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Light and sound waves can move objects through the transfer of linear or angular momentum, which has led to the development of optical and acoustic tweezers, with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to quantum optics. Although impressive manip ...

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Optical manipulation at the micro- nano-scale is a fascinating topic due to its inherent non-invasive properties and multifaceted applications in various fields such as biology, sensing, micro-fluidics, and micro- nano-robotics. This thesis involves intens ...

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Foucault pendulum properties of spherical oscillators

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In 1851 Léon Foucault created a sensation with his pendulum providing a direct demonstration of the turning of the Earth. This simple device consists of a pendulum which is launched in a purely planar orbit. Following Mach's principle of inertia, the mass ...

euspen2020

Foucault pendulum properties of spherical oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Patrick Robert Flückiger

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On raw inertial measurements in dynamic networks

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Finite Particle Flow Simulation of Free Jet Deviation by Rotating Pelton Buckets

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A Wearable System Of Micromachined Piezoelectric Cantilevers Coupled To A Rotational Oscillating Mass For On-Body Energy Harvesting

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IEEE2014

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Ieee2013

High-speed CMOS magnetic angle sensor based on miniaturized circular vertical Hall devices

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We present a high-speed CMOS integrated magnetic angle sensor consisting of two 8-contact circular vertical Hall devices (CVHD). The biasing and sensing of the Hall voltage is rotated clockwise for the first device, and counter clockwise for the second one ...

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Large-eddy simulation of a very large wind farm in a stable atmospheric boundary layer

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American Institute of Physics2011

Transient Behavior of variable speed pump-turbine units

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This paper presents the modeling, simulation and analysis of the dynamic behavior of a fictitious 2x320 MW variable speed pump-turbine power plant including hydraulic system, electrical installations, rotating inertias and control systems. First, the model ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2008

Effect of exchange coupling on coherently controlled spin-dependent transition rates

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The effect of exchange interactions within spin pairs on spin-dependent transport and recombination rates through localized states in semiconductors during coherent electron-spin resonant excitation is studied theoretically. It is shown that for identical ...

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Dynamic Behavior of a 2 Variable Speed Pump-Turbine Power Plant

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This paper presents the modeling, simulation and analysis of the dynamic behavior of a fictitious 2times320 MW variable speed pump-turbine power plant including hydraulic system, electrical equipments, rotating inertias and control systems using the softwa ...

2008

Hydroacoustic modelling and numerical simulation of unsteady operation of hydroelectric systems

Christophe Nicolet

Hydropower represented in 1999 19% of the world electricity production and the absolute production is expected to grow considerably during the next 30 years. Francis turbines play a major role in the hydroelectric production due to their extended range of ...

EPFL2007

Turbine Speed Governor Parameters Validation in Islanded Production

François Avellan, Jean-Jacques Simond, Philippe Allenbach, Christophe Nicolet, Basile Kawkabani, Bob Greiveldinger

The transient behavior of hydroelectric power plants is of high interest for ensuring stability of islanded electrical power networks. Therefore, it is suitable to determine and validate the set of parameters of a turbine speed governor using a realistic s ...

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Experimental and Numerical Analysis or Free Surface Flows in a Rotating Bucket

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The aim of this study was to provide a complete experimental and numerical analysis of the flow in a rotating Pelton bucket. For the experimental analysis, several functioning points have been used in order to study differences which may occur in various s ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2002

Détection vibratoire de l'érosion de cavitation des turbines Francis

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