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AN EKF BASED PROCEDURE FOR AUTOMATIC PATH FOLLOWING IN TURBULENT AIR

2017

Aim of the present paper is to propose a procedure to afford an accurate automatic path following in turbulent air. The technique is based on the simultaneous employment of two different EKF. The first estimates disturbances, the second one estimates deflection that are necessary to reject the estimated disturbances. The first EKF uses measurements gathered in turbulent air. The second EKF obtains command laws able to follow the desired flight path rejecting disturbances. To purchase the objective, aerodynamic coefficients have been modified by adding entirely new derivatives or synthetic increments to basic ones. The modified aircraft parameters are determined by augmenting the aircraft’s …

Settore ING-IND/03 - Meccanica Del VoloExtended Kalman Filter Automatic path following Turbulent air
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Rateless Codes Performance Analysis in Correlated Channel Model for GEO Free Space Optics Downlinks

2012

Settore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniFree Space Optics (FSO) technologies for satellite communications offer several advantages: wide bandwidth high rate capability immunity to electromagnetic interference and small equipment size. Thus they are suitable for inter-satellite links deep space communications and also for high data rate ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground communications. Nevertheless FSO links suffer impairments that cause power signal degradation at the receiver. Scattering and absorption cause power signal attenuations predictable by suitable deterministic models. Optical turbulence causes random irradiance fluctuations which can generate signal fading events and can thereby only be predicted by statistical models. Attenuation and fading events can corrupt FSO links and so it would be recommended to add mitigation error codes on the communication link. FSO channel can be described as an erasure channel: fading events can cause erasure errors. We have identified in rateless codes (RCs) a suitable solution to be employed in FSO links. RCs do not need feedback and they add a redundant coding on the source data that allows the receiver to recover the whole payload despite erasure errors. We implemented two different of rateless codes: Luby Transform (LT) and Raptor. We analyzed their performances on a simulated turbulent GEO FSO downlink (1 Gbps - OOK modulation) at a 106 μm wavelength and for different values of zenith angles. Assuming a plane-wave propagation and employing Hufnagel-Valley we modeled the downlink using: 1) a temporal correlated channel model based on Gamma-Gamma probability distribution and 2) an irradiance covariance function that we converted on a time function using Taylor frozen eddies hypothesis. Our new channel model is able to simulate irradiance fluctuations at different turbulence conditions as it will be shown in the full paper. We will also report performance results of LT and Raptor codes at overhead range varying between 0 and 50% and for different values of source packets.Settore ING-INF/01 - Elettronica
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Filtering of the Navier-Stokes Equations in the Context of Time-Dependent Flows

1998

Turbulent FlowNavier-Stokes EquationCFDTurbulence ModelFilteringSettore ING-IND/19 - Impianti Nucleari
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Sediment-flow interactions and effects on bed forms mechanism

2009

Recent experimental works conducted in mobile bed rectilinear flume seem to verify the existence of a correspondence between the spatial periodicity of horizontal turbulent structures evolving in streamwise direction and the wavelength of bed forms (alternate bars) observed on the bed. In this study, the effect of the variation of the bed roughness conditions on the evolution of such horizontal turbulent structures is analyzed. Peculiar results obtained by using flow velocity data collected along the flume both with flat bed and with deformed bed are reported.

Turbulent flow Morphodynamics in river coherent structures bed formsSettore ICAR/01 - Idraulica
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Stationary heat flux profile in turbulent helium II in a semi-infinite cylindrical channel

2012

In this paper we determine a set of solutions for a system of partial dif- ferential equations describing stationary heat flux in a semi-infinite cylindrical channel filled with turbulent superfluid helium. This study uses a continuous model for liquid helium II, derived from Extended Thermodynamics, in which the heat flux q is a fundamental variable. The influence of the vortex line den- sity on the radial distribution of the heat flux is especially discussed.

Turbulent superfluid helium heat transfer partial dif- ferential equations Bessel functionsSettore MAT/07 - Fisica Matematica
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Etude numérique de la convection forcée turbulente dans un dissipateur thermique composé de plusieurs rangées d'ailettes de différentes formes

2016

In this thesis, we present an numerical study of turbulent forced convection in a heat sink provided with a transverse baffle in the bypass. The first model is composed of plates fins and the second consists of adding pin fins between the plates fins. The governing equations, based on the k- SSt turbulence model, are disscredized and solved by the finite volume method and the SIMPLE algorithm. Dynamic results are presented in terms of velocity fields, profiles of the axial velocities in selected sections and pressure drop. The thermal study is presented in terms of temperature fields and the distribution of Nusselt number. A ratio between the thermal and dynamic performances is presented to…

Volumes finis[SPI.OTHER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/OtherFins[PHYS.MECA.THER] Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Thermics [physics.class-ph][SPI.OTHER] Engineering Sciences [physics]/OtherAilettesÉcoulement turbulentHeat sinkTurbulent flowDissipateur thermique[PHYS.MECA.THER]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Thermics [physics.class-ph]Convection forcéeForced convectionFinite volume
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Propagation of plane and cylindrical waves in turbulent superfluid helium

2014

In this paper, the equations that govern the propagation of plane and cylindrical waves in turbulent superfluid solutions in some simplified cases are determined.

Wave propagation Partial differential equations Turbulent superfluid helium.
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Well-posedness of Prandtl equations with non-compatible data

2013

In this paper we shall be concerned with Prandtl's equations with incompatible data, i.e. with initial data that, in general, do not fulfil the boundary conditions imposed on the solution. Under the hypothesis of analyticity in the streamwise variable, we shall prove that Prandtl's equations, on the half-plane or on the half-space, are well posed for a short time.

Well-posed problemApplied MathematicsPrandtl numberGeneral Physics and AstronomyStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsNavier-Stokes equations Boundary Layer Theory.Physics::Fluid Dynamicssymbols.namesakesymbolsCalculusApplied mathematicsBoundary value problemTurbulent Prandtl numberSettore MAT/07 - Fisica MatematicaMathematical PhysicsWell posednessVariable (mathematics)Mathematics
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Convective hydration in the tropical tropopause layer during the StratoClim aircraft campaign: pathway of an observed hydration patch

2018

The source and pathway of the hydration patch in the TTL (tropical tropopause layer) that was measured during the Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions (StratoClim) field campaign during the Asian summer monsoon in 2017 and its connection to convective overshoots are investigated. During flight no. 7, two remarkable layers are measured in the TTL, namely (1) the moist layer (ML) with a water vapour content of 4.8–5.7 ppmv in altitudes of 18–19 km in the lower stratosphere and (2) the ice layer (IL) with ice content up to 1.9 eq. ppmv (equivalent parts per million by volume) in altitudes of 17–18 km in the upper tropo…

[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph][SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean AtmosphereAtmospheric ScienceTurbulent diffusion010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesCloud top0208 environmental biotechnology02 engineering and technologyAtmospheric sciences01 natural scienceslcsh:QC1-999020801 environmental engineeringTropospherelcsh:ChemistryDeposition (aerosol physics)lcsh:QD1-99913. Climate actionIce nucleusEnvironmental scienceStratosphereWater vaporAir masslcsh:Physics0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Etude numérique du comportement thermique d’un séchoir solaire utilisant un lit thermique pour le stockage d’énergie

2018

This thesis presents a numerical study of an indirect natural convection solar dryer for drying agricultural products (Figs). The first part analyzes a solar dryer containing a drying chamber coupled to a reversed absorber and a solar chimney. Simulations were made to determine the dynamic and thermal fields under the influence of the variation of the solar chimney configuration and the size of the inlet opening. The governing equations based on the standard k-ε turbulence model are solved by the finite volume method using the ANSYS-Fluent commercial code. The second part analyzes the effect of adding a thermal storage in the form of a gravel bed in the drying chamber. The bed is modeled as…

[SPI.OTHER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Other[SPI.OTHER] Engineering Sciences [physics]/OtherNatural convectionPacked bedConvection naturelleCheminée solaireÉcoulement turbulentSolar chimneyCfdLit en gravierTurbulent flow
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