A heated room is numerically analyzed to study thermal comfort. Cold air flowing in from the inlet gets by a heat source (placed just below inlet), before being distributed throughout room. The presence of and high Rayleigh number causes flow be buoyant turbulent. Two RANS based turbulence models, RNG k-ε k-ω SST models are used model Discrete Ordinate (DO) radiation transfer between different ...

BACKGROUND Two major initiatives that were set up to support and co-ordinate global health research efforts have been largely discontinued in recent years: the Global Forum for Health Research and World Health Organization's Department for Research Policy and Cooperation. These developments provide an interesting case study into the factors that contribute to the sustainability of initiatives t...

In this paper, a positive definite semi-discrete mixed finite element method was presented for two-dimensional parabolic equations. In the new positive definite systems, the gradient equation and flux equations were separated from their scalar unknown equations.  Also, the existence and uniqueness of the semi-discrete mixed finite element solutions were proven. Error estimates were also obtaine...

This paper deals with the hydrodynamic and thermal analysis of a new type of porous heat exchanger (PHE). This system operates based on energy conversion between gas enthalpy and thermal radiation. The proposed PHE has one high temperature (HT) and two heat recovery (HR1 and HR2) sections. In HT section, the enthalpy of flowing high temperature gas flow that is converted to thermal radiation em...

This paper presents the study of infrared (IR) reflow oven characteristics for suitable operating conditions flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) in soldering process. A computer-based model that imitates a real-time was developed with practical boundary conditions. Since radiation effect is dominant process, discrete ordinate (DO) selected to simulate effect. The experimental work acts as ben...

This paper is devoted to "Some Discrete Distributions Generated by Standard Stable Densities" (in short, Discrete Stable Densities). The large-sample properties of M-estimators as obtained by the "Generalized Method of Moments" (GMM) are discussed for such distributions. Some corollaries are proposed. Moreover, using the respective results we demonstrate the large-sample pro...

In this study, the authors co-ordinated collective motion patterns for a group of autonomous vehicles with Cartesian co-ordinate coupling in a discrete-time setting and present experimental results to validate the theoretical results. The collective motion patterns include rendezvous, circular patterns and logarithmic spiral patterns. The authors first study the collective motion patterns for a...