We describe an algorithm for the construction of optimum experimental designs for the parameters in a regression model when the errors have a correlation structure. Our example is drawn from chemical kinetics, so that the model is nonlinear. Our algorithm has been implemented to be used when the...

We describe an algorithm for the construction of optimum experimental designs for the parameters in a regression model when the errors have a correlation structure. Our example is drawn from chemical kinetics, so that the model is nonlinear. Our algorithm has been implemented to be used when the...

One of the major problems associated with HCCI combustion engine application is lack of direct control for combustion timing. A proposed solution for combustion timing control is using a binary fuel blend in which two fuels with different auto-ignition characteristics are blended at various...

We compute the characteristic functional of a nonlinear transformation of a set of random variables. The equation is applied to the study of fractal stochastic processes with multiplicative noise. For illustration we investigate two types of chemical systems subjected to environmental...

Remodelling is a dynamic process occurring during growth and it includes sensing of environmental changes, tissue resorbance, i.e. the removal of existing old bone, and formation of new tissue. The biomechanical remodelling process is relatively well formulated for bones and can be divided into...

The exhaust gases contain large amounts of unburned hydrocarbons during cranking without combustion. The effects of unburned hydrocarbon recirculation on ignition and combustion during diesel engine cold starts were investigated using both experiments and simulations. Experiments were conducted...

When comparing the predictions of Bohm's theory for quantum ensembles of one-particle systems corresponding to a pure state, with ‘conventional’ quantum mechanics, two possibilities have been considered in the past: quantum equilibrium (ρ(r)=N|ψ(r)|2, where ρ is the hidden particle...

Results are presented to examine the combustion of acid gas (H2S and CO2) in hydrogen-fueled flames using a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen under Claus conditions (Φ=3). Specifically the effect of oxygen enrichment in the above flames is examined. The compositions of acid gas examined are100%...

In the present study, in-cylinder diesel combustion simulation was performed with parallel processing on an Intel Xeon Quad-Core platform to allow both fluid dynamics and chemical kinetics of the surrogate diesel fuel model to be solved simultaneously on multiple processors. Here, Cartesian...

Mechanism of alcoholysis (e.g. methanolysis) using different oils, alcohols and homogeneous base catalysts was utilized to devise chemical kinetics and thermodynamics based on fatty acid composition, differentiating among triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides and fatty acid alkyl esters...