Textile Metamaterials: Design, Fabrication, and Emerging Applications
Applied Research, Volume 5, Issue 5, October 2026.Textile metamaterials combine sub‐wavelength electromagnetic structures with textile architectures, enabling flexible and wearable platforms for wave manipulation. This review highlights their evolution, fabrication strategies, electromagnetic characteristics, and emerging applications, while identifying key challenges and opportunities for next ...
Samanta M. de Holanda +8 more
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A direct numerical simulation of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators for turbulent skin-friction control [PDF]
Turbulent skin-friction control is the subject of much research and the use of transverse (spanwise) oscillating motions offers the means of obtaining a significant reduction in skin-friction.
Elam, Dana
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CHARACTERIZATION AND FLOW PHYSICS OF PLASMA SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATORS [PDF]
, 2007 Plasma synthetic jet actuators are investigated experimentally, in which the geometrical design of single dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) plasma actuators is modified to produce zero-mass flux jets similar to those created by mechanical devices.
Santhanakrishnan, Arvind
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Applied Research, Volume 5, Issue 5, October 2026.This study presents a hybrid AI framework that enables autonomous magnetic microrobots to navigate complex, non‐Newtonian tumor microenvironments. By integrating physics‐informed recurrent reinforcement learning with active persistent excitation, the system successfully infers hidden fluid rheology for precise targeted navigation and structural causal ...
Xinyuan Chen +2 more
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A new concept spherical underwater robot propelled by thrust vector synthetic jet actuator
, 2016 Synthetic jet is a new type of underwater propulsion method with the merit of small size, compact structure, light weight, high efficiency and minimal effect on the drag profile of the vehicle.
Lin Y(林扬) +5 more
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Plasma based jet actuators for flow control
, 2012 A set of plasma based jet actuators were designed for flow control applications. The characteristics of these actuators and their flow control applications were studied experimentally in a low speed wind tunnel.A dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) based ...
Luo, Xinfu
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Experimental investigation of expansive bending pipe flow separation control using a surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator. [PDF]
Sci Prog, 2023 Liu S +7 more
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Plasma Synthetic Jet Actuator: From characterisation to separation flow control
, 2019 This project proposes a series of experiments that involve plasma synthetic jet actuators. The first experiment will perform a jet characterisation experiment that will research the effect of orifice geometry on the overall performance of the actuator ...
van Pelt, Timo (author)
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Modelling for JET Vertical Stabilization System [PDF]
, 2010 Nuclear fusion is, in a sense, the opposite of nuclear fission. Fission, which is a mature technology, produces energy through the splitting of heavy atoms like uranium in controlled chain reactions.
Bellizio, Teresa
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Advanced Modified High Performance Synthetic Jet Actuator with Curved Chamber [PDF]
, 2014 The advanced modified high performance synthetic jet actuator with optimized curvature shape chamber (ASJA-M) is a synthetic jet actuator (SJA) with a lower volume reservoir or chamber.
Su, Ji, Xu, Tian-Bing, Jiang, Xiaoning
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