This paper describes the design of a single piston compression ignition hydraulic free-piston engine. An engine simulation model considering hydraulic valve dynamics is built. Extensive simulated results are presented and the major features of the engine are discussed. Experimental results from...

The developments in design theory of plate heat exchangers, as a tool to increase heat recovery and efficiency of energy usage, are discussed. The optimal design of a multi-pass plate-and-frame heat exchanger with mixed grouping of plates is considered. The optimizing variables include the...

Sloped solar chimney system is a solar chimney power plant with a sloped collector. Practically, the sloped collector can function as a chimney, then the chimney height can be reduced and the construction cost would be reduced also. A mathematical model based on the continuity, momentum, energy,...

This paper presents a mathematical model for agricultural fires based on a multi-phase formulation. The model includes dehydration and pyrolysis of agricultural fuel and pyrolysis products. The model considers a homogeneous distribution of the agricultural solid fuel particles, interacting with...

This article is a theoretical approach on the main mathematical models used in marketing practice. Application of general systems theory in marketing involves setting behavior assumptions as models of various processes.These models have, on the one hand, to describe the interactions between...

Prompted by a real-life observation in the UK retail market, a two-player Prisoners’ Dilemma model of an alliance between two firms is adapted to include the response of a rival firm, resulting in a version of a three-player Prisoners’ Dilemma. We use this to analyse the impact on the...

Within the frameworks of the author's concept of the potential of an enterprise as the ability to conduct its immanently appropriate activity and also the idea of presentation of the size of the potential in the form of potential function from parameters of the state of an enterprise and foreign...

A proton-conductive solid oxide fuel cell (H-SOFC) has the advantage of operating at higher temperatures than a PEM fuel cell, but at lower temperatures than a SOFC. This study proposes a mathematical model for an H-SOFC in order to simulate the performance and optimize the flow channel designs....

In this paper, we deal with the scheduling problem of systems that have similar structure of the production-scheduling problem of assembly plants of discrete products. Firstly, the definition of order controlled, assembly plant of discrete productions is given, together with the problem of...

The formation and growth of leaves around the stem of a plant often leads to a helical structure consisting of two counter-rotating sets of spirals. Similar arrangements (parastichies) are found for the petals, florets, stamens, etc. of many flowers. Douady and Couder [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2098...