the purpose of this study is to improve the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades, using the ball-spine inverse design method. the inverse design goal is to calculate a geometry corresponds to a given pressure distribution on its boundaries. by calculating the difference between the current and target pressure distributions, geometric boundaries are modified so that the pressure differ...

effects of four primary tillage machines on some properties of potato tubers     m .a ghazavi1, r . a mahmoodieh1* and a. khoddami2   1-assistant professor of agricultural machinery , islamic azad university, khorasgan branch, isfahan, iran.   2- technical assistant of food science and technology, islamic azad university, khorasgan branch, isfahan, iran.     received: accepted:     abstract   w...

Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) is a data structure proved to be compact in representation and efficient in manipulation of Boolean formulas. Using Binary decision diagram in network reliability analysis has already been investigated by some researchers. In this paper we show how an exact algorithm for network reliability can be improved and implemented efficiently by using CUDD - Colorado Univer...

binary decision diagram (bdd) is a data structure proved to be compact in representation and efficient in manipulation of boolean formulas. using binary decision diagram in network reliability analysis has already been investigated by some researchers. in this paper we show how an exact algorithm for network reliability can be improved and implemented efficiently by using cudd - colorado univer...

the cuckoo search algorithm is a recently developedmeta-heuristic optimization algorithm, which is suitable forsolving optimization problems. to enhance the accuracy andconvergence rate of this algorithm, an improved cuckoo searchalgorithm is proposed in this paper. normally, the parametersof the cuckoo search are kept constant. this may lead todecreasing the efficiency of the algorithm. to cop...

The cuckoo search algorithm is a recently developedmeta-heuristic optimization algorithm, which is suitable forsolving optimization problems. To enhance the accuracy andconvergence rate of this algorithm, an improved cuckoo searchalgorithm is proposed in this paper. Normally, the parametersof the cuckoo search are kept constant. This may lead todecreasing the efficiency of the algorithm. To cop...

an improved mixed order model is presented to describe the thermolumunescence (tl) glow peaks. in this model a fraction of charge carriers, which undergo nonradiative recombination following thermal excitation is taken into account. therefore, it is expected that the proposed model will produce more realistic kinetic parameters than that of mixed order model. the tl glow curves generated by the...

Non Uniform Rational B-splines (NURBs) are proved to be very promising for metamodeling in engineering problems, because they have unique properties such as local modification scheme, strong convex hull property, and infinitely differentiability, etc. Since NURBs are defined by control points, knot vector, and weights associated with control points, the precision of NURBs is influenced by all o...

Business intelligent (BI) technologies have been adopted by different types of organizations. The banking sector is among the service industry that has been largely influenced by technology currently. This has been manifested in the way the operations of banking have evolved from the pure exchange of cheques, cash, as well as other negotiable platforms to the application of IT (information Tech...