报告一

题目：Flapping Wing Aerohydrodynamics and its Application to Micro Air Vehicle Propulsion and Power Generation

时间：2012年8月30日 下午15：00

地点：清华大学逸夫技术科学楼1209房间

报告摘要：

For many years flapping wing aerohydrodynamics has been of interest to scientists studying the mechanics and dynamics of flying and swimming animals. In the past fifteen years it has been recognized that flapping wings can be applied to the construction of micro air vehicles, thus opening a new field of aeronautical engineering. It is less well known that flapping wings can also be used to extract power from wind or water streams.

Prof. Platzer will review his and his associates’ work on flapping wing aerohydro-dynamics. It includes computational and experimental studies elucidating the basic physics of thrust and power generation by means of flapping wings as well as demonstrations of flapping-wing propelled micro air vehicles and flapping –wing hydropower generators.

报告二

题目：The Energy Ship A New Concept to Harness the Ocean Wind Power

时间：2012年8月31日 上午10：00

地点：清华大学热能工程系系馆报告厅

报告摘要：

The solution of the global energy and climate change problems critically depends on the availability and accessibility of renewable energy sources. As far as wind energy is concerned, considerable progress has been achieved in the development of land and off-shore based wind turbines over the past three decades. However, the greatest sources of wind energy remain untapped, that is, the wind over the oceans. Professor Platzer will present a proposal to convert the vast ocean wind power into hydrogen by means of large sailing ships equipped with hydropower generators and seawater electrolyzers. He will present recent results in the analysis of this energy ship concept.

报告人：

Dr. Max F. Platzer

加利福尼亚蒙特利州海军研究生学校特聘航空和航天专业教授 (Adjunct Professor at Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,

University of California Davis)