4 papers
A reduced-scale autonomous morphing vehicle prototype with enhanced aerodynamic efficiency
Peng Zhang, Branson Blaylock
Road vehicles contribute to significant levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A potential strategy for improving their aerodynamic efficiency and reducing emissions is through…
Dynamical Mode Recognition of Turbulent Flames in a Swirl-stabilized Annular Combustor by a Time-series Learning Approach
Tao Yang, Weiming Xu, Liangliang Xu +1
Thermoacoustic instability in annular combustors, essential to aero engines and modern gas turbines, can severely impair operational stability and efficiency, accurately recognizin…
Stabilization Analysis and Mode Recognition of Kerosene Supersonic Combustion: A Deep Learning Approach Based on Res-CNN-beta-VAE
Weiming Xu, Tao Yang, Chang Liu +2
The scramjet engine is a key propulsion system for hypersonic vehicles, leveraging supersonic airflow to achieve high specific impulse, making it a promising technology for aerospa…
Steam Turbine Anomaly Detection: An Unsupervised Learning Approach Using Enhanced Long Short-Term Memory Variational Autoencoder
Weiming Xu, Peng Zhang
As core thermal power generation equipment, steam turbines incur significant expenses and adverse effects on operation when facing interruptions like downtime, maintenance, and dam…