abstract: minimizing the work consumed in refrigeration system is the most effective measure to reduce the cost of products in sub-ambient chemical processes. the introduction of mixed working fluids into refrigeration system in place of pure working fluids is a recent advancement applied in the field. due to the lack of systematic design method for mixed refrigerant cycle (mrc), conventional a...

in this paper, optimization and control of a tubular reactor for thermal bulk post-polymerization of styrene have been investigated. by using the reactor mathematical model, static and dynamic simulations are carried out. based on an objective function including polymer conversion and polydispersity, reactor optimal temperature profile has been obtained. in the absence of model mismatch, desire...

the major problem of wind turbines is the great variability of wind power production. the dynamic change of the wind speed returns the quantity of the power injected to networks. therefore, wind–thermal generation scheduling problem plays a key role to implement clean power producers in a competitive environment. in deregulated power systems, the scheduling problem has various objectives than i...

In this work a simulation–based optimization model is considered in the framework of the management of hospital services. Given specific parameters which describe the hospital setting, the simulation model aims at reproducing the hospital processes and evaluating their efficiency. The use of a simulation–based optimization approach is necessary since the model can not be expressed as closed–for...

Computer simulations are used extensively as models of real systems to evaluate output responses. The choice of optimal simulation parameters can lead to improved operation, but configuring them well remains a challenging problem. Simulation-based optimization is an emerging field which integrates optimization techniques into simulation analysis. The parameter calibration or optimization proble...

computational fluid dynamics (cfd) is a computational technology that enables researchers to study the dynamics of things that flow. by using cfd, it is possible to build a computational model that represents a system under study. it not only predicts fluid flow behavior, but also the transfer of heat, mass, phase change, chemical reaction, mechanical movement, and stress or deformation of rela...

In this paper, a novel method for loss reduction and efficiency optimization of the high frequency flyback transformers is proposed based on rearrangement of the windings. According to detailed analysis of the high frequency flyback transformer using FEM technique, a novel and simple approach for its design improvement and loss reduction is introduced. It is shown that leakage flux scattering i...

Transmit waveform design is one of the most important problems in active sensing and communication systems. This problem, due to the complexity and non-convexity, has been always the main topic of many papers for the decades. However, still an optimal solution which guarantees a global minimum for this multi-variable optimization problem is not found. In this paper, we propose an attracting met...