Abstract: letcher?s simple model for the electric force between charged conducting spheres (with reference to cloud droplets) is compared with an exact model and also with another approximate model. His results for the charge ratio ...

Abstract: Cloud data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) database have been introduced into the global circuit model developed by Tinsley and Zhou. Using the cloud-top pressure data and cloud type ...

Abstract: The development of new and complex vehicle models using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) and multibody systems (MBS) algorithms is discussed in this paper. It is shown how a continuumbased finite element ...

Abstract: The convergence characteristics of three geometrically accurate spatial finite elements (FEs) are examined in this study using an eigenvalue analysis. The spatial beam, plate, and solid elements considered in this investigation ...