System Design and Modeling of a Thermally Activated Reconfigurable Wing

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beblo ◽  
Darrel Robertson ◽  
James Joo ◽  
Brian Smyers ◽  
Gregory Reich
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Energy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Frictional Heating ◽  
Mechanical Analysis ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
System Level ◽  
Morphing Aircraft ◽  
Thermal Actuation ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Reconfigurable Structures

Reconfigurable structures such as morphing aircraft generally require an on board energy source to function. Frictional heating during the high speed deployment of a blunt nosed low speed reconnaissance air vehicle can provide a large amount of thermal energy during a short period of time. This thermal energy can be collected, transferred, and utilized to reconfigure the deployable aircraft. Direct utilization of thermal energy has the ability to significantly decrease or eliminate the losses associated with converting thermal energy to other forms, such as electric. The following work attempts to describe possible system designs and components that can be utilized to transfer the thermal energy harvested at the nose of the aircraft during deployment to internal components for direct thermal actuation of a reconfigurable wing structure. A model of a loop heat pipe is presented and used to predict the time dependant transfer of energy. Previously reported thermal profiles of the nose of the aircraft calculated based on trajectory and mechanical analysis of the actuation mechanism are reviewed and combined with the model of the thermal transport system providing a system level feasibility investigation and design tool. The efficiency, implementation, benefits, and limitations of the direct use thermal system are discussed and compared with currently utilized systems.

Design and Implementation of an Efficient Parallel LFSR Architecture for Wireless Communication Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Suresh Babu ◽  
B. Anand
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Shift Register ◽  
Linear Feedback ◽  
Wireless Communication Systems ◽  
Coverage Area

: A Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) considers a linear function typically an XOR operation of the previous state as an input to the current state. This paper describes in detail the recent Wireless Communication Systems (WCS) and techniques related to LFSR. Cryptographic methods and reconfigurable computing are two different applications used in the proposed shift register with improved speed and decreased power consumption. Comparing with the existing individual applications, the proposed shift register obtained >15 to <=45% of decreased power consumption with 30% of reduced coverage area. Hence this proposed low power high speed LFSR design suits for various low power high speed applications, for example wireless communication. The entire design architecture is simulated and verified in VHDL language. To synthesis a standard cell library of 0.7um CMOS is used. A custom design tool has been developed for measuring the power. From the results, it is obtained that the cryptographic efficiency is improved regarding time and complexity comparing with the existing algorithms. Hence, the proposed LFSR architecture can be used for any wireless applications due to parallel processing, multiple access and cryptographic methods.

scholarly journals Internal face finishing for a cooling channel using a fluid containing free abrasive grains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsugu Yamaguchi ◽  
Tatsuaki Furumoto ◽  
Shuuji Inagaki ◽  
Masao Tsuji ◽  
Yoshiki Ochiai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Cooling Channel ◽  
H13 Steel ◽  
Channel Diameter ◽  
Abrasive Grains ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Internal Pressures

AbstractIn die-casting and injection molding, a conformal cooling channel is applied inside the dies and molds to reduce the cycle time. When the internal face of the channel is rough, both cooling performance and tool life are negatively affected. Many methods for finishing the internal face of such channels have been proposed. However, the effects of the channel diameter on the flow of a low-viscosity finishing media and its finishing characteristics for H13 steel have not yet been reported in the literature. This study addresses these deficiencies through the following: the fluid flow in a channel was computationally simulated; the flow behavior of abrasive grains was observed using a high-speed camera; and the internal face of the channel was finished using the flow of a fluid containing abrasive grains. The flow velocity of the fluid with the abrasive grains increases as the channel diameter decreases, and the velocity gradient is low throughout the channel. This enables reduction in the surface roughness for a short period and ensures uniform finishing in the central region of the channel; however, over polishing occurs owing to the centrifugal force generated in the entrance region, which causes the form accuracy of the channel to partially deteriorate. The outcomes of this study demonstrate that the observational finding for the finishing process is consistent with the flow simulation results. The flow simulation can be instrumental in designing channel diameters and internal pressures to ensure efficient and uniform finishing for such channels.

Hider: A Methodology for Early-Stage Exploration of Design Space

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhakar Y. Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Design Space ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
System Level ◽  
Complex Simulation ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Detailed Simulation ◽  
And Performance

Abstract This paper describes HIDER, a methodology that enables detailed simulation models to be used during the early stages of system design. HIDER uses a machine learning approach to form abstract models from the detailed models. The abstract models are used for multiple-objective optimization to obtain sets of non-dominated designs. The tradeoffs between design and performance attributes in the non-dominated sets are used to interactively refine the design space. A prototype design tool has been developed to assist the designer in easily forming abstract models, flexibly defining optimization problems, and interactively exploring and refining the design space. To demonstrate the practical applicability of this approach, the paper presents results from the application of HIDER to the system-level design of a wheel loader. In this demonstration, complex simulation models for cycle time evaluation and stability analysis are used together for early-stage exploration of design space.

High Speed FPGA Based 128-bit Advance Encryption Standard (AES)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahem M. T. Hamidi ◽  
Farah S. H. Al-aassi
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Advanced Encryption Standard ◽  
Clock Frequency ◽  
Advance Encryption Standard ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Internal Component ◽  
Gate Array

Aim: Achieve high throughput 128 bits FPGA based Advanced Encryption Standard. Background: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) provides an efficient platform for design AES cryptography system. It provides the capability to control over each bit using HDL programming language such as VHDL and Verilog which results an output speed in Gbps rang. Objective: Use Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to design high throughput 128 bits FPGA based Advanced Encryption Standard. Method: Pipelining technique has used to achieve maximum possible speed. The level of pipelining includes round pipelining and internal component pipelining where number of registers inserted in particular places to increase the output speed. The proposed design uses combinatorial logic to implement the byte substitution. The s-box implemented using composed field arithmetic with 7 stages of pipelining to reduce the combinatorial logic level. The presented model has implemented using VHDL in Xilinix ISETM 14.4 design tool. Result: The achieved results were 18.55 Gbps at a clock frequency of 144.96 MHz and area of 1568 Slices in Spartan3 xc3s1000 hardware. Conclusion: The results show that the proposed design reaches a high throughput with acceptable area usage compare with other designs in the literature.

Assessment of Viscous Flows in High-Speed Micro Rotating Machinery for Energy Conversion Applications

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc G. Fréchette
Keyword(s):  
Shear Flow ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Viscous Flow ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Applied Pressure ◽  
Secondary Flows ◽  
System Level ◽  
Flow Profile ◽  
System Level Design ◽  
Level Design

Abstract This paper investigates the characteristics of viscous flow in the micron-scale clearances surrounding high-speed micro-rotors currently being developed for miniature energy conversion applications. Analysis and experimental results from 4 mm diameter microfabricated rotors operated above 1 million rpm are used to describe the viscous flow characteristics, and provide guidelines for system-level design. To first order, the flow is characterized as fully developed shear flow (Couette flow) across the small gaps, induced by the rotor motion. However, secondary flows are induced perpendicular to the direction of rotor motion when externally applied pressure gradients exist along the small gaps. The developing flow in the entrance region of the small gaps in this secondary flow direction impacts the shear flow profile, hence affecting the drag on the disk. The effect of other inertial forces, such as Coriolis and centrifugal forces, are investigated analytically and numerically and found to affect the shear flow profile on the fluid in the motor gap at high rotational speeds. Since viscous losses are prevelant in microsystems, appropriate modeling is necessary for system-level design.

Effects of Parameters on the Two-Phase Flow Instability in a Microchannel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yefei Liu ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Xingtuan Yang ◽  
Liqiang Pan
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Instability ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Period Oscillation ◽  
Data Acquisition Card ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Vertical Microchannel

Series of experiments are conducted in a single microchannel, where subcooled water flows upward inside a transparent and vertical microchannel. The cross section of the channel is rectangle with the hydraulic diameter of 2.8mm and the aspect ratio of 20. The working fluid is 3–15K subcooled and surface heat flux on the channel is between 0–3.64 kW/m2, among which two-phase instability at low vapor quantity may occur. By using a novel transparent heating technique and a high-speed camera, visualization results are obtained. The parameters are acquired with a National Instruments Data Acquisition card. In the experiments, long-period oscillation and short-period oscillation are observed as the primary types of instability in a microchannel. Instability characteristics represented from signals correspond well with the flow pattern. Moreover, effects of several parameters are investigated. The results indicate that the oscillating period generally increases with the heat flux density and decreases with inlet subcooling, while the effects of inlet resistance are more complex.

Robust Design of Advanced Thermoelectric Conversion Systems: Probabilistic Design Impacts on Specific Power and Power Flux Optimization

2008 ◽  
Vol 1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry J Hendricks ◽  
Naveen K. Karri
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
System Level ◽  
Specific Power ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Probabilistic Design ◽  
Power Flux ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
System Designs

AbstractAdvanced, direct thermal energy conversion technologies are receiving increased research attention in order to recover waste thermal energy in advanced vehicles and industrial processes. Advanced thermoelectric (TE) systems necessarily require integrated system-level analyses to establish accurate optimum system designs. Past system-level design and analysis has relied on well-defined deterministic input parameters even though many critically important environmental and system design parameters in the above mentioned applications are often randomly variable, sometimes according to complex relationships, rather than discrete, well-known deterministic variables. This work describes new research and development creating techniques and capabilities for probabilistic design and analysis of advanced TE power generation systems to quantify the effects of randomly uncertain design inputs in determining more robust optimum TE system designs and expected outputs. Selected case studies involving stochastic TE .material properties demonstrate key stochastic material impacts on power, optimum TE area, specific power, and power flux in the TE design optimization process. Magnitudes and directions of these design modifications are quantified for selected TE system design analysis cases.

scholarly journals Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Layered Silicates/Kaolin Geopolymer Filler in Epoxy Composites

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusrina Mat Daud ◽  
Kamarudin Hussin ◽  
Azlin Fazlina Osman ◽  
Che Mohd Ruzaidi Ghazali ◽  
Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Hybrid Composites ◽  
Loss Modulus ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical Properties ◽  
Mechanical Analysis ◽  
Layered Silicates ◽  
Epoxy Composites ◽  
Damping Factor ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical

Preparation epoxy based hybrid composites were involved kaolin geopolymer filler, organo-montmorillonite at 3phr by using high speed mechanical stirrer. A mechanical behaviour of neat epoxy, epoxy/organo-montmorillonite and its hybrid composites containing 1-8phr kaolin geopolymer filler was studied upon cyclic deformation (three-point flexion mode) as the temperature is varies. The analysis was determined by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) at frequency of 1.0Hz. The results then expressed in storage modulus (E�), loss modulus (E�) and damping factor (tan d) as function of temperature from 40 oC to 130oC. Overall results indicated that E�, E�� and Tg increased considerably by incorporating optimum 1phr kaolin geopolymer in epoxy organo-montmorillonite hybrid composites.

scholarly journals Achieving High-Speed Retraction in a Stretchable Hydrogel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Badani Prado ◽  
Satish Mishra ◽  
Buckston Morgan ◽  
Rangana Wijayapala ◽  
Seyed Meysam Hashemnejad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Polypropylene Glycol ◽  
Glycol Diacrylate ◽  
Mantis Shrimp ◽  
Power Amplification ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Very High

Many biological species apply the power amplification mechanism for locomotion, feeding, and protection. In power amplification, a biological system rapidly releases stored-energy by achieving a very high velocity over a short period of time, resulting in high power output. Such power amplification allows insects such as locust to jump and Mantis shrimp to kill prey by its appendage strike. Biological elastomeric polymers such as resilin play a vital role in the power amplification process because of their high stretchability and resilience. In synthetic materials, although<br>crosslinked rubbers display high stretchability and resilience, such is difficult to achieve in the water-containing systems such as in hydrogels, commonly considered materials for mimicking biological tissues. Here, we have used a simple free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid (AAc), methacrylamide (MAAm), and polypropylene glycol diacrylate (PPGDA) to obtain hydrogels. In these gels, the polymerized AAc and MAAm act as hydrophilic blocks and PPG as hydrophobic, and the gel structure resemble that of resilin consisting of hydrophilic and hydrophobic components. The bioinspired gels display very high stretchability, as high as eight times the original length, and greater than 90% resilience. In addition, the gel samples can reach a retraction velocity of 16 m/s with an acceleration of 4X10^3 m/s2. These values are similar or better than those observed in water containing biological systems, such as appendage strikes in Mantis shrimp, etc. To the best of our knowledge, such performance has not been reported in the<br>literature for any water containing networks.

scholarly journals Design and Structural Analysis of a SWATH type vessel using the Finite Element Method and its response to Slamming events

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Hugo Leonardo Murcia Gallo ◽  
Richard Lionel Luco Salman ◽  
David Ignacio Fuentes Montaña
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Load Condition ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Water Area ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Classification Society ◽  
Element Method

The main objective of this study is to analyze the structural response of a boat during a slamming event using the Finite Element Method in a Small Water Area Twin Hull (SWATH) type boat.  In the mentioned load condition, the acceptance criteria established by a classification society must be fulfilled, taking into account the areas where this event affects the structure such as the junction deck, the pontoons and other structural members established by the standard, all this generated by the high pressure loads in the ship's structure in a very short period of time being an element of study in this type of vessels, as long as they are within the range of high speed vessels. Among the main results of this study were the deformations and stresses in the structure obtained under the reference parameters of the classification society.

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