Abstract: An intriguing manifestation of the underlying nonlinear fluid dynamic character of the atmosphere is found in an idealized quasigeostrophic model of the troposphere. For identical forcing and dissipation, the model?s climate ...

Abstract: The often-competing goals of optimization and reliability design amplify the importance of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) to achieve sufficient reliability. Evaluation of a system's reliability ...

Abstract: Gas-cooled solar receivers for concentrating solar power plants are capable of providing high temperature, pressurized gas for electrical power generation via a Brayton cycle. This can be ...

Abstract: In recent years, several prototype solar central receivers have been experimentally demonstrated to produce high temperature and high pressure gas capable of driving a gas turbine engine. While ...

Abstract: This paper reports an investigation of the use of off-axis carbon fibers in the all-carbon spar cap of a 37-m wind turbine rotor blade to induce twist-flap coupling. Many studies have been ...

Abstract: There is an urgent need in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries for new programs and methods of producing reliable energy simulations using building information modeling (BIM) technology. Current ...

Abstract: Geodetic networks, when derived solely from observed GPS baseline vectors, have an inherent datum deficiency of dimension three due to the respective unknown translation parameters. Thus, estimated coordinates from a ...

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