Abstract: The development of product families, groups of products that share a common platform, is one way to provide product variety while keeping design and production costs low. The design of a ...

Abstract: Developing axial and decaying tangential velocity fields are surveyed in a stationary annulus with a nearly free vortex initial swirl distribution. Isothermal air was used as the working fluid ...

Abstract: Multicriteria decision support methods are common in engineering design. These methods typically rely on a summation of weighted attributes to accomplish trade-offs among competing objectives. It ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation of a low-speed turbulent swirling flow in a stationary, concentric, annular duct was made. The experiment involved isothermal air as the working fluid in an annulus ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional, free, turbulent mixing between a uniform stream and a cavity flow is investigated experimentally in a plug nozzle, a geometry that generates idealized mixing layer conditions. ...

Abstract: The biomechanical milieu of the coronary arteries is unique in that they experience mechanical deformations of twisting, bending, and stretching due to their tethering to the epicardial surface. ...

Abstract: he use of the two-parameter Weibull function as an estimator of the wind speed probability density function (PDF) is known to be problematic when a high accuracy of fit is required, such as in the computation of the wind ...

Abstract: AbstractTo provide an analysis tool for areal rainfall estimates, 1° gridded monthly sea level rainfall estimates have been derived from historical atoll rainfall observations contained in the Pacific Rainfall (PACRAIN) ...

Abstract: Daily rainfall accumulation estimates have been derived from 1-min volume data collected via self-syphon rain gauges deployed in the Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean (TAO) array of oceanographic buoys. The underlying high-resolution ...