In this work, a vapor adsorption type solar still was designed, fabricated and tested at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India. A vapor adsorbent pipe network comprising activated carbon–methanol pair was integrated with the basin. Losses from the bottom of the still are...

A very severe cyclonic storm ‘Thane’ developed over the Bay of Bengal during 25–30 December 2011, crossed the Tamilnadu coast between Pondicherry and Cuddalore (southeast coast of India) in early hours of 30 December with a wind speed 120–140 km/h. The offshore tide record reveals that...

Let A be a real matrix of size (n+d+1)xn. We assume that all n x n submatrices of A are non-singular and define the condition number C = C(A) to be the ratio of the largest n x n subdeterminant of A to the smallest in absolute value. In addition we assume that there is a positive vector pi such...

In Asia, small and medium scale industries (SMI) account for over 85% of the total number of manufacturing establishments, and contribute considerably to economic growth. They generally employ old and inefficient technologies, consuming high energy and generate pollution. They also lack...

The question of existence of random solutions of nonlinear equations involving random correspondences is studied by direct use of the results from the deterministic case without resorting to iterative techniques. Applications to stochastic control and nonlinear random operator equations are given.

Singapore is one of the most industrialised and urbanised economies in South-East Asia. Power supply is an important sub-system in its economy and heavily reliant on imported oil and natural gas. Due to its geographical area, clean/renewable energy sources for power generation are limited. At...