A real-time Model Predictive Control (MPC) is proposed for controlling the behavior of an Automated Manual Transmission (AMT). The underlying formulation shows a unified approach that handles different modes: idle-speed control, vehicle start-up, gearing up and down. Sub-optimal solutions are computed on line using an adaptive reduced dimensional parametrization that is directly linked to the a...

Ion backscattering off of surfaces in magnetically insulated transmission lines (MITLs) is often ignored kinetic simulations MITL power flow. Backscattering reduces ion current losses and the surface impact heating, which dictates rate at surface-adsorbed contaminants are liberated into anode–cathode gap. Backscatter probabilities difficult to implement a code because there limited data for inc...

Gas hydrate formation in production and transmission pipelines and consequent plugging of these lines have been a major flow-assurance concern of the oil and gas industry for the last 75 years. Gas hydrate formation rate is one of the most important topics related to the kinetics of the process of gas hydrate crystallization. The main purpose of this study is investigating phenomenon of gas hyd...

A method for design and implementation of a compact via-less Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line (CRLH TL) is presented. By introducing a new circuit model, the CRLH transmission line behavior is studied versus the parameters variations to achieve the desired characteristic impedance and electrical length. Then a compact quarter wavelength CRLH transmission line with 70 Ω characte...

In this paper we investigate the long time behaviour of solutions to the system governing a heat-conductive, viscous reactive p’th power gas confined between two parallel plates. For initial-boundary value problems with the end points held at a prescribed temperature or insulated, we prove the global existence of physically relevant solutions and establish their rate of convergence to equilibri...