the combined effect of non-newtonian rheology and irreversible boundary reaction on dispersion in a herschel-bulkley fluid through a conduit (pipe/channel) is studied by using generalized dispersion model. the study explains the development of dispersive transport following the injection of a tracer in terms of three effective transport coefficients namely exchange, convective and dispersion co...

the kinetics of molybdenite oxidation was studied by non-isothermal tga-dta with heating rate 5 ºc.min-1.the model-fitting kinetic approach applied to tga data .the coats-redfern method used for model fitting. the popular model-fitting gives excellent fit for non-isothermal data in chemically controlled regime. the apparent activation energy was determined to be about 34.2 kcalmol-1 with pre-ex...

Stretchable woven chute is a safe device for falling humans from multi-story buildings in emergencies. During the fall, the elastomeric property of the fabric, in the weft direction, causes radial forces towards the human body inside .These radial forces lead to frictional forces between the chute and the body. The falling man can reduce the falling speed by exerting outward forces via stretchi...

This paper presents novel contributions on image-based control of a mobile robot using a general catadioptric camera model. A catadioptric camera is usually made up by a combination of a conventional camera and a curved mirror resulting on an omnidirectional sensor capable of providing 360o panoramic views of a scene. Modeling such cameras has been subject of significant research interest in th...

a numerical study of 3d electrokinetic flows through micromixers was performed. the micromixers considered here consisted of heterogeneous rectangular microchannels with prescribed patterns of zeta-potential at their walls. numerical simulation of electroosmotic flows within heterogeneous channels requires solution of the navier-stokes, ernest-plank and species concentration equations. it is kn...

in this paper, lagrangian and equations describing one-dimensional anisotropic non-heisenberg model are studied. in this study we used the generalized coherent states in real parametrizations and the feynman path integral for these states in su(3) group. these equations describe nonlinear dynamics of non-heisenberg ferromagnetic chain completely. solutions of these equations are magnetic solito...

Abstract: In DEA, there are typically two schemes for measuring efficiency of DMUs; radial and non-radial. Radial models assume proportional change of inputs/outputs and usually remaining slacks are not directly accounted for inefficiency. On the other hand, non-radial models deal with slacks of each input/output individually and independently, and integrate them into an efficiency measure, cal...

background & aim: esophageal cancer is one of the main common causes of death. the high prevalence of esophageal cancer in northern iran is an important public health problem. the main aim of this paper was to assess the factors affecting survival of  atients with esophageal cancer in neighbor provinces around the caspian sea using weibull mixture cure model and mixture cure model based on a no...

background: despite their simplicity and the low-cost, the conventional non-contact uv systems have low efficiency in water disinfection. the purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of upgrading these systems by some modifications in order to maximize the water contact with the uv radiation and as a result a better disinfection.    methods: in this study, two enhanced models of non...