Author Archives: Masato R. Nakamura, Eng.Sc.D.

Brainstroming: water-tank wheel

An advantage of water-tank wheel is that we can control mass of the wheel easily.

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Composite Flywheel Development for Energy Storage

  http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo3023/ARL-TR-3388.pdf

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The paper we are reading (03/21/2013)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032105000146

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Figure 3 in page 11 of this report is interesting. http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/2004-04-07_500-04-014.PDF

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This is one of the examples for flywheel application

Spherical flywheel patent: US7536932sphericalflywheel  

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Action items on 3/14/2013

Maureen, Let’s do followings: 1. Read 4 papers (not all). 2. Access to openlab and join this page Masa wants to do followings by the next meeting: 1. Bring additional info of flywheel systems. 2. Prepare contents for your abstract … Continue reading

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