Abstract: The effects of precipitation on a model of cumulus cloud initiation and development over mountains are studied by numerically integrating the equations of motion, equations of conservation of water substance, and the ...

Abstract: Temperature gradient focusing (TGF) is a highly efficient focusing technique for the concentration and separation of charged analytes in microfluidic channels. The design of an appropriate temperature gradient is very ...

Abstract: Liquid metal owns the highest thermal conductivity among all the currently available fluid materials. This property enables it to be a powerful coolant for the thermal management of large power device or high flux chip. ...

Abstract: Fourier series expansion (FSE) plays a pivotal role in frequency domain analysis of a wide variety of nonlinear dynamical systems. To the best of our knowledge, there are two general approaches for FSE, i.e., a collocation ...

Abstract: Time-dependent reliability problems widely appear in the engineering practice when the material properties of the structure deteriorate in time or random loading modeled as random processes is involved. Among existing ...

Abstract: This paper presents an accurate and efficient hybrid solution method, based on Newmark-β algorithm, for solving nonlinear oscillators containing fractional derivatives (FDs) of arbitrary order. Basically, this method employs ...

Abstract: This paper presents an investigation on the free vibration of an oscillator containing a viscoelastic damping modeled by fractional derivative (FD). Based on the fact that the vibration has slowly changing decay rate and ...

Abstract: It has been a difficult task to solve fractional oscillators analytically, especially when variableorder fractional derivatives (FDs) are included. The major difficulty consists in deriving analytical expressions for the ...

Abstract: In this study, a comparative investigation of two types of microheat pipe array (MHPA) flat-plate solar air collectors (FPSAC) based on exergy analysis has been conducted. The thermal performance of MHPA-type solar air ...

Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) processes create material directly into a functional shape. Often the material properties vary with part geometry, orientation, and build layout. Today, trial-and-error methods are used to ...