green fig, a fruit usually consumed as dried is one of the important non-oil export agricultural commodities of iran. physical properties of green fig are vital parameters as regards the design of such post harvest processing equipments as dryers, sorters and storing chambers. in this research work the effect of moisture content on fruit characteristic dimensions, geometric mean diameter, spher...

A popular equation that is often employed to represent the relationship between pressure loss and fluid flow in fluidized or packed granular beds Ergun equation, which an extension of Darcy’s law. In this paper, method Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) used numerically study field across a rectangular channel partially filled with porous layer both at Representative Elementary Volume (REV) ...

Although biochars made in laboratory seem to remove H2S and odorous compounds effectively, very few studies are available for commercial biochars. This study evaluated the efficacy of a biochar (CBC) removing volatile organic (VOCs). We found that well-known Ergun equation may not be adequate predicting pressure drop properly sizing ventilation system. The breakthrough adsorption capacity CBC w...

Caricature Creation In this stage, we create abstract caricatures using all features as disconnected pieces. Using disconnected pieces is partly motivated by cubist sculptures such as Pablo Picasso‘s {Reclining Bather}. Individual pieces also allow faster shape modification. Each unique feature is represented by at least one disconnected 3D surface. Therefore, it is easy to improve 3D recogniza...

Based mainly on field geological observation and geochronologic data, six tectonic units have been recognized in western Inner Mongolia (China), including, from south to north: North China Craton (NCC), Southern Orogenic Belt (SOB), Hunshandake Block (HB), Northern Orogenic Belt (NOB), South Mongolia microcontinent (SMM), and Southern margin of Ergun Block (SME), suggesting that the tectonic fr...

Modeling High-Genus Surfaces. (May 2004) Vinod Srinivasan, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; M.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Ergun Akleman The goal of this research is to develop new, interactive methods for creating very high-genus 2-manifold meshes. The various approaches investigated in this research can be categorized into two groups – inter...

In this study, effects of porosity and fiber orientation on the viscous permeability and Forchheimer coefficient of mono-dispersed fibers are investigated. The porous material is represented by a unit cell which is assumed to be repeated throughout the medium. Based on the orientation of the fibers in the space, fibrous media are divided into three categories: 1D, 2D, and 3D structures. Paralle...

We consider a stochastic motion in a bounded planar region and a point process of events on a trajectory of the motion. The aim is to use the particle filter for the estimation of the conditional intensity of the point process and simultaneously for the reconstruction of the trajectory which is considered unknown. Using a simulated dataset numerical results are obtained and presented. Introduct...