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RISThermal System Interactions in Optimizing Advanced Thermoelectric Energy Recovery Systems
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Energy recovery is gaining importance in various transportation and industrial process applications because of rising energy costs and geopolitical uncertainties impacting basic energy supplies. ...
A Theory and Model of Molten Salt Reactor Xenon Behavior After the Solubility Limit
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Due to the circulating nature of the fuel, there is a qualitative difference between xenon behavior in a molten salt reactor (MSR) compared to a solid fuel reactor. Therefore, the equations that describe 135Xe behavior in ...
High-Performance Radial AMTEC Cell Design for Ultra-High-Power Solar AMTEC Systems
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Solar thermal Alkali-Metal-Thermal-to-Electric-Conversion (AMTEC) power systems potentially have several important advantages over current solar photovoltaic power systems in ultra-high-power spacecraft ...
On the Use of Radiosondes in Freezing Precipitation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractRadiosonde observations are used the world over to provide critical upper-air observations of the lower atmosphere. These observations are susceptible to errors that must be mitigated or avoided when identified. ...
Cyclic Load Behavior of Bolted Timber Joint
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Tests investigating the fatigue performance of a bolted timber buttsplice connection containing wood splits are presented. Relationships of compressive axial load to joint slip at the bolt nut and of load to average and ...
Electrification of Stratiform Regions in Mesoscale Convective Systems. Part II: Two-Dimensional Numerical Model Simulations of a Symmetric MCS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Model simulations of a symmetric mesoscale convective system (MCS; observations discussed in Part I) were conducted using a 2D, time-dependent numerical model with bulk microphysics. A number of charging mechanisms were ...
Electrification of Stratiform Regions in Mesoscale Convective Systems. Part I: An Observational Comparison of Symmetric and Asymmetric MCSs
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The kinematic, microphysical, and electrical structures of two mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) observed during the 1991 Cooperative Oklahoma Profiler Studies (COPS91) experiment are analyzed. Profiles of the vertical ...
Sedimentation from Buoyant Jets
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: An integral model is developed to describe sedimentation from a turbulent, buoyant jet injected at an angle into a stationary, uniform ambient fluid. Entrainment is modeled using the standard entrainment assumption and ...
Lateral Live-Load Distribution Characteristics of Simply Supported Steel Girder Bridges Loaded with Implements of Husbandry
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper discusses the effect of agricultural live-loads on lateral load distribution characteristics of girder bridges on rural roadways in the United States. In this study, load distribution factors for bridges subjected ...
The Effect of SST and Soil Moisture Anomalies on GLA Model Simulations of the 1988 U.S. Summer Drought
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A series of simulations of the late spring and early summer of 1988 were conducted in order to study the relative importance of different boundary forcings to the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres model's simulation of ...