The present study attempts to summarize the salient characteristics of hydrodynamics behavior of inverse fluidized system, effect of particles properties, various phenomena that affect the fluidization like bubble formation, fluid velocity and its various uses in commercial scale by reviewing the previous literature. Governing mechanisms of inverse fluidization system and some heat and mass cor...

This paper investigates the effect of reward-penalty mechanism in a closed-loop supply chain with manufacturer, distributor and third party under technology licensing carbon constraints. There remanufacturing scenarios are developed, namely (1) manufacturer is engaged activities, (2) subcontracts to conduct remanufacturing, (3) undertakes manufacturer's authorization. We apply Stackelberg game ...

the effect of a distributed patch mass on the natural frequency of vibration of a laminated rectangular plate with simply supported boundaries is investigated. the third order displacement field of a composite laminated rectangular plate is defined using the two variable refined plate theory. equations of motion of the plate are obtained with the help of calculus of variation. parametric study ...

To have a uniform distribution of reactants is an advantage to fuel cell. We report results for such distributor with tree-like flow field plates (FFP). Numerical simulations shown that the width scaling parameters patterns in FFPs used polymer electrolyte membrane cells (PEMFC) reduces viscous dissipation channels. In this study, experimental investigations were conducted on 2-layer FF plate p...

In this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. Each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. Therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

In the current competitive market, ‘service quality’ management is the key to survival and success of businesses. There exists a variety of definitions of the term ‘service quality’ in the literature and referring to the existing definitions, a variety of scales have been developed for measuring service quality. Amongst the others, ‘SERVQUAL’ is the popular service quality measurement scales (S...

In a traitor tracing scheme, each user is given a different decryption key. A content distributor can encrypt digital content using a public encryption key and each user in the system can decrypt it using her decryption key. Even if a coalition of users combines their decryption keys and constructs some “pirate decoder” that is capable of decrypting the content, there is a public tracing algori...