Numerical models for wave energy converters (WECs) are utilized in a number areas within the design process. These include, but are not limited to, performance assessment, control design, and survival analysis. Thus, the accuracy of such a model is paramount to design of a WEC. WEC dynamic models can take a number of forms. At the most basic level, the model should capture the rigidbody dynamic...

The Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager is an instrument, specially designed for investigation of the wave processes in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere. In order to determine the kinematic parameters of a wave, the values of a physical quantity in different space points and their changes with time should be known. As a result of the possibilities of the SATI instrument for space scanning, dif...

‘I’/& paper proposes technique for automaticall~ identifying and modeling the kinematic wwtminta of manipulated objects. The existence of wn.druints is established by examination of the forces and torques normal and tangential to the object’s motion. Constraints are modeled as joints tuith wnfigumtion and history dependent forca. To illustmte these concepts, seveml experimental examples are pre...

NW-tending faults in Central Iran are expected to represent dominant dextral components due to their orientation with respect to the northward motion of the Arabian Plate with respect to Eurasia. However, previously published works, as well as the focal mechanism solution of the area's earthquakes, indicate evidence of sinistral kinematic along the major faults in Central Iran. Here we present ...

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In general, Green’s functions obtained with seismic interferometry are only estimates of the true Green’s function, introducing uncertainties to the information recovered from them. However, there are still many cases in which the sourcereceiver geometries are suitable for seismic interferometry, usually allowing the recovery of kinematic information. Here we show how to use the singular value ...

This paper further investigates the specification and calibration of FDs. The purpose is to provide a consistent, systematic, and adaptive way to obtain FDs from single-loop detector measurements. In particular, the piecewise linear form is adopted for the FD, because (a) more-complex forms of the FD can be approximated by a piecewise linear form with arbitrarily many pieces, and (b) empirical ...