An experimental study was conducted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a bioinspired corrugated airfoil compared with a smooth-surfaced airfoil and a flat plate at the chord Reynolds number of ReC = 58,000–125,000 to explore the potential applications of such bio-inspired corrugated airfoils for micro air vehicle designs. In addition to measuring the aerodynamic lift and drag for...

We present molecular dynamics results for the interaction between two solid elastic walls during pull-off for systems with and without octane (C(8)H(18)) lubricant. We used two types of substrate--flat and corrugated--and varied the lubricant coverage from approximately 1/8 to approximately 4 ML (monolayers) of octane. For the flat substrate without lubricant the maximum adhesion was found to b...

In this paper, a new model for resonance frequency of clamped circular corrugated diaphragm has been presented. First, an analytical analyzes has been carried out to derive mathematic expressions for mechanical sensitivity of diaphragm with residual stress. Next by using Rayleigh's method we present mathematical model to calculate the resonance frequency of corrugated diaphragm and investigate ...

In warehouse storage applications, it is important to classify the burning behavior of commodities and rank them according to material flammability for early fire detection and suppression operations. In this study, the large-scale effects of warehouse fires are decoupled into separate processes of heat and mass transfer. As a first step, two nondimensional parameters are shown to govern the ph...

The wetting of water on corrugated and flat hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayers on Rh(111) is studied within a hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach. Water is treated by QM methods, whereas the interactions between liquid and substrate are described at the MM level. The electrostatic properties of the substrate are reproduced by assigning specifically generated par...

Controlling the interaction between metal nanoparticles and support is a means to tune catalytic activity stability. Herein we investigated influence of morphology hematite on performance gold for CO oxidation. Nanosphere nanorod forms hematite, ?-Fe2O3(S) ?-Fe2O3(R) respectively, were used nanoparticles. The surface was more corrugated than that ?-Fe2O3(S). These defects provide anchoring site...

A 90 GHz W-band millimeter-wave back-scattering system is designed and installed for measuring electron scale turbulence (k??s ? 40). metal lens relay antenna used in-vessel beam focusing, a diameter of less than 40 mm achieved in the plasma core region. This can be steered at an angle 159° ± 6°, which almost covers radius. The estimated size scattering volume ?105 edge 135 core, respectively. ...