The study was conducted to evaluate hydraulic conductivity functions in relation to some soil chemical properties in an oxisols of the tropics. Field and laboratory studies were carried out and data collected, subjected to statistical analytical procedure for computing coefficient of variability and correlation among soil properties. Results of the study showed that hydraulic conductivity funct...

abstract saturated hydraulic conductivity (ks) is needed for many studies related to water and solute transport, but often cannot be measured because of practical and/or cost-related reasons. nonparametric approaches are being used in various fields to estimate continuous variables. one type of the nonparametric lazy learning algorithms, a k-nearest neighbor (k-nn) algorithm, was introduced and...

A new locally sparse (i.e., zero on some subregions) estimator for coefficient functions in functional linear regression models is developed based on a novel functional regularization technique called “fSCAD”. The nice shrinkage property of fSCAD allows the proposed estimator to locate null subregions of coefficient functions without over shrinking non-zero values of coefficient functions. Addi...

− The constitutional diagnosis using human skins is classified to palpation in oriental medicines. From Sasang constitutional medicine which is one of oriental medicines, human could be divided by the properties of their skins such as texture, roughness, hardness and elasticity. Especially, the friction coefficient and roughness of skins have big discrimination ability in the classification of ...

Surface area of root (m-2) Concentration of solutes (osmolal) Average solute concentration between inside and outside of root Diameter Diffusion coefficient (m2 s-l) Mass flow of solution (kg s-l) Classical root hydraulic conductance (kg s-I MPa-l) Mass flux density or Fm per unit root surface area (kg s-I m-2) Solute flux density (mol s-I m-2) Thermodynamic root hydraulic conductance (kg s-I M...

An experimental investigation was conducted on two lengths of Roman lead water pipe excavated near Corbridge, Northumberland, England. The pipes date from approximately AD 80. One length contained a sleeve joint. were linked to pump system using 3 D-printed connectors, and the hydraulic head loss along measured. without joint used determine value for wall roughness height, fitting results Darcy...

Several artificial neural work (ANNs) software packages are available and being under use by researchers in different fields of sciences and engineering. These types of software could be used successfully by hydraulic engineers to simulate and predict hydraulic information. In this paper, three ANNs packages are used separately to predict hydraulic data of scour and hydraulic jump phenomena. Th...

We describe experiments that compared the perceived relative roughness of textured virtual walls synthesized with an accurately controlled haptic interface. Texture was modeled as a spatially modulated sinusoidal friction grating. The results indicate that both the modulation depth of the grating (A), and the coefficient of friction (μ) are strongly associated with the perceived roughness when ...

Experimentation has been carried out to find the influence of a gap provided in ribs on thermohydraulic performance of a square duct roughened with discrete inclined ribs. The two opposite walls of the square duct are roughened with ribs having attack angle (α) of 45 and a gap on its length. The investigation has been performed for relative roughness pitch (p/e) of 10, relative roughness height...

[1] We apply the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model to simulate the Hurricane Ike storm surge using two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) formulations. The high resolution, unstructured grid extends over the Gulf of Mexico with open boundaries in the Straits of Florida and the Yucatan Channel. With the same wind and pressure forcing, the bottom drag coefficients for the baseline 2-D ...