Roughness elements or turbulence promoters have been widely used to enhance heat transfer in cooling passages of modern gas turbine blades. Although such ribs substantially enhance heat transfer, the heat transfer coefficient is reduced immediately at corner downstream of each rib, creating hot spots. To remove such hot spots some of the ribs can be detached from the channel walls. In this pape...

quality evaluation is one of the effective activities in trade, economy and the health of communities. for this purpose, non-destructive methods are increasingly used, as they are faster and more economical in comparison with destructive ones. this study investigated the feasibility of predicting firmness by laser light backscattering imaging system, as a new non-destructive method for one cult...

This paper is a survey about recent results on sparse representations and optimal models in different settings. Given a set of functions, we show that there exists an optimal collection of subspaces minimizing the sum of the square of the distances between each function and its closest subspace in the collection. Further, this collection of subspaces gives the best sparse representation for the...

growth analysis is a valuable method in the quantitative analysis of crop growth, development and crop production. there are many regression models to describe the sigmoid growth patterns. by considering that, the parameters of non-linear regression models have physiological meanings, they are preferable relation to linear regression models. the aim of this study was to collect and evaluate the...