Nowadays, manufacturing organisations face increasing pressures from the frequent change in product type, continuous demand fluctuation and unexpected change in customer requirements. In order to survive in the turbulent environment, manufacturing organisations must become flexible and...

Superhydrophobic materials have been extensively studied because of their wonderful array of properties and applications. In this study, normal and superhydrophobic surface of silk fabric have been prepared via deposition of different shapes of PTFE nanostructure using magnetron sputter coating....

We examine the Galilean invariance of standard lattice Boltzmann methods for two-phase fluids. We show that the known Galilean invariant term that is cubic in the velocities, and is usually neglected, is a major source of Galilean invariance violations. We show that incorporating a correction...

This study used numerical experiments to investigate two important concerns in simulating the cold season snowpack: the impact of the alterations of snow albedo due to anthropogenic aerosol deposition on snowpack and the treatment of snow physics using a multi-layer snow model. The snow albedo...

We investigate the index tracking model with the analysis and optimization of tracking dynamic properties. The return deviations between tracking portfolio and the index are first decomposed into several components with different time-scale features. Our model then filters out components at low...

Purpose – Aim for efficient motion planning of industrial robot with high degree of freedoms in both static and dynamic environments. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐agent based general path planner for serial manipulator is proposed in this work. A hierarchical structure developed...