The structures of the solar-thermal membrane always influence the performance of the light absorption and the salt resistance in desalination. Inspired by the hierarchical structure of the coniferous leaves with excellent sunlight absorption in frigid regions, a coniferous leaf-like nickel black...

Introduction / Tim Niblock 1. - 1 The Dynamics of the BRICS Grouping: Convergences and Disparities with the GCC's Global Posture and Stances / Tim Niblock 8. - 2 GCC-BRICS Strategic Cooperation in the New Era: The Dual Implications of Geoeconomics and Geopolitics / Degang Sun 40. - 3 Taking...

The main contribution of this paper is the development of <em>H</em>∞ fault tolerant control for a wind energy conversion system (WECS) based on the stochastic piecewise affine (PWA) model. In this paper the normal and fault stochastic PWA models for WECS including multiple working points at different...

Soils are generally penetrated by a pore system. Most transport processes usually occur in pore space of soils. The description of pore space shape is necessary to quantify how the geometry influences the percolation of substances such as water and nutrients. In this paper, the pores in soils...