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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Synthetic Trees"”.
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Scalable Synthetic Trees for Transpiration-Powered Hydraulic Systems
… design and fabrication, and practical uses of synthetic trees that replicate the transpiration mechanisms of natural trees. The first chapter provides an in-depth explanation of how natural trees utilize hydraulic mechanisms to draw water from the soil, through their roots, and up to their …
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Nature-inspired systems exploiting porous media for multiphase flows
… material systems: multi-layered feathers and synthetic trees. (1) How multilayered feathers enhance underwater superhydrophobicity. Inspired by ducks, here we demonstrate that air pockets can withstand up to five times more hydrostatic pressure when using stacked layers of synthetic feathers …
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Tree-Inspired Water Harvesting
… devices for water harvesting inspired by natural trees, and to understand their collection efficiency and working principles. We accomplished that with scale-model and large-scale fog harps, floating leaves, and synthetic trees. Fluids mechanics, physics, and thermodynamics were applied to solve …
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How Does Vegetation Movement During Laser Scanning Affect Common Point Cloud-Derived Metrics? A Virtual Laser Scanning Study
… laser scanning point clouds of small apple trees. To this end, we use virtual laser scanning of synthetic trees with different levels of animated leaf flutter. Height metrics, voxel metrics, geometric features, and leaf area are calculated from the simulated single-tree laser scanning point …