Much research has been done on issues related to congestion over a data communication link connecting one or more networks to the Internet or a similar network. The main driving force behind such research has been to avoid ...

Currently, the process of scheduling a tournament is hampered to a great extent because it is done manually. This leads to the inefficient use of resources (the most important of which is time) in the development of a ...

Coffee is an important global product. In fact it ranks only second to oil in traded price volatile commodities of the world - a relatively unknown fact! In most countries where coffee is produced it is for external trade ...

Combustion inside a cooking stove is complicated to understand and describe. The process is highly dependant on the inlet conditions, fuel used and the geometry of the stove. It is very difficult to predict the distributions ...

Mixing impellers are used to dissolve solutes in solvents, disperse solids in liquids and emulsify immiscible liquids. A system that needs mixing can be classified as a low viscosity system, a medium viscosity system or a ...

The presence of infusible and insoluble strong three-dimensional chemical networks in waste and used vulcanized rubbers creates a major issue. The development of a suitable technology to reverse the vulcanization process ...

Rapid population growth in third world cities has resulted in rapid urban growth at an unmanageable scale, because cities have been unable to deal with it within their existing physical political and socioeconomic framework. ...

Ratmalana-Moratuwa industrial area has been subject to heavy pollution from various industries for more than a decade. This area is believed to have been polluted with heavy metals that have some drastic adverse impacts ...

This paper assesses the effects of indoor airflow behavior modifying the indoor air temperature on thermal comfort conditions in a residential tropical courtyard building where courtyard maintains direct contacts with ...

Solid waste (mis)management is one of the most serious local environmental problems in Sri Lanka (Figure 1). It has become a big threat to public health, the beautiful environment and a burden to the national economy.