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Simple drag prediction strategies for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle’s hull shape
No full textThe range of an AUV is dictated by its finite energy source and minimising the energy consumption is required to maximise its endurance. One option to extend the endurance is by obtaining the optimum hydrodynamic hull shape with balancing the trade-off between computational cost and fluid dynamic fidelity. An AUV hull form has been optimised to obtain low resistance hull. Hydrodynamic optimisation of hull form has been carried out by employing five parametric geometry models with a streamlined constraint. Three Genetic Algorithm optimisation procedures are applied by three simple drag predictions which are based on the potential flow method. The results highlight the effectiveness of considering the proposed hull shape optimisation procedure for the early stage of AUV hull desig
Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections
No full textBest-selling Victorian sensation fiction author Mary Elizabeth Braddon was (in)famous for novels depicting female bigamists, attempted murder, arson and bribery; anything and everything that shocked Victorian sensibilities. Before she gained international fame with Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Aurora Floyd (1862) though, she began her writing career in the East Riding, and she continued to use the county as a setting for her fiction for the next fifty years. Braddon also toured the county as a travelling actress in the 1850s, sparking a debate within Hull’s Board of Health while raising money for Pearson Park. Braddon’s connections with Hull and the East Riding illustrate her creative talents, her fiery passion and a notoriety that continued for the rest of her life
Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections
No full textBest-selling Victorian sensation fiction author Mary Elizabeth Braddon was (in)famous for novels depicting female bigamists, attempted murder, arson and bribery; anything and everything that shocked Victorian sensibilities. Before she gained international fame with Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Aurora Floyd (1862) though, she began her writing career in the East Riding, and she continued to use the county as a setting for her fiction for the next fifty years. Braddon also toured the county as a travelling actress in the 1850s, sparking a debate within Hull’s Board of Health while raising money for Pearson Park. Braddon’s connections with Hull and the East Riding illustrate her creative talents, her fiery passion and a notoriety that continued for the rest of her life
The lichen flora of Hull, with particular reference to zonal distribution and environmental monitoring
No full textYesThe role of lichens as environmental monitors is widely recognised. Not only are they valuable as indicators of habitat stability and enyironmental continuity, but they are also effectiye in monitoring environmental quality. more particularly air and soil (and more recently water) pollution. In the past. the main role of lichens in this context has been to
monitor sulphur dioxide air pollution. especially stable and rising levels (Seaward 1993).
Howeyer, it has also been shown that lichens arc effective monitors of falling levels of
gaseous sulphur dioxide and indeed of other pollutants. some of which are manifesting
themselves as a consequence of the reduction in the former; of particular interest in this
respect is the use of lichens to detect and determine the extent of qualitative changes in air pollution such as the impact of acid rain and hypertrophication (Seaward 1997: Seaward & Coppins 2(04)
Reading America, Reading Rodriguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group
No full textThis article details a cutting-edge Knowledge Exchange initiative which advanced the ongoing partnership between the University of Hull and HMP Hull, and stemmed from the annual BAAS conference, held in Hull in April 2022. The purpose of the article is to explore the value of critiquing US culture in a nonacademic setting and the extent to which a prison reading group presents a productive opportunity for so doing. Our research analyses the reception of a number of texts discussed in an American-themed book club hosted in HMP Hull, with a particular focus upon the responses of prison learners to the literary works of gang-member-turned-best-selling-author Luis J. Rodriguez
Roberto Arlt : translation and the construction of genre
No full text[From the introduction]: Roberto Arlt is generally considered by critics the forerunner of the Latin American "boom". Arlt's innovative style reflects a fascination with the popular and a trenchant social realism fused with fantasy; his oeuvre is considered to have paved the way for later Latin American magic realism. Though distinguished names such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar praised his work, still, Arlt has long been considered by lesser figures a marginal voice, a tragicomic commentator on life, an autodidact and journalist, a writer who could not even spell. Only fairly recently has his place in the Argentine canon been granted; elsewhere, Arltian scholars and critics regard Arlt's work as an incisive portrait of its epoch, a much deserved milestone that secured the author a literary place that his contemporaries tried to deny him.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Podcast: Dr Kevin Hull on Autism on Military Mom Talk Radio
No full textSandra Beck and Robin Boyd of Military Mom Talk Radio visit with Dr. Kevin Hull, author of Bridge Building: Creating Connection and Relationship between Parents and Children/Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum as well as Play Therapy and Asperger’s Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Connect, Grow, and Heal through the Art of Play. Newest Oldest Longest Shortest Rando
Mentioned in Dispatches: Frank Prewett and the The Great War
No full textHistorian and author Professor Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow at the University of Hull, talks about her recent book looking at the life of Canadian war poet Frank Prewett. Prewett is a relatively unknown poet, he served on the Western Front ans suffered from shellshock. While recovering at Lennel Auxiliary Hospital, he met Siegfried Sassoon, who introduced him to Lady Ottoline Morrell and he stayed at Garsington, her estate, while he awaited repatriation to Canada. Joy is the Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces: Research Group and an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher of Indigenous history in relation to the environment
Portrait of Representative Cordell Hull.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27To Mr. Felton M. Johnston, with highest esteem Cordell Hull\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1107/thumbnail.jp
Transverse Strength of a Twin Hull FPSO
No full textThe size and production capacity of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading units, or FPSOs, is ever growing. SBM Offshore specialized in converting existing oil tankers into FPSOs. One of the limitations they found was the available deck space for the topsides modules. A new concept was proposed to solve this problem: a twin hull FPSO, made of two tanker hulls connected side to side by a slim, rigid structure. An initial study done by SBM suggested the transverse bulkheads were the most critical components, failing on shear stress. The main question addressed in this thesis is: How does the twin hull structure behave and is it strong enough? To answer this, a finite element twin hull and mono hull model was created containing only the main structural components. To avoid extensive modelling, all stiffened panels were modelled as one continuous, orthotropic laminate. A second, very simple, 2-D model made of beam elements was created to be used as a crude but simple tool to predict shear forces in the structure. A number of still water load cases were applied to both mono hull and twin hull models. The beam model shows an error margin of 10-30% compared the more detailed model. In the twin hull vessel the main deck is stressed less by applied loads, but the transverse components are stressed more, mainly by shear. Increasing the transverse strength by closing the swash bulkheads will bring down stresses in the transverse bulkheads to acceptable levels. The twin hull connection structure puts too much shear force and bending moment on the vessel as it is. It needs to be ballasted to decrease bending stresses in the main deck and shear stresses in the transverse bulkheads.Science Master - Ship & Offshore StructuresMaritime TechnologyMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
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