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Abstract: Despite over 70 years of concerted research, we still do not understand the detailed mechanism by which the planets maintain their magnetic fields. While all agree that such fields are examples of fluid dynamos, driven by strongly turbulent convection within the planet's interior, there is still no agreement as to...

Abstract: Uncertainty (1350–1400 Middle English uncerteynte) involves a state of limited knowledge where it is impossible exactly to describe the present state and future outcome(s). Chaos (from the ancient Greek, Χαος or Khaos – the first of the gods) has several meanings. One, a state of disorder and confusion. Another, a...

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Global warming has been characterized as THE challenge of the 21st century, yet individual perspectives vary:  Global warming is not happening Global warming is happening, but humans are not responsible Global warming is caused by humans, but the impacts are negligible or beneficial Global warming is caused by humans, the impacts are detrimental, but...

This year's Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting will be held at the University of Aberdeen on Tuesday the 29 th of May. This lively and informal meeting will showcase any and all aspects of fluid mechanics from across Scotland. We will have posters, as well as talks, in order to give...

Abstract: There are three things vital to a good understanding of a system: analysis, simulation, and experiment. Finding agreement between these three might be difficult if a system is very large and complex, if it is very noisy, or if it contains nonsmooth events (like impact, switches, or discontinuous parameters). Obviously a large complex system might...

The annual Engineering Postgraduate Research Symposium presents a snapshot of the work of Postgraduate Research students within the School of Engineering, spanning the diverse fields of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.

Abstract of the talk: Diffusion and adsorption of gases on solid surfaces are two important, highly correlated process steps which occur in numerous applications such as heterogeneous catalysis, gas storage processes, e.g. in shales, gas separation processes in chemical industry, host-guest systems, e.g. gas hydrates or MOF's, membrane processes, adsorption processes,...

Recently proposed active queue management mechanisms can minimise the time packets spend enqueued at a network bottleneck by deploying shallow buffers with short-term burst tolerance. However, this shallow buffering causes noticeable performance degradation in the throughput for a path delay is higher above typical intra-country levels. Using a less-aggressive backoff...