Most digital waveguide models of woodwind instruments to date have provided only basic control parameters such as frequency, breath pressure, and vibrato. It is clear that if these models are to gain popularity as real-time performance synthesizers or as composition tools, more flexibility is necessary. This paper discusses the implementation of expressive controls for flutter tonguing, growlin...

In a smart solution-processable luminescent poly(norbornene)/oxazine-1 (Ox1) intercalated fluoromica nanohybrid, the supramolecular organization of the Ox1 dyes can be tuned at the nanoscale level and a deep red emission band switched on by inducing a phase segregation of aligned molecules within the fluoromica layered scaffold. By combining low-temperature photoluminescence and ultrafast pump-...

The paper deals with the determination of synchronous machine parameters using a 2D Finite Element Method – FEM (Flux2DCedrat). Simulations of no-load sudden three phase shortcircuits are performed in rotation, the saturation effects and the eddy currents in the rotor solid iron parts are also taken into account. Comparisons between calculations and measurements for two large existing units (tu...

Oil-free micro turbomachinery implementing gas foil bearings (GFBs) has improved mechanical efficiency and reliability. Adequate thermal management for operation in high temperature environments is an issue of importance in applications such as in gas turbines and turbochargers. GFBs often need a cooling gas flow, axially fed through one end of the bearings, to transport the heat conducted from...

In the Rubber Hand Illusion, the feeling of ownership of a rubber hand displaced from a participant's real occluded hand is evoked by synchronously stroking both hands with paintbrushes. A change of perceived finger location towards the rubber hand (proprioceptive drift) has been reported to correlate with this illusion. To measure the time course of proprioceptive drift during the Rubber Hand ...

We consider the problem of synthesizing correct-by-construction globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) implementations from modular synchronous specifications. This involves the synthesis of asynchronous wrappers that drive the synchronous clocks of the modules and perform input reading in such a fashion as to preserve, in a certain sense, the global properties of the system. Our app...

Synchronous generators are of two type’s salient pole type and round rotor type. The load angle curve of a cylindrical rotor synchronous machine comprises a single sine term only while in salient pole synchronous generators, power-angle characteristic has two terms. The first term is the fundamental component due to field excitation (the same as the cylindrical rotor) and the second term ...