Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014.

This study is focused on numerical analysis of the thermal behavior within a scraped surface heat exchanger (SSHE) for threshold fluids (Bingham fluids). An innovative SSHE is considered which includes helical ribbon, ...

The interaction between tyres and terrain is one of the most studied areas in the vehicle dynamics and terramechanics research communities because it is the only region where excitation forces act on the vehicle if ...

This document focuses on the procedure and results of creating a thermohydraulic model of the secondary cooling system of the SAFARI-1 research reactor at the Pelindaba facility of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation ...

This aim of this project may be condensed to the following question: Is there an improvement achievable in the braking performance of a vehicle on a rough road? Several follow-up questions arise from the above problem ...

Extensive research on the design and development of antilock brake systems has been done in the past. ABS has been developed not to reduce stopping distance, but rather to stop as quickly as possible whilst maintaining ...

Paper presented to the 3rd Southern African Solar Energy Conference, South Africa, 11-13 May, 2015.

The compromise between ride comfort and handling for a passive suspension system is a well-known and often researched problem. Semi-active suspension systems offer significant improvements to this compromise. One example ...

This study develops a novel degradation assessment index (DAI) from acoustic emission signals obtained from slow rotating bearings and integrates the same into alternative Bayesian methods for the prediction of remaining ...

The very limited nature of the GSM spectrum, coupled with the increasing demand by an extending number of subscribers place a strain on the network capacity. This leads to an equally raised number of calls that dropped and ...