Publications related to Reciprocating engine

Estimating the non-dimensional energy of vortex rings by modelling their roll-up

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Guillaume de Guyon-Crozier

The non-dimensional energy of starting vortex rings typically converges to values around 0.33 when they are created by a piston-cylinder or a bluff body translating at a constant speed. To explore the limits of the universality of this value and to analyse ...

Cambridge University Press2022

Acoustic emission techniques for the detection of simulated failures in historical vehicles engines

Stefano Mischler, Alejandro Roda Buch, Laura Brambilla

Technical and industrial heritage artefacts are characterized by the presence of mechanisms. The possibility to activate, or reactivate, these mechanisms is an integral part of the cultural values of this kind of patrimony. The artefacts' functionality, ho ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis

Modern Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems use an integrated data processing engine that performs analytics on fresh data, which are ingested from a transactional engine. HTAP systems typically consider data freshness at design time, ...

2020

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis

Modern Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems use an integrated data processing engine that performs analytics on fresh data, which are ingested from a transactional engine. HTAP systems typically consider data freshness at design time, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A Product Engine for Energy-Efficient Execution of Binary Neural Networks Using Resistive Memories

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Xifan Tang, Edouard Giacomin, João Miguel Morgado Pereira Vieira

The need for running complex Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in edge devices, which are highly constrained in terms of computing power and energy, makes it important to execute such applications efficiently. ...

2019

Carbon Dioxide Capture From Internal Combustion Engine Exhaust Using Temperature Swing Adsorption

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

In order to reduce the CO2 emissions in the transportation sector, one can electrify the vehicle, switch to biofuel, or capture and store CO2 on board. In this study, integration of an on board CO2 capture and storage unit with an internal combustion engin ...

2019

Building Virtualization Engine: a Novel Approach Based on Discrete Event Simulation

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

This paper proposes and validates a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) engine for the Smart-Building (SB). It strives to virtualize the common elements found within it and integrates them transparently to an existing Building Management System (BMS), along wi ...

Ieee2016

A Scala Library for Testing Student Assignments on Concurrent Programming

Mikaël Mayer, Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

We present a lightweight library for testing concurrent Scala programs by systematically exploring multiple interleavings between user-specified operations on shared objects. Our library is targeted at beginners of concurrent programming in Scala, runs on ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Linear response to a heat-driven spin torque

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Francesco Antonio Vetrò, Christian Caspers, Lucas Fitoussi

The existence of a heat-driven spin torque is demonstrated using Co/Cu/Co spin valves embedded in metallic nanowires. Heat currents flowing in one direction or its opposite were obtained by heating optically one end or the other of the nanowires. The spin ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Improving Scalability of Symbolic Execution for Software with Complex Environment Interfaces

Stefan Bucur

Manual software testing is laborious and prone to human error. Yet, among practitioners, it is the most popular method for quality assurance. Automating the test case generation promises better effectiveness, especially for exposing corner-case bugs. Symbo ...

EPFL2015

H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis

Modern state-of-the-art database systems are designed around a single data storage layout. This is a fixed decision that drives the whole architectural design of a database system, i.e., row-stores, column-stores. However, none of those choices is a univer ...

2014

On The Strategies Towards Isothermal Gas Compression And Expansion

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

Isothermal compression/expansion is regarded as the most promising process in many applications and many researchers and inventors have tried different methods to achieve this goal. The current article first studies the gradual roadmap from adiabatic towar ...

2014

Microstructure of single crystal Ni-based superalloys during blade manufacturing process and creep deformation : a study using X-rays and neutrons

Stéphane Pierret

The aim of the thesis is to obtain more understanding about the influence of plastic deformation on the microstructural changes observed in single crystal (SX) Ni-based superalloys using diffraction techniques. This work was organised around two main probl ...

EPFL2012

Thermoeconomic Analysis of a Solar Enhanced Energy Storage Concept Based on Thermodynamic Cycles

Samuel Henchoz

Large scale energy storage may play an increasingly important role in the power generation and distribution sector, especially when large shares of renewable energies will have to be integrated into the electrical grid. Up to now pumped-hydro is the only t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Application of Photoluminescent Measurement Techniques for Quantitative Assessment of Turbine Film Cooling

Magnus Jonsson

Reduction of the specific fuel consumption of gas turbines can be achieved by maximizing the turbine inlet temperature. However, this requires a detailed understanding of the cooling performance in order to ensure safe and economical operation of the engin ...

EPFL2010

Experimental investigation of prechamber autoignition in a natural gas engine for cogeneration

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne, Michael Meier

A novel ignition concept based on autoignition in an unscavanged prechamber is currently being developed at the Laboratory for Industrial Energy Systems (LENI). On a single cylinder test engine a series of experimental runs (CR=8.5-14, =1-1.6, RPM=1150/150 ...

2009

New slip synthesis and theoretical approach of CVT slip control

Yves Rothenbühler

Today's vehicle must be efficient in terms of gas (CO2, NOx) emissions and fuel consumption. Due to improvements in material and oil, the continuous variable transmission (CVT) is now making a breakthrough in the automotive market. The CVT decouples the en ...

EPFL2009

Investigation of particles emitted from modern 2-stroke scooters

Philippe Buffat

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), combined with X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)—both single and tandem differential mobility analyzer (TDMA)—have been used to investigate particles emitted by two modern 2-stroke scooters with different mix ...

Elsevier2008

A Search Engine for QoS-enabled Discovery of Semantic Web Services

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth

Directory services are a genuine constituent of any distributed architecture which facilitate binding attributes to names and then querying this information, that is, announcing and discovering resources. In such contexts, especially in a business environm ...

2006

Thermo economic analysis for the optimal conceptual design of biomass gasification energy conversion systems

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, David Brown

This study addresses the thermo economic assessment of a biomass gasification, gas cleaning and energy conversion process, with particular attention given to tar control and the communication of the process design rationale. Product distributions were esti ...

2006