Wastewater treatment is an essential life process that enhances water quality as population and urbanization are increasing proportionally. The increase in population alongside the increase of wastewater treatment plants’ ...

In a time when data is experiencing a remarkable growth in different fields, extracting and understanding the correlations between different data features is becoming increasingly important in many application areas, ranging ...

The nature of bentonite which delays the generation of mean excess pore pressure, increases threshold shear strain and cyclic resistance ratios in sands; as well as its enhanced benefits with aging and longer hydration ...

Heat transfer and fluid flow in a channel with an array of pin fins is numerically investigated using a finite volume approach. Rectangular pin fins with circular cross sections are used in this investigation. The working ...

Orthopter-type Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (O-VAWT) are energy capturing devices which are suitable for micro-generation in urban areas. This paper aims to study the effect of number of blades (solidity), Aspect Ratio (AR), ...

This work presents an optimized design of a dynamic rotor vertical-axis wind turbine (DR VAWT) which maximizes the operational tip-speed ratio (TSR) range and the average power coefficient (Cp) value while maintaining a ...

Rising fuel prices over the past years have triggered an increase in the worldwide demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). Moreover, new environment and CO2 emission regulations notably in Europe and Japan have pushed ...

In this paper, we propose a novel relay selection strategy for half-duplex decode-and-forward cooperative networks with an arbitrary number of buffer-aided (BA) relays. Unlike most of the existing predetermined relaying ...

The energy management strategy is one of the key technologies for the design and development of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). In order to investigate the maximum potentials of various powertrain architectures and ...

With the current conventional control strategies applied to the Heat Pump system in battery-electric buses, its driving range is being considerably reduced, particularly in cold weather conditions. This study proposes a ...