The microgrid concept provides attractive solutions for reliability enhancement of power distribution systems. Normally, microgrids contain renewable-energy-based Distributed Generation (DG) units, which their output power varies with different environmental conditions. In addition, load demand usually changes with factors such as hourly and seasonal customer activities. Hence, these issues hav...

Quantification of the uncertainty in constitutive model predictions describing arterial wall mechanics is vital towards non-invasive assessment of vascular drug therapies. Therefore, we perform uncertainty quantification to determine uncertainty in mechanical characteristics describing the vessel wall response upon loading. Furthermore, a global variance-based sensitivity analysis is performed ...

The objective of investigating information load is to predict atid iinprove individual performance, since performance deteriorates when information load exceeds the overload point. Models of inei}tal workload (an alternate term for information load) developed in psychology feature mostly task and subject-related intluences on mental workload. These models, however, have not yet migrated into ma...

In the present work, the design and microfabrication of a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) electrical current sensor is presented. After its physical and electrical characterization, a wattmeter is developed to determine the active power delivered to a load from the AC 50/60 Hz mains line. Experimental results are shown up to 1000 W of power load. A relative uncertainty of less than 1.5% with ...

Since the emergence of power market, the target of power generating utilities has mainly switched from cost minimization to revenue maximization. They dispatch their power energy generation units in the uncertain environment of power market. As a result, multi-stage stochastic programming has been applied widely by many power generating agents as a suitable tool for dealing with self-scheduling...

This study has been inspired by the paper "An efficient 3D topology optimization code written in MATLAB” written by Liu and Tovar (2014) demonstrating that SIMP-based three-dimensional (3D) topology optimization of continuum structures can be implemented in 169 lines of MATLAB code. Based on the above paper, we show here that, by simple and easy-to-understand modificati...

This paper presents a power flow algorithm to carry out load flow by analysing uncertainties. The proposed algorithm is compared with Fuzzy arithmetic to deal the effect of uncertainity. The proposed method is Interval load flow i.e. Interval Improved Fast Decoupled Power Flow (IIFDPF) that considers input parameters as interval variables and considered method is trapezoidal method have been em...

With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distribution on service quality. The Domain Name Service is an important component for global load balancing. Using controllable simulations, we show that wide area sharing can play an important role in optimization of response time...

Fatigue-driven damage propagation is one of the most unpredictable failure mechanisms for a large variety of mechanical and structural systems subjected to cyclic and/or random operational loads during their service life. Therefore, monitoring the critical components of these systems, assessing their structural integrity, recursively predicting their remaining fatigue life (RFL), and providing ...

A review of the literature on the topic indicates that the assumption of normality to model load forecast uncertainty in power system reliability studies is valid [1,2,3,4]. From a practical perspective, the use of normal curves models the possibility of extreme loads that have not been observed in history. These extreme loads represent rare events that have a very low probability of occurrence...