Dividing Wall Column(DWC) offers the large potential for operating and capital cost saving in compared with conventional distillation sequence. In the studied DWC in this study, the aid of Vmin diagrams, it is shown that without a suitable value for vapor split fraction bellow the dividing wall in different operating conditions, the energy requirement increases from optimal value and it wil...

We propose a generalized split-window method for retrieving land-surface temperature (LST) from AVHRR and MODIS data. Accurate radiative transfer simulations show that the coefficients in the split-window algorithm for LST must vary with the viewing angle, if we are to achieve a LST accuracy of about 1 K for the whole scan swath range (1t5.5" from nadir) and for the ranges of surface temperatur...

Hybrid RANS/LES models, capable of transitioning through arbitrary levels modeled and resolved turbulence, aim to ameliorate both RANS deficiencies LES expense. We propose a method combining active forcing the flow field, where appropriate, with splitting standard single turbulence model into separate responsible for either unresolved stress or dissipation, which adapts that $i\phantom{\rule{0}...

We developed novel flow-through surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platforms using gold nanoparticle (Au-NP) immobilized multihole capillaries for rapid and sensitive vapor detection. The multihole capillaries consisting of thousands of micrometer-sized flow-through channels provide many unique characteristics for vapor detection. Most importantly, its three-dimensional SERS-active micro-...

[1] SPECTRA (Surface Processes and Ecosystem Changes Through Response Analysis) is one of the core candidate missions which is being proposed for implementation in the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer program of research oriented missions. The scientific objective of the SPECTRA mission is to describe, understand, and model the role of terrestrial vegetation in the global carbon cycle...

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement with Associated Universities, Inc. Adjunct Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218

Communications co-processors (CCPs) have become commonplace in modern MPPs and networks of workstations. These co-processors provide dedicated hardware support for fast communication. In this paper we study how to exploit the capabilities of CCPs for executing user level message handlers. We show, in the context of Active Messages and Split-C, that we can move message handling code to the co-pr...

Efficient and robust phase equilibrium computation has become a prerequisite for successful large-scale compositional reservoir simulation. When knowledge of the number of phases is not available, the ideal strategy for phase-split calculation is the use of stability testing. Stability testing not only establishes whether a given state is stable, but also provides good initial guess for phase-s...