Magneto-plasmonics is a designation generally associated with ferromagnetic-plasmonic materials because such optical responses from nonmagnetic materials alone are considered weak. Here, we show that there exists a switching transition between linear and nonlinear magneto-optical behaviors in noble-metal nanocolloids that is observable at ultralow illumination intensities and direct current mag...

Hydro-ecological systems comprise complex interaction among physical, chemical, and biological processes. Compositional modeling, i. e. creating a system's behavior model by aggregating models of its constituents, is crucial for making the modeling task feasible. However, the composed model is often too fine-grained for a particular task, for instance, in containing too many irrelevant intermed...

We study dynamic duopolistic competition between hydro and thermal generators under demand uncertainty. Producers compete in quantities and each is constrained: the thermal generator by capacity and the hydro generator by water availability. Two versions of the model are analysed: an infinite-horizon game emphasizing water withholding incentives of the hydro generator and the distribution of pr...

Hydro-thermal scheduling is the problem of finding an optimal dispatch of power plants in a system containing both hydro and thermal plants. Since hydro plants are able to store water over long time periods, and since future inflows are uncertain due to precipitation, the resulting multi-stage stochastic optimization problem becomes challenging to solve. Several solution methods have been devel...

Article history: Received 27 July 2011 Received in revised form 24 May 2012 Accepted 24 May 2012 Available online 28 July 2012

An analytical study is performed to investigate the effects of chemical reaction and radiation on unsteady MHD flow past an exponentially accelerated vertical plate with variable temperature and variable mass diffusion in the presence of applied transverse magnetic field. It is assumed that the effect of viscous dissipation is negligible in the energy equation and there is a first order chemica...

This paper presents a simple multi-objective control technique for cascaded hydro power plants, based on a centralized distributed power control system and local water level controllers. This effective power management solution enables to guarantee the generation program following with a very good accuracy, to participate to power-frequency Ancillary Services with the dynamic performance requir...

We report on direct measurements of the magnetic near-field of metamaterial split ring resonators at terahertz frequencies using a magnetic field sensitive material. Specifically, planar split ring resonators are fabricated on a single magneto-optically active terbium gallium garnet crystal. Normally incident terahertz radiation couples to the resonator inducing a magnetic dipole oscillating pe...

This paper presents a stability investigation of the step recessed, hydro-static and -dynamic hybrid water-lubricated journal bearings for fuel cell vehicle compressor. The dynamic coefficients and stability threshold speed of the bearings are numerically calculated by solving the turbulent Reynolds equation by using FEM. Two configuration bearings are comparatively studied and the different dy...