Borehole heat exchangers, especially deep ones, are usually drilled through different geological layers having varying properties. Homogeneous and layered models can be used for borehole performance predictions. The homogeneous model considers all as a single layer effective properties while the separately gives better accuracy, although it is more complicated time consuming to calculate. In th...

A new interlayer force-field for layered hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) based structures is presented. The force-field contains three terms representing the interlayer attraction due to dispersive interactions, repulsion due to anisotropic overlaps of electron clouds, and monopolar electrostatic interactions. With appropriate parameterization, the potential is able to simultaneously capture wel...

In Direct Computer Mapping the simple building blocks of the conservational and informational processes are mapped onto the generic “active” and “passive” elements of an executable program. The recently developed Generic Bi-layered Net model provides a common framework for the simulation of the hybrid (continuous and discrete, quantitative and qualitative) balance-based and rule-based processes...

The synthesis and structures of metal aminocarboxylates prepared in acidic, neutral, or alkaline media have been explored with the purpose of isolating coordination polymers with linear chain and two-dimensional layered structures. Metal glycinates of the formulae [CoCl2(H2O)2(CO2CH2NH3)] (I), [MnCl2(CO2CH2NH3)2] (II), and [Cd3Cl6(CO2CH2NH3)4] (III) with one-dimensional chain structures have be...

Integrity of layered structures, extensively used in modern industry, strongly depends on the quality of their interfaces; poor adhesion or delamination can lead to a failure of the structure. Can nonlinear waves help us to control the quality of layered structures? In this paper, we numerically model the dynamics of a long longitudinal strain solitary wave in a split, symmetric layered bar. Th...