Understanding mechanisms of promiscuity is increasingly important from a fundamental and application point of view. As to enzyme structural dynamics, more promiscuous enzymes generally have been recognized to also be more flexible. However, examples for the opposite rec...

AbstractBackground: most methods of uncertainty quantification for digital image correlation are orientated towards the research environment and it remains difficult to quantify all of the uncertainty introduced along the measurement chain in an industrial environment. ...

Abstract The heat stability of egg white stabilised emulsions was studied in the presence of monoglycerides, lecithin and rhamnolipid biosurfactants. Rhamnolipids have a greater effect on the reduction of emulsion droplet particle size than either lecithin or monoglycer...

Abstract Results of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are reported on a towed fully-appended notional submarine model. Computations are validated against data in the literature, dealing with both global loads and the vortices originating from the sail. The ana...

Large eddy simulations are presented on the wake flow of a notional propeller (the INSEAN E1658), upstream of a NACA0020 hydrofoil of infinite spanwise extent, mimicking propeller–rudder interaction. Results show that the flow physics is dominated by the interaction bet...

Abstract Large Eddy Simulations are reported on the flow around a rudder operating in the wake of a propeller. Results demonstrate the production of important spanwise flows within the boundary layer on the hydrofoil, mainly tied to the behavior of the largest coherent ...

The paper discusses an extension of μ (or structured singular value), a well-established technique from robust control for the study of linear systems subject to structured uncertainty, to nonlinear polynomial problems. Robustness is a multifaceted concept in the nonlin...

IoT deployments for smart cities and smart buildings have been multiplying exponentially in recent years, benefiting from a steady rise in the number of new technologies that deal with the underlying networking and application challenges in indoor and outdoor spaces. Du...

s main dimensions and later on in the second stage (local optimization) the optimal ship hull form, minimizing the required propulsion power for the set operational specifications and design constraints. Numerical results of speed-power performance for a prototype catam...

This article proposes a framework which allows the study of stability robustness of equilibria of a nonlinear system in the face of parametric uncertainties from the point of view of bifurcation theory. In this context, a branch of equilibria is stable if bifurcations (...