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There is an increasing awareness among engineering educators that more and more students are not able to achieve learning successfully in a “one-size-fit-all” model where a set of instructions are provided identically to every student in a given class. This paper addresses this challenge by offering an intelligent virtual reality game system that not only immerses students in an attractive and engaging...
A case study and computer simulations provide evidence that greenhouse horticulture businesses display diversity and adaptive complexity, both key features of evolution that led Darwin to develop the theory of natural selection in response to the astounding diversity and adaptive complexity of living species. By showing that non-living entities also possess these same evolutionary hallmarks, this...
In most countries, especially in deltas, there is a long tradition in the management of water resource systems, in particular related to structural measures such as the construction of dikes and riverine/coastal hydraulic structures. We discuss how this infrastructure can be supported and managed in order to serve as non-structural measures. Therefore, we present a review about technology for the...
Efficient flood management requires accurate real time forecasts to allow early warnings, real time control of hydraulics structures or other actions. Commercially available computing tools typically use, for flow or level forecasting, hydraulic models derived from the numerical approximation of Saint-Venant equations. These tools need powerful computers, accurate knowledge of the riverbed topography...
Open-channels networks used for water distribution are subject to algal developments that can induce major disturbances such as clogging issues on hydraulic devices (pipes, weirs, filters,...). We already studied the use of flushes to manage these algae developments. The flush is carried out by increasing the hydraulic shear conditions using the hydraulic structures of the canal network. In response...
Sludge recycling system is an important part of wastewater treatment plants. Because of the lack of control model and ensure water quality, the sludge recycle flow rate is controlled by high percentage of the influent to the wastewater treatment plants generally, which result in high energy consumption and decreasing of handling capacity. At present, the artificial intelligence modeling technique...
Adverse conditions have been shown to have a substantial impact on traffic flow operations with a substantial impact on network performance. In order to quantify adaptation effects in driving behavior underlying this impact car-following models can be used. In this contribution it was examined to what extent the position of action points in the relative speed - spacing plane as well as acceleration...
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