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Interpretative 3D MHD modelling of deuterium SPI into a JET H-mode plasma

Umar Sheikh, Haomin Sun, Mengdi Kong, Cristian Sommariva

The pre-thermal quench (pre-TQ) dynamics of a pure deuterium ( D 2 ) shattered pellet injection (SPI) into a 3 MA / 7 MJ JET H-mode plasma is studied via 3D non-linear MHD modelling with the JOREK code. The interpretative modelling captures the overall evo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Deep learning-based solid component measuring enabled interpretable prediction of tumor invasiveness for lung adenocarcinoma

Li Zhang, Jiancheng Yang, Xinchao Wang

Background: The nature of the solid component of subsolid nodules (SSNs) can indicate tumor pathological invasiveness. However, preoperative solid component assessment still lacks a reference standard.Methods: In this retrospective study, an AI algorithm w ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2023

Modeling of solids particle diversion to promote uniform growth of multiple hydraulic fractures

Guanyi Lu

Solid particulate additives are sometimes used to promote the uniform growth of multiple hydraulic fractures in horizontal oil and gas wells. The principle is that solid particulates block, accumulate, and form larger porous plugging zones preferentially a ...

ELSEVIER2023

Energy inequality and air pollution nexus in India

Arindam Roy

Energy usage, inequality, and their impacts are deeply intertwined, especially in India. Every year, cooking using biomass-based solid fuel usage causes death to tens of thousands of Indians, specifically, economically unprivileged people. Solid fuel burni ...

2023

Covariant formulation of relativistic mechanics

Miguel Alexandre Ribeiro Correia

Accretion disks surrounding compact objects, and other environmental factors, deviate satellites from geodetic motion. Unfortunately, setting up the equations of motion for such relativistic trajectories is not as simple as in Newtonian mechanics. The prin ...

American Physical Society2022

Design of an intake and a thruster for an atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion system

Thomas Binderup Jensen, Francesco Romano

Challenging space missions include those at very low altitudes, where the atmosphere is the source of aerodynamic drag on the spacecraft, that finally defines the mission's lifetime, unless a way to compensate for it is provided. This environment is named ...

2022

Re-entry analysis of critical components and materials for design-for-demise techniques

Pénélope Leyland, Stefano Mischler, Seong-Hyeon Park

The concern caused by the rising population of space debris has increased. One of the recommended mitigation measures is the safe re-entry disposal either in a controlled or uncontrolled manner. Performing a controlled re-entry, where the spacecraft is gui ...

2021

Optimal Thrust Vector Control of an Electric Small-Scale Rocket Prototype

Colin Neil Jones, Petr Listov, Roland Schwan

Recent advances in Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms and methodologies, combined with the surge of computational power of available embedded platforms, allows the use of real-time optimization-based control of fast mechatronic systems. This paper p ...

IEEE2022

Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Enhanced by Solid Boosters

Elena Zanzola

One of the main challenges for certain electricity production technologies (e.g. renewables) is the capability to supply energy according to the demand. It follows that storing energy is a possible solution to the inadequacy between production and demand. ...

EPFL2020

Enzymatic hydrolysis of microwave assisted acid pretreated chili postharvest residue for the production of value added products

Edgard Gnansounou, Kavita Ashokkumar Pandey

Agricultural crop residues serve as a renewable source for production of bioethanol and other value added chemicals. Optimization of enzymatic saccharification may ensure cost-effective production of bioethanol and other industrially important products. He ...

NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION-NISCAIR2018

Predicting the yield stress of paraffin-wax suspensions

Paul Bowen

An empirical modification of the Yodel model was developed for the prediction of the yield stress of concentrated, particulate, paraffin-wax suspensions, with a solids loading in the range of 47-57 vol.%, used in the low-pressure injection moulding (LPIM). ...

Elsevier2016

A model for the evaluation of the electric field associated with the lightning-triggering rocket wire and its corona

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

In this paper, we analyze the electric field at ground level during the first stage of triggered lightning experiments, i.e., during the rocket ascent and prior to the lightning initiation. At distances of some tens of meters from the triggering wire, the ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Mesoscopic Modeling and Experimental Investigations of the Last-Stage Solidification of Globular-Equiaxed Grains in Metallic Alloys : Application to the Al-Cu System

Christophe Mondoux

Hot tearing is a major defect of solidification processes and welding. It occurs in metallic alloys while they are in the semi-solid state and is caused by a lack of liquid feeding in the mushy zone to compensate solid network openings due to tensile and s ...

EPFL2015

Foil-Level Inkjet-Printed pyroMEMS Balloon Actuators: Fabrication, Modeling, and Validation

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, David de Koninck

A cleanroom-free fabrication process adapted to microfluidic devices is presented for pyrotechnical microelectromechanical systems balloon actuators. The actuators are intended for on-chip pumping and fluid ejection to replace tabletop pumping solutions in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Ethanol and lignin production from Brazilian empty fruit bunch biomass

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Brazil Government is promoting palm plantations to use degraded land for biofuels. Palm production is expected to increase 35 per cent in future and there would be profuse biomass available that needs to be handled efficiently. Therefore, in this study the ...

Elsevier2014

Prediction of Hot Tear Formation in Vertical DC Casting of Aluminum Billets Using a Granular Approach

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Marie Drezet, Meisam Sistaninia

A coupled hydromechanical granular model aimed at predicting hot tear formation and stress-strain behavior in metallic alloys during solidification is applied to the semicontinuous direct chill casting of aluminum alloy round billets. This granular model c ...

Springer2013

Phase-field modeling of micropore formation in a solidifying alloy

Hossein Meidani

This thesis is focused on the study of the morphology of micropores formed during solidification of metallic alloys. Micropores constrained to form in well-developed dendritic solid network adopt complex non-spherical shapes. Previous studies using X-ray t ...

EPFL2013

PyroMEMS: Improved Fabrication Methods and Ignition Reliability

David de Koninck

Generating large force/displacement actuators at the millimeter and sub-millimeter scales remains an important challenge for microsystems engineers. One promising solution is to integrate high-energy density solid propellant fuels in microsystems (pyroMEMS ...

EPFL2012

A 3D coupled hydro-mechanical granular model for the prediction of hot tearing formation

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Marie Drezet, Meisam Sistaninia

A new 3D coupled hydro-mechanical granular model that simulates hot tearing formation in metallic alloys is presented. The hydro-mechanical model consists of four separate 3D modules. (I) The Solidification Module (SM) is used for generating the initial so ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

A 3-D coupled hydromechanical granular model for simulating the constitutive behavior of metallic alloys during solidification

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Marie Drezet, Meisam Sistaninia

A three-dimensional (3-D) coupled hydromechanical granular model has been developed and validated to directly predict, for the first time, hot tear formation and stress strain behavior in metallic alloys during solidification. This granular model consists ...

Elsevier2012