Aeropropulsive Design Optimization Studies of a Blended Wing Body Aircraft

With the increasing demand for flights, the environmental impact of aviation is on the rise. To tackle this challenge, it is necessary to look into the design of unconventional aircraft configurations and engine design improvements to improve overall fuel efficiency. The Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft is one of the most promising...

Efficient Emitter Sampling for Spectral Path Tracing

Spectral Monte-Carlo methods are powerful physically-based techniques for simulating wavelength-dependent phenomena such as dispersion. However, compared to tristimulus rendering, they involve sampling the spectral domain, which adds substantial overhead, requiring significantly more samples for noise-free, realistic-looking renders. Thereby, we...

Microinverter for Residential PV Systems

Up to 5 kW PV installations microinverters are common alternatives for the typical string solar inverters. The main draw back of the technology is the slight higher initial cost, however, a more efficient energy generation can be achieved if one of the PV modules are operated optimally at the maximum power point. This work shows that converters...

Fatigue Crack Propagation in Additively Manufactured and Functionally Graded Inconel 718

Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, exemplifies the recently emerging processing methodologies that aim to substitute the conventional routes, such as to produce parts with complex geometries and eliminate expensive tooling. AM also allows high degree of freedom and rapid prototyping for functional part optimization. This...

MDO with composite aeroelastic tailoring

With the focus on the reduction of fossil fuel emissions, aircraft are continuously growing towards higher fuel efficiency. The traditional limits of aircraft performance can be surpassed through the use of composite materials which offer a reduction in aircraft weight. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of aircraft design, integration of...

Ethernet Circuit Failure Detection over Aggregated Trunks

With the increase in data-intensive research in recent years, the Ethernet circuit, which is a high speed point-to-point connection, can be used for transmitting large amounts of data between sites. Customers use the trunk port to connect to the operator network. It allows multiple Ethernet circuits to share the same trunk port by using the...

'Living on the Edge': Water and the city of Pune