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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas, Dimitrios Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios N. Korres, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos and Christos Tzivanidis
The goal of this investigation is the thorough analysis and optimization of a solar-assisted heat pump heating unit for covering the space heating demand for a building in Athens, Greece. The novelty of the studied system is the use of a high-temperature...
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Charles R. Ortloff and Alan L. Kolata
Raised-field agricultural systems have received attention from scholars involved in the analysis of prehistoric agricultural intensification in the New World. This paper discusses the function of raised fields associated with the Tiwanaku society (500?11...
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Xinglian Yang, Jingying Wang, Yue Zhou and Ke Sun
Accurate prediction of the aerothermal environment is of great significance to space exploration and return missions. The canonical Fire II trajectory points are simulated to investigate the radiative transfer in the shock layer for Earth reentry at hype...
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Alon Davidy
Pet-coke (petroleum coke) is identified as a carbon-rich and black-colored solid. Despite the environmental risks posed by the exploitation of pet-coke, it is mostly applied as a boiling and combusting fuel in power generation, and cement production plan...
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Yuzhu Wang, Yuan Zhao, Jinrong Jiang and He Zhang
Graphics processing unit (GPU)-based computing for climate system models is a longstanding research area of interest. The rapid radiative transfer model for general circulation models (RRTMG), a popular atmospheric radiative transfer model, can calculate...
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Xochitl Cruz Núñez
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Black carbon (BC) is a strong radiative forcer. Because of its multiple effects on climate change, BC has been located as the second important impact factor of climate change only after carbon dioxide. Sources of BC include mainly diesel vehicles and bio...
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Cheng Liu, Jianping Huang, Evgeni Fedorovich, Xiao-Ming Hu, Yongwei Wang and Xuhui Lee
Turbulence statistics and spectra in a radiatively heated convective boundary layer (CBL) under aerosol pollution conditions are less investigated than their counterparts in the clear CBL. In this study, a large-eddy simulation (LES) coupled with an aero...
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Ehsan Gholamalizadeh, Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi and Majid Oveisi
Thermal radiant heating through distinct heat sources is of interest for the thermal loading of thin objects as it is used in residential applications, furnaces, and insulator designs. In this paper, an optimal design for a thermal radiant system by disc...
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MURITALA A. AYOOLA,LUKMAN A. SUNMONU,MUNIRU I. BASHIRU,OLUWAGBEMIGA O. JEGEDE
Hourly averaged net all-wave radiation data spanning a complete three-year period (2010-2012) at a meteorological station located inside the Obafemi Awolowo University campus in Ile-Ife (7.52º N, 4.52º E), Nigeria is presented in this study to investigat...
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Matthew F. Johnson and Robert L. Wilby
Temperature sensors are potentially susceptible to errors due to heating by solar radiation. Although this is well known for air temperature (Ta), significance to continuous water temperature (Tw) monitoring is relatively untested. This paper assesses ra...
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