Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical basis and a systematic process for resolving all inertia forces along generalized coordinates from the overall energy equation of a dynamical system. The theory is developed for natural ...

Abstract: In the present study, the effects of radiation and chemical reaction on unsteady free convection flow and mass transfer of a viscous, electrically conducting incompressible fluid near an impulsively ...

Abstract: The effects of precipitation formation in convective clouds are studied numerically with the help of a one-dimensional steady-initial-state model of convection in a nonviscous adiabatic atmosphere, incorporating the negative ...

Abstract: The interactor matrix of a system plays an important role in the design of model-matching adaptive controllers for multivariable systems. With the purpose of reducing a priori information necessary ...

Abstract: Overtopping of embankments during floods leads to a spatially varied flow (SVF). In order to estimate the water surface profiles and the amount of water spilling over the embankment for a given steady-state flow condition, ...

Abstract: For channels with composite roughness, an equivalent uniform roughness coefficient and flow geometric elements are used in an optimal design method using the Manning equation. The optimal design problems are formulated in ...

Abstract: Optimization-based models for simulation of tile drainage systems are formulated and solved with a finite-difference approximated Richard's equation as an embedded constraint. The solution methodology minimizes the sum of ...

Abstract: Neither the pseudo-adiabatic nor the saturation-adiabatic form of the thermodynamic equation used in meteorological practice is suitable for the study of cumulus dynamics inasmuch as this form ignores the microphysics of ...

Abstract: A methodology for parameter estimation for the Muskingum model of streamflow routing is developed. The methodology minimizes the outflow prediction errors subject to the satisfaction of the streamflow-routing equations for ...

Abstract: The cost of open channels can be minimized by using (1) the optimal design concept; (2) a new geometric shape to substitute for the trapezoidal channels, and/or (3) a composite channel. The channels in which the roughness ...