Abstract: In Tanzania, like in many other countries in the Sub-Saharan region, the government is implementing an ambitious rural water supply and sanitation plan (RWSSP) to increase access to water from 53% in 2005 to 90% by 2025. ...

Abstract: The present article is concerned with the application of the finite element method to the analysis of the onset of delamination growth in composites by means of the virtual crack closure ...

Abstract: A simple formula to calculate the settling velocity of natural sediment particles for grain sizes between 0.063 and 1 mm is presented. The formula has been derived from the previous work of Dietrich, and it predicts the ...

Abstract: The trickling filter/solids contact (TF/SC) process was developed in the late 1970s to improve the quality of the final effluent from existing trickling filter plants, to be able to meet stricter Environmental Protection ...

Abstract: Turbulent boundary layer modification in a channel flow using injection of microbubbles as a means to achieve drag reduction was studied. The physical mechanism of this phenomenon is not yet ...

Abstract: A new one-dimensional 1.5-order planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, based on the