Energy efficient buildings need to take advantage of any renewable energy available. An opaque ventilated façade (OVF) is a kind of façade that absorbs solar energy and transfers it to the ventilation system. This way, the sensible ventilation load of the heating system can be reduced in the...

Considering the geographical position of South Korea, the concept of C-OTEC (Combined Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) is thought to be feasible. C-OTEC uses the latent heat of the steam exhausted into the condenser of a power plant as a heat source, in contrast to the conventional OTEC cycle,...

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami had a significant impact on the Tamil Nadu coast in India. In this paper, a range of field survey data collected by different survey teams available in literature have been analyzed and compiled to serve as a basis for validation of numerical tsunami simulations....

The article aims to test the sensitivity of high-resolution mesoscale atmospheric model to fairly reproduce atmospheric processes that were present during the Boothbay Harbor meteotsunami on 28 October 2008. The simulations were performed by the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model at...

Consistency, asymptotic representation and asymptotic normality of the least trimmed squares estimator of regression coefficients is derived in the framework with random carriers. Also a result describing sensitivity to the deletion of an observation is given.