Industrial evolution brings major new challenges due to increasing energy demands. This phenomenon encourages the improvement of control methodologies that reduce resource requirements. Lately, it has been observed that the building sector contributes considerably to final energy demand. Consequently, studies have been conducted on the technical systems and solutions applied in this sector to t...

Green’s functions are established tools for solving petroleum engineering flow problems. Their utility and rigor was extended to arbitrarily shaped reservoirs using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). Traditional BEMs are limited to single-phase flow in homogeneous reservoirs. Earlier authors have developed techniques to handle heterogeneity. These methods are perturbationbased and computation-i...

There has been considerable interest in recent years in the development of numerical methods for time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic wave scattering problems that can efficiently resolve the scattered field at high frequencies. Standard finite or boundary element methods (FEMs and BEMs), with piecewise polynomial approximation spaces, suffer from the restriction that a fixed number of de...

In order to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, many sensors have been being installed in buildings for monitoring temperature, humidity, electricity consumption, etc. In the Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS), it seems that visualization of the monitoring data is the main objective and that managers still have to find problems from the visualized data with drawings of buildings ...

We propose and analyse a hybrid numerical–asymptotic hp boundary element method (BEM) for time-harmonic scattering of an incident plane wave by an arbitrary collinear array of sound-soft twodimensional screens. Our method uses an approximation space enriched with oscillatory basis functions, chosen to capture the high-frequency asymptotics of the solution. We provide a rigorous frequencyexplici...

This paper proposes a distributed optimization model for community microgrids considering the building thermal dynamics and customer comfort preference. The microgrid central controller (MCC) minimizes the total cost of operating the community microgrid, including fuel cost, purchasing cost, battery degradation cost and voluntary load shedding cost based on the customers’ consumption, while the...

The identification of species constitutes the first basic step in phylogenetic studies, biodiversity monitoring and conservation. DNA barcoding, i.e. the sequencing of a short standardized region of DNA, has been proposed as a new tool for animal species identification. The present study provides an update on the composition of shark in the Egyptian Mediterranean waters off Alexandria, since th...

B lymphocytes contribute to the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by secreting antibodies and producing cytokines. This latter function was analyzed in myelin olygodendrocyte protein (MOG)-stimulated CD19+ B lymphocytes of 71 MS patients with different disease phenotypes and 40 age-and sex-matched healthy controls (HC). Results showed that: 1) CD19+/TNFα+, CD19+/IL-12+ and CD19+/IFNγ+ lym...

A Divide-and-Conquer Method for 3D Capacitance Extraction. (May 2004) Fangqing Yu, B.S., University of Electronics Science and Technology of China; Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Weiping Shi This thesis describes a divide-and-conquer algorithm to improve the 3D boundary element method (BEM) for capacitance extraction. We divide large interconnect structures into small sections, set new bounda...