Abstract: A computational tool has been developed for the environmental evaluation of building designs. Construction and operation of buildings is a major cause of resource depletion and environmental pollution. Computational ...

Abstract: Natural gas is generally transmitted from production to consumption areas through an infrastructure of pipelines consisting of three separate networks, namely transmission, feeding, and distribution. The transmission network ...

Abstract: Abstract. Inflammatory bowel disease requires engineered systems that can stay stable in the upper gastrointestinal tract and activate only when they reach the colon. In this study, we developed a bioresponsive polymer ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on the introduction of a recently developed meta-heuristic algorithm, which is called colliding bodies optimization (CBO), and its utility for optimal design of truss structure with dynamic constraints. ...

Abstract: New theoretical stage-discharge relationships of different sharp-crested weirs were developed in this study using the new Malcherek’s outflow theory. Although Torricelli’s outflow theory is basically used to estimate the ...

Abstract: A computational model of a massless kite that produces power in an airborne wind energy (AWE) system is presented. AWE systems use tethered kites at high altitudes to extract energy from the wind and are being considered ...

Abstract: Abstract Urbanized areas experience a highly dynamic thermal environment that results in significant microclimatic variations. Detecting these variations is challenging from the urban climate perspective because weather ...

Abstract: The most common type of horizontal curves used to connect intersecting straight sections of highways and other infrastructures are circular curves. Given the radius and the deflection angle of a horizontal circular curve, ...

Abstract: In this paper, an indirect and numerical time integration approach is proposed for dynamic analysis of space structures by using comprehensive wavelet functions. For this purpose, the proposed scheme is implemented on the ...

Abstract: The harmonic-enriched reproducing kernel (HRK) approximation together with collocation method is introduced to circumvent the discretization restriction for highly oscillatory partial differential equations (PDEs). It is ...