Heat conduction, being one of the most common types of energy, occurs everywhere at any time in nature. On the long journey to explore the optimal structural design for the ubiquitous heat conduction problem, many insights have been reported, yet still identifying the best structural...

This chapter sets out to survey the traditional plane boarding strategies employed by major airlines in the commercial aviation industry. It then reviews the simulation-based and analytical approaches to getting passengers on an aircraft in the existing literature before zeroing in on the...