Abstract: Abstract. Healthcare enterprises, including providers, payers, pharmaceutical and biotech firms, medical device manufacturers, health IT companies, regulators, supply chain actors, and hybrid care models, face the complex ...

Abstract: A comprehensive approach for computing the lubricant flow as functions of the roughness orientation is presented. By using a mapping function, a periodic, anisotropic surface is transformed into ...

Abstract: A model is developed which predicts the creep damage accumulation in solder joints during temperature cycling. The model relates the crack growth rate to the rate of creep energy density ...

Abstract: A methodology is proposed, which is capable of determining the near field thermal radiation based on the Wiener chaos expansion. The approach has no explicit constraints on the geometry and ...

Abstract: The parametric instability of a curved girder subjected to equal and opposite periodic moments at the ends is examined. It is shown that the relationship of the frequencies at which parametric resonance occurs differs from ...

Abstract: A porous medium model is basically a macroscopic description of the fluid behavior and is considered more appropriate to the mixed lubrication regime. The present work has successfully combined ...

Abstract: Numerous workers, equipment, material, temporary facilities, as well as permanent structures share the limited space during construction. Since space constraints may affect productivity and the critical path, it is essential ...

Abstract: Cruise specific fuel consumption (SFC) of turbofan engines is a key metric for increasing airline profitability and for reducing CO2 emissions. Although increasing design bypass ratio (BPR) of separate exhaust turbofan ...