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The Hydro - Kinetic Theory of Liquid Helium

In Part I the kinetic theory of excitations in flowing liquid He II is deve loped to a higher order than that carried out previously, by Landau and Khalatnikov, in order to demonstrate the existence of nonequilibrium terms of a new nature in the hydrodynamic equations. It is then shown that these terrns can lead to spontaneous destabilization in counter currents when the relative velocity of th...

Design of Micro - Hydro - Electric Power Station

Micro-hydro-electric power is both an efficient and reliable formof clean source of renewable energy. It can be an excellent method of harnessing renewable energy from small rivers and streams. The micro-hydro project designed to be a run -of-river type, because it requires very little or no reservoir in order to power the turbine. The water will run straight through the turbine and back into t...

Fluid Mechanics , Pumps , Piping , and Hydro Power

Optimization of Hydro-Power Plants for Generation

A decision support system is presented that addresses optimal unit dispatch and load allocation in a multi-unit hydroelectric plant. The concept behind the optimization approach is explained. Estimates of the improvements this system can provide over existing plant operational methodologies are provided. Actual use of this system has provided gains of over 2% in plant performance.

Hydro-kinetic approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions

We develop a combined hydro-kinetic approach which incorporates hydrodynamical expansion of the systems formed in A+A collisions and their dynamical decoupling described by escape probabilities. The method corresponds to a generalized relaxation time (τrel) approximation for Boltzmann equation applied to inhomogeneous expanding systems; at small τrel it also allows one to catch the viscous effe...