Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 1,3, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, language: English, abstract: The flow over macroscopic patterned/structured surfaces was investigated in a subsonic wind tunnel over Reynolds numbers ranging from 3.14 x 104 to 2.77 x 105 for cylinders and from 5.34 x 105 to 11.27 x 106 for plates. The investigations were accomplished by measuring local and global drag, velocity profil...

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: The need of energy increases in industrial advancement. To meet the high energy demands with limited natural resources it is desirable to develop energy harvesting systems. This thesis deals with the design of a similar energy efficient system for sensors in production machines. The basic motivation of the system application is to avoid th...

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