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Novel Axisymmetric Diffusion Bonded Recuperator for Gas Turbines
No full textThe small gas turbines systems, arbitrary categorized as microturbines (5-200 kW) and miniturbines (200-500 kW) are the current most economical solution for the distributed power generation market. The thermal efficiency of such microturbines without and with a recuperator is about 20 and 40% respectively, thus a recuperator is mandatory to reach higher cycle efficiencies. However, the recuperator accounts for about 25-30% of the turbine total cost and its temperature and pressure are constrained depending on the material and construction method, being the bottleneck of the improvement and advancement of this kind of power generation plant. Thus, the actual focus is to develop high performance recuperators able to withstand high temperatures and pressure at minimum cost. There are several different recuperators present on the market, each with their own heat transfer surface and manufacturing method, but all present drawbacks and are relatively old compared to the actual manufacturing methods. For instance, the rectangular offset strip fin geometry, which is one of the highest performance surfaces, is expensive to manufacture and weak to withstand temperature and pressure due to brazing requirements. Hence, in this thesis, a completely novel modular axisymmetric recuperator concept is proposed, joined by diffusion bonding technique, one of the current most advanced heat exchanger manufacturing methods. For the recuperator core, a novel heat transfer surface is proposed based in the rectangular offset strip fins, the thermal and hydraulic characteristics of which were determined experimentally. The devised heat transfer and pressure drop correlations show 85% agreement with the experimental data in the range of 500<3000. A code for the recuperator design, using entropy generation minimization, was developed to predict the recuperator performance and size the optimum recuperator core dimensions. The design code was validated with CFD which in turn was validated with experimental data. The heat transfer and pressure drop CFD results agreed the experimental data with deviation within 3.2% and 27.7%, respectively, and the design code agreed the CFD results with deviation within 0.9% and 11.9%, respectively. Four recuperator study cases for different turbine sizes, 100kW, 100kW_beta, 1250kW and 5000kW, were designed using the design code. The results show the proposed concept can achieve high effectiveness (~90%) with low pressure drop (<4%) with a volume compatible with the current recuperators. Furthermore, the novel recuperator concept has a list of advantages, which makes attractive its application on the future gas turbines, encouraging the research continuity of the proposed concept
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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