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Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rengasami, D., Morvan, H., & Patrocinio Figueredo, G. (2018). Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569502

The use of sensor technology constantly gathering aircrafts' status data has promoted the rapid development of data-driven solutions in aerospace engineering. These methods assist, for instance, with determining appropriate actions for aircraft maint... Read More about Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review.

Multiphase CFD modeling of external oil flow from a journal bearing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Berthold, M., Morvan, H., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Rothwell, B. C., & Young, C. (2018). Multiphase CFD modeling of external oil flow from a journal bearing. In ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 1. Aircraft engines, Fans and blowers, Marine. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2018-77130

High loads and bearing life requirements make journal bearings a potential choice for use in high power, epicyclic gearboxes in jet engines. Particularly in a planetary configuration the kinematic conditions are complex. With the planet gears rotatin... Read More about Multiphase CFD modeling of external oil flow from a journal bearing.

SAS – SST simulations of the flow and heat transfer inside a square ribbed duct with artificial forcing (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Zacharzewski, P., Jefferson-Loveday, R. J., & Morvan, H. (2017). SAS – SST simulations of the flow and heat transfer inside a square ribbed duct with artificial forcing.

Scale Resolving Simulations (SRS) are emerging as a promising compromise of cost and accuracy for industrial simulations of flows inside turbine blade cooling systems as they represent a necessary increase of accuracy with respect to Reynolds Average... Read More about SAS – SST simulations of the flow and heat transfer inside a square ribbed duct with artificial forcing.

A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H., & Hibberd, S. (2017). A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers.

A robust 1D film hydrodynamic model has been sequentially coupled with a 1D core gas model and used to predict the instantaneous mean core gas speed, film interface shear stress and liquid film distribution within an idealised bearing chamber. This n... Read More about A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers.

Examples of user algorithms implementing ARAIM techniques for integrity performance prediction, procedures development and pre-flight operations (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Paternostro, S., Moore, T., Hill, C., Atkin, J., De Maere, G., & Morvan, H. (2017). Examples of user algorithms implementing ARAIM techniques for integrity performance prediction, procedures development and pre-flight operations. In 2016 8th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing (NAVITEC) (1-15). https://doi.org/10.1109/NAVITEC.2016.7849330

Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (ARAIM) is a new Aircraft Based Augmentation System (ABAS) technique, firstly presented in the two reports of the GNSS Evolutionary Architecture Study (GEAS). The ARAIM technique offers the opportunit... Read More about Examples of user algorithms implementing ARAIM techniques for integrity performance prediction, procedures development and pre-flight operations.

Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Bertola, L., Cox, T., Wheeler, P., Polenta, V., Garvey, S. D., & Morvan, H. (2017). Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch.

Electromagnetic launch systems have been proposed for military applications to accelerate jet planes on aircraft carriers. This paper proposes the implementation of similar technology to aid civil aircraft take-off, which can provide significant econ... Read More about Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch.

Minimization of electro-mechanical interaction with posicast strategies for more-electric aircraft applications (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ahumada, C., Garvey, S. D., Yang, T., Kulsangcharoen, P., Wheeler, P., & Morvan, H. (2016). Minimization of electro-mechanical interaction with posicast strategies for more-electric aircraft applications.

This paper studies strategies to minimize the electromechanical interaction (EMI) within aircraft power systems. With the growth of electrical power on-board aircraft, the interaction between the electrical systems and the engine core will become sig... Read More about Minimization of electro-mechanical interaction with posicast strategies for more-electric aircraft applications.

Design study and scaled experiment of induction and synchronous motor for civil application of electromagnetic aircraft launch system (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bertola, L., Cox, T., Wheeler, P., Garvey, S. D., & Morvan, H. (2016). Design study and scaled experiment of induction and synchronous motor for civil application of electromagnetic aircraft launch system.

The engine size of modern passenger transport aircraft is principally determined by take-off conditions, since initial acceleration requires maximum engine power. An Electromagnetic Launch (EML) system could provide some or all of the energy required... Read More about Design study and scaled experiment of induction and synchronous motor for civil application of electromagnetic aircraft launch system.

Evaluation of a volume of fluid CFD methodology for the oil film thickness estimation in an aero-engine bearing chamber (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bristot, A., Morvan, H., & Simmons, K. (2016). Evaluation of a volume of fluid CFD methodology for the oil film thickness estimation in an aero-engine bearing chamber.

The presented work aims to identify a Volume of Fluid (VOF) CFD approach for the transient simulation of air/oil flows inside an aero-engine bearing chamber. Typically VOF requires relatively fine grids and consequently small time-steps to sufficient... Read More about Evaluation of a volume of fluid CFD methodology for the oil film thickness estimation in an aero-engine bearing chamber.

The importance of considering pushback time and arrivals when routing departures on the ground at airports (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Stergianos, C., Atkin, J., Schittekat, P., Nordlander, T. E., Gerada, C., & Morvan, H. (in press). The importance of considering pushback time and arrivals when routing departures on the ground at airports.

With the constant increase in air traffic, airports are facing capacity problems. Many airports are increasingly interested in utilising optimisation methods for specific airport processes. However, many such processes do happen in parallel, and maxi... Read More about The importance of considering pushback time and arrivals when routing departures on the ground at airports.

Evaluation of advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring performance on predicted aircraft trajectories (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paternostro, S., Moore, T., Hill, C., Atkin, J., & Morvan, H. (2016). Evaluation of advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring performance on predicted aircraft trajectories.

The development of new GNSS constellations, and the modernization of existing ones, has increased the availability and the number of satellites-in-view, paving the way for new navigation algorithms and techniques. These offer the opportunity to impro... Read More about Evaluation of advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring performance on predicted aircraft trajectories.

Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Baydu, C. A., Simmons, K., & Morvan, H. (2014). Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing. In Volume 5C: Heat Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2014-26145

The efficiency of power transmission systems is increasingly targeted with a view to reducing parasitic losses and improving specific fuel consumption (SFC). One of the effects associated with such parasitic losses is the successive compression and e... Read More about Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing.