Abstract: It is shown that to maximize the power output of a power plant is equivalent to minimizing the total entropy generation rate associated with the power plant. This equivalence is illustrated ...

Abstract: he author presents an explicit exact solution to the governing equations for geophysical equatorial waves in the ?-plane setting. The solution describes equatorially trapped waves propagating eastward above the thermocline ...

Abstract: ubglacial meltwater draining along the bed of fast-flowing, marine-terminating glaciers emerges at the grounding line, where the ice either goes afloat to form an ice shelf or terminates in a calving face. The input of ...

Abstract: his study presents some explicit exact solutions for nonlinear geophysical ocean waves in the ?-plane approximation near the equator. The solutions are provided in Lagrangian coordinates by describing the path of each ...

Abstract: cean-forced basal melting has been implicated in the widespread thinning of Antarctic ice shelves, but an understanding of what determines melt rates is hampered by limited knowledge of the buoyancy- and frictionally ...

Abstract: Here, I review the physics meaning of optimization, knowledge and design evolution, and why these concepts and human activities are profoundly useful for human life. A law of physics is a concise statement that summarizes ...

Abstract: Here, I show that “entransyâ€‌ has no meaning in physics, because, at bottom, it rests on the false claim that in order to transfer heat to a solid body of thermodynamic temperature T, the heat transfer must be proportional ...

Abstract: Ice melts when it is in contact with ocean waters that have temperatures above the in situ freezing point. The product is a mixture of meltwater and seawater having properties intermediate between those of the two components. ...

Abstract: A finite deformation formulation for dynamic analysis of cable nets is presented. Lagrangian coordinates and Piola‐Kirchhoff stresses are used and elasto‐plastic material behavior is considered. Under assumption of straight ...