The last two decades have seen a “volumetric turn” within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three-dimensional terms – with complex heights depths rather than as series of two-dimensional areas or surfaces. While there an increasingly diverse rich set scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities a...

We describe work-in-progress prototypes of auditory displays for fuel efficiency driver interfaces (FEDIs). Although research has established that feedback from FEDIs can have a positive impact on driver behaviors associated with fuel economy, the impact of FEDIs on driver distraction has not been established. Visual displays may be problematic for providing this feedback; it is precisely durin...

We present an algorithm in this paper for constructing volumetric domains with consistent topology to parameterize three-manifold solid models having homeomorphic topology. The volumetric parameterizations generated by our approach share the same set of base domains and are constrained by the corresponding anchor points. Our approach allows users to control interior mappings by specifying inter...

This work examines the volumetric effect of convection within a packed bed in the presence of collimated irradiation. Using a modified P-1 approximation incorporating a local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) model, the energy transportation through convection and thermal conduction, and collimated and diffuse radiative transfer are investigated. The impact of pertinent parameters such as porosity ...