Absorption heat pump/refrigeration system utilizing ionic liquid and hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants

S Kim, YJ Kim, YK Joshi… - Journal of …, 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The ionic liquid butylmethylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (bmim)(PF6) and five different
hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants were investigated as the working fluid pairs for a waste-heat …

CAD-based calculation of cutting force components in gear hobbing

T Nikolaos, A Aristomenis - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Gear hobbing is a common method of manufacturing high precision involute gears. The
thorough knowledge of the developed cutting forces and the wear of the cutting tool are of …

Nonlinear vibration analysis of the wind turbine blade (occurrence of the superharmonic resonance in the out of plane vibration of the elastic blade)

T Inoue, Y Ishida, T Kiyohara - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The use of wind turbine generator has rapidly spread as a one of the foremost clean energy
sources. Recently, as the size of the wind turbine generator has become larger, its …

Control of turbulent transport: Less friction and more heat transfer

N Kasagi, Y Hasegawa… - International Heat …, 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Because of the importance of fundamental knowledge on turbulent heat transfer for further
decreasing entropy production and improving efficiency in various thermo-fluid systems, we …

Optical analysis of the fixed mirror solar concentrator by forward ray-tracing procedure

R Pujol Nadal, V Martínez Moll - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The fixed mirror solar concentrator (FMSC) is a mobile focus concentrator whose design
emerged in the 1970s in an effort to reduce electricity production costs in solar thermal …

Robust control of formation dynamics for autonomous underwater vehicles in horizontal plane

H Yang, F Zhang - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a novel robust controller design for formation control of autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs). We consider a nonlinear three-degree-of-freedom dynamic …

The application of flow control to an aft-loaded low pressure turbine cascade with unsteady wakes

JP Bons, J Pluim, K Gompertz, M Bloxham, JP Clark - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The synchronous application of flow control in the presence of unsteady wakes was studied
on a highly loaded low pressure turbine blade. At low Reynolds numbers, the blade exhibits …

Flexural behavior of a layer-to-layer orthogonal interlocked three-dimensional textile composite

D Zhang, AM Waas, M Pankow, CF Yen, S Ghiorse - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The flexural response of a three-dimensional (3D) layer-to-layer orthogonal interlocked
textile composite has been investigated under quasi-static three-point bending. Fiber tow …

A model-free feature-based bi-planar RSA method for kinematic analysis of total knee arthroplasty

S Amiri, C Anglin, K Agbanlog, BA Masri, DR Wilson - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Fluoroscopic imaging is commonly used for assessing relative motions of orthopaedic
implants. One limiting factor to in vivo model-based roentgen stereophotogrammetric …