Abstract: Comprehensive assessment of hydrological alteration due to anthropogenic interventions is a prerequisite for sustaining the native biological profile and integrity of river ecosystems. This paper proposes a novel strategy ...

Abstract: Nucleation site interaction in pool boiling is well known to cause intermittent bubble growth and departure. Such interactions can cause long-term temporal correlations in spatio-temporal fluctuations of temperature and ...

Abstract: For the time-integration of stiff constitutive models of inelastic deformation, the explicit (one step Euler) integration scheme can be used provided the time step size is closely monitored and ...

Abstract: The secondary instability of the incompressible boundary layer in the axial flow past a cylinder is studied. The laminar flow is shown to be always stable at high transverse curvatures to ...

Abstract: A spin-off ratio is used in this study to assess the repelling capability of a disk surface to thermal asperity for MR drives. A test methodology is described and a simple model is developed. ...

Abstract: A critical heat flux (CHF) correlation is developed for jet impingement boiling of a single round jet on a flat circular surface. The correlation is valid for submerged jets as well as for free surface jets with Reynolds ...

Abstract: An experimental study of the absorption of ammonia vapor in a constrained thin film of ammonia-water solution is presented. A large aspect ratio microchannel with one of its walls formed of ...

Abstract: Modified modal domain analysis (MMDA) is a method to generate an accurate reducedorder model (ROM) of a bladed disk with geometric mistuning. An algorithm based on the MMDA ROM and a state observer is developed to estimate ...

Abstract: The effectiveness of insoluble starch xanthate (ISX) for removal and recovery of heavy metals [