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    Design issues for optimum solar cell configuration

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    Quadrature mirror filter bank design based on hybrid bee colony technique

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    This paper proposed a modified evolutionary technique formed by the hybridization of the bee colony technique and Nelder–Mead Simplex search technique to optimize the coefficients of Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF). The performance of QMF can be evaluated in terms of error in the pass-band, stop-band and measure of ripple. A modified objective function is designed in this work, expressed as a weighted sum of errors in the pass-band, stop-band and measure of ripple. A modified objective function is minimized by using the proposed technique. The results obtained from the proposed technique are compared with the previously reported evolutionary optimization techniques based on QMF design. A significant improvement in various performance attributes has been attained compared to earlier reported QMF bank design techniques

    Investigating the role of air-sea forcing on the variability of hydrography, circulation, and mixed layer depth in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

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    Summary: An effort is made to understand and quantify the influence of near surface zonal and meridional winds, incoming shortwave radiation, and freshwater flux air-sea forcings on the seasonal variability of the hydrography, circulation, and mixed layer depth of the Arabian Sea (AS) and Bay of Bengal (BoB). Sensitivity experiments using an ocean general circulation model are carried out for this purpose in the Indian ocean around 65°–95°E, 5°–22°N during 1998–2014 (17 years). In the absence of near surface wind forcing, the sea surface temperature of the region greatly increases in all the seasons, whereas, in the absence of incoming shortwave radiation forcing, exactly opposite is the case. The sea surface salinity of the AS and BoB decreases in the absence of wind and shortwave radiation forcings, whereas, in the northern BoB it increases in the absence of freshwater flux forcing. The sub-surface changes in the stratification of temperature and salinity are also investigated. The influence of the air-sea forcings on the mixed layer depth of the region is found to be highly seasonally dependent. The effect of air-sea forcings on the seasonal variability of the upper ocean vertical stability is studied using the vertical shear of the horizontal velocity, buoyancy frequency, and energy required for mixing as quantifiers. The near surface wind forcing has highest contribution in changing the surface circulation of the region. Keywords: Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, Air-sea forcing, Ocean general circulation model, Hydrography and circulation, Vertical stabilit
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