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Energy integration on a gasoline engine for a vehicular application

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the ORC as a ...

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Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

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Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Energy Integration on a Gasoline Engine for Efficiency Improvement

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

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Ronan Boulic, Benoît Le Callennec, Mentar Mahmudi, Pawan Kumar Harish

In this paper we present an intuitive tool suitable for 2D artists using touch-enabled pen tablets. An artist-oriented tool should be easy-to-use, real-time, versatile, and locally refinable. Our approach uses an interactive system for 3D character posing ...

Elsevier2016

Bipolar Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower: Do We Need to Modify the Traditional Classification?

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Davide Pavanello

We present and discuss current waveforms associated with 13 bipolar lightning flashes recorded at the Santis Tower during the period from June 2010 to January 2015. During this period, a total of 427 flashes were recorded, of which 13 (3%) were classified ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Front-crawl stroke descriptors variability assessment for skill characterisation

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Grégoire Millet

The goal of this article is to character ise front-crawl swimming skill based on variability pattern of technique descriptors. Nine national level and nine recreational swimmers performed three 300 m trials in a 50 m outdoor pool, at 70%, 80% and 90% of th ...

Taylor & Francis2016