Each New Years’ Day, the Cal Poly Rose Float presents a flower-covered float to the world at the Tournament of Roses parade. This floral display, paired with moving mechanical animations, shows off Cal Poly to the world. This project strove to keep Cal Poly on the cutting edge of technology both in parade floats, and in engineering, by creating a c...
HEAT-grenades are wing-stabilized grenades using shaped charge technology. Theshaped charge is a method, producing a jet-beam, with the use of a copper linerin which the aim is to focus the detonation energy to be able to penetrate armourand structures. This jet-beam is only eective under a rotational frequency of 15Hz, any frequency above this and...
Methanol is a promising fuel for spark ignition engines because of its high octane number, high octane sensitivity, high heat of vaporization and high laminar flame speed. To further boost the efficiency of methanol engines, the use of waste heat for driving fuel reforming was considered. This study explores the possibility of the reformed-exhaust ...
Drip irrigation under plastic mulch is a common agricultural practice for oasis agroecosystems in the extensive arid regions of northwest China, and it is widely used to improve agricultural production by suppressing soil evaporation. The widespread application of plastic mulch has also obviously altered land characteristics and the partitioning of...
Recent developments in uncertainty quantification show that a full inversion of model parameters is not always necessary to forecast the range of uncertainty of a specific prediction in Earth sciences. Instead, Bayesian evidential learning (BEL) uses a set of prior models to derive a direct relationship between data and prediction. This recent tech...
A colloidal particle immersed in a bath of bacteria is a typical example of a passive particle in an active bath. To model this, we take an overdamped harmonically trapped particle subjected to a thermal and a non-equilibrium noise arising from the active bath. The harmonic well can be attributed to a laser trap or to the small amplitude motion of ...
A colloidal particle immersed in a bath of bacteria is a typical example of a passive particle in an active bath. To model this, we take an overdamped harmonically trapped particle subjected to a thermal and a non-equilibrium noise arising from the active bath. The harmonic well can be attributed to a laser trap or to the small amplitude motion of ...
A study regarding the linear burning rates of strands of blended liquid monopropellants was conducted in a pressurized vessel. The blends consisted of the monopropellant isopropyl nitrate (IPN) and the desensitizer dibutyl sebacate (DBS) while an established monopropellant Otto fuel II (OF-II) was also tested. Additional experiments were performed ...
A study regarding the linear burning rates of strands of blended liquid monopropellants was conducted in a pressurized vessel. The blends consisted of the monopropellant isopropyl nitrate (IPN) and the desensitizer dibutyl sebacate (DBS) while an established monopropellant Otto fuel II (OF-II) was also tested. Additional experiments were performed ...
The containment of a nuclear reactor acts as the ultimate barrier for radionuclides to be leaked in the environment. Severe accidents in nuclear reactors may result in the pressurization of the containment and may provide different potential leak paths. So, to enhance the safety of new designs of Indian pressurized heavy water reactors, an addition...
