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A coupled Euler-Lagrange CFD modelling of droplets-to-film (2017)
Journal Article
Adeniyi, A. A., Morvan, H. P., & Simmons, K. A. (in press). A coupled Euler-Lagrange CFD modelling of droplets-to-film. Aeronautical Journal, 121(1246), https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2017.107

In this paper, a droplet to film interaction model technique is presented. In the proposed approach, the liquid and gas continua are modelled using an enhanced Volume of Fluid (VoF) technique while the droplets are tracked using a Lagrangian framewor... Read More about A coupled Euler-Lagrange CFD modelling of droplets-to-film.

Physiological parameter response to variation of mental workload (2017)
Journal Article
Marinescu, A., Sharples, S., Campbell Ritchie, A., Sanchez Lopez, T., McDowell, M., & Morvan, H. (in press). Physiological parameter response to variation of mental workload. Human Factors, https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720817733101

Previous studies have examined how individual physiological measures respond to changes in mental demand and subjective reports of mental workload. This study explores the response of multiple physiological parameters, measured simultaneously and qua... Read More about Physiological parameter response to variation of mental workload.

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.

Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Amara, Z., Clark, C. A., Xu, Z., Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H. P., …George, M. W. (2017). Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory. Organic Process Research and Development, 21(7), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00153

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We report the construction and use of a vortex reactor which uses a rapidly rotating cylinder to generate Taylor vortices for continuous flow thermal and photochemical reactions. The reactor is designed to operate un... Read More about Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory.

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.

Experimental study of the pressure loss in aero-engine air-oil separators (2017)
Journal Article
Cordes, A. L., Pychynski, B. T., Schwitzke, C. C., Bauer, D. H., de Carvalho, A. T. P., & Morvan, B. H. P. (in press). Experimental study of the pressure loss in aero-engine air-oil separators. Aeronautical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2017.41

The results of extensive experimental testing of an aero-engine air-oil separator are presented and discussed. The study focuses on the pressure loss of the system. Oil enters the device in the form of dispersed droplets. Subsequently, separation occ... Read More about Experimental study of the pressure loss in aero-engine air-oil separators.

Thermal Design of Linear Induction and Synchronous Motors for Electromagnetic Launch of Civil Aircraft (2017)
Journal Article
Bertola, L., Cox, T., Wheeler, P., Garvey, S. D., & Morvan, H. (2017). Thermal Design of Linear Induction and Synchronous Motors for Electromagnetic Launch of Civil Aircraft. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 45(7), 1146-1153. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2017.2697941

The engine size of modern passenger transport aircraft is principally determined by take-off conditions, since initial acceleration requires maximum engine power. An elec¬tromagnetic launch (EML) system could provide some or all of the energy require... Read More about Thermal Design of Linear Induction and Synchronous Motors for Electromagnetic Launch of Civil Aircraft.

Pore-scale numerical investigation of pressure drop behaviour across open-cell metal foams (2017)
Journal Article
de Carvalho, T. P., Morvan, H., Hargreaves, D. M., Oun, H., & Kennedy, A. (2017). Pore-scale numerical investigation of pressure drop behaviour across open-cell metal foams. Transport in Porous Media, 117(2), 311-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-017-0835-y

The development and validation of a grid-based pore-scale numerical modelling methodology applied to five different commercial metal foam samples is described. The 3-D digital representation of the foam geometry was obtained by the use of X-ray micro... Read More about Pore-scale numerical investigation of pressure drop behaviour across open-cell metal foams.

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.