How to fund your own research?

Do you get funding from the University/Research Center you work in? Or you apply for external Grants and Funds? How to fund research? Is it possible to fund research across many...

05 June 2017 5,070 30 View

Do you have References about Fractional Order System Identification?

I am looking for references in Fractional Order System Identification. Textbooks and papers are welcome. Also programs in MATLAB or LabVIEW or any other language.

05 June 2017 5,615 2 View

Are you interested in participating in IMCET 2016?

IMCET 2016 is an IEEE multi-disciplinary conference to be held in Beirut. We are seeking contributions till end of June 2016. The call for papers is attached. I am available for any questions or...

05 June 2016 2,577 5 View

How do you deal with colleagues that try to hold you back and bring you down?

While you try to do your work and "go the extra mile" in teaching and research, some of your colleagues try to hold you back and bring you down. This may be due to their complex of inferiority,...

03 April 2014 3,014 98 View

Does the participation in student competitions enhance the students' performance and gives them better opportunities in the job market?

Does the participation in student competitions (robotics, programming, expos, etc.) enhance the students' performance and gives them better opportunities in the job market? I have mentored many...

02 March 2014 7,017 8 View

Evaluation of the efficiency of a Braille Output Device in improving Braille learning - any thoughts?

Two years ago, we had a multilingual braille output device with audio enhancement. The project was a success and two papers were published from it, a conference paper, and a Journal one (See my...

02 March 2014 4,699 39 View

How can one evaluate a research work?

Few years ago, I attended a conference where a keynote speaker (from MIT) addressed the issue of how to measure the impact of a research work. And last year, I was in a national workshop where the...

31 December 2013 9,528 1 View

Are renewable energy technologies really green?

Renewable energy technologies are the solution for the reduction of greenhouse gases generated by the power sector. However, we have to take into account the complete life cycle of these...

31 December 2013 749 46 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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MGL tools

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i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

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What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

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02 March 2021 324 2 View

Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities or caverns with respect to their size and shape?

The range of forms and sizes of cavities in rock is very big. Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities regarding their size and shape?

02 March 2021 4,511 3 View

The procedure compute?

02 March 2021 5,204 3 View