Finite Time Thermodynamics is generally associated with the Curzon–Ahlborn approach to the Carnot cycle. Recently, previous publications on the subject were discovered, which prove that the history of Finite Time Thermodynamics started more than sixty years before even the work of Chambadal and Novikov (1957). The paper proposes a careful examination of the similarities and differences between ...

a nanofluid is a dilute liquid suspension of particles with at least one critical dimension smaller than ~100 nm. research works so far suggest that nanofluids offer excellent heat transfer enhancement over conventional base fluids. the enhancement depends on several factors such as particle shape, particle size distribution, volume fraction of nanoparticles, temperature, ph, and thermal conduc...

This article describes physical modelling techniques that can be used for simulating musical instruments. The methods are closely related to digital signal processing. They discretize the system with respect to time, because the aim is to run the simulation using a computer. The physics-based modelling methods can be classified as mass–spring, modal, wave digital, finite difference, digital wav...

Theoretical arguments and observations suggest that the atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and planets are very dynamic on chemical and on physical time scales. The modelling of such substellar atmospheres has, hence, been much more demanding than initially anticipated. This Splinter1 has combined new developments in atmosphere modelling, with noval observational techniques, and new challenges arrisin...

Theoretical arguments and observations suggest that the atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and planets are very dynamic on chemical and on physical time scales. The modelling of such substellar atmospheres has, hence, been much more demanding than initially anticipated. This Splinter 1 has combined new developments in atmosphere modelling, with novel observational techniques, and new challenges arisin...

The SLUGens pack for SuperCollider 3 is a collection of novel algorithmic sound synthesis and processing UGens. This paper describes various non-linear dynamic oscillators, buffer data processors, breakpoint set synthesisers, and miscellaneous filters. Non-standard sound synthesis has been neglected in modern research programmes concentrated on spectral and physical modelling synthesis. Its goa...

The originality and flexibility of the physical modelling synthesizer Modalys is being continously validated by an ever-growing community of users made up of composers, acousticians and musicologists alike. In this paper we will present the main lines that have oriented recent research around Modalys. These can be summarized: (1) Exploration and tentative classification of the musical possibili...

This research is concerned with making recommendations to museum visitors based on their history within the physical environment, and textual information associated with each item in their history. We investigate a method of providing such recommendations to users through a combination of language modelling techniques, geospatial modelling of the physical space, and observation of sequences of ...

In this paper, we introduce the Modelverse, a metamodelling framework and model repository. It clearly distinguishes and supports physical and linguistic conformance relations and allows for deep characterization and deep instantiation using potency. We introduce language fragments, which are reusable pieces of a language definition, consisting of an abstract syntax definition, as well as the d...

The case study of the dynamic modelling and simulation of the new IRIS power plant control system is presented. After reviewing the base concepts of object-oriented physical modelling, the principles upon which the component libraries are based, and the structure of the plant, the implementation of a system simulator, comprising the physical plant model and the control system model is described...