Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is considered as a promising technology for energy recovery from the waste heat rejected by internal combustion (IC) engines. However, such waste heat is normally contained in both coolant and exhaust gases at quite different temperatures. A single ORC system is usually unable to efficiently recover energy from both of these waste heat sources. A dual loop ORC...

This paper describes an application of Robust Design methodology in the transonic airfoil design. It has been observed that, minimizing the drag at a single design point (Mach number and angle of attack fixed), it is possible to find solutions characterized by poor offdesign performances (over-optimizing problem). For this reasons, the stability of the performances inside the range of operative...

The free Modelica library THERMOFLUID (see [2] and [11]) was developed for simulation of thermohydraulic applications, both for single-species applications like the water-steam cycle in a thermal power plant and for multi-species applications with gas mixtures. It has demonstrated its flexibility for modeling thermodynamic and process applications in a variety of industrial and academic project...

Introduction. The behavior of alluvial deposits this machine is illustrated in Figure 1. It subjected to fault movements in the underlying has been employed in a number of investigations to bedrock is of major concern for critical structures date, including piles (Scott eta!., 1977; Scott, located within fault zones. An understanding of 1979), ocean floor anchors (Tagaya et al., 1977), fault pr...