Synchronization Control of Perturbed Passenger and Freight Operations

Transport networks are operated under a pre-designed plan to carry out the trans- portation tasks. Perturbations can inevitably arise exogenously or endogenously, and cause disturbances to the transit of passengers or the delivery of freights. A transitional plan is needed to deal with the perturbations and accomplish the trans- port tasks. The...

Simultaneous joint migration inversion as a high-resolution time-lapse imaging method for reservoir monitoring

During the past decade, time-lapse seismic technology has been widely applied in hydrocarbon reservoir management. It is a very powerful method to obtain information on reservoir changes in the inter-well regions. This information helps to identify bypassed hydrocarbons and extend the economic life of a field. In a typical scenario, one baseline...

A single wake oscillator model for coupled cross-flow and in-line vortex-induced vibrations of marine structures

Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) is awell-known phenomenon for civil and offshore structures. Currently, the prediction of this type of vibration in practice currently mainly relies on the force-decomposition method. However, the limitations of this method have restricted the applicability of the method, and alternative models are therefore needed...

Dynamic processes on complex networks: The role of heterogeneity

In the recent decades, various dynamic process models on complex networks have been built to study the mechanisms by which an opinion, a disease or generally the information spreads in real-world networks. For example, opinion models are developed to illustrate the competition of opinions in a population, and epidemic models are used to describe...

Talking with a Virtual Human: Controlling the Human Experience and Behavior in a Virtual Conversation

Virtual humans are often designed to replace real humans in virtual reality applications for e.g., psychotherapy, education and entertainment. In general, applications with virtual humans are created for modifying a person's knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, emotions or behaviors. Reaching these intended goals, however, strongly depends on being...

Experimental Study of the Melting and Reduction Behaviour of Ore Used in the HIsarna Process

The HIsarna is a coal-based smelting reduction process for ironmaking to drastically reduce CO2 emission and is one of the most promising alternative ironmaking processes under development in the world. The furnace consists of two inter-connected reactors: i) a smelting cyclone, ii) a smelting reduction vessel. The smelting cyclone is expected...

Simulation and Analysis of an Anode-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Stack