Knocking combustion in spark-ignition (SI) engines is an abnormal combustion phenomenon which can constrain the engine performance and thermal efficiency. It can also result in severe permanent engine damage under certain operating conditions. This paper systematically reviews the engine knock...

This book focuses on experiences with the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) of 2007 in China. It uses carefully-chosen case studies to examine how the competition authorities in China discuss cases and how they use economic reasoning in their decision-making process.

Benefited from the fruitful results of general light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, the LED is utilized in the automotive forward lighting recently, the LED headlamp, due to its ability of improving the efficiency, durability and comfort of the automobile. Both the rough operating environments...

The thermal management systems using EG-based phase change materials (PCMs) can provide power batteries with a proper operating temperature, slow temperature rise rate and uniform temperature distribution. In this study, a systematical investigation on the effects of thermo-physical properties...

A LiNO3/KCl-expanded graphite (EG) composite phase change material (PCM) was prepared for solar thermal energy storage application at high temperature (∼200°C). In such composite material, eutectic system LiNO3/KCl is characterized by high phase change latent heat and EG serves as the heat...

Governing the simultaneous propagation of N fields in optical fibers and plasmas, the inhomogeneous N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations are, with symbolic computation, analytically investigated in this paper. As one of the important integrable properties, the explicit one- and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how spatial heterogeneity and production diversification have affected the efficiency of households participating in the SLCP. Design/methodology/approach – Based on household survey data collected from three sample counties in the Loess...