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Ultra-fast escape maneuver of an octopus-inspired robot [PDF]

, 2014
We design and test an octopus-inspired flexible hull robot that demonstrates outstanding fast-starting performance. The robot is hyper-inflated with water, and then rapidly deflates to expel the fluid so as to power the escape maneuver.
Subramaniam, V., Triantafyllou, M. S., Weymouth, G. D.   +2 more
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Thermal Conductance and Mass Transport of Brinkman‐Type Nanofluids Across Porous Plates: A Prabhakar‐Fractional Approach

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper establishes an advanced computing algorithm to investigate the thermosolutal dynamics of an electrically conductive Brinkman‐type nanofluid that moves in a porous channel, and the fluid is acted on by an inclined magnetic field exerted externally.
Urwa Shehbaz, Umair Khan, MD. Shamshuddin, Nermeen Abdullah, Samia Elattar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methane Pyrolysis Performance in Catalytic Molten Media for Hydrogen Production From the Perspective of Bubble Column Reactor Design and Configuration

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the hydrogen production routes from natural gas (methane), methane pyrolysis offers a cleaner option than the established steam methane reforming by producing CO2‐free hydrogen. However, in fixed bed reactors over solid catalysts, this technology experiences rapid catalyst deactivation due to carbon (coke) deposition encapsulating its ...
Muhammad Irfan Fakarudin, Luqmanulhakim Baharudin, Matthew J. Watson, Wan Nor Roslam Wan Isahak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of thermocapillarity and variable thermal conductivity on the heat transfer analysis of a non-Newtonian liquid thin film over a stretching surface in the presence of thermal radiation and heat source/sink

Nonlinear Engineering, 2018
An analysis illustrating the flow of an Ostwald-de-Waele liquid film on an unsteady stretching sheet under the influence of thermocapillary force, magnetic field and viscous dissipation is carried out. In this study, thermal conductivity is assumed to be
Sreelakshmi K., Sarojamma G.
doaj   +1 more source

Study on Criterion of Acoustic Resonant Vibration with Unsteady Fluid Dynamic Force.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series B, 1998
Ducts containing a tube bundle undergo acoustic resonant vibration. It is considered that the acoustic vibration is a kind of forced vibration by means of Karman vortex. However, it will be more reasonable to think that the vibration is a kind of mutual excited vibration, because fluid dynamic force excites a sound pressure and the sound pressure also ...
Hiroki TANAKA, Kazuhiro TANAKA, Fumio SHIMIZU, Tohru IIJIMA   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Unsteady Propulsion by an Intermittent Swimming Gait

, 2017
Inviscid computational results are presented on a self-propelled swimmer modeled as a virtual body combined with a two-dimensional hydrofoil pitching intermittently about its leading edge.
Akoz, Emre, Moored, Keith W.
core   +1 more source

Experimental methods for wind tunnel studies of seed dispersal by wind

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The complexity and variability of natural environments make quantitative studies of seed wind dispersal challenging. Wind tunnel experiments offer a controlled alternative to investigate the mechanisms of seed wind dispersal. This review focuses on wind tunnels and the associated technologies used for studying seed wind dispersal, including ...
Liang Tian, Noelle G. Beckman, Lu Zong, Xuanping Qin, Minghu Liu, Zhimin Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phase-response analysis of synchronization for periodic flows

, 2018
We apply the phase-reduction analysis to examine synchronization properties of periodic fluid flows. The dynamics of unsteady flows are described in terms of the phase dynamics reducing the high-dimensional fluid flow to its single scalar phase variable.
Nakao, Hiroya, Taira, Kunihiko
core   +1 more source

Resonance‐induced restoration of rock permeability degraded by heavy components of crude oil

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
Resonance‐induced changes occur in filtration properties of sedimentary rocks in crude paraffin oil flow under acoustic vibrations. Experimental data on (a) pressure drop; (b) permeability; (c) pressure at the rock inlet; and (d) pressure at the rock outlet are presented.
Evgenii Riabokon, Qian Yin, Mikhail Guzev, Mikhail Turbakov, Evgenii Kozhevnikov, Nadezhda Riabokon, Ivan Panteleev   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vortical Structure and Aerodynamics of Hawkmoth Hovering

Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2006
A multi-block-and overset grid-based computational fluid dynamic (CFD) study is conducted for the unsteady flows about a realistic body-wing model and the force-generation in the flapping flight of hawkmoth hovering.
Hikaru AONO, Hao LIU
doaj   +1 more source