A framework for preliminary large-scale urban wind energy potential assessment: Roof-mounted wind turbines
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Heavenly Bodies RSVP
The purpose of the Heavenly Bodies RSVP project was to design and fabricate planet props, as well as a mechanism by which they could be raised and lowered in California Polytechnic State University’s Pavilion theater. The project team was comprised of four fourth year mechanical engineering students: Allison Turnbaugh, Braden Lockwood, Jack Boulwar...
Solid stress, competition for space and cancer: The opposing roles of mechanical cell competition in tumour initiation a...
Published in Seminars in cancer biology
The regulation of cell growth, cell proliferation and cell death is at the basis of the homeostasis of tissues. While they can be regulated by intrinsic and genetic factors, their response to external signals emanating from the local environment is also essential for tissue homeostasis. Tumour initiation and progression is based on the misregulatio...
Mechani-Kits Senior Design Project
Studies suggest that when designed and executed well, hands-on activities can enhance student understanding of key mechanics concepts. Current products are expensive and typically not designed to meet a variety of learning objectives. Through the Mechanics of Inclusion and Inclusivity in Mechanics grant, the Cal Poly Physics and Engineering Departm...
Thermo-acoustic Instabilities in the PRECCINSTA combustor investigated using a compressible LES-pdfApproach
This work predicts the evolution of self-excited thermo-acoustic instabilities in a gas turbine model combustor using large eddy simulation. The applied flow solver is fully compressible and comprises a transported sub-grid probability density function approach in conjunction with the Eulerian stochastic fields method. An unstable operating conditi...
Eliminating senescent chondrogenic progenitor cells enhances chondrogenesis under intermittent hydrostatic pressure for ...
...Published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy
BackgroundOsteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of limb dysfunction, and distraction arthroplasty which generates intermittent hydrostatic pressure (IHP) is an effective approach for OA treatment. However, the result was not always satisfactory and the reasons remained unresolved. Because aging is recognized as an important risk factor for OA and ch...
Effect of geometrical confinement on the flow of soft microgel particle pastes
In this paper, we determine the effect of confinement on the shear flow of concentrated soft microgel particle suspensions. Utilizing a flexure-based microgap rheometer (FMR), aqueous suspensions of swollen P(NIPAM-co-AA) microgel particles of 4μ m diameter at different volume fractions larger than 64 vol% are subjected to shearing deformations bet...
Expanded graphite - Paraffin composite phase change materials: Effect of particle size on the composite structure and pr...
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Expanded graphite (EG) is highly thermally conductive and has a porous structure, making it an ideal candidate for shape stabilisation of phase change materials (PCMs). We investigated the effect of EG size on the structure and properties of EG based paraffin composite PCMs for which no reports have been found in the literature. Large EG particles ...
Expanded graphite - Paraffin composite phase change materials: Effect of particle size on the composite structure and pr...
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Expanded graphite (EG) is highly thermally conductive and has a porous structure, making it an ideal candidate for shape stabilisation of phase change materials (PCMs). We investigated the effect of EG size on the structure and properties of EG based paraffin composite PCMs for which no reports have been found in the literature. Large EG particles ...
