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Advanced Fog Harvesting Techniques
… The primary AWH techniques include fog harvesting, dew condensation, and sorbent-based water vapor capture, each offering unique advantages for addressing water scarcity across a range of environmental conditions. Chapter 2 proposes the development of large-scale, high-tension Fog …
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Sichuan fog -- architecture and moisture
This thesis is sited in Chongqing city, the "Fog Capital" of China. Surrounded by the nearby mountains of the Sichuan Basin, the city experiences year-long cloudiness as a result of temperature inversion caused by the basin's convective layer being capped by a layer of air moving east across the …
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Capability delivery with fog of emergence
A proposed capability delivery ontology with fog of emergence provides a language construct to relate how the processes and parts of a notional capability delivery system incrementally produce and refine a capability through well-known life cycle phases. The natural propensity for capability …
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Laboratory experiments on warm fog dissipation.
… materials and ionic surfactants as warm fog dispersants are covered in a brief survey of the literature. The fog chamber, equipment and experimental procedures used in this study are described in detail. Seeding agents utilized during these small-scale fog chamber experiments were limited …
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Fog Harvesting: Inspired by Spider Silk
… solution that has drawn lots of attention is fog harvesting. A commonly used fog collector is a vertical mesh, usually made of poly materials. Small water droplets can easily get pinned and quick evaporation is the major common challenge for vertical meshes. Coating the fog mesh with …
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Quantifying the impact of fog on autonomous driving object detectors and developing a fog-aware vehicle detector
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Classification of summertime West Coast fog and stratus events and the development of fog and stratus forecast techniques
The fog and stratus that frequently plagues the West Coast in the summer months is responsible for a variety of impacts on everyday life, the greatest impact on aviation. Many flight delays and cancellations that are experienced around the Pacific Rim are attributed to the development and evolution …
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Oxidation of Sulfur-Dioxide in Fog Droplets
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:15:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0018124.pdf: 4330307 bytes, checksum: 33f63df1827b40d6a443e0edb5ed3215 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1956
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Analysis of Transient Fog Features on Titan
… methane clouds (hereafter referred to as fogs) that have been observed near Titan’s surface in data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard the Cassini mission. We compile a data set of 19 fog features, expanded from previous studies, and investigate a range of …
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Fog Harps: Elastocapillarity, Droplet Dynamics, and Optimization
Fog harvesting is emerging as a promising means to ease the water shortage crisis in arid regions of the world with ample fog. The current state-of-the-art for fog harvesting is mesh netting, which is accessible yet struggles from a dual constraint: a course mesh lets most microscopic fog droplets …
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Secure and privacy-preserving fog-assisted vehicular crowdsensing
… address these challenges, a new term, known as fog computing, has been coined as a novel paradigm. Therefore, this present work exploits the advantages of VCS and fog computing paradigms in order to propose a promising framework, which is referred to as fog-assisted vehicular crowdsensing …
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Traffic Conflict Analysis Under Fog Conditions Using Computer Simulation
… crucial influence factor on road safety issues. Fog is one of the most noticeable weather conditions, which has a significant impact on traffic safety. Such condition reduces the road's visibility and consequently can affect drivers' vision, perception, and judgments. The statistical data shows …
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Characteristics of Yellow Sea Fog Under Varying Aerosol Conditions
Sea fog usually refers to a fog that occurs under the influence of the ocean, and the Yellow Sea is a region where sea fog regularly occurs. Fog occurrence and structure is impacted by aerosol concentration in the air where the fog forms. Along with industrial development, air pollution, and thus …
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Priority-Based Resource Allocation Model for Vehicular Fog Computing
Vehicle Fog Computing (VFC) provides opportunities to enhance a vehicle’s processing capability as well as support services and applications for intelligent transportation. Due to its low-latency characteristic, VFC has become progressively valuable and appropriate for delay-sensitive applications. …
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A data-driven approach to object classification through fog
Identifying objects through fog is an important problem that is difficult even for the human eye. Solving this problem would make autonomous vehicles, drones, and other similar systems more resilient to changing natural weather conditions. While there are existing solutions for dehazing images …
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Designing liquid repellent surfaces for fabrics, feathers and fog
… of woven meshes is applied to optimize their fog collection ability. A business case for fog harvesting is developed and strategies to decrease asset and cash flow risks are proposed. The contributions presented here provide means to better characterize surfaces with complex topography, tune …
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Possible method for determining particle size in fog flow
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, 1964
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… considers the interconnectedness of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the lighthouse, …
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Fog Cooling, Wet Compression and Droplet Dynamics In Gas Turbine Compressors
… means to augment gas turbine output, inlet air fog cooling is considered as the simplest and most costeffective method. During fog cooling, water is atomized to micro-scaled droplets and introduced into the inlet airflow. In addition to cooling the inlet air, overspray can further enhance output …
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