Thermal energy recovery from chlorinated drinking water distribution systems: Effect on chlorine and microbial water and biofilm characteristics

Thermal energy recovery from drinking water has a high potential in the application of sustainable building and industrial cooling. However, drinking water and biofilm microbial qualities should be concerned because the elevated water temperature after cold recovery may influence the microbial activities in water and biofilm phases in drinking...

An integrated methodology for the supply reliability analysis of multi-product pipeline systems under pumps failure

As the main way for the long-distance transportation of refined products, multi-products pipelines are of vital importance to the regional energy security. The supply reliability evaluation of multi-product pipeline systems can improve the effective response to unexpected disruptions and guarantee the reliable oil supply. Based on reliability...

Applying the epidemic spreading model on the brain network to explain effective connectivity

Network science studies a complex system as a network to capture the connectivity patterns and topological features. Different network topologies have been observed to shape dynamic spread- ing processes on the network in various ways, while the exact relationship is complicated and not yet fully understood. Epidemic models are often applied to...

Protective film formation on AA2024-T3 aluminum alloy by leaching of lithium carbonate from an organic coating

An investigation into corrosion inhibition properties of a primer coating containing lithium carbonate as corrosion inhibitive pigment for AA2024 aluminum alloy was conducted. It was found that, during neutral salt spray exposure, a protective film of about 0.2 to 1.5 ?m thickness formed within the area where an artificial defect was introduced...

Network-aware SuperPeers-Peers Geometric Overlay Network

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks can be utilized to deploy massive Internet overlay services such as multicast, content distribution, file sharing, etc. efficiently without any underlying network support. The crucial step to meet this objective is to design network-aware overlay network topologies connecting all nodes that offer promising...

Measuring the internet

The Internet is a collection of networks that use the TCP/IP suite of protocols. It has a huge impact on human activity. There are currently hundreds of millions of computers connected to the Internet, generating several petabytes traffic a day. Internet is still growing rapidly. However, the Internet today is not yet precisely characterized....

Estimation of Perceived Quality of Service for Applications on IPv6 Network

Estimation of Voice over IP Quality in the Netherlands

Hopcount in the NICE Application Layer Multicast Protocol

A Case for Lightweight SuperPeer Topologies

Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks using Lightweight SuperPeer Topologies

Hopcount in Application Layer Multicast Schemes

Hopcount and E2E Delay: IPv6 Versus IPv4

Implications for QoS provisioning based on traceroute measurements