Being closer to the equator, the most important climatic element for agricultural production in Sri Lanka is rainfall which is erratic and highly unpredictable in nature, especially in the dry zone. This study attempts to ...

A stochastic model is introduced for predicting the stress-strain curve of a woollen yarn under longitudinal extension. The important features of a woollen yarn that are included in this model are the distributions of ...

Most wood boards contain knots. Knots are known as the most weakening factor affecting mechanical properties and the major cause of drying deformation. Some useful mathematical models were developed in this article for ...

Flow in porous media has been a subject of active research for the last four to five decades. In this paper, a simulation model developed using stochastic partial differential equations to describe hydrodynamic dispersion ...

A simulation model to produce and manipulate computer representations of plant root microbial ecosystems is presented. The root system is described as a collection of nodes. A node records a position in three dimensional ...

This document summarises research in stochastic modelling of contaminant transport in aquifers with the specific objective of developing a model for the aquifers which are being built by Lincoln Ventures Ltd. Prior to and ...

A stochastic model for generating daily sunshine hours and solar radiation that reaches the earth's surface in dry zone of Sri Lanka has been developed. Historical sunshine data which represent a Weibull probability density ...

Recreation and leisure are rarely of central interest in political discussions of public policy, but they merit careful consideration for a number of reasons, which is the basis of this occasional paper prepared as a ...