Abstract: A shroud is commonly used around the motor of an electrical submersible pump (ESP) to accelerate reservoir fluids past the motor for cooling. Standard practice has been to design the shroud/motor ...

Abstract: Selecting the appropriate receiver is an issue when a major portion of global positioning system (GPS) data collection is below forest canopies. This study compares four low-cost GPS receivers, in order to determine the ...

Abstract: The identification of outliers in global positioning system (GPS) observations—to compare equipment, positioning methods, or working conditions—has traditionally been performed using univariate or multivariate statistics. ...

Abstract: Run length and total run length probabilities are examined for mixed sea states, resulting from the combination of a remotely generated wave field and a locally generated wave system, based ...

Abstract: The influence of the spectral bandwidth on the probabilistic structure of the joint distribution of wave heights and periods is analyzed by means of simulated wave records. In particular, the ...

Abstract: This contribution presents a more general mobility criterion applicable to parallel platforms, unlike previously employed mobility criteria based on the well-known Kutzbach-Grübler criterion ...

Abstract: The geographic location of points using global positioning system (GPS) receivers is less accurate in forested environments than in open spaces because of signal loss and the multipath effect of tree trunks, branches, and ...

Abstract: This work compares the spectral analysis of ocean wave fields performed from nautical radar and waverider buoy measurements. The data were taken by a radar station located in the northern coast of Spain and by a buoy that ...

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the homogenization of a nonlinear one-dimensional problem as a particular case of laminated composite and its solution by a Wavelet-Galerkin method. This approach is ...