Browsing Department of Mechanical Engineering by Title
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Calculation of Dynamic Motions and Tensions in Towed Underwater Cables
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1994)A matrix method for mooring system analysis is extended to address the dynamic response of towed underwater systems. Key tools are equivalent linearization and small perturbation theory, and a pitching towfish model. ... -
Co-Design of Arbitrated Network Control Systems with Overrun Strategies
(2015-06-28)This paper addresses co-design of platform and control of multiple control applications in a network control system. Limited and shared resources among control and noncontrol applications introduce delays in transmitted ... -
Cooling of high-power-density computer components
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Heat Transfer Laboratory, [1968], 1968)This report summarizes work carried out during the first two years of a research program sponsored by IBM Corporation. This study has elucidated a number of the heat-transfer characteristics of several fluorochemicals which ... -
Correlation of maximum heat flux data for boiling of saturated liquids
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The correlation of nucleate boiling burn-out data
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Division of Industrial Cooperation, [1957], 1957)A dimensionless correlation is developed for nucleate boiling buzrnout data including the following ranges of variables. Fluids - Water Bensene n - Heptane n - Pentane Ethanol Pressure - 0.0045 to 0.96 of critical pressure ... -
Delay-Aware Control Designs of Wide-Area Power Networks: Proofs of the Results
(2017-04-07)The purpose of this document is to provide proofs of the results in Dibaji et al. (2017). -
A Delay-Aware Cyber-Physical Architecture for Wide-Area Control of Power Systems
(2015-06-28)In this paper we address the problem of widearea control of power systems in presence of different classes of network delays. We pose the control objective as an LQR minimization of the electro-mechanical states of the ... -
Description of boiling project burnout detector
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Heat Transfer Laboratory, [1957], 1957)Introduction: In order to effectively utilize the high heat flux available through the mechanism of nucleate boiling in forced convection heat transfer, it is of primary importance that the maximum flux or "burnout" ... -
Design and Manufacturing of Educational Fiber Extrusion Device and Smart Factory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Fiber Extrusion Device (FrED) is a desktop fiber extrusion system that mimics continuous fiber draw process for hands-on learning and/or laboratory experience on data acquisition, control system, and smart manufacturing. ... -
Design and Projected Performance of a Flapping Foil AUV
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2004-07)The design and construction of a biomimetic flapping foil autonomous underwater vehicle is detailed. The vehicle was designed as a proof of concept for the use of oscillating foils as the sole source of motive power for ... -
Designing-in of Quality Through Axiomatic Design
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1995-06)Decisions made during the design stage of product & process development profoundly affect product quality and process productivity. To aid in design decision making, a theoretical framework is advanced: the axiomatic ... -
The deterioration in heat transfer to fluids at super-critical pressure and high heat fluxes
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Engineering Projects Laboratory, [1968], 1968)Introduction: Several supercritical steam generators in the American Electric Power system have shown evidence of tube overheat in the lower furnance at the point where the water bulk temperature is about 670 0 F. The ... -
The deterioration in heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure and high heat fluxes
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Engineering Projects Laboratory, [1968], 1968)At slightly supercritical pressure and in the neighborhood of the pseudo-critical temperature (defined as the temperature corresponding to the peak in specific heat at the operating pressure), the heat transfer coefficient ... -
Dispersed flow film boiling
(Cambridge, Mass. : Heat Transfer Laboratory, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1980], 1980)Dispersed flow consists of small liquid droplets entrained in a flowing vapor. This flow regime can occur in cryogenic equipment, in steam generators, and during nuclear reactor loss of coolant accidents. A theoretical ... -
Drag reduction in fish-like locomotion
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)We present experimental force and power measurements demonstrating that the power required to propel an actively swimming, streamlined, fish-like body is significantly smaller than the power needed to tow the body straight ... -
Dryout droplet distribution and dispersed flow film boiling
(Cambridge, Mass. : Heat Transfer Laboratory, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1982], 1982)Dispersed flow film boiling is characterized by liquid-phase droplets entrained in a continuous vapor-phase flow. In a previous work at MIT, a model of dispersed flow heat transfer was developed, called the Local Conditions ... -
A Dynamic Market Mechanism for Integration of Renewables and Demand Response
(2015-04-21)The most formidable challenge in assembling a Smart Grid is the integration of a high penetration of renewables. Demand Response, a largely promising concept, is increasingly discussed as a means to cope with the intermittent ... -
The effect of nonuniform axial heat flux distribution on the critical heat flux
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, [1965], 1965)A systematic experimental and analytic investigation of the effect of nonuniform axial heat flux distribution on critical heat rilux was performed with water in the quality condition. Utilizing a model which ascribes the ... -
The effect of surface conditions on nuceate pool boiling heat transfer to sodium
(Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, [1965], 1965)A simplified theoretical model for bubble nucleation stability has been proposed, and an approximate stability criterion has been developed. This criterion contains both fluid and surfqce properties, and it predicts that ...
