they faced writing in their patriarchal societies. Further, it looks at the way they each used their poetry to define themselves and their own identity. This project seeks to explain why this act of self-definition is significant, and why it so often drew criticism from the writers’ respective societies. What was discovered, is that the act of a woman crafting her own self-definition through poetry is a privilege in a patriarchal society, where it is so often up to men to define the role of a woman. Women’s self-definition through poetry is threatening to the structure of a patriarchal society because it undermines the accepted idea that a woman should exist only to serve others
Combining an Electrical Engineering ​Undergraduate Degree with an MBA Program
The relationship between an engineering undergrad degree and MBA as a master program would be an outstanding topic for the analyzing leadership process and see what kind of manager or leader an engineer would eventually become. Alternatively, what would be the relationship between electronic circuits, transistors, and the different pieces of knowledge in engineering with business and management? Although the way of thinking and technique of approaching the same issue could be entirely different between these two types of people, they will come across at the same node when they are thinking critically. We know there are a few different leadership styles that could have a disparate impact on fellow employees based on its characteristics.https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2018/1076/thumbnail.jp
Localized arc filament plasma actuators for noise mitigation and mixing enhancement
A device for controlling fluid flow. The device includes an arc generator coupled to electrodes. The electrodes are placed adjacent a fluid flowpath such that upon being energized by the arc generator, an arc filament plasma adjacent the electrodes is formed. In turn, this plasma forms a localized high temperature, high pressure perturbation in the adjacent fluid flowpath. The perturbations can be arranged to produce vortices, such as streamwise vortices, in the flowing fluid to control mixing and noise in such flows. The electrodes can further be arranged within a conduit configured to contain the flowing fluid such that when energized in a particular frequency and sequence, can excite flow instabilities in the flowing fluid. The placement of the electrodes is such that they are unobtrusive relative to the fluid flowpath being controlled
Localized arc filament plasma actuators for noise mitigation and mixing enhancement
A device for controlling fluid flow. The device includes an arc generator coupled to electrodes. The electrodes are placed adjacent a fluid flowpath such that upon being energized by the arc generator, an arc filament plasma adjacent the electrodes is formed. In turn, this plasma forms a localized high temperature, high pressure perturbation in the adjacent fluid flowpath. The perturbations can be arranged to produce vortices, such as streamwise vortices, in the flowing fluid to control mixing and noise in such flows. The electrodes can further be arranged within a conduit configured to contain the flowing fluid such that when energized in a particular frequency and sequence, can excite flow instabilities in the flowing fluid. The placement of the electrodes is such that they are unobtrusive relative to the fluid flowpath being controlled
Further Characteristics of an Anomalous Temperature Response of Hypocotyls in Some Soybean Cultivars
Some soybean cultivars exhibit a bimodal temperature response. Their hypocotyls elongate normally at 20 and 30 C but are inhibited at 25 C. The inhibition is inducible. It manifests itself, or continues to be manifest, after seedlings are transferred to 20 or 30 C. Sensitivity to 25 C is limited to early seedling development and disappears about 6 days after seeds are supplied with water
Supersonic jet mixing enhancement by delta-tabs
The results of a continuing investigation of the effect of vortex generators, in the form of small tabs at the nozzle exit, on the evolution of a jet are reported. Primarily, tabs of triangular shape are considered, and the effect is studied up to an equivalent jet Mach number of 1.8. By changing the orientation of the tab with respect to the nozzle exit plane, streamwise vortex pairs of opposite sign were generated. This resulted in either an outward election of jet core fluid into the ambient or an inward indentation of the mixing layer into the core of the jet. A triangular shaped tab with its apex leaning downstream, referred to as a delta tab, was found to be the most effective in influencing the jet evolution. Two delta tabs, spaced 180 degrees apart, completely bifurcated the jet. Four delta tabs increased jet mixing substantially, more than by various other methods tried previously; the mass flux at fourteen jet diameters downstream from the nozzle increased by about 50 percent over that for the no tab case. The tabs were found to be effective in jets with laminar or turbulent boundary layers as well as in jets with low or high core turbulence intensities
Effect of tabs on the evolution of an axisymmetric jet
The effect of vortex generators, in the form of small tabs at the nozzle exit, on the evolution of an axisymmetric jet was investigated experimentally over a jet Mach number range of 0.34 to 1.81. The effects of one, two, and four tabs were studied in comparison with the corresponding case without a tab. Each tab introduced an indentation in the shear layer, apparently through the action of streamwise vortices which appeared to be of the trailing vortex type originating from the tips of the tab rather that of the necklace vortex type originating from the base of the tab. The resultant effect of two tabs, placed at diametrically opposite locations, was to essentially bifurcate the jet. The influence of the tabs was essentially the same at subsonic and supersonic conditions indicating that compressibility has little to do with the effect
Absorption Filter Based Optical Diagnostics in High Speed Flows
Two major regimes where laser light scattered by molecules or particles in a flow contains significant information about the flow are Mie scattering and Rayleigh scattering. Mie scattering is used to obtain only velocity information, while Rayleigh scattering can be used to measure both the velocity and the thermodynamic properties of the flow. Now, recently introduced (1990, 1991) absorption filter based diagnostic techniques have started a new era in flow visualization, simultaneous velocity and thermodynamic measurements, and planar velocity measurements. Using a filtered planar velocimetry (FPV) technique, we have modified the optically thick iodine filter profile of Miles, et al., and used it in the pressure-broaden regime which accommodates measurements in a wide range of velocity applications. Measuring velocity and thermodynamic properties simultaneously, using absorption filtered based Rayleigh scattering, involves not only the measurement of the Doppler shift, but also the spectral profile of the Rayleigh scattering signal. Using multiple observation angles, simultaneous measurement of one component velocity and thermodynamic properties in a supersonic jet were measured. Presently, the technique is being extended for simultaneous measurements of all three components of velocity and thermodynamic properties
Influence of stochastic estimation on the control of subsonic cavity flow – A preliminary study
This work aims at understanding how the different elements involved in the feedback
loop influence the overall control performance of a subsonic cavity flow based on reducedorder
modeling. To this aim we compare preliminary and limited sets of experimental
results obtained by modifying some relevant characteristics of the loop. Our results support
the findings in the literature that use of quadratic stochastic estimation is preferable to the
linear one for real-time update of the model parameters. They also seem to indicate the
merit of using more than one time sample of the pressure for performing the real-time
update of the model through stochastic estimation. The effect of using two different sets of
pressure signals for the stochastic estimation also corroborates previous findings indicating
the need for optimizing the number and the placement of the sensors used in the feedback
control loop. Finally we observed that the characteristics of the actuator can alter
significantly the overall control effect by introducing in the feedback loop additional,
undesirable frequency components that are not modeled and hence controlled. A
compensator for the actuator is currently being designed that will alleviate this problem thus
enabling a clearer understanding of the overall control technique
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