The main objective of the work is to develop numerical method for improving design/simulation tools and answering to specific questions related with heat and mass transfer inside a pressurized volumetric receiver (PVR), providing fundamental basis to design new receivers for the DAHAN project...

Surface phase diagrams of a semi-infinite simple cubic spin 12 Ising system in a random surface field are investigated by the use of effective-field theory with correlations. Surface tricritical behavior is found, when the enhanced surface exchange interaction takes a large value.

The performance evaluation of competing forecasting models is generally restricted to their ranking by criterion, which generally leads to several inconsistent rankings for different criteria. The purpose of this article is to propose a multidimensional framework; namely, Data Envelopment...

We study heat conduction in a one-dimensional disordered anharmonic chain with arbitrary heat bath by using extended Ford, Kac and Mazur (FKM) formulation, which satisfy the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. A simple formal expression for the heat conductivity κ is obtained, from which the...