• Prediction of earnings per share for industry 

  Jadhav, Swati; He, Hongmei; Jenkins, Karl (IEEE, 2016-08-01)

  Prediction of Earnings Per Share (EPS) is the fundamental problem in finance industry. Various Data Mining technologies have been widely used in computational finance. This research work aims to predict the future EPS with ...
• Technical note: recent experiences of helicopter main rotor blade damage 

  Weber, Simone; Lone, Mudassir M.; Cooke, Alastair (Vertical Flight Society, 2019-08-01)

  Results of a survey investigating commonly occurring minor rotor blade damage incidents are presented in this paper. Over 100 participants worldwide ranging from test pilots to commercial pilots and licensed engineers ...
• Unsteady swirl distortion characteristics for S-ducts using Lattice Boltzmann and time-resolved, stereo PIV methods 

  Guerrero-Hurtado, Manuel; Zachos, Pavlos; MacManus, David G.; Migliorini, Matteo; Trapani, Giuseppe (AIAA, 2019-08-16)

  The unsteady flowfields generated by convoluted aero engine intakes are major sources of instabilities that can compromise the performance of the downstream turbomachinery components. This highlights theneed for high spatial ...
• The impact of inlet boundary layer thickness on the unsteady aerodynamics of S-duct intakes 

  Migliorini, Matteo; Zachos, Pavlos; MacManus, David G (AIAA, 2019-09-16)

  The need to reduce aero-engine emissions and direct operating costsis driving the civil aerospace sectortowards considering more integrated propulsion systems. Many of the proposed novel aircraft architectures employ ...
• Heat transfer across a fractal surface 

  Frank, Michael; Papanikolaou, Michail; Drikakis, Dimitris; Salonitis, Konstantinos (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2019-10-02)

  The effects of surface irregularities and imperfections on the thermal resistance at a solid-liquid interface have been investigated using molecular dynamics. The molecular model comprises liquid argon confined between ...
• Low-boom low-drag optimization in a multidisciplinary design analysis optimization environment 

  Sun, Yicheng; Smith, Howard (Elsevier, 2019-09-20)

  This paper introduces a multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization environment called GENUS. The GENUS aircraft design environment’s key features are that it is modular, expandable, flexible, independent, and ...
• Aerodynamic interference for aero-engine installations 

  Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T. J.; Grech, Nicholas (AIAA, 2016-01-02)
• Aerodynamics of aero-engine installation 

  Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T. J.; Grech, Nicholas (AIAA, 2016-01-02)

  Small internal combustion engines, particularly those ranging in power from 1 kW to 10 kW, propel many remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) platforms that play an increasingly significant role in the Department of Defense. ...
• Flow distortion measurements in convoluted aero engine intakes 

  Zachos, Pavlos K.; MacManus, David G.; Chiereghin, Nicola (AIAA, 2015-06-19)

  The unsteady flow fields generated by convoluted aero engine intakes are major sources of instabilities that can compromise the performance of the down stream turbo machinery components. Hence, there exists a need for high ...
• Complex aero-engine intake ducts and dynamic distortion 

  MacManus, David G.; Chiereghin, Nicola; Gil-Prieto, Daniel; Zachos, Pavlos K. (AIAA, 2015-06-19)

  For many embedded and partially-embedded engine systems, the complexity of the flow field associated with convoluted intakes presents an area of notable research challenges. The convolution of the intake duct introduces ...
• The development of a simple method for drag estimation for wedge-like fairings in hypersonic flow 

  Roussel, Alexandre; Prince, Simon; Viguer, Matthieu; Kshitij, Abhinav; Stollery, John; Garry, Kevin (ICAS, 2016-09-30)

  The addition of wedge-like fairings onto the side of missiles and space launch vehicles, to shield devices such as cameras or reaction jet nozzles, creates additional drag, particularly when in supersonic/hypersonic flow. ...
• Assessment of thermo-electric power plants for rotorcraft application 

  Roumeliotis, Ioannis; Mourouzidis, Christos; Zafferetti, Mirko; Deniz, Unlu; Broca, Olivier; Pachidis, Vassilios (ASME, 2019-10-01)

  This paper assesses a parallel electric hybrid propulsion system utilizing simple and recuperated cycle gas turbine configurations. An adapted engine model capable to reproduce a turboshaft engine steady state and transient ...
• Metal additive manufacturing in the commercial aviation industry: A review 

  Gisario, Annamaria; Kazarian, Michele; Martina, Filomeno; Mehrpouya, Mehrshad (Elsevier, 2019-09-27)

  The applications of Additive Manufacturing (AM) have been grown up rapidly in various industries in the past few decades. Among them, aerospace has been attracted more attention due to heavy investment of the principal ...
• Parametric evaluation of S-CO2 Brayton cycles for bottoming applications 

  Brighenti, Giovanni; Anselmi, Eduardo; Zachos, Pavlos (2016-10-11)

  Parametric design studies for the preliminary assessment of physical footprint of Supercritical CO2 power plants are presented herein. The aim of the study is to quantify trade-offs between cycle efficiency and plant ...
• Development of an experimental S-CO2 loop for bottoming cycle applications 

  Anselmi, Eduardo; Zachos, Pavlos; Collins, Robert; Hassan, Mark (Unknown, 2016-10-11)

  This paper describes the design of a supercritical carbon dioxide [S-CO2] rig for bottoming power cycle applications. The final envisaged layout of the facility includes a fully coupled compressor-turbine system, a number ...
• Hydrocode modelling of water impact 

  De Vuyst, Tom (2003-03)

  This thesis addresses the problem of hydrocode modelling of water impact. Two facets that are of importance when numerically modelling the impact of metallic structures on water are metal anisotropy and water behaviour ...
• Vulnerability analysis of GPS receiver software 

  Gonzalez, G. Mori; Petrunin, Ivan; Zbikowski, Rafal; Voutsis, K.; Verdeguer Moreno, R. (IEEE, 2019-07-04)

  Satellite navigation systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS)makes it possible for users to find their relative or absolute position. Thanks to its mobility and reliability, the GPS is used in many civil and ...
• A framework to facilitate te leadership performance improvement in the healthcare sector: the case of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

  Algarni, Namshan (2018-03)

  In order to improve leadership performance and enhance effective leadership in the healthcare sector organisations in general and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in particular, this study proposes a theoretical framework ...
• A loss and deflection model for compressor blading and high negative incidence 

  Ferrer-Vidal Espana-Heredia, Luis Estefano; Schneider, Marc; Allegretti, Alessandro; Pachidis, Vassilios (ASME, 2019-09-25)

  While significant advances have come about for turbomachinery off-design performance characterisation using computational fluid dynamics, the need for quick performance estimates at challenging off-design conditions still ...
• A mimicking technique of back pressure in the hardware-in-the-loop simulation of a fuel control unit 

  Yuan, Yuan; Zhao, Zhiwen; Zhang, Tianhong (Sage, 2019-09-17)

  In the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation of the fuel control unit (FCU) for aero-engines, the back pressure has a great impact on the metered fuel, thus influencing the confidence of the simulation. During the practical ...

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