Sustaining Tomorrow

This book includes the proceedings of the Sustaining Tomorrow 2020 symposium and summit which bring together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges and to forge solutions to sustain tomorrow. To sustain tomorrow, we need to continuously make headway in Agriculture, Engineering, Energy, Environment, Economics, Water, among other necessities. This book disseminates the most recent advances in these fields and promotes collaborations to maximize opportunities for innovative solutions.

Though primarily intended to offer an update for experts and researchers in the field, this book is equally useful as a valuable educational tool for relevant undergraduate and graduate courses. Key aspects covered include the better and more responsible engineering and management of energy conversion and conservation processes, the furthering of renewable energy technologies, improvements in water-agriculture nexus and energy-environment-economics relationship, and endorsing education, implementation, and evaluation of all-embracing sustainability.

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Professor David S-K Ting is the Founder of the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory. He supervises students on a wide range of research projects primarily in the Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy areas. To date, Dr. Ting has co/supervised over eighty graduate students and co-authored more than one hundred and forty journal papers. His editorial involvement includes a dozen special issues in high-impact journals, three volumes with IET, four with Springer, two with CRC/Taylor and Francis, one with World Scientific Publishing, in addition to four single-authored textbooks.

Dr. Ahmad Vasel-Be-Hagh is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Founder of the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. He develops analytical models, numerical simulations, and laboratory/field experiments to add physical insight to the understanding of fluid mechanics for more accurate prediction and control of flows. His research applications include wind turbines and wind farms, aircraft and submarines, marine hydrokinetic devices, and mechanical energy storage technologies. He has more than 20 publications in scientific journals. He has edited three books for major publishers, including Springer and Taylor & Francis, and multiple journal special issues for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) and International Journal of Sustainable Energy (Taylor & Francis).