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Forest Fire Risk Assessment: An Illustrative Example from Ontario, Canada
Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2010 This paper presents an analysis of ignition and burn risk due to wildfire in a region of Ontario, Canada using a methodology which is applicable to the entire boreal forest region.
W. John Braun +4 more
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Delayed fast neutron as an indicator of burn-up for nuclear fuel elements
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 Feasibility study of burn-up analysis and monitoring using delayed fast neutrons was investigated at Missouri University of Science and Technology Reactor (MSTR).
T. Akyurek, S.B. Shoaib, S. Usman
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Ecosphere, 2022 Anticipating fire behavior as climate change and fire activity accelerate is an increasingly pressing management challenge in fire‐prone landscapes. In subalpine forests adapted to infrequent, stand‐replacing fire, self‐limitation of burn severity in ...
Kristin H. Braziunas +2 more
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AerospaceFuel burn during the actual route flown is an important indicator of aircraft operational efficiency. This study aims to assess and systematically evaluate the method for fuel consumed during flights using data from the automatic dependent surveillance ...
Karolina Krajček Nikolić +3 more
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Design and Optimization of Ram Air–Based Thermal Management Systems for Hybrid-Electric Aircraft
Aerospace, 2020 Ram air–based thermal management systems (TMS) are investigated herein for the cooling of future hybrid-electric aircraft. The developed TMS model consists of all components required to estimate the impacts of mass, drag, and fuel burn on the aircraft ...
Hagen Kellermann +3 more
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On the mechanism of solid fuel burning
Reporter of the Priazovskyi State Technical University. Section: Technical sciences, 2019 Механизм горения твердого топлива представляет собой совокупность различных зон горения, характеризующих многостадийный процесс превращения исходного топлива в конечные продукты сгорания. Наблюдения, осуществленные визуально и фотографическим способами, показали, что в интервале давления от 1 до 150 атм.
Vinnikova, V. G., Kholkin, О. M.
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Trajectory Optimization of Extended Formation Flights for Commercial Aviation
Aerospace, 2019 This paper presents a trajectory optimization study that has been conducted using a recently developed tool for the synthesis and analysis of extended flight formations of long-haul commercial aircraft, with the aim to minimize overall fuel consumption ...
Sander Hartjes +2 more
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Shielding Design and Dose Evaluation for HTR-PM Fuel Transport Pipelines by QAD-CGA Program
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2021 The spherical fuel elements are adopted in the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-module (HTR-PM). The fuel elements will be discharged continuously from the reactor core and transported into the fuel transport pipelines during the reactor ...
Sheng Fang +6 more
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Simulation studies of combustion in a constant-mass variable-volume combustion chamber [PDF]
FME Transactions, 2018 A numerical simulation code was used to conduct a systematic study of the effects of fuel-air equivalence ratios in the range 0.7 ≤ φ ≤ 1.4 and compression ratio, rc = 8.0 on key operating parameters, such as pressure, rate of change of pressure, '/dt ...
Anetor Lucky, Osakue Edward E.
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Molten Uranium Breeder Reactor (MUBR) and Its Development Steps [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Nuclear Science and Technology Open ResearchBackground The Molten Uranium Breeder Reactor (MUBR) is a radical new mixed-energy spectrum breed and burn reactor concept. The MUBR is fueled with molten uranium metal fuel in large fuel tubes instead of thin fuel rods, and is cooled by circulating the ...
Neal Mann +2 more
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