Abstract: For the design of ground-source heat-pump systems, the local subsoil is an invariant factor. To improve the evaluation of the local heat exchange capability, significant efforts recently have been devoted to identifying ...

Abstract: Conservative models and code practices are usually employed for fatigue-damage predictions of existing structures. Direct in-service behavior measurements are able to provide more accurate estimations of remaining-fatigue-life ...

Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis has revealed and exacerbated a shortage of mechanical ventilators in hospitals around the world, regardless of their government’s resources. Where some countries can respond to the situation by ordering ...

Abstract: This paper reports an intercomparison study of a stratocumulus-topped planetary boundary layer (PBL) generated from ten 3D large eddy simulation (LES) codes and four 2D cloud-resolving models (CRMs). These models vary in ...

Abstract: The Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of the global average. This warming is influenced by clouds, which modulate the solar and terrestrial radiative fluxes and, thus, determine the surface energy budget. ...