The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of inlet air temperature and emulsion composition (total solid content and oil concentration), as well as its associated properties (viscosity and droplet size), on the microencapsulation of flaxseed oil by spray drying, using gum Arabic as wall material. Coarse emulsions were prepared by blending the flaxseed oil and the gum Arabic solut...

This paper is concerned with the statistical model development issues, necessary for rapid estimation of the rotor sizing for single main rotor helicopters at the preliminary design stage. However, Central Composite Design (CCD) method, simulation-based data collection, linear regression analysis, mathematical modelsdevelopmentand validations through the analysis of variance (ANOVA) were perfor...

Abstract: This paper presents a new method for observing the rotor temperature of high-power squirrel cage induction machines in measurable variables. The method is based on the fact that the rotor resistance depends on the actual rotor temperature. The main problem is to separate the changes in the rotor resistance due to temperature and skin effect. By comparing the input impedance with a kno...

H∞ controller for active magnetic bearings (AMBs) with flexible rotor system was designed in this paper. The motion equations of AMBs and flexible rotor system are built based on finite element methods (FEM). Weighting function matrices of H∞ controller for AMBs are studied for both the sensitivity and the complementary sensitivity of H∞ control theory. The simulation shows that the H∞ control ...

In this article, turbulent flow heat transfer in the air gap between rotor and stator of a generator under nonhomogeneous heat flux is studied experimentally. The rotor consists of four symmetrical triangular grooves. The stator surface is smooth and does not include any grooves. The relative heat flux between the rotor and the stator is 1 to 3. Temperature and heat flux are measured locally at...

SUMMARY This paper presents the results of a simulation study of blocking and non-blocking switching for hierarchical ring networks. The switching techniques include wormhole, virtual cut-through, and slotted ring. We conclude that slotted ring network performs better than the more popular wormhole and virtual cut-through networks. We also show that the size of the node buuers is an important p...

We consider the channel aware slotted ALOHA protocol that has been recently proposed to improve the capacity of the traditional slotted ALOHA by using multi-user diversity. This type of diversity is commonly used in scheduling policies that allow terminals to transmit when their channel conditions are good. Here, we focus on a decentralized random access protocol where users decide to transmit ...

We present time-parallel algorithms for parallel simulation of multiple access protocols for medium access – in particular, slotted Aloha and slotted -persistent CSMA. Two mechanisms are presented — regeneration point-based and fix up-based. Aloha is simulated using both mechanisms and CSMA is simulated using only the first mechanism. An analytical technique is developed to predict speedup for ...

SUMMARY This paper presents the results of a simulation study of blocking and non-blocking switching for hierarchical ring networks. The switching techniques include wormhole, virtual cut-through, and slotted ring. We conclude that slotted ring network performs better than the more popular wormhole and virtual cut-through networks. We also show that the size of the node buuers is an important p...

The paper proposes two IP packet aggregation techniques, called DAT (Deterministic Aggregation Technique) and WATT (Workconserving Aggregation Technique with Timer), to adapt IP traffic to a multi-service optical slotted network. To perform aggregation, IP packets belonging to different classes of service (CoS) are polled according to the strict priority (SP) or to an hybrid version of the prob...