A Software Component Model That is Both Control-Driven and Data-Driven Lily Suryani Safie A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 A software component model is the cornerstone of any Component-based Software Development (CBSD) methodology. Such a model defines the modelling elements for constructing software systems. In software system mod...

Modelling patient flow in health care systems is considered vital in understanding the system's activity and may therefore prove to be useful in improving their functionality. A measure, extensively used, is the average length of stay which, although easy to calculate and quantify, assumes normally distributed data thus making the subsequent modelling of resources totally unsuitable. In fact, s...

A consolidation of literature indicating the advances in the field of mass flow measurement is presently not available. Last published review paper on Coriolis mas flow meter (CFM) was in 2006. This work is an attempt is made to summarize the available works on Coriolis mass flow meter. The literature is classified into three major groups. The first group gives the summary of construction and t...

This paper breaks new ground by modelling lot sizing and scheduling in a flexible flow line (FFL) simultaneously instead of separately. This problem, called the ‘General Lot sizing and Scheduling Problem in a Flexible Flow Line’ (GLSP-FFL), optimizes the lot sizing and scheduling of multiple products at multiple stages, each stage having multiple machines in parallel. The objective is to satisf...

Demand for high-performance cooling systems is one of the most challenging and virtual issues in the industry and Pulsating heat pipes are effective solutions for this concern. In the present study, the best predictor correlations of flow boiling and condensation are taken into account to model a single turn pulsating heat pipe mathematically. These considerations, result in derivation of more ...

Here, we collect two parts of a research project on the pedestrian flow modeling. Rapid growth in the volume of public transport and the need for its reasonable, efficient planning have made the description and modeling of transport and pedestrian behaviors as important research topics in the past twenty years. First, we present a macroscopic model for the pedestrian flow based on continuum mec...

Nowadays traffic flow and congestion is one of the main societal and economical problems related to transportation in industrialised countries. In this respect, managing traffic in congested networks requires a clear understanding of traffic flow operations. That is, insights into what causes congestion, what determines the time and location of traffic breakdown, how does the congestion propaga...

The Czochralski method of the industrial production of a silicon single crystal consists of pulling up the single crystal from the silicon melt. The flow of the melt during the production is called the Czochralski flow. The mathematical description of the flow consists of a coupled system of six P.D.E. in cylindrical coordinates containing Navier-Stokes equations (with the stream function), hea...