Abstract: This special issue of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering is dedicated to solar energy research activities in Asia. It contains 11 papers from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. There are ...

Abstract: More than 60  billion kg (60  million t) of industrial by-products such as fly ash, garbage melting furnace slag, and steel slag are generated every year in Japan. Almost all of them seem to have been effectively used in ...

Abstract: Mathematical models for defining three‐dimensional flow and bed topography in sinuous channels with suspendable bed material are presented. It is shown theoretically that the secondary flow in sinuous channels shows a ...

Abstract: A mathematical model for defining the lateral bed topography in bends of sand‐silt rivers is presented. The model includes the effects of suspended sediment that have not been considered in the existing models. The major ...

Abstract: sing a nonhydrostatic model with a double-moment bulk cloud microphysics scheme, the authors introduce an aerosol effect on a convective cloud system by accelerating the condensation and evaporation processes (the aerosol ...

Abstract: High density oxygen plasmaetching was applied to microtexturing onto the diamondlike carbon (DLC) films coated on the dieunit substrates. This molddie unit with microtextured DLC coating was fixed into a cassette die for ...

Abstract: A high-resolution global atmospheric model, the nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM), exhibited underestimation biases in low-level mixed-phase clouds in the midlatitudes and polar regions. The ice-cloud ...

Abstract: This study revises the collisional growth, heterogeneous ice nucleation, and homogeneous ice nucleation processes in a double-moment bulk cloud microphysics scheme implemented in the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric ...