Short lead-time forecasts using the operational United Kingdom variable-resolution (UKV) configuration of the Met Office's numerical weather prediction model, with horizontal grid-length 1.5 km over the UK, with and without a representation of the 20 March 2015 eclipse, have been used to simulate the impact of the eclipse on UK weather. The major impact was surface-driven through changes to sur...

DURING the past decade, fluid flow and heat transfer through porous media have experienced renewed research interest due to a broad range of applications, including geothermal systems, thermal insulation, metals processing, catalytic reactors, direct-contact heat exchangers, transpiration cooling, filtration, etc. In many practical systems, the porous medium has a high permeability (i.e. the po...

Nekrasov's integral equation describing water waves of permanent form, determines the angle φ (s) that the wave surface makes with the horizontal. The independent variable s is a suitably scaled velocity potential, evaluated at the free surface, with the origin corresponding to the crest of the wave. For all waves, except for amplitudes near the maximum, φ (s) satisfies the inequality |φ (s) | ...

The safe design of primary load-bearing structures requires accurate prediction of stresses, especially in the vicinity of geometric discontinuities where deleterious three-dimensional stress fields can be induced. Even for thin-walled structures significant through-thickness stresses arise at edges and boundaries, and this is especially precarious for laminates of advanced fibre-reinforced com...

A new Boussinesq-type model describing periodic wave propagation over a constant depth has been developed for the cases where the effects of a turbulent boundary layer are significant. In this paper, the eddy viscosity model is employed in the turbulent boundary layer and is further approximated as a linear function of the distance measured from the seafloor. The boundary-layer velocities are c...

The rotating-flow boundary layer is a special case of the more general threedimensional boundary layer in which the pressure gradient imposed by the outer flow (above the boundary layer) is not in the same direction as the outer flow. The rotating-flow boundary layer thus has motion that is transverse to the streamlines of the outer flow, that is, there is a secondary circulation to the primary...

three k-tree distance and fixed-sized plot designs were used for estimating tree density in sparse oak forests. these forests cover the main part of the zagros mountain area in western iran. they are non-timber-oriented forest but important for protection purposes. the main objective was to investigate the statistical performance of k-tree distance and fixed-sized plot designs in the estimation...