a new method was introduced for frothing characterization of flotation frothers. method uses water recovery to develop a new frothability index named water recovery index (wri). new index was determined for some commercial frothers and results were compared with dynamic frothability index (dfi). results showed that water recovery index values follow the order of a-65 13016 s/mol > df-250 6292.4...

in this paper, a two-echelon supply chain, which includes two products based on the following considerations, has been studied and the bullwhip effect is quantified. providing a measure for bullwhip effect that enables us to analyze and reduce this phenomenon in supply chains with two products is the basic purpose of this paper. demand of products is presented by the first order vector autoregr...

The material point method (MPM) is a meshfree mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian method which utilizes moving Lagrangian material points that store physical properties of a deforming continuum and a fixed Eulerian finite element mesh to solve the equations of motion for individual time steps. MPM proved to be successful in simulating mechanical problems which involve large deformations of history-depend...

Nowadays, the most generated electrical energy is consumed by three-phase induction motors. Thus, in order to carry out preventive measurements and maintenances and eventually employing high-efficiency motors, the efficiency evaluation of induction motors is vital. In this paper, a novel and efficient method based on Improved Big Bang-Big Crunch (I-BB-BC) Algorithm is presented for efficiency e...

this paper proposes an optimized control policy over type one diabetes. type one diabetes is taken into consideration as a nonlinear model (augmented minimal model), which is implemented in matlab-simulink. this model is developed in consideration of the patient's conditions. there are some uncertainties in the regarded model due to factors such as blood glucose concentration, daily meals ...

In this study, we propose a secure communication scheme based on the synchronization of two identical fractional-order chaotic systems. The fractional-order derivative is in Caputo sense, and for synchronization, we use a robust sliding-mode control scheme. The designed sliding surface is taken simply due to using special technic for fractional-order systems. Also, unlike most manuscripts, the ...