A relatively new area of research concerns computer programs which operate by the action of many small agents, rather than the serial execution of an algorithm. Bestically from conventional programs, new ired for developing and maintaining them. An optimization technique, the Parallel Terraced Scan, has been applied to one such program: a letter-recognition system called the Examiner [7] . The ...

A mesoscale fluid film placed on a solid support may break up and form droplets. In addition, droplets may exhibit spontaneous translation by modifying the wetting properties of the substrate, resulting in asymmetry in the contact angles. We examine mechanisms for droplet formation and motion on uniform and terraced landscapes, i.e., composite substrates. The fluid film stability, droplet forma...

Computer simulations are used to assess the impact of thermal insulation on transfer heat and moisture in exterior walls residential buildings. The effects internal external a room terraced family house compared using COMSOL Multiphysics software package, evaluating influence placement expanded polystyrene distribution wall while monitoring indoor air temperature during heating cooling regimes....

The thermal cracking of hydrocarbons for olefin production is carried out in long tubular reactors inserted in a furnace, in this process the heat flux along the reactor wall determines the feedstock conversion, the olefin selectivity's and rate of coke deposition. A detailed firebox simulation model is therefore a powerful tool in the design and operation of pyrolysis furnaces and reactors to ...

This paper presents for the first time the results of a full life cycle assessment (LCA)1 study for the three most common types of house in the UK: detached, semi-detached and terraced. All life cycle stages are considered, including house construction, use and demolition after 50 years. The results indicate that the use stage has the largest contribution to most environmental impacts. For exam...

We develop a method for fabricating very small silica microbubbles having a micrometer-order wall thickness and demonstrate the first optical microbubble resonator. Our method is based on blowing a microbubble using stable radiative CO(2) laser heating rather than unstable convective heating in a flame or furnace. Microbubbles are created along a microcapillary and are naturally opened to the i...

Graphite furnace techniques are characterized by excellent analytical sensitivity. They are methods of choice for the determination of trace elements in various environmental, biological, and clinical samples. However, they can be plagued by chemical and background interferences which complicate methods development and sample analysis. Using the graphite platform technique, these interferences ...

Abstract—This study presents a simple inverse heat transfer procedure for predicting the wall erosion and the time-varying thickness of the protective bank that covers the inside surface of the refractory brick wall of a melting furnace. The direct problem is solved by using the Finite-Volume model. The melting/solidification process is modeled using the enthalpy method. The inverse procedure r...

The glass melting process starts from a granular mixture of natural and synthetic raw materials (the so-called batch) and yields a thermally and chemically homogeneous melt made available at a well defined temperature level. The consecutive steps of glass fabrication (forming, annealing, etc.) are not within the scope of interest of this paper. Figure 1 illustrates how a continuously working gl...