Basic understanding of the process of coolant heat transfer inside an engine is an indispensable prerequisite to devise an infallible cooling strategy. Coolant flow and its heat transfer affect the cooling efficiency, thermal load of heated components, and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine. An efficient approach to studying cooling system for diesel engine is a 3D computational fluid dynami...

While in the first paper of this series of two, optimal jacket fluid temperature control profiles have been derived for a family of dispersive tubular chemical reactors, the performance of these optimal profiles is further assessed in this second part. First, the performance of the optimal bang-bang control is compared with that of a more easily implementable constant jacket fluid temperature a...

Regarding the previous earthquake damages in offshore structures, as vital structures in the oil and gas industries, it is important that their seismic design will be performed with very high reliability. Accepting the Nonlinear Time History Analyses (NLTHA) as the most reliable seismic analysis method, in this paper an offshore platform of jacket type with the height of 304 feet and with a dec...