Investigations on the Potentials of Novel Technologies for Aircraft Fuel Burn Reduction through Aerostructural Optimisation

A physics-based optimisation framework is developed to investigate the potential advantages of novel technologies on the energy efficiency of a midrange passenger aircraft.In particular, the coupled-adjoint aerostructural analysis and Zinc optimisation tool FEMWET is modified to study the effects of active flow control at different load cases for c

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Excreted secreted products from the parasitic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae manipulate the Drosophila melanogaster immune response

Abstract Steinernema carpocapsae is an entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) that rapidly infects and kills a wide range of insect hosts and has been linked to host immunosuppression during the initial stages of infection.The lethal nature of S.carpocapsae infections has previously been credited to its symbiotic bacteria; however, it has become evident t

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