To control land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawal, it is important to estimate allowable withdrawn volume of groundwater in a soft deposit. This technical note presents a simple approach for estimating the allowable withdrawn volume of a deposit. A regression analysis method was used...

The problem of describing the distribution functions of tsunami wave heights is discussed. Data on runup heights obtained in field surveys of several tsunamis for the last decade are used to calculate the empirical distribution functions. It is shown that the log-normal distribution describes...

An application of an algorithm presented by J. Gregor in 1969 for decomposition of a mixture distribution into Gaussian components is presented here in relation to discrete mixture distributions of constant class interval. This graphical separation called Modified Gregor method (MG) uses the...

This paper aims at considering the possibility of the future scenario predictions of Japanese software industry through hybrid method. Thus, we try to preliminarily develop a new research framework by connecting the data obtained by large-scale fact-finding investigations, the statistical...

Airflow through urban environments is one of the most important factors affecting human health, outdoor and indoor thermal comfort, air quality and the energy performance of buildings. This paper presents a study on the effects of wind induced airflows through urban built form using statistical...

An original method to determine the thermal and cooling loads of the broader region of Athens is presented in the present work. The buildings in the area are classified in various categories related to their energy behaviour, year of construction, and geometrical characteristics. The sampling...

In the present work, a detailed statistical investigation is conducted in order to a) assess the average values of all properties (incl. fatty acid composition) of the most investigated biodiesels and b) quantify the effects of feedstock unsaturation on the physical and chemical properties of...

This paper proposes an evolving ant direction differential evolution (EADDE) algorithm for solving the optimal power flow problem with non-smooth and non-convex generator fuel cost characteristics. The EADDE employs ant colony search to find a suitable mutation operator for differential...

The main objectives of this paper are firstly to investigate the behaviour of the thin layer drying of plantain banana, mango and cassava experimentally in a direct solar dryer and secondly to perform mathematical modelling by using thin layer drying models encountered in literature. The...