Long-term basin-wide reservoir-river operation optimization problems are usually complex and nonlinear especially when the water quality issues and hydrologic uncertainties are incorporated. It is due to non-convex functions in water quality modeling and a large number of computational...

ORC (organic Rankine cycles) are promising systems for conversion of low temperature geothermal energy to electricity. The thermodynamic performance of the ORC with a wet cooling system is analyzed here using hydrocarbon working fluids driven by geothermal water from 100 °C to 150 °C and...

China is a major developing country where farmers account for over 57% of the population. Thus, promoting a rural economy is crucial if the Chinese government is to improve the quality of life of the nation as a whole. To frame scientific and effective rural policy or economic plans, it is...

An advanced RF surface-to-air missile (SAM) system is accompanied by ground radars, missiles, and launchers, which are very vulnerable to air-to-surface missiles (ASMs). This paper studies the threat of ASMs and an IR homing anti-missile-missile (AMM) system which defends the SAM site. A...

A new method is given to optimize parameters in dynamical systems by supplementing conventional methods with a procedure of contractive mapping. The dynamical system is first decoupled in order to reduce the search size. The reference curves and the simulation curves are obtained with the...

Purpose – The paper aims to improve the key quality performance of the terminal of earphone in an electronic company. Design/methodology/approach – Sequential experimental designs are employed. Significant input variables are found trough a full factorial design. Then a response surface...