this study concerns the scope to improve water flooding in heterogeneous reservoirs. we used an existing, in-house developed, optimization program consisting of a reservoir simulator in combination with an adjoint-based optimal control algorithm. in particular we aimed to examine the scope for optimization in a two-dimensional horizontal reservoir containing a single high permeable streak, as a...

Purpose: Unfavourable distribution of contact stress over the load bearing area is considered a risk factor for early coxarthritis and it interest to outline respective biomechanical parameters its prediction. The purpose work was develop transparent mathematical model which can be used assess in hip from imaged structures pelvis proximal femora, large population studies clinical practice. Meth...

A simple method is presented to reduce the number of scheduling parameters for gain-scheduled controller implementation. The method is based on careful reformulation of the dynamic representation using dimensionless parameters. Parameter re-scaling is necessary to transform from one unit system to another, and this work utilizes unit transformations carefully to act as an implicit method of gai...