The availability of an efficient, low-cost numerical simulator is essential in the design of fluid dynamic systems, both to achieve a deep understanding of the flow field and to allow a quick and economical optimization of the technical characteristics of industrial devices. With the aim of...

In Solar Domestic Hot Water (SDHW) systems the usage of hot water storage tanks is absolutely essential, and, the thermal behaviour of these tanks has a large influence on the efficiency of the entire system. To assess this influence, as well as to improve the quality of the storage tanks, it is...

The present paper deals with the application of the feedforward neural network in feedback control for dynamic systems. First, the problem of non-linear control is solved using the optimal control approach. Then assuming that prior knowledge is available in a certain form (input/output data-base...