Surfaces may be rendered superhydrophobic by engineering the surface morphology to control the extent of the liquid-air interface and by the use of low-surface-energy coatings. The droplet state on a superhydrophobic surface under static and dynamic conditions may be explained in terms of the relative magnitudes of the wetting and antiwetting pressures acting at the liquid-air interface on the ...

In this paper, the main idea is to compute the robust regression model, derived by experimentation, in order to achieve a model with minimum effects of outliers and fixed variation among different experimental runs. Both outliers and nonequality of residual variation can affect the response surface parameter estimation. The common way to estimate the regression model coefficients is the ordinar...

in this study, a hybrid algorithm is presented to tackle multi-variables robust design problem. the proposed algorithm comprises neural networks (nns) and co-evolution genetic algorithm (cga) in which neural networks are as a function approximation tool used to estimate a map between process variables. furthermore, in order to make a robust optimization of response variables, co-evolution algor...

saturated fat consumption increases the risk of both coronary and cancer diseases. therefore, fat reduction in uf-feta cheese (≈ 45% fdm) is favorable but, unfortunately, it has some negative effects on the texture and sensory characteristics of the cheese. in this research, response surface methodology was employed to study the probably improving effects of wpc80 (0-20 gr kg-1), lecithin (0-2 ...

A systematic and affordable approach is proposed for the robust design of thick laminated composite structures. Our approach integrates the principles of the Robust Concept Exploration Method (RCEM) for designing complex engineering systems and the hierarchical multi-level optimization procedure for managing the complexity of composite structure optimization. Foundational to the proposed approa...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, affect thousands of people and can cause enormous financial loss. Therefore, an efficient response immediately following a natural disaster is vital to minimize the aforementioned negative effects. This research paper presents a network design model for humanitarian logistics which will assist in location and allocation decisions for multiple disaster per...