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Optimizing Glide-Flight Paths, Rory Cveta O'Daly Maglich
Optimizing Glide-Flight Paths, Rory Cveta O'Daly Maglich
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Flight is no rare event in today's society, and aviation is a global industry that significantly contributes to carbon emissions and global warming. Thus, my project theorizes how aviation might be better optimized at a fundamental level to improve aerodynamic efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. This is done by analyzing two systems of flight: gliding and powered flight. In pursuit of an understanding of a hybrid of these flight systems, I first look to qualitatively analyze the benefit of gliding over powered aviation. Powering an aircraft involves an engine that generates thrust, while gliding only involves three forces: lift, drag, …
Optimization And Control Of Arrays Of Wave Energy Converters, Jianyang Lyu
Optimization And Control Of Arrays Of Wave Energy Converters, Jianyang Lyu
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Wave Energy Converter Array is a practical approach to harvest ocean wave energy. To leverage the potential of the WEC array in terms of energy extraction, it is essential to have a properly designed array configuration and control system. This thesis explores the optimal configuration of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) arrays and their optimal control. The optimization of the WEC array allows both dimensions of individual WECs as well as the array layout to varying. In the first optimization problem, cylindrical buoys are assumed in the array where their radii and drafts are optimization parameters. Genetic Algorithms are used for …