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Case studies on U-state space control system design for aircraft dynamic model (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, X., Zhu, Q., & Narayan, P. P. (2015, December). Case studies on U-state space control system design for aircraft dynamic model. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC), Sousse

In this study, U-state space design approach is used to develop a control system of linearized F-16 aircraft dynamic model. The related F-16 model is converted from the original nonlinear dynamics by Taylor series around the trimmed equilibrium. The... Read More about Case studies on U-state space control system design for aircraft dynamic model.

Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single-fin (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fang, J., Yao, Y., Zheltovodov, A. A., & Lu, L. (2015, September). Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single-fin. Paper presented at UKTC Annual Workshop, Southampton, UK

The three-dimension (3D) shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) raised from a hypersonic flow passing a single-fin at Mach 5 is investigated i by using LES. The performed LES has demonstrated very good agreements with available expe... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single-fin.

The first stage studies of U-state space control system design (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, X., Zhu, Q., Narayan, P. P., & Yang, Y. (2015, July). The first stage studies of U-state space control system design. Paper presented at 2015 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Hangzhou, China

In this study, a basic idea of U-state feedback control system design method is proposed based on U-model principle. Compared with U-model based nonlinear polynomial systems, the U-state space design is to determine the desired state variable equatio... Read More about The first stage studies of U-state space control system design.

A new procedure for analysis and modelling of male urine flow rate (2015)
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Li, R., Gammie, A., Zhu, Q., Nibouche, M., & Kiely, J. (2015, July). A new procedure for analysis and modelling of male urine flow rate

In the first stage studies, this paper proposes a new piecewise linear discrete time dynamic model for describing global urine flow rate profiles against time sequence. The establishment of model has been guided by physician meaningful principles and... Read More about A new procedure for analysis and modelling of male urine flow rate.

DNS of transitional and turbulent flow simulations (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Yao, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2015, July). DNS of transitional and turbulent flow simulations. Presented at The First Chinese International Conference on CFD, Mianyang, China

An in-house direct numerical simulation (DNS) code SBLI has been developed and used extensively for high-performance computation (HPC) of transitional and turbulent flows, most related to shock/boundary-layer interaction problems. The code has also p... Read More about DNS of transitional and turbulent flow simulations.

CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe (2015)
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Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2015, July). CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe. Paper presented at The First Chinese International Conference on CFD, Mianyang, China

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been applied to investigate air/water two-phase flow characteristics in an 8.8mm I.D small horizontal pipe. Simulation has successfully predicted water film thickness using newly developed user defined wave func... Read More about CFD of air/water two-phase flow in small horizontal pipe.

LES of hypersonic flow over a 3D single-fin (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fang, J., Yao, Y., Lu, L., & Zheng, Y. (2015, July). LES of hypersonic flow over a 3D single-fin. Presented at The First Chinese International Conference on CFD, Mianyang, China

LES of hypersonic flow passing a 3D single-fin at Mach 5 and Re∞=3.7×107/m was conducted using a newly developed 7th-order low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving NS solver with dynamic Smagorinsky subgrid model. The simulation captures salient flow... Read More about LES of hypersonic flow over a 3D single-fin.

Testing of avionics (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2015, June). Testing of avionics. Presented at Intelligent Testing 2015, UWE, Bristol, UK

In this talk, Dr Steve Wright discusses some of the tools and methods used for performing Hardware-in-the-Loop testing of aircraft avionics. The talk will discuss the objectives of avionics test, how these tests are performed, and the equipment neede... Read More about Testing of avionics.

Model based testing of avionics (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2015, June). Model based testing of avionics. Presented at Model Driven Engineering 2015, West Sussex, England

A presentation on the use of modelling and simulation, and its role in the testing process for manned aircraft avionics.

Avionics and airborne computing (2015)
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Wright, S. (2015, May). Avionics and airborne computing. Presented at British Computer Society Public Lecture, University of Bristol

In this talk, Dr Steve Wright looks at how an aircraft’s avionics and their associated sensor/actuator systems can fail (and they do fail), and how these systems are designed to be resilient to these failures in hardware, software and architecture. T... Read More about Avionics and airborne computing.

Assessment of the low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme in a series of DNS of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (2015)
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Fang, J., Yao, Y., & Lu, L. (2015, January). Assessment of the low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme in a series of DNS of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions. Paper presented at The 9th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP9), Singapore

The seventh-order low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme developed by Fang et al. (Journal of Scientific Computing, 2013, 56:67-95) was assessed in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of isotropic turbulence and channel flow. The influence of... Read More about Assessment of the low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme in a series of DNS of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions.

Mixing flow characteristics for a transverse sonic jet injecting into a supersonic crossflow (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Khali, E. H., & Yao, Y. (2015, January). Mixing flow characteristics for a transverse sonic jet injecting into a supersonic crossflow. Paper presented at AIAA 2015 Sci-Tech conference, Kissimmee, Florida, USA

Detached-eddy simulation (DES) of a sonic jet flow issuing perpendicularly into a supersonic crossflow is presented. The supersonic boundary layer flow has conditions of incoming Mach number 1.6 and Reynolds number Reδ 1.08×105, based on the free-str... Read More about Mixing flow characteristics for a transverse sonic jet injecting into a supersonic crossflow.

Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional hypersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single fin (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fang, J., Yao, Y., Zheltovodov, A. A., & Lu, L. (2015, January). Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional hypersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single fin. Paper presented at AIAA 2015 Sci-Tech conference, Kissimmee, Florida, USA

The large-eddy simulation (LES) of a hypersonic flow passing a single-fin at Mach 5 and Re∞=3.7×107/m was conducted and the three-dimensional (3D) shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) was studied in the present paper. This is prob... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional hypersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single fin.