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Abstract: This paper deals with the robustness issues associated with the design of an adaptive control servo in the presence of linear unmodeled plant dynamics. In particular, a design methodology for ...

Abstract: The well-known Rhines theory of bottom-trapped topographic Rossby waves (TRW) in a uniformly stratified ocean over a sloping seabed, and its dispersion relation between wave frequency and wavenumber components, have served ...

Abstract: This study is concerned with the theoretical description of upwelling induced in a stratified, rotating, two-layer ocean by momentum transfer from an intense stationary, axially-symmetric atmospheric vortex. The dynamic ...

Abstract: Sea surface flow derived from displacements of surface patterns in sequential NOAA-6 AVHRR (11 micron band) satellite images yield coherent nonuniform distributions of velocity vectors, An analytic representation of flow ...

Abstract: A simple approach for nonassociative elastoplastic modeling of mechanical behavior of soils is presented in this paper. The distinctive features of this model are: (1) Disparate mechanisms for volumetric and distortional ...

Abstract: The near-wall physics of a planar, shear-driven, 3-D turbulent boundary layer with varying strengths of crossflow are examined. Flow visualization data reveals a reduction of mean streak length ...

Abstract: Water quality in the Middle Coastal Plain of North Carolina has been impacted by agriculture; however, the water quality impacts in these areas over time have not been studied in detail. The surface water quality of several ...

Abstract: Radiation flux observations were obtained during a flight of the NCAR Electra over the Arabian Sea during MONEX when aerosols were present, and these observations have been compared with theoretical calculations based upon ...