We study dielectric breakdown in a semi-classical bond percolation model for non-linear composite materials introduced by us and the relaterd breakdown exponent near the percolation thresh-old in two dimensions. The breakdown exponent after doing finite size scaling analysis is found to be tB...

We study the phase transition on a highway in a modified anisotropic continuum model with an on-ramp, which is recently developed by Gupta and Katiyar (J. Phys. A: Math. Nucl. Gen. 38 (2005) 4069]. To investigate whether this model can describe several distinct traffic states that are identified...

A meso-scale heat recirculating thrust chamber has been developed for use with methanol, by utilizing steam/oxygen as an oxidizer. The steam/oxygen mixture serves as a surrogate for hydrogen peroxide. The extinction regimes, discharge characteristics, and both steady state and pulsing thrust...

In India, the credit needs of dryland farmers, especially small and marginal farmers, are served largely by non-institutional sources. The formal bank ing system follows a risk-averse strategy towards lending to this segment, and does not appear to attach any significance to the generation of...

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the typical scheduling environment in semiconductor manufacturing involving multiple job families, and where more than one objective such as cycle time, machine utilization and the due-date accuracy needs to be simultaneously considered. In this...

This paper develops a new continuum model based upon an improved car-following model by using a series expansion of the headway in terms of the density. The new model contains an additional speed gradient term (Anisotropic term) in comparison to the Berg's model [Berg et al., Phys. Rev. E 61(2)...