11 Result(s)

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Unanswered questions on the airborne transmission of COVID-19

Policies and measures to control pandemics are often failing. While biological factors controlling transmission are usually well explored, little is known about the environmental drivers of transmission and in...

Zhaolin Gu, Jie Han, Liyuan Zhang, Hongliang Wang… in Environmental Chemistry Letters (2023)

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Study on water cooling island effects under different climatic conditions

Water bodies are regarded as effective tools to improve urban thermal environment. However, there is little information regarding the impacts of the water bodies under different climatic conditions. In this st...

Chao Hong, Zhongke Qu, Wen Xu, Zhaolin Gu in City and Built Environment (2023)

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How to understand the heat island effects in high-rise compact urban canopy?

Alleviating the urban heat island effect is of great significance to improve thermal comfort, energy saving and carbon reduction, and realize sustainable urban development. At present, several methods are deve...

Chao Hong, Yupeng Wang, Zhaolin Gu in City and Built Environment (2023)

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A Gaussian process regression accelerated multiscale model for conduction-radiation heat transfer in periodic composite materials with temperature-dependent thermal properties

Prediction of the coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in composite materials with periodic structure is important in high-temperature applications of the materials. The temperature dependence of thermal...

Zi-**ang Tong, Ming-Jia Li, Zhaolin Gu, Jun-Jie Yan… in Advances in Aerodynamics (2022)

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Sandstorms and desertification in Mongolia, an example of future climate events: a review

As global temperatures continue to increase and human activities continue to expand, many countries and regions are witnessing the consequences of global climate change. Mongolia, a nomadic and picturesque lan...

Jie Han, Han Dai, Zhaolin Gu in Environmental Chemistry Letters (2021)

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Examining the physical and chemical contributions to size spectrum evolution during the development of hazes

China has experienced severe hazes with high concentrations of particulate matter in recent years. The understanding of the size spectrum evolution of submicron particulate matter is critical to making efficie...

Liyuan Zhang, Junwei Su, Yu Huang, Qiyuan Wang, Renjian Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2020)

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History and Applications of Dust Devil Studies

Studies of dust devils, and their impact on society, are reviewed. Dust devils have been noted since antiquity, and have been documented in many countries, as well as on the planet Mars. As time-variable vorte...

Ralph D. Lorenz, Matthew R. Balme, Zhaolin Gu, Henrik Kahanpää… in Space Science Reviews (2016)

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From Dust Devil to Sustainable Swirling Wind Energy

Dust devils are common but meteorologically unique phenomena on Earth and on Mars. The phenomenon produces a vertical vortex motion in the atmosphere boundary layer and often occurs in hot desert regions, espe...

Mingxu Zhang, **lian Luo, Tianyu Li, Liyuan Zhang, **angzhao Meng… in Scientific Reports (2015)

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Air quality by urban design

Yunwei Zhang, Zhaolin Gu in Nature Geoscience (2013)

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The role of water content in triboelectric charging of wind-blown sand

Triboelectric charging is common in desert sandstorms and dust devils on Earth; however, it remains poorly understood. Here we show a charging mechanism of sands with the adsorbed water on micro-porous surface...

Zhaolin Gu, Wei Wei, Junwei Su, Chuck Wah Yu in Scientific Reports (2013)

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Methods for large reciprocating compressor capacity control: A review based on pulse signal concept

Large reciprocating compressors are important equipment used in a wide range of process industries. Most of these compressors have huge power requirements and their capacity often needs to be regulated. Advanc...

ZhaoLin Gu, **ongPo Hou, ZanShe Wang, ShiYu Feng, **uFeng Gao… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2011)