Optimalizing control in the presence of noise interference

The performance of a modified peak-holding optimalizing control system depends in part on the ability of the controller to detect the input signal frequency component in the output of the controlled system. This paper describes several techniques that may be used for detecting this component and analyzes one of them in great detail. The subject of the detailed analysis is the method of filtering through cross-correlation. A statistical analysis is also carried out in order to demonstrate the efficiency of this method

Numerical simulation of transitional flow

The applicability of active control of transition by periodic suction-blowing is investigated via direct simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. The time-evolution of finite-amplitude disturbances in plane channel flow is compared in detail with and without control. The analysis indicates that, for relatively small three-dimensional amplitudes, a two-dimensional control effectively reduces disturbance growth rates even for linearly unstable Reynolds numbers. After the flow goes through secondary instability, three-dimensional control seems necessary to stabilize the flow. An investigation of the temperature field suggests that passive temperature contamination is operative to reflect the flow dynamics during transition

A numerical study of transition control by periodic suction-blowing

The applicability of active control of transition by periodic suction-blowing is investigated via direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. The time-evolution of finite-amplitude disturbances in plane channel flow is compared in detail with and without control. The analysis indicates that, for relatively small three dimensional amplitudes, a two dimensional control effectively reduces disturbance growth rates even for linearly unstable Reynolds numbers. After the flow goes through secondary instability, three dimensional control seems necessary to stabilize the flow. An investigation of the temperature field suggests that passive temperature contamination is operative to reflect the flow dynamics during transition

A theory of two-dimensional airfoils with strong inlet flow on the upper surface

The two-dimensional theory of airfoils with arbitrarily strong inlet flow into the upper surface was examined with the aim of developing a thin-airfoil theory which is valid for this condition. Such a theory has, in fact, been developed and reduces uniformly to the conventional thin-wing theory when the inlet flow vanishes. The integrals associated with the arbitrary shape, corresponding to the familiar Munk integrals, are somewhat more complex but not so as to make calculations difficult. To examine the limit for very high ratios of inlet to free-stream velocity, the theory of the Joukowski airfoil was extended to incorporate an arbitrary inlet on the upper surface. Because this calculation is exact, phenomena observed in the limit cannot be attributed to the linearized calculation. These results showed that airfoil theory, in the conventional sense, breaks down at very large ratios of inlet to free-stream velocity. This occurs where the strong induced field of the inlet dominates the free-stream flow so overwhelmingly that the flow no longer leaves the trailing edge but flows toward it. Then the trailing edge becomes, in fact a leading edge and the Kutta condition is physically inapplicable. For the example in this work, this breakdown occurred at a ratio of inlet to free-stream velocity of about 10. This phenomena suggests that for ratios in excess of the critical value, the flow separates from the trailing edge and the circulation is dominated by conditions at the edges of the inlet

Efficient Cooperative Anycasting for AMI Mesh Networks

We have, in recent years, witnessed an increased interest towards enabling a Smart Grid which will be a corner stone to build sustainable energy efficient communities. An integral part of the future Smart Grid will be the communications infrastructure which will make real time control of the grid components possible. Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is thought to be a key enabler for monitoring and controlling the customer loads. %RPL is a connectivity enabling mechanism for low power and lossy networks currently being standardized by the IETF ROLL working group. RPL is deemed to be a suitable candidate for AMI networks where the meters are connected to a concentrator over multi hop low power and lossy links. This paper proposes an efficient cooperative anycasting approach for wireless mesh networks with the aim of achieving reduced traffic and increased utilisation of the network resources. The proposed cooperative anycasting has been realised as an enhancement on top of the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL), a connectivity enabling mechanism in wireless AMI mesh networks. In this protocol, smart meter nodes utilise an anycasting approach to facilitate efficient transport of metering data to the concentrator node. Moreover, it takes advantage of a distributed approach ensuring scalability