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Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow (2018)
Journal Article
Sarjito, Siswanto, W. A., Jamaldi, A., & Yao, Y. (2018). Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow. https://doi.org/10.24247/ijmperddec20189

© TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this research work was to find the best arrangement of nozzles inside the chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow. An existing design of the nozzle arrangement was used as the ref... Read More about Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow.

A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Syawitri, T., Yao, Y., & Chandra, B. (2018, October). A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application. Paper presented at International Conference of Global Warming and Climate Change 2018, Bangkok, Thailand

Recently, there are growing interests of using Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) to harvest wind energy from low wind speed in urban areas to relatively high wind speed in offshore wind farms. Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) has been known to hav... Read More about A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application.

CFD simulation of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratios (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Syawitri, T., Yao, Y., Chandra, B., & Yao, J. (2018, October). CFD simulation of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratios. Paper presented at International Conference of Global Warming and Climate Change 2018, Bangkok, Thailand

This paper presents computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a three-straight-bladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) operating at a wind speed of 9 m/s and low Tip Speed Ratio (TSR) ranging from 1.44 to 3.3. The turbine blade has NACA 0021... Read More about CFD simulation of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratios.

The influence of valve-pump weight ratios on the dynamic response of leaking valve-pump parallel control hydraulic systems (2018)
Journal Article
Ding, H., Zhao, J., Cheng, G., Wright, S., & Yao, Y. (2018). The influence of valve-pump weight ratios on the dynamic response of leaking valve-pump parallel control hydraulic systems. Applied Sciences, 8(7), Article 1201. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8071201

© 2018 by the authors. A new leaking valve-pump parallel control (LVPC) oil hydraulic system is proposed to improve the performance of dynamic response of present variable speed pump control (VSPC) system, which is an oil hydraulic control system wit... Read More about The influence of valve-pump weight ratios on the dynamic response of leaking valve-pump parallel control hydraulic systems.

Further development of a variable camber morphing mechanism using the direct control airfoil geometry concept (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Loudon, K., Bouferrouk, A., Coleman, B., Hughes, F., Lewis, B., Parsons, B., …Yao, Y. (2018, July). Further development of a variable camber morphing mechanism using the direct control airfoil geometry concept. Paper presented at International Symposium of Sustainable Aviation, Rome, Italy

This paper reports on the design, manufacture and testing of an improved variable camber morphing wing mechanism following the study by Evans et al. (2016), who employed the so-called Direct Control Airfoil Geometry (DCAG) concept to actuate the trai... Read More about Further development of a variable camber morphing mechanism using the direct control airfoil geometry concept.

Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing (2018)
Journal Article
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Bouferrouk, A., & Narayan, P. P. (2018). Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 28(5), 1117-1133. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-06-2017-0261

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use dynamic meshing to perform CFD analyses of a NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a morphing trailing edge (TE) flap when it undergoes static and time-dependent morphing. The s... Read More about Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing.

Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Xiao, Z., Zheng, Y., Zou, J., Zhao, D., & Yao, Y. (2018). Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach. Advances in Engineering Software, 121, 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2018.04.005

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A parallel algorithm is proposed for scalable generation of large-scale tetrahedral meshes. The key innovation is the use of a mesh-simplification based domain decomposition approach. This approach works on a background mesh with... Read More about Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach.

Slat broadband noise prediction of multi-element 30P30N airfoil by a hybrid RANS-LES method (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Peng, T., Yao, Y., & Zhu, Q. (2018, March). Slat broadband noise prediction of multi-element 30P30N airfoil by a hybrid RANS-LES method. Paper presented at 53rd 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Salon de Provence, France

This paper presents a combined CFD and CAA study to assess the slat noise emissions from a multi-element 30P30N airfoil at the 5-degree and 8-degree angle of attack, using a hybrid RANS-LES method. In this simulation, the structured mesh is used and... Read More about Slat broadband noise prediction of multi-element 30P30N airfoil by a hybrid RANS-LES method.

Aeroacoustics investigation of a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Bouferrouk, A., & Narayan, P. P. (2018, March). Aeroacoustics investigation of a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap. Paper presented at 53rd 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Salon de Provence, France

In this paper, an aeroacoustic study of a NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a morphing Trailing Edge Flap (TEF) was performed at conditions of an Angle of Attack (AoA) = 4º, Reynolds number = 0.62×10^6 and Mach number = 0.11. A modified parametrization m... Read More about Aeroacoustics investigation of a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap.

Zeolite supported Pd electrocatalyst nanoparticle characterization (2018)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2019). Zeolite supported Pd electrocatalyst nanoparticle characterization. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(1), 287-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.02.110

© 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC A laboratory made 1.5 wt% Palladium (Pd) zeolite electrocatalyst is investigated using the Extended X-ray Adsorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) and Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) techniques to reveal Pd structure and resu... Read More about Zeolite supported Pd electrocatalyst nanoparticle characterization.

Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Bouferrouk, A., & Narayan, P. P. (2018). Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition. In 2018 Applied Aerodynamics Conference. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-3178

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. In this paper, a comparative study between a NACA 0012 rectangular wing with a statically morphed Trailing Edge Flap (TEF) and the same wing with a hinged flap... Read More about Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition.

Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Bouferrouk, A., & Narayan, P. P. (2018). Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing. In 2018 Applied Aerodynamics Conference. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-3813

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A numerical study of the NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap (TEF) is performed at an angle of attack of 4º and a Reynolds... Read More about Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing.

Unsteady 1-D thrust modeling with EOS effects for ram accelerator experiments at different bores (2018)
Journal Article
Knowlen, C., Bauer, P., Bengherbia, T., Yao, Y., Bruckner, A. P., & Giraud, M. (2018). Unsteady 1-D thrust modeling with EOS effects for ram accelerator experiments at different bores. Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio, 97(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03404761

Advances made to the unsteady, one-dimensional (1-D) modeling of the thermally choked ram accelerator thrust-Mach number characteristics include the use of real-gas equations of state to account for the compressibility effects of the combustion produ... Read More about Unsteady 1-D thrust modeling with EOS effects for ram accelerator experiments at different bores.