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Quick ViewIn buoyant-driven fires, fine carbonaceous particles (soot), which are invariably produced in the flaming zone and dispersed in the smoke, can significantly augment the global radiation process. Luminous soot radiation, in general, constitutes a portion of the radiative heat loss of the total heat release rate. To aptly determine the distribution of soot particles, insights…
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Quick ViewThe semi-classical description of black holes, as it was originally introduced by Hawking and Bekenstein in the early seventies, where classical solutions of the Einstein equations are coupled to quantum matter fields, opened a window with a glance on the quantum aspects of gravity. This book discusses this semi-classical approach to quantum black holes. It…
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Quick ViewApplications of microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena involved in traditional industries and highly specialized fields such as bioengineering, micro-fabricated fluidic systems, microelectronics, aerospace technology, micro heat pipes, chips cooling etc. have been becoming especially important since the late 20th century. However, microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena are quite different…
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Quick ViewCyberspace is defined by the Department of Defense as a global domain consisting of the interdependent networks of information technology infrastructures and resident data, including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers. Attacks in cyberspace have seemingly been on the rise in recent years with a variety of participating actors and…
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Quick ViewThis book covers leading-edge research in a cross-section of fields centering on engineering applications including current research data on structure-functional design of new catalysts for engineering of productive and environmental catalysis processes; influence of friction stir processing on the surface modification of the titanium alloy; innovative process energy saving based on enhanced process integration; P–C…
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Quick ViewThe authors’ of this book focus on the latest developments in robot kinematics and motion planning. The first chapter seeks to identify the governing rules implemented in the central nervous system (CNS) to solve redundant mapping problems from an experimental observation approach. The novelty of this chapter is in the obtained motion planning results for…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents a state-of-the-art review on the potential issues to be solved in the design, manufacture and maintenance of the full ocean depth manned cabin. Only in the past 100 years, has the technological capability matched the human desire to deep…
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Quick ViewNASA’s mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth. Chapter 1 and 2 provide a snapshot for 2018 of how well NASA is planning and executing its major acquisition projects. In May 2017, GAO found that projects were continuing a…
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Quick ViewWell testing is a valuable and economical tool in the oil and gas industry. Thanks to the advances in mathematical modeling, measurement devices and computer capabilities, well testing continues to be a growing subject. The information obtained from well testing is analyzed with the purpose of obtaining important reservoir information useful for hydrocarbon field management.…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents the implementation of Lean philosophy and Lean tools in coal mining. Chapter Two describes numerical and experimental analyses of milling bifurcations, or instabilities. Chapter Three examines metabolic engineering strategies in the production of aromatic amino acids. Chapter Four outlines…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents trajectory planning for robots with rigid bodies. Chapter Two explores image tracking of a humanoid robot based on visual serving. Chapter Three describes a project in the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), in particular for the continuous care…
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Quick ViewA transmission line is the material medium or structure that forms all or part of a path from one place to another for directing the transmission of energy, such as electromagnetic waves or acoustic waves, as well as electric power transmission. This book presents current research data from across the globe in the study of…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents software engineering and ontology development. Chapter Two discusses metal rapid prototyping technologies. Chapter Three presents a complete description of the Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) architecture and its application scenarios; comprehensively analyzes the recent efforts toward an improved…
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Quick ViewA material structure assembled from a layer or cluster of atoms with the size of the order of nanometers is called a nanostructure. There are many events such as the discovery of scanning electron microscopy that gave fillip to nanotechnology research. However, with the discovery of a new allotrope of carbon in the late 1980s…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One presents the mathematical modeling of an electric power distribution network segment using the PLC technology, through the use of a traditional model. Chapter Two proposes a framework which incorporates scale-reduction and offers two variants which use different scale reduction approaches. Chapter…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One reviews an extensive study on the design of experiment methods. Chapter Two presents controller designs using the traditional proportional integral derivative (PID) control algorithm to control a planar two-link flexible manipulator. Chapter Three presents an active vibration control (AVC) system for…
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This research aims to make an original and advanced contribution to state-of-the-art sky models. It focuses on high-resolution sky radiance and luminance models given their essential importance in a host of scientific and engineering applications. For example, improved sky radience and luminance models can be used to improve the design and operation of energy-efficient and…
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Quick ViewIn Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 28, the authors describe the functional beam splitter that divides the incident beam into several derivative ones, simultaneously introducing the prescribed transformation of their transverse profiles. Recommendations for managing the diffracted beams’ profiles and their employment in precise metrology and optical vortices analysis are given. Unlike most engineered filtering…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One proposes and evaluates a fuzzy logic based freeway traffic control strategy to overcome the limitations of existing strategies. Chapter Two shows how the particle swarm optimization technique, PSO, can be successfully applied to elucidate several applied mathematical and chemical engineering problems.…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One reviews terrain classification using single-pol synthetic aperture radars. Chapter Two analyzes Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) corrosion monitoring sensors. Chapter Three examines the concept of emergence in agent-based modeling and simulation by modeling several types of agent-based systems and examining simulations for…
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Quick ViewRobots or biological intelligent machines are characterized by open, adaptive systems which have autonomy and hierarchical structure. In recent years, more and more mobile robots have been applied in indoor transportation applications. In this book, the study of mobile robotics in life sciences is presented and a number of relatively technical difficulties are considered. A…
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Quick ViewAdvances in Engineering Research. Volume 20 begins by analyzing the extraction and separation protocols documented for the saponins from family caryophyllaceae during the period 1967-2014. Analyses of applied extraction and separation protocols of saponins were carried out to determine the most practiced protocols in the study period and to identify eventual trends between protocols, plant…
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Quick ViewThis book covers leading-edge research in a cross-section of fields centering on engineering applications including current research data on the environmental impacts of future technologies of commercial aircraft; health and safety in engineering; high temperature degradation of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings in the oxidizing environment; neutrino telescopes and neutrino interactions and a rotocraft trim…
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Quick ViewIn Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 26, sodium dodecyl sulfate and hydroxy isopropyl chitosan are employed as modulation agents for crystallization of CaC2O4. The effects of these concentrations on the crystallization are investigated, and the CaC2O4 particles are characterized by scanning electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The authors…
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