water obtained from any source may contain impurities induced by erosion, dissolved minerals, dissolved gases and material produced from organic matter decomposing. if the amount of these substances exceed a certain limit, not only the water would not be potable, but the water containing the material will not be suitable to be used in most applications, or at least before treatment cannot be ap...

short-term traffic flow forecasting plays a significant role in the intelligent transportation systems (its), especially for the traffic signal control and the transportation planning research. two mainly problems restrict the forecasting of urban freeway traffic parameters. one is the freeway traffic changes non-regularly under the heterogeneous traffic conditions, and the other is the success...

in this paper, two dimensional natural convection heat transfer in non-square cavities such as triangle, trapezoid, quadrant-circle and semi-circular are investigated via lattice boltzmann method. the prandtl number is taken as 0.71 that corresponds to that of air. the results show that, when the flow pattern consists of two rotating cell, there is a extremum point in the variations of the loca...