In the present paper, the idea of braking energy regeneration and reusing that energy during acceleration for a refuse truck is comprehended. According to their driving cycle, the refuse trucks have a good potential for braking energy regeneration. On the other hand, hydraulic hybrid is a powertrain with high power density which is appropriate for energy regeneration. In the primary stage of th...

In plunging jet flows and at hydraulic jumps, large quantities of air are entrained at the intersection of the impinging flow and the receiving body of water. The air bubbles are entrained into a turbulent shear layer and strong interactions take place between the air bubble advection/diffusion process and the momentum shear region. New air-water flow experiments were conducted with two free sh...

Model checking is shown to be an effective tool in validating the behavior of a fault tolerant embedded spacecrafi controllel: The case study presented here shows that by judiciously abstracting away extraneous complexity, the state space of the model could be exhaustively searched allowing critical functional requirements to be validated down to the design level. Abstracting away detail not ge...

This paper depicts the structural design of a novel water-jet-based spherical underwater robot. The propulsion system is made up of four water-jet thrusters and 8 steering servo motors which can adjust the polydirectional shift of thrusters nozzle to achieve 4-degrees-of-freedom (4-DOF) motion. Every two thrusters nozzles formed an angle of 90 degree in one plane. A bilayer structure was adopte...

Most of the long-reach inspection devices developed so far have a limitation in the reduction of their diameter when their length is increased. This limitation is due to the technology used to provide the actuation to the system. The use of water-jet as propulsion source is promising to be a solution for this problem. Currently different devices use water-jet as propulsion. However, none of the...

Salps are barrel-shaped marine invertebrates that swim by jet propulsion. Morphological variations among species and life-cycle stages are accompanied by differences in swimming mode. The goal of this investigation was to compare propulsive jet wakes and swimming performance variables among morphologically distinct salp species (Pegea confoederata, Weelia (Salpa) cylindrica, Cyclosalpa sp.) and...

The utilization of renewable energies as an alternative for fossil fuels is considerably growing due to an increasing environmental concern and exhaustion of fossil fuels [1-3]. Transportation electrification is one way to replace or reduce fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. Several propulsion systems including hybrid electric vehicles and plug in hybrid electric vehicles have been int...

ABSTRACT Pulsatile jet propulsion is a common swimming mode used by diverse array of aquatic taxa from chordates to cnidarians. This locomotion has interested both biologists and engineers for over century. A central issue understanding the important features jet-propelling animals determine how animal interacts with surrounding fluid. Much our knowledge come simple theoretical approximations p...