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Theresa Makawa Phiri, Gehendra Bhattarai, Kenani Edward Chiwina, Qiurong Fan, Haizheng Xiong, Ibtisam Alatawi, Ryan Dickson, Neelendra K. Joshi, Alejandro Rojas, Kai-Shu Ling and Ainong Shi
Bacterial wilt (BW), caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the devastating diseases in tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.). The use of resistant cultivars and breeding for genetic resistance is the most effective, economical, and environmentally fri...
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Lorenzo Tieghi, Giovanni Delibra, Johan van der Spuy and Alessandro Corsini
Air-cooled condensers (ACCs) are commonly found in power plants working with concentrated solar power or in steam power plants operated in regions with limited water availability. In ACCs, the flow of air is driven toward the heat exchangers by axial fan...
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Alex Mohandas, Mominul Ahsan and Julfikar Haider
Football (also known as Soccer), boasts a staggering fan base of 3.5 billion individuals spread across 200 countries, making it the world?s most beloved sport. The widespread adoption of advanced technology in sports has become increasingly prominent, em...
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Tabish Alam, Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui, Hassan Alshehri, Masood Ashraf Ali, Paolo Blecich and Kushagra Saurabh
This paper presents the thermo-hydraulic performance of small conical ribs on the absorber plate of a solar energy air heater (SAH) using exergy analysis. Application of conical protrusion ribs on the absorber is an attractive solution for enhancing the ...
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Craig Farnham and Jihui Yuan
Mist evaporation cooling (MEC) is increasingly used as a low-energy means to improve thermal comfort in hot environments. However, the thermal sensation votes (TSV) often overshoot values of Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) models. Evaluations of MEC may be aff...
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Jasem Alqallaf and Joao A. Teixeira
Degradation of compressors is a common concern for operators of gas turbine engines (GTEs). Surface roughness, due to erosion or fouling, is considered one of the major factors of the degradation phenomenon in compressors that can negatively affect the d...
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Samaneh Rouina, Silvia Ravelli and Giovanna Barigozzi
The present paper reports the results of an experimental and computational investigation of flat plate film cooling jets discharged from three fan-shaped holes. Measurements have been carried out at near unity density ratio in a low-speed wind tunnel, at...
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Liyang Wang, Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai
Wind speed estimation for rotary-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAVs is challenging due to the low accuracy of airspeed sensors, which can be severely affected by the rotor?s down-wash effect. Unlike traditional aerodynamic modeling solutions,...
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Po-Tuan Chen, Pei-Fan Ding, Cheng-Jung Yang and K. David Huang
This study presents the improvement of energy efficiency and operating time of mini-loader vehicles by integrating the power system of internal combustion engines (ICE) and electric motors (EM). The hybrid powertrain was developed based on the belt-start...
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Hai-Yan Hu, Ning Xie, Chen Wang, Fan Wu, Ming Pan, Hua-Fei Li, Ping Wu, Xiao-Di Wang, Zheling Zeng, Shuguang Deng, Marvin H. Wu, K. Vinodgopal and Gui-Ping Dai
The effects of carbon black specific surface area and morphology were investigated by characterizing four different carbon black additives and then evaluating the effect of adding them to the negative electrode of valve-regulated lead–acid batterie...
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