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Assessment Of Critical Technologies For Gas Turbine Engines Using Numerical Tools, Vinicius Pessoa Mapelli, Guillermo Paniagua, Jorge Sousa
Assessment Of Critical Technologies For Gas Turbine Engines Using Numerical Tools, Vinicius Pessoa Mapelli, Guillermo Paniagua, Jorge Sousa
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
In 2014 gas turbine engine has reached a market value of 82.5 billion dollars, of which 59.5% are related to aircraft propulsion. The continuous market expansion attracts more and more the interest of researchers and industries towards the development of accurate numerical techniques to model thermodynamically the entire engine. This practice allows a performance and optimization analysis before the actual experimental testing, reducing the time and required investment in the design of a new engine. In this paper, a recently developed open source numerical tool named “Toolbox for the Modeling and Analysis of Thermodynamic Systems” (T-MATS) is used to assess …
Powder Compaction Simulation, Yuqi Fang, Caroline Baker, Marcial Gonzalez
Powder Compaction Simulation, Yuqi Fang, Caroline Baker, Marcial Gonzalez
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Powders are one of most manipulated materials in many industries such as food, pharmaceutical, energy and metallurgical industries. An important process for the powders is the compaction into solids with small porosity or high relative density. However, powders exhibit complex behavior during this process. After rearrangement and jamming of the powder bed, many types of deformation mechanisms dominate the compaction of granular materials, including elastic and plastic deformation of each individual particle. Therefore, having a better understanding of macroscale and microscale properties of powder beds and single particles during the compaction process is necessary. In addition, to reduce cost and …