High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions. The three critical flight dynamics parameters are the angles of rotation in three dimensions about the vehicle`s center of mass, known as pitch, roll and yaw (quite different from their use as Tait-Bryan angles).
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Flight envelope protection is a human machine interface extension of an aircraft’s control system that prevents the pilot of an aircraft from making control commands that would force the aircraft to exceed its structural and aerodynamic operating limits. It is used in some form in all modern commercial fly-by-wire aircraft. Its advantage is that it restricts pilots in emergency situations so they can react quickly without endangering the safety of their aircraft. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This listing of flight altitude records are the records set for the highest aeronautical flights conducted in the atmosphere, set since the age of ballooning and onwards.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Aircraft flight control surfaces allow a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective set of flight controls was a critical advance in the development of the aircraft. Early efforts at fixed-wing aircraft design succeeded in generating sufficient lift to get the aircraft off the ground, but once aloft, the aircraft proved uncontrollable, often with disastrous results. The development of effective flight controls is what allowed stable flight. This article describes controls used on a fixed wing aircraft of conventional design. Other fixed wing aircraft configurations may use different control surfaces but the basic principles remain. The controls (stick and rudder) for rotary wing aircraft...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-7495-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
A Flight Level (FL) is a standard nominal altitude of an aircraft, in hundreds of feet. This altitude is calculated from the International standard pressure datum of 1013.25 hPa (29.92 inHg), the average sea-level pressure, and therefore is not necessarily the same as the aircraft's true altitude either above mean sea level or above ground level. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating aerodynamic lift, propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement, without direct support from any surface.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Flight Information Display system is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or TV screens in order to display arrivals and departures flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport terminal. A virtual version of a FIDS can also be found on most airport websites and teletext systems. In large airports, there are different sets of FIDS for each terminal or even each major airline. FID systems are used to assist passengers during air travel and people who want to pick-up passengers after the flight. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1326-5190-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A flight recorder is a recorder placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of an aircraft accident or incident. For this reason, recorders are required to be capable of surviving the conditions likely to be encountered in a severe aircraft accident. They are typically specified to withstand an impact of 3400 g and temperatures of over 1,000 °C (1,832 °F) (as required by EUROCAE ED-112). There are two common types of flight recorder, the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). In some cases, the two recorders may be combined in a single FDR/CVR unit....
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Flintlock is the general term for any firearm based on the flintlock mechanism. The term may also apply to the mechanism itself. Introduced about 1630, the flintlock rapidly replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies, such as the matchlock and wheellock mechanisms. It continued to be in common use for over two centuries, replaced by percussion cap and, later, cartridge-based systems in the early-to-mid 19th century. Although long superseded by other developments flintlock firearms have enjoyed some popularity with black powder shooting enthusiasts. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where bottom-mounted towers are not feasible. Locating wind farms out at sea can reduce visual pollution whilst providing better accommodation for fishing and shipping lanes. In addition, the wind is typically more consistent and stronger over the sea, due to the absence of topographic features that disrupt wind flow.
This book is a rich and excellent resource for designers, who are challenged with analog and mixed-signal VLSI design issues due to the increased downscaling trend in the CMOS technology. Even though such a trend empowers the designers to achieve high element densities for VLSI circuits, it also requires less power consumption for low-power reconfigurable systems and imposes substantial design challenges for analog and mixed-signal circuits. Traditional approaches such as calibration, trimming, and layout techniques are not cost-effective. Furthermore, employing such techniques to improve linearity, and circumvent noise and distortion issues in the analog domain proves to be a daunting task due to the lower supply voltage and increased...
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Float Glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, typically tin, although lead and various low melting point alloys were used in the past. This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and very flat surfaces. Modern windows are made from float glass. Most float glass is soda-lime glass, but relatively minor quantities of specialty borosilicate and flat panel display glass are also produced using the float glass process. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore industry for the processing and storage of oil and gas. A FPSO vessel is designed to receive oil or gas produced from nearby platforms or subsea template, process it, and store it until oil or gas can be offloaded onto a tanker or transported through a pipeline. FPSOs are preferred in frontier offshore regions as they are easy to install, and do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export oil and gas. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used to store oil only is referred to as a floating storage and offloading...
ISBN: 978-6-1323-1862-6
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Accurate spatial and temporal information of floods are highly important for economic loss estimation and to undertake various measures for flood disaster mitigation. A distributed hydrologic model is an effective tool to generate such information at high spatio-temporal resolutions. Flood loss estimation is required to facilitate the assessment of benefits of flood protection. An integrated model for flood simulation and loss estimation can play an important role in flood risk analysis. Very little academic literature exists on flood loss modeling. This book presents the development and application of an integrated and distributed model for inundation simulation and damage estimation for real-world application at river basin scale. The...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-3483-4
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida; in the past, it has been a Class I railroad. It is currently owned by the Fortress Investment Group, which also controls short-line conglomerate RailAmerica. The FEC is renowned for building the first railroad bridges to Key West, that have since been rebuilt into road bridges for vehicle traffic and are now known as the Overseas Highway. It was originally known as the Jacksonville, St. Augustine Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1308-2516-4
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The dynamic environment in bioreactors is known to affect tissue development in vitro. Chondrocytes, the building blocks of articular cartilage, for example, are stimulated by mechanical stresses such as shear. On the other hand, high shear can damage cells. Therefore, the optimization of bioreactor design and operating conditions necessitates the control of the shear stress environment. This book focuses on the formulation of relationships between tissue growth and the local shear stress in the context of the tissue engineering of cartilage in spinner-flask bioreactors. The analysis consists of the characterization of the flow in a model bioreactor, the measurement of glycosaminoglycan synthesis in a prototype bioreactor operating under...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-6226-4
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Regenerative flow compressors are dynamic machines capable of producing high heads at very low flow rates. With comparable tip speed, they can produce heads equivalent to that of several centrifugal stages from a single rotor. They have found many applications for duties requiring high heads at low flow rates but the compression process is usually with very low efficiency which is their major drawback. Even though there are several factors that can be considered to improve the efficiency of these machines in this book various models will be developed with different blade and flow channel geometries to investigate their effect on performance. Details of CFD analysis on the models of the compressor, using a commercial software...
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Flow-induced Crystallization (FIC) is an important area in polymer processing and has since a long time been researched intensively. Here, the FIC study extends into the high flow rate range, comparable to that encountered in real processing, and considers two main flow types: shear and elongational. The second topic is to investigate the effects of several molecular parameters on the crystallization behaviour. Polybutene-1 (PB-1) was chosen as the research material because of its relatively slow crystallization kinetics, allowing observations to be made without too much difficulty. It is the aim of this book to improve the knowledge concerning FIC and suggest an empirical model that is able to represent the material behaviour well....
ISBN: 978-3-6391-3752-1
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Flow-like mass movements are among the most severe natural hazards. They often cause catastrophic consequences when involving pyroclastic soils. These soils are widespread all over the world, also in very high populated regions. Modelling the triggering mechanisms of these landslides is a fundamental step for the hazard assessment. Several approaches are available which, however, must be systematically checked through their application to well documented case histories. In this PhD Dissertation (University of Salerno, 2006) a general discussion is provided for these phenomena. Then, a case study is selected from Southern Italy, where huge rainfall-induced flow- like mass movements caused 159 victims in May 1998. Based on geology,...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-1566-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
The fluctuation theorem (FT) which originated from statistical mechanics deals with the relative probability that the entropy of a system which is currently away from thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e., maximum entropy) will increase or decrease over a given amount of time. While the second law of thermodynamics predicts that the entropy of an isolated system should tend to increase until it reaches equilibrium, it became apparent after the discovery of statistical mechanics that the second law is only a statistical one, suggesting that there should always be some nonzero probability that the entropy of an isolated system will eventually decrease; the fluctuation theorem precisely quantifies this probability. Данное издание...
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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication technology has the potential to resolve the bottleneck in traffic capacity for future wireless networks. Applying MIMO techniques to mobile communication systems, the problem of channel fading between the transmitters and receivers, which results in received signal strength fluctuations, is inevitable. This book provides some analytical methodologies to investigate the variation of MIMO channels, based on some mathematical results of Brownian motion. In particular, accurate analytical approximations for the level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) of the several MIMO channel metrics are derived. Also, the temporal behavior of MIMO channels is studied via Markov model...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-5071-3
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Nowadays, fluid-structure interaction problems are a great challenge of different fields in engineering and applied sciences. Wind flow and structural motion may lead to aeroelastic instabilities on constructions such as long-span bridges, high-rise buildings and light-weight roof structures. Biomechanical applications are interested in the study of blood flow through large arteries, where membrane deformations interact with incompressible fluids. In the structural part of this work, a new methodology for the analysis of geometrically nonlinear orthotropic membrane and rotation-free shell elements is developed. The fluid portion of this work is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which are modeled by stabilized...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-9356-7
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Stability analysis was performed for Secure Transportable Autonomous Reactor – Liquid Metal (STAR-LM) fast reactor which included the effects of axial thermal conduction through lead bismuth eutectic (LBE) along its direction of flow. The results suggested that fluid axial heat conduction in natural circulation loop should be considered only when the modified Peclet number is in the order of one or below, which is significantly smaller than the practical value (100,000 in the specified loop) of liquid metal natural circulation systems. Therefore, it is appropriate to neglect fluid axial heat conduction effect in the thermal hydraulics analysis related to liquid metal natural circulation cooled nuclear reactors. However, at low heating...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9556-9
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