In order to harness the kinetic energy of marine currents, we propose a novel ocean-current turbine with a horizontal axis. The turbine can be moored to the seabed and function similarly to kites in a water flow. To operate such turbines in a marine current, the resulting rotor torque needs to be canceled. Therefore, the proposed turbine is designed with a float at its top and a counterweight a...

With increasing importance and complexity of memory managers, it becomes more and more important for garbage collector (GC) developers to possess the right tools capable of helping them track GC behaviour. GCspy, an adaptable and easily portable visualisation framework, was developed to answer this issue. Our aim of porting GCspy to Rotor was motivated by the desire to provide Rotor with an eff...

This paper introduces a procedure to model the dynamics of active slender structures with embedded actuators and sensors. The objective is to construct a loworder high-accuracy formulation for easy parameterization of the design space in nonlinear aeroelastic analysis. Main assumptions are small local strains and local rotations, large deflections and global rotations, quasielectrostatic behavi...