Abstract: The distinction between profit measures for capital investment and methods of economic analysis for project selection is discussed. Various methods of analysis for the selection of alternatives without budget constraints ...

Abstract: The evolution and propagation of Gulf Stream warm core rings in a flat-bottom, ?-plane ocean are studied using a three-dimensional primitive equation model. Rings are produced by a heat source that is turned on and off ...

Abstract: We consider the dynamic response of a single-degree-of-freedom system having two-sided amplitude constraints. The model consists of a piecewise-linear oscillator subjected to nonharmonic excitation. ...

Abstract: The ownership arrangements for constructed facilities not only generate the capital and requirements for new facilities, but also influence the management of the construction and operation of these facilities. While it is ...

Abstract: The rainfall‐frequency atlas published by the National Weather Service (NWS) has been extensively used in the storm drainage structures design. The users of such maps should recognize the fact that these maps are the result ...

Abstract: Water resource engineers often have to relate qualitative dependent variables to one or more independent variables, which may or may not be quantitative. In such circumstances, the use of conventional regression analysis ...

Abstract: The linear form of the Muskingum model has been widely applied to river flood routing. However, a nonlinear relationship between storage and discharge exists in most actual river systems, making the use of the linear model ...

Abstract: Several point rainfall estimation techniques including the conventionally used arithmatic average and normal ratio methods, inverse-distance method, modified normal ratio method, and method of using linear programming model ...