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Particulate Gravity Currents
Exploring the properties, behavior, and dynamics of particulate gravity currents Particulate gravity currents involve the movement of mixtures of particles and fluid under the influence of gravity. Examples in the natural environment include snow avalanches, pyroclastic flows, and seafloor turbidity currents. Understanding how particles move, mix, stratify, and settle has applications such as hazard mitigation and pollution management. Particulate Gravity Currents: Theory, Experiments, and Environmental Applications presents experimental, numerical, and field studies of particulate gravity currents, offering new insights into their properties, behavior, and dynamics. Volume highlights include: * Explorations of cohesive and non-cohesive sediment and transport * Applications of theoretical understanding to real-world subaerial and subaqueous processes * Studies using the latest techniques, including 3D numerical simulation * Broader relevance beyond the natural environment to other types of particulate and non-particulate gravity currents [288 Pages, Hardcover]
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Drones for Transportation Logistics and Disaster Management
Explore the future of logistics and disaster management with this essential guide to the design, applications, and challenges of integrating advanced drone technology into intelligent transportation systems. Drones are quickly becoming an essential technology for navigating inaccessible areas, especially during emergency situations. However, the implementation of these drones requires strict standards, policies, and procedures. Currently, drones are being used in several industrial and service sectors, extending the possibilities of handling transportation and logistics. The future of transportation is based on unmanned vehicles, and it is important to identify their challenges and futuristic applications. Drones for Transportation Logistics and Disaster Management introduces the essential aspects of the technological advancement of drones, the challenges faced in current practices, and their advanced applications. The book describes future intelligent and resilient transportation systems backed by the Internet of Vehicle Things, the problems of big data analytics, and optimization techniques for in-house supply-chain management. Using a global multi-sector perspective, this volume will comprehensively cover essential components of drone systems, including their modeling, design, and maintenance, making it an essential guide for anyone looking to the future of disaster management. [432 Pages, Hardcover]
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Thermal Explosion
Thermal Explosion A full review of thermal explosion theory featuring a new universal notation as a framework to develop and report research results Summarizing all significant and notable developments made in the field over nearly 100 years, Thermal Explosion provides a single, authoritative source of information on the subject that connects the theory with examples from practical applications. After opening with an introduction to prerequisite technical information, the book goes on to cover the mathematical theory behind thermal explosion, with detailed explanations of how thermal explosion can develop in different media and under different conditions and strategies and techniques that can be used to prevent thermal explosion. Readers will learn how to recognize thermal explosion hazards within technical designs and operation procedures, including for lithium ion batteries, biofuels, biomaterials, and microcombustors, predict the circumstances that may cause a thermal explosion in a particular design or process, and develop optimal mitigating strategies for these risks. Each chapter is supported by extensive example problems that introduce readers to a universal notation that can be used as a framework for developing and reporting their own research results. Topics covered in Thermal Explosion include: * Steady-state theory: the Semenov formulation and planar, cylindrical, and spherical symmetry cases in the Frank-Kamenetskii formulation * Generalized boundary conditions, dynamical regimes, thermal explosion in a region of arbitrary shape, and nonsteady thermal explosion theory * Thermal explosion in two-phase porous systems and spotted, diffusion, and conjugate thermal explosion * One- and two-variable thermal explosion models of fire flashover * Thermal explosion prevention through management of cooling flows and other passive methods, inertization, and cooling one- and two-phase media injections Thermal Explosion is an essential, up-to-date reference on the subject for engineering researchers and professionals, along with mathematicians and other scientists working in related fields. The book is also an excellent learning aid within an academic setting for graduate-level researchers or as supplemental reading in upper-level courses. [304 Pages, Hardcover]
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Blockchain and the Water Supply Chain
Blockchain and the Water Supply Chain explores the transformative potential of blockchain technology in ensuring sustainable, transparent and efficient water governance. Placing water at the center of smart infrastructure innovation, the book addresses the urgent need for trustworthy and traceable systems in the distribution and management of water resources. This book also delves into how blockchain can revolutionize the water supply chain through decentralized monitoring, smart contracts and immutable data records to reduce losses, enhance accountability and enable real-time decision making. It analyzes key challenges such as interoperability, scalability and regulatory hurdles, while also showcasing innovative use cases and pilot projects across the globe. With contributions from experts in water management, blockchain and environmental policy, this book bridges the gap between digital innovation and sustainable resource management, and is an essential guide for researchers, policymakers and technologists aiming to reshape the future of water systems. [448 Pages, Hardcover]
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Sustainable Water Systems
A practice-oriented analysis of water treatment systems using low-cost, low-maintenance technologies and sustainable water resources In Sustainable Water Systems, expert water resources researcher Miklas Scholz delivers a practice-oriented resource that comprehensively covers the design, operation, and maintenance of traditional and novel wetland systems used in water resource management. The book offers a performance analysis of existing infrastructure in constructed wetlands, soil infiltration systems, ditches, dry ponds, and silt traps in both developed and developing countries. Sustainable Water Systems addresses economic and environmental challenges, including flood retention and its incorporation into sustainable water supply systems. Readers will also find: * A thorough introduction to low-cost alternatives to resource-intensive water processing plants * Comprehensive explorations of effective water technologies that work well in less developed and rural regions without access to reliable water treatment * Modelling of wetland systems and how to design them for optimal performance * Practical discussions of industrial wastewater treatment and modelling * Complete treatments of sustainable flood retention basins, including integrated constructed wetlands Perfect for researchers, engineers, and other professionals working in the field of water resource management, Sustainable Water Systems will also benefit anyone interested in water supply engineering and wastewater treatment. [400 Pages, Hardcover]
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