Abstract: A dissipation integral boundary layer method is briefly presented which serves as the basis of the optimization. The principles of optimum deceleration are explained. Following these principles ...

Abstract: onditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) is the initial perturbation that satisfies a certain physical constraint and causes the largest nonlinear evolution at prediction time. To yield mutually independent initial ...

Abstract: nlike other cloud types, high-level clouds play an important role, often imposing a warming effect, in the earth?atmosphere radiative energy budget. In this paper, macro- and microphysical characteristics of cirrus clouds, ...

Abstract: This paper uses the fragility function method to study the effects of pounding and skewness on the seismic behaviors of typical multispan RC highway bridges. Three-dimensional numerical models are built for typical three-span ...

Abstract: The threshold method is commonly used to determine cloud in a sky image. This paper evaluates the method by numerical simulation and shows that the aerosol optical depth (AOD) is a key factor that influences the accuracy. ...

Abstract: A new lattice Boltzmann (LB) model to solve the phase change problem, which is based on the enthalpy-transforming model has been developed in this paper. The problems of two-region phase change, natural convection of air, ...

Abstract: This paper proposes an energy management strategy for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) with a turbocharged diesel engine. By introducing turbocharger to the HEV powertrain, air path dynamics of engine becomes extremely ...

Abstract: aked-eye observation of cloud cover has widely resisted automation. Replacement of human observation by instruments is an inexorable trend for the development of ground-based macroscopic cloud observation. In this paper, ...