In this paper‎, ‎steady flow of a third-grade fluid in a porous half‎ space has been considered‎. ‎This problem is a nonlinear two-point‎ boundary value problem (BVP) on semi-infinite interval‎. ‎The‎ solution for this problem is given by a numerical method based on the feed-forward artificial‎ neural network model using radial basis activation functions trained with an interior point method‎. ...

In the local access network expansion problem we need to expand a given network (with tree topology) due to traffic demand increase. We can expand the network either by increasing the capacity of its edges and/or by installing equipments that concentrate the traffic of several demand points. This problem has received some attention in the literature. Here, we view the problem as an extension of...

An Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is proposed for optimal tree-structured natural gas distribution network. Design of pipelines, facilities, and equipment systems are necessary tasks to configure an optimal natural gas network. A mixed integer programming model is formulated to minimize the total cost in the network. The aim is to optimize pipe diameter sizes so that the location-alloc...

In this paper, a supply chain network design problem is explained which contains environmental concerns in arcs and nodes of network. It is assumed that there are some routes such as road, rail and etc. in each pair of nodes. In this model decision variables are choosing facilities to open, environmental investment level in each facility and flow of products between nodes in each route. A multi...

While many efficient algorithms for the maximum flow problem have been proposed over the years, they are designed to work with static networks, and thus they need to recompute a new solution from scratch every time an update occurs. Such approaches are impractical in many current application where updates are frequent. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes efficient incremental alg...

administrative regulations for water flow decrease distribution efficiency and effect the economical operation of irrigation networks. complications in distribution systems and the decrease in availability of water require study of the hydraulic performance of existing flow control structures. control systems designed by neyrpic (zayandeh rud network) and usbr (doroodzan network) were investiga...

By pervasiveness of cloud computing, a colossal amount of applications from gigantic organizations increasingly tend to rely on cloud services. These demands caused a great number of applications in form of couple of virtual machines (VMs) requests to be executed on data centers’ servers. Some of applications are as big as not possible to be processed upon a single VM. Also, there exists severa...

we consider a grid network where nodes contain small buffers. a packet that faces a crowded buffer in its route will get extra latency and may be dropped. in this paper, we propose a novel flow control protocol called rfcc for grid networks. rfcc tries to reroute delayed packets and utilizes network coding to introduce a configurable amount of redundant information in the network, thereby incre...