Transmission loss measurements are reported for long steel pipes of circular crosssection, with air inside and out, excited by internal sound. At low frequencies (wavelength greater than the pipe diameter), most of the radiated sound is accounted for by pipe bending waves. In order to approach the much higher transmission loss predicted for pure breathing motion of the pipe, bending waves must ...

This paper concerns the mathematical modelling of flow and solute transport through stormwater ponds. The model is based on appropriate lumped system conservation equations that are solved using standard numerical techniques. The model was used to route a first flush pollution scenario through a cylindrical pond for 16 combinations of elevation and diameter of a submerged pipe outlet, in conjun...

This thesis deals with the rectilinear crossing minimization problem, which is NP-hard [BD93]. More precisely, we propose a heuristic for computing a straight-line drawing of a general graph G which realizes a small rectilinear crossing number. Inspired by Gutwenger et al. [GMW05], we pursue an approach which extracts a planar subgraph that includes as many edges of G as possible and iterativel...