Recent Advances on Servovalves
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "High Torque/Power Density Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 4559
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Interests: servo-valves; proportional valves; piezo-electric actuators; aircraft fuel systems; hydrogen for aircraft; internal combustion engines; heat exchangers; small-scale combined-cycles; biomethane liquefa
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Interests: study of novel servovalves actuated by smart materials; analysis of cavitation in hydraulic valves; fluid dynamic design optimization of hydraulic valves; systems for energy generation and heat exchange: with studies on wind turbines, combined cycles employing externally fired gas turbines, and Rankine cycles using water and organic fluids; design optimization of combined-cycle power plants and thermo-economic analyses by using genetic algorithms; construction of a small-scale combined-cycle prototype for energy generation from solid biomass and biogas; innovative immersed particle heat exchangers for heat recovery; development of an innovative open field wind tunnel for the testing of micro wind turbines; design of a novel heat exchanger employing solid alumina particles as a heat transfer medium, with the aim of realizing externally fired gas turbines
Interests: the pollutant emission processes deriving from combustion sources; the employment of 3D CFD simulations—involving detailed chemistry-based models as well as accurate heat-exchange and flame-propagation sub-models—coupled with extended experimental campaigns; the analysis and design of energy-generation and heat-exchange systems; the experimental and numerical analysis of multi-phase flows with applications in the design of proportional valves
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Interests: hydraulic and thermal machines; fluid dynamics; the design of numerical methods for compressible and incompressible flows; stability analysis of shear flows; turbulence and transition modeling; combustion modeling; numerical analysis of complex flow in turbomachinery; energy systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825; CODEN: ACTUC3, Scopus indexed, IF = 1.957) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Recent Advances on Servovalves”.
Prof. Dr. Paolo Tamburrano, Prof. Dr. Riccardo Amirante, Prof. Dr. Elia Distaso, and Prof. Dr. Pietro De Palma are serving as guest editors for this Special Issue.
The articles in this Special Issue will be concerned with one of the most important topics in the industry, aerospace, and transportation sectors: servovalves. This term includes single stage (direct drive), two stage, and multi-stage electro-hydraulic and pneumatic valves. This Special Issue invites contributions dealing with the following: reviews of recent advances in industry and academia; analysis of the current issues of servovalves using numerical and/or experimental approaches; proposals and studies aimed at overcoming the issues and drawbacks of commercial designs; novel actuation systems for servovalves based on smart materials (e.g., piezo-electric actuators); improved control systems; novel valve architectures for improving performance or other aspects; and novel or improved empirical, numerical, and CFD approaches to study certain aspects of these valves.
The submission deadline is 31 August 2021. You may send your manuscript at any point from now until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Prof. Dr. Paolo Tamburrano
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Amirante
Prof. Dr. Elia Distaso
Prof. Dr. Pietro De Palma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- servovalves
- direct drive
- smart materials
- piezo-electric actuators
- CFD
- experimental analysis
- control systems
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