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Thanassis Mpimis, Theodore T. Kapsis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos and Vassilis Gikas
Satellite positioning lies within the very core of numerous Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Future Internet applications. With the emergence of connected vehicles, the performance requirements of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) ar...
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José D. Hoyos, Jesús H. Jiménez, Camilo Echavarría, Juan P. Alvarado and Germán Urrea
An aero-structural algorithm to reduce the energy consumption of a propeller-driven aircraft is developed through a propeller design method coupled with a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). A wide range of propeller parameters is considered in the optimi...
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Evangelos S. Filippas, George P. Papadakis and Kostas A. Belibassakis
Flapping foils located beneath or to the side of the hull of the ship can be used as unsteady thrusters, augmenting ship propulsion in waves. The basic setup is composed of a horizontal wing, which undergoes an induced vertical motion due to the ship?s r...
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Noriyuki Sasaki, S. Kuribayashi, M. Fukazawa and Mehmet Atlar
This paper presents an investigation on the scale effects associated with the powering performance of a Gate Rudder System (GRS) which was recently introduced as a novel energy-saving propulsion and maneuvring device. This new system was applied for the ...
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Vincent S. Neary, Seongho Ahn, Bibiana E. Seng, Mohammad Nabi Allahdadi, Taiping Wang, Zhaoqing Yang and Ruoying He
Best practices and international standards for determining n-year return period extreme wave (sea states) conditions allow wave energy converter designers and project developers the option to apply simple univariate or more complex bivariate extreme valu...
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