Within the past decade there has been a fair amount of interest in utilizing the high energy densities of hydrocarbon fuels at the small scale. The motivation for this is primarily twofold. The first application involves the generation of electricity via the heat released by combustion, in the...

A meso-scale heat recirculating combustor has been developed for the combustion of methanol and kerosene fuels with oxygen enriched superheated steam as an oxidizer. The steam oxygen mixture is a surrogate for the decomposition products of hydrogen peroxide, and as such the combustor development...

Investigations on the effect of acid gas (H2S and CO2) addition in hydrogen/air flame are presented. The specific equivalence ratios examined include Claus conditions (Φ=3.0) as well as stoichiometric conditions (Φ=1.0) and fuel-lean conditions (Φ=0.5). Two different acid gas compositions of...

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)...

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...

The thrust of this paper is to develop a comprehensive software selection criterion and view information technology related issues in supply chain management. This paper furnishes implicit details of decision support systems, software solutions and factors associated with selection of IT...