measuring sensitivity of hydraulic structures is considered as an approach for evaluation of water projects performance, due to lower distribution efficiency in irrigation and drainage project schemes. sensitivity analysis approach for irrigation structures is one of flow analysis methods which are developed in recent years in order to measure the behavior of flow in hydraulic structures in an ...

abstract one of the major factors on the amount of water resources is river flow which is so dependent to the hydrologic and meteorologic phenomena. simulation and forecasting of river flow makes the decision maker capable to effectively manage the water resources projects. so, simulation and forecasting models such as artificial neural networks (anns) are commonly used for simulation and predi...

a new retrofit targeting procedure, based on pinch technology has been developed. the new procedure considers existing structure of a given network and finds the most compatible configuration with the network. to achieve this aim, the procedure uses a linear programming technique that maximize the compatibility. good compatibility between old and new networks helps to make the best use of capit...

Hsiao, M.-T.T. and A.A. Lazar, Optimal decentralized flow control of Markovian queueing networks with multiple controllers, Performance Evaluation 13 (1991) 181-204. A Markovian queueing network model is used to derive decentralized flow control mechanisms in computer communication networks with multiple controllers. Under the network optimization criterion, finding the optimal decentralized fl...

in the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. on the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...