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CFD and potential flow assessment of the hydrodynamics of a kitefoil

Kitefoil boards are a novel, emerging and disrupting class of sailing crafts, with major economical implications for the tourism sector due to their capability to enable kitesurfing in light wind areas. This paper investigates the hydrodynamics of the underwater appendage of a state-of-the-art kitefoil with a potential flow panel method implemented in the open source code Apame and with the Navier-Stokes solver ANSYS Fluent.

Onsite vibrational characterization of DCMIX2/3 experiments

The SODI-DCMIX thermodiffusion series experiments are part of the fluid research program carried out by the European Space Agency on board of the International Space Station (ISS). In particular, DCIMIX2/3 were conducted in the past inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox in the US Laboratory.

A novel framework for parsimonious multivariate analysis

This paper proposes a framework in which a multivariate analysis method (MVA) guides a selection of input variables that leads to a sparse feature extraction. This framework, called parsimonious MVA, is specially suited for high dimensional data such as gene arrays, digital pictures, etc.