Integrated design by optimization of electrical energy systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Xavier Roboam

• Record Nr.: UNISA996211844103316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : ISTE Ltd., 2012
• ISBN: 1-118-56181-3; 1-118-58800-2; 1-299-46532-3; 1-118-58795-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Collana: ISTE
• Altri autori (Persone): RoboamXavier
• Disciplina: 621.31
• Soggetti: Electric power systems - Design and construction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Mission and Environmental Data Processing; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Considerations of the mission and environmental variables; 1.2.1. Mission representation through a nominal operating point; 1.2.2. Extraction of a "sizing" temporal chronogram; 1.2.3. Representation of an environmental variable or mission resulting from statistical analysis; 1.3. New approach for the characterization of a "representative mission"; 1.3.1. Characterization indicators of the mission and environmental variables; 1.3.2. Mission and environmental variables at the heart of the system: an eminently systemic bidirectional coupling 1.4. Classification of missions and environmental variables; 1.4.1. Classification without a priori assumption on the number of classes; 1.4.2. Mission classification for hybrid railway systems; 1.5. Synthesis of mission and environmental variable profiles; 1.5.1. Mission or environmental variable synthesis process; 1.5.2. Elementary patterns for profile generation; 1.5.3. Application to the compacting of a wind speed profile; 1.6. From classification to simultaneous design by optimization of a hybrid traction chain 1.6.1. Modeling of the hybrid locomotive; 1.6.2. Optimization model; 1.6.3. Mission classification; 1.6.4. Synthesis of ; representative missions; 1.6.5. Simultaneous design by optimization; 1.6.6. Design results comparison; 1.7. Conclusion; 1.8. Bibliography; Chapter 2. Analytical Sizing Models for Electrical Energy Systems Optimization; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The problem of modeling for synthesis; 2.2.1. Modeling for synthesis; 2.2.2. Analytical and numerical modeling; 2.3. System decomposition and model structure 2.3.1. Advantage of decomposition; 2.3.2. Application to the example of the hybrid series-parallel traction chain for the hybrid electrical heavy vehicle; 2.4. General information about the modeling of the various possible components in an electrical energy system; 2.5. Development of an electrical machine analytical model; 2.5.1. The various physical fields of the model and the associated methods for solving them; 2.5.2. Application to the example of a hybrid electrical heavy vehicle: modeling of a magnet surface-mounted synchronous machine; 2.6. Development of an analytical static converter model 2.6.1. The various physical fields of the model and associated resolution methods; 2.6.2. Application to the example of a hybrid electrical heavy vehicle: modeling of inverters feeding synchronous machines; 2.7. Development of a mechanical transmission analytical model; 2.7.1. The various physical fields of the model and associated resolution methods; 2.7.2. Application to the example of a hybrid electric heavy vehicle: modeling of the Ravigneaux gear set; 2.8. Development of an analytical energy storage device model; 2.9. Use of models for the optimum sizing of a system
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book presents the vision of French academics about systemic design methodologies applied to electrical energy systems. It is especially dedicated to discussion of analysis and system management, as well as modeling and sizing tools"--

The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn : An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet / / by Michael Meltzer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300407903321
• Autore: Meltzer Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-07608-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: Space Exploration
• Disciplina: 520; 523.4; 620; 629.1
• Soggetti: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Astronomy; Planetary science; Astronomy—Observations; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Popular Science in Astronomy; Planetology; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Creating a New Expedition to Saturn -- Conceiving and Funding the Mission -- Building an International Partnership and Preventing Mission Cancellation -- Part II: Designing, Fabricating, and Integrating the Cassini-Huygens Space Vessel -- Constructing the Cassini Orbiter -- The Titan Huygens Probe -- Integrating the Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe, and Titan/Centaur Launch Vehicle -- Using Plutonium to Run a Spacecraft -- Part III: From Earth to Saturn -- The Interplanetary Journey -- How a Few People Can Make a Big Difference: The Doppler Shift Problem That Nearly Ended the Huygens Mission -- The Huygens Titan Probe Mission -- The Saturn Tour: Decision-Making ; Processes, Trajectory Design, and Changes of Management -- Part IV: A Great Natural Laboratory -- The Mother Planet and its Magnetosphere -- The Ring System -- The Icy Moons -- Titan Observations by the Cassini Orbiter -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Breakdown of Mission Costs.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft; its 2.2-billion mile journey from Earth to the Ringed Planet; and the amazing discoveries from the mission. The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity, and eventually became a reality. Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, most notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft. Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it’s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages of discovery ever made.