Abstract: Recent advances in the use of virtual building prototypes as a tool to support various site-based production processes coupled with improvements in context-aware mobile computing offer significant potential of improving ...

Abstract: This article is devoted to the review of the literature on optimum dimensions of extended surfaces losing heat by pure convection to the surroundings. The review covers straight (longitudinal) ...

Abstract: Deficient building control currently affects urban areas, especially metropolitan cities in developing countries. Lahore is a provincial capital and the second-largest metropolitan city in Pakistan. Laws which pertain to ...

Abstract: The essentials of rapid distortion theory (RDT) are briefly recalled for homogeneous turbulence subjected to rotational mean flows, including its linkage to stability analysis. The latter “linkage” ...

Abstract: We design a controller for flowinduced vibrations of an infiniteband membrane, with flow running across the band and only above it, and with actuation only on the trailing edge of the membrane. Due to the infinite length ...

Abstract: A theoretical expression derived previously for describing the joint distribution of the envelope and phase of second-order nonlinear waves is verified with wind wave measurements gathered in the North Sea. The same ...

Abstract: A numerical procedure has been used to study the thermal performance of a step convective-radiative fin with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and convective base heating. An analytical ...

Abstract: This paper reports the average Nusselt number for steady, laminar natural convection between a vertical surface and otherwise quiescent pseudoplastic and dilatant fluids under a constant and uniform surface heat flux ...

Abstract: Malaysia's privatization program, which began in 1983, has been praised by some, while others have been less impressed. This paper describes the return of a privatized infrastructure after seven years to government hands ...