In today’s retail business many companies have a complex distribution network with several national and regional distribution centers. This article studies an integrated facility location and inventory allocation problem for designing a distribution network with multiple distribution centers...

We test whether and how equity overvaluation affects corporate financing decisions using an ex ante misvaluation measure that filters firm scale and growth prospects from market price. We find that equity issuance and total financing increase with equity overvaluation, but only among overvalued...

The semiconductor manufacturing systems that involve a large number of products and many steps can be modeled through conservation laws for a continuous density variable on production processes. In this paper, the basic partial differential equation (PDE) models for single-product re-entrant...

Yield management is crucial for high-tech industries to reduce over-production. However, it is very challenging for a manufacturer to make a yield decision under the circumstance of uncertain demand and stochastic product quality. For example, in semiconductor manufacturing industry, products...

We explore the issue of supply chain coordination by considering trade credit and its risk. It shows that, in a retailer–manufacturer system, the manufacturer may deliver less than the retailer׳s order quantity when the payment is delayed, and the manufacturer׳s risk aversion makes this...

In order to obtain a deeper understanding of the regenerative cooling process of scramjet engines, in this paper, a numerical investigation on the supercritical convective heat transfer of n-decane in horizontal circular tubes was conducted, based on a complete set of conservation equations and...

In this paper, the intermittent experiment of a vertical ground source heat pump (GSHP) system is investigated and the corresponding geo-temperature variations are studied. The performance of the GSHP system under intermittent operation and the comparisons of different intermittent modes are...

The rebound behavior of fly ash particles normally impacting a planar surface is investigated by using a dynamic model. The three forms of soft sphere physical model are obtained using static/quasi-static contact mechanics and energy dissipation theory. The influences of the particle size, the...

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive program of experiments in which fly ash particles were impacted under controlled conditions against a flat steel surface. The overall aim of these experiments was to gain an understanding of the ash deposition process in a pulverized coal boiler...

This study investigated the rebound behavior of SiO₂ particles normally impacting a planar surface under different temperature conditions. The system has been characterized for an aerosol inlet temperature range of 20–190 °C, flow velocities of 0–20 ms⁻¹, and an impaction surface...