This paper presents a comparative study of Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor concentration control using Particle Swam Optimization and Bacterial Forging Optimization. Continuous stirred tank reactor plays a very important role in process industry. This paper presents the optimal design of PID controller based on Particle Swarm Optimization and Bacterial Forging Optimization. The first step is th...

This paper describes the possibilities and conditions of the closed-die flashless forging process using conventional mechanical presses and equipment. The technique of driven gear forging with an internal flash or with special die design has been developed. The quality of forgings is comparable to that achievable on Hatebur presses. Furthermore the problem of how to increase shift production un...

PURPOSE We compared periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER, BLADE) MR technique with spin echo (SE) technique for evaluation of artifacts, and detection and delineation of brain lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images with BLADE technique (CE T1W-FLAIR BLADE) and contrast-e...

Background: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation are known to have profound cardiovascular effects. The Callander modification of Macintosh blade is associated with greater field of laryngoscopic view and decreased risk of dental contact. The purpose of this study was to compare the hemodynamic responses to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation according to the degree of difficult airway, and to...

An attempt is made to explain the observed torsional oscillations of an airscrew by means of the 'wake' theory. It is shown that the aerodynamic torsional damping becomes negative at certain blade angles and frequencies; the frequencies, or speeds, at which a single blade becomes unstable are shown to differ slightly from the critical frequencies of a multi-blade airscrew. At low incidences it ...

A probabilistic methodology to quantify the impact of geometric variability on compressor aerodynamic performance is presented. High-fidelity probabilistic models of geometric variability are derived using a principal-component analysis of blade surface measurements. This probabilistic blade geometry model is then combined with a compressible, viscous blade-passage analysis to estimate the impa...

Measurements of the structure and evolution of the tip vortex from a rotor in low-speed forward flight are presented. On the advancing blade spanwise flow on the pressure side of the blade is comparable in magnitude to the inflow. Core circumferential velocity profiles show multiple features during formation. Trajectories and peak core velocities of the tip-vortex during its formation on top of...

PURPOSE To evaluate if the use of BLADE sequences might overcome some limitations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the extracranial head and neck, which is a diagnostically challenging area with a variety of artifacts and a broad spectrum of potential lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS After informed consent and Institutional Review Board approval, two different BLADE sequences with (BLADE ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare two short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequences, Cartesian and radial (BLADE) acquisitions, for breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ninety-six women underwent 1.5 T breast MRI exam (48 Cartesian and 48 BLADE). Qualitative analysis including image artifacts, image quality, fat-suppression, chest-wall d...

This short report summarises the proceedings of the international symposium "Precincts, people and places - forging new partnerships", held in Brisbane on 24 and 25 July 2009.