Abstract: Slip flow in various noncircular microchannels has been further examined, and a simple model for a normalized Poiseuille number is proposed. As for slip flow, no solutions or graphical and ...

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss and improve on the current highway bridge-footing design procedure. Five California highway-bridge-column footings are presented here as examples, and are analyzed by using both the ...

Abstract: In the paper of Duan [1], there is an error in the range of the Prandtl number (Pr) for Eqs. (14) and (15). The correlations of Notter and Sleicher [2], Eqs. (14) and (15), are valid for 0.004 < Pr < 0...

Abstract: Fully developed turbulent flow in noncircular ducts is examined, and simple models are proposed to predict the friction, heat and mass transfer in most common noncircular channels. It is found ...

Abstract: This research investigates the melting rate of a phase change material (PCM) in the presence of Rayleigh–Benard convection. A scaling analysis is conducted for the first time for such a problem, which is useful to identify ...

Abstract: Icing can jeopardize local infrastructure, hinder field operation, destroy vessel superstructures, and threaten life and property safety in the Arctic and other cold offshore and marine environments. Research on ice ...

Abstract: In some northern regions, power transmission lines are built with metal tower footings buried in the permafrost. With a high thermal conductivity, the tower footing has a significant thermal effect on the foundation and ...

Abstract: We present a new method for computing volume integrals based on data sampled on a regular Cartesian grid. We treat the case where the domain is defined implicitly by an inequality, and the input data include sampled values ...

Abstract: Current standard evaluation procedures for compression gusset plates, the two-fold Whitmore section (Whitmore) buckling and the partial plane shear yielding (PPSY), as specified in The Manual for Bridge Evaluation (MBE), ...