the present investigation entails a procedure by which the surface tension and viscosity of liquids could be redicted.to this end, capillary experiments were performed for porous media by utilizing fifteen different liquids and powders. the time of capillary rise to a certain known height of each liquid in a particular powder was recorded. two artificial neural networks (anns) were designed and...

in this paper free vibration analysis of two rectangular isotropic plates, which are connected to each other by two translational and rotational springs along the edges, are investigated. the equation of motion and associated boundary and continuity conditions are derived using the extended hamilton principle. to solve the eigenvalue problem, the ritz method is utilized. numerical investigation...

runoff is one of the major components of calculating water resource processes and is the main issue in hydrology. many concept models are used to predict the amount of runoff, which in most cases depend on topographical and hydrological data. conventional models are not appropriate for areas in which there is little hydrological data. changes in runoff are nonlinear, meaning it is time & space ...

in a closed die forging process, it is impossible to form complex shapes in one stage, and thus it becomes necessary to use preform dies. in the present study, backward deformation method and fe simulation via abaqus software has been used in order to design preform die of the h-shaped parts. in the backward deformation method, the final shape of the part is considered as a starting point and u...

the purpose of this study was identifying rangeland development andrestoration operations targets. this study was conducted in hossein abad bazoft basinwith 7162 ha area, located in south east of farsan county, chaharmahal and bakhtiariprovince, iran. the basin has various land uses including rangeland, forest, irrigated farmand garden, dry farm, residential area and rock mass. in this study, d...

in natural gas treatment, the removal of co2 and h2s in acid gases is a critical concern. there are various purification technologies that can be used for the removal of acid gas impurities. absorption of acid gas into amines is one preferred method in gas industries. in the past, single amines was used, but recently in order to improve absorption performance, mixed amines with different solubi...

The Artificial Compressibility Method (ACM) for the incompressible NavierStokes equations is (link-wise) reformulated (referred to as LW-ACM) by a finite set of discrete directions (links) on a regular Cartesian mesh, in analogy with the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The main advantage is the possibility of exploiting well established technologies originally developed for LBM and classical co...

This document is written with the intention to describe in detail a method and means by which a computer program can reason about the world and in so doing, increase its analogue to a living system. As the literature is rife and it is apparent we, as scientists and engineers, have not found the solution, this document will attempt the solution by grounding its intellectual arguments within tene...