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Naval Postgraduate School
Education•Monterey, California, United States•
About: Naval Postgraduate School is a education organization based out in Monterey, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tropical cyclone & Boundary layer. The organization has 5246 authors who have published 11614 publications receiving 298300 citations. The organization is also known as: NPS & U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Topics: Tropical cyclone, Boundary layer, Optimal control, Vortex, Turbulence
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TL;DR: The conclusion is that the IRDS is a suitable vehicle for incorporating model management and structured modeling as part of an organization's information resource management environment.
Abstract: Models have historically occupied an ambiguous position within organizations. Management acceptance of management science and operations research models for decision-making has lagged far behind technical advances in these areas. Structured modeling has emerged as a unifying approach to the modeling process with potential to reduce this ambiguity. Structured modeling is primarily oriented to the individual, however. A way of incorporating structured modeling into the organizational framework via existing information resource channels is discussed. A relational model is presented for an information resource dictionary system (IRDS). This IRDS model is then extended to accommodate representation of structured models. This extension of the IRDS can answer queries about structured modeling as well as model instances. The concept of an active IRDS is introduced and an example presented of how an active IRDS can be linked with an optimization algorithm. The conclusion is that the IRDS is a suitable vehicle for incorporating model management and structured modeling as part of an organization's information resource management environment.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new counterflow virtual impactor (CVI) inlet is introduced with details of its design, laboratory characterisation tests and deployment on an aircraft during the 2011 Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (E-PEACE).
Abstract: . A new counterflow virtual impactor (CVI) inlet is introduced with details of its design, laboratory characterisation tests and deployment on an aircraft during the 2011 Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (E-PEACE). The CVI inlet addresses three key issues in previous designs; in particular, the inlet operates with: (i) negligible organic contamination; (ii) a significant sample flow rate to downstream instruments (∼15 l min−1) that reduces the need for dilution; and (iii) a high level of accessibility to the probe interior for cleaning. Wind tunnel experiments characterised the cut size of sampled droplets and the particle size-dependent transmission efficiency in various parts of the probe. For a range of counter-flow rates and air velocities, the measured cut size was between 8.7–13.1 μm. The mean percentage error between cut size measurements and predictions from aerodynamic drag theory is 1.7%. The CVI was deployed on the Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) Twin Otter for thirty flights during E-PEACE to study aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions off the central coast of California in July and August 2011. Results are reported to assess the performance of the inlet including comparisons of particle number concentration downstream of the CVI and cloud drop number concentration measured by two independent aircraft probes. Measurements downstream of the CVI are also examined from one representative case flight coordinated with shipboard-emitted smoke that was intercepted in cloud by the Twin Otter.
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01 Oct 1990TL;DR: The authors address anisotropic friction and gravity effects as well as ranges of impermissible-traversal headings due to overturn danger or power limitations and prove specific optimality criteria for transitions on the boundaries of regions for each combination of traversal types.
Abstract: The authors address anisotropic friction and gravity effects as well as ranges of impermissible-traversal headings due to overturn danger or power limitations. The method does not require imposition of a uniform grid, nor does it average effects in different directions, but reasons about a polyhedral approximation of terrain. It reduces the problem to a finite but provably optimal set of possibilities and then uses A* search to find the cost-optimal path. However, the possibilities are not physical locations but path subspaces. The method also exploits the insight that there are only four ways to optimally traverse an anisotropic homogeneous region: (1) straight across without braking, which is the standard isotropic-weighted-region traversal; (2) straight across without braking but as close as possible to a desired impermissible heading; (3) making impermissibility-avoiding switchbacks on the path across a region; and (4) straight across with braking. The authors prove specific optimality criteria for transitions on the boundaries of regions for each combination of traversal types. >
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18 Jun 1997TL;DR: This work presents a detailed design rationale for the virtual reality transfer protocol (VRTP), which appears to be a necessary next step in the deployment of all-encompassing interactive internetworked 3D worlds.
Abstract: The capabilities of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) permit building large-scale virtual environments (LSVEs) using the Internet and the World Wide Web. However, the underlying network support provided by the hypertext transfer protocol (http) is insufficient for LSVEs. Additional capabilities for lightweight peer-to-peer communications and network monitoring need to be combined with the client-server capabilities of http. To accomplish this task, we present a detailed design rationale for the virtual reality transfer protocol (VRTP). VRTP is designed to support VRML in the same manner as http was designed to support HTML. Since VRTP must be highly optimized on individual desktops and across the Internet, a Cyberspace Backbone (CBone) is also needed for VRTP development and testing. VRTP appears to be a necessary next step in the deployment of all-encompassing interactive internetworked 3D worlds.
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05 Nov 2001TL;DR: A novel network layer protocol for underwater acoustic networking that provides a mechanism for network control and management enabling the implementation of responsive, self-configuring, adaptable, and scalable networks whose performance are predictable.
Abstract: This paper provides a description of a novel network layer protocol for underwater acoustic networking (UAN) that provides a mechanism for network control and management enabling the implementation of responsive, self-configuring, adaptable, and scalable networks whose performance are predictable. The protocol draws from the demonstrated efficiencies of multi-protocol labeled switching, dynamic source routing, and multi-constraint based resource allocation schemes. The paper describes the expected benefits of establishing full duplex functionality between network nodes and presents some of the preliminary simulation findings regarding the viability of autonomously determining the network topology utilizing the full duplex node connections.
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Mingwei Chen | 108 | 536 | 51351 |
O. C. Zienkiewicz | 107 | 455 | 71204 |
Richard P. Bagozzi | 104 | 347 | 103667 |
Denise M. Rousseau | 84 | 218 | 50176 |
John Walsh | 81 | 756 | 25364 |
Ming C. Lin | 76 | 370 | 23466 |
Steven J. Ghan | 75 | 207 | 25650 |
Hui Zhang | 75 | 200 | 27206 |
Clare E. Collins | 71 | 560 | 21443 |
Christopher W. Fairall | 71 | 293 | 19756 |
Michael T. Montgomery | 68 | 258 | 14231 |
Tim Li | 67 | 383 | 16370 |
Thomas M. Antonsen | 65 | 888 | 17583 |
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | 65 | 521 | 14850 |
Johnny C. L. Chan | 61 | 261 | 14886 |