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From Moral Responsibility to Legal Responsibility in the Conduct of War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Different societies came to consider certain behaviors as morally wrong, and, in time, due to a more or less general practice, those behaviors have also become legally prohibited.
Bejan, Lavinia Andreea
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Entropy Analysis within Rotating Cylinders of Annulus for Giesekus Viscoelastic Fluid [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Petroleum Science and Technology, 2020
Entropy analysis, along with convective heat transfer within rotating cylinders of the annulus, is presented using a purely analytical approach for Giesekus rheological model.
Mehdi Moayed Mohseni
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of temperature-dependent viscosity on entropy generation in transient viscoelastic polymeric fluid flow from an isothermal vertical plate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A numerical investigation of the viscosity variation effect upon entropy generation in time-dependent viscoelastic polymeric fluid flow and natural convection from a semi-infinite vertical plate is described.
Abo-Eldahab   +66 more
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Entropy analysis in electrical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of nanofluid with effects of thermal radiation, viscous dissipation, and chemical reaction

open access: yesTheoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2017
The unsteady mixed convection flow of electrical conducting nanofluid and heat transfer due to a permeable linear stretching sheet with the combined effects of an electric field, magnetic field, thermal radiation, viscous dissipation, and chemical ...
Yahaya Shagaiya Daniel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Range-based techniques for discovering optimality and analyzing scaling relationships in neuromechanical systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, a method for decoupling the neuromuscular function of a set of limbs from the role morphology plays in regulating the performance of an activity is introduced.
Bradly J. Alicea
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Free Convection and Irreversibility Analysis inside a Circular Porous Enclosure

open access: yesEntropy, 2003
We investigate the nature of heat transfer and entropy generation for natural convection in a two-dimensional circular section enclosure. The enclosure is assumed to fill with porous media.
Shohel Mahmud, Roydon Andrew Fraser
doaj   +1 more source

“Constructal Theory: From Engineering to Physics, and How Flow Systems Develop Shape and Structure” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Constructal theory and its applications to various fields ranging from engineering to natural living and inanimate systems, and to social organization and economics, are reviewed in this paper.
Reis, A. Heitor
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Constructal view of scaling laws of river basins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
River basins are examples of naturally organized flow architectures whose scaling properties have been noticed long ago. Based on data of geometric characteristics, Horton [Horton, R.E., 1932. Drainage basin characteristics. EOS Trans. AGU 13, 350–361.],
Reis, A. Heitor
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Melting of PCM in a thermal energy storage unit: Numerical investigation and effect of nanoparticle enhancement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The present paper describes the analysis of the melting process in a single vertical shell-and-tube latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES), unit and it is directed at understanding the thermal performance of the system.
Adine   +33 more
core   +1 more source

Irreversibility analysis in unsteady flow over a vertical plate with arbitrary wall shear stress and ramped wall temperature

open access: yesResults in Physics, 2018
The present paper aims to report irreversibility analysis in unsteady flow of viscous fluid over a vertical flat plate with ramped wall temperature and arbitrary wall shear stress in the presence of thermal radiation.
Arshad Khan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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