Discussion: “Reactor-Vessel Design Considering Radiation Effects” (Porse, L., 1964, ASME J. Basic Eng., 86, pp. 743–748)

Closure to “Discussion of ‘Factors of Safety for Richardson Extrapolation’ ” (2011, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 133, p. 115501)

The Technical Brief by Roache [1] presents ten items of discussion of our factor of safety (FS) method for solution verification [2]. Our responses are listed below item-by-item using the same numbering as Roache. The nomenclature mostly follows our own and not Roache’s such as pRE for the order of accuracy calculated using the Richardson Extrapolation as opposed to the observed order of conver...

J. Mar. Sci. Eng

The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Minoan Santorini eruption have been proposed as a likely explanation of the biblical plagues. Particularly, it has been suggested that flooding b...

Specific effects in microwave chemistry explored through reactor vessel design, theory, and spectroscopy.

Microwave chemistry has revolutionized synthetic methodology for the preparation of organics, pharmaceuticals, materials, and peptides. The enhanced reaction rates commonly observed in a microwave have led to wide speculation about the function of molecular microwave absorption and whether the absorption leads to microwave specific effects and enhanced molecular heating. The comparison of theor...

Order-recursive FIR smoothers

[l] R. E. Kalman, “A new approach to linear filtering and prediction problems,” J. Basic Eng., Tram. ASME, pp. 35-45, Mar. 1960. [2] C. K. Chui and G. Chen, Kalrnun Filtering with Real-Time Applications. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1987. [3] L. Ljung, “Asymptotic behavior of the extended Kalman filter as a parameter estimator for linear systems,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Conrr., vol. 24, no. 1. pp. ...

Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement—i