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Fed-batch fermentation is a valuable and cost-effective method for bio-based production of various products such as ethanol, which has various applications in various industries.In recent years, bioethanol production has been given special attention in many countries. For this reason, the mathematical modeling of production of these products is very important for their optimal and cost-effective production. Given the transient and dynamic nature of fermentation and its specific complexity, mathematical modeling of fed-batch bioreactors is difficult and complicated. In this research, an unstructured model was used to predict the production of ethanol from blackstrap sugar cane molasses based... 

Up to early seventies, Gas turbine combustor design was very time consuming and costly process including trial and errors through test rigs. Over the time analytical-experimental relationships take place as one of the key rules in the design processes. With the increasing power of computer calculations, computational fluid dynamics find its way in the procedure. Obtaining a deeper understanding of flow conditions and geometry inside the chamber, a great reduction in production time and cost of revisions to rigs and samples were achieved. Finding a precise prediction of polluting elements like NOx (less than 10 ppm) after many run hours and enormous computing resources, CFD methods must... 

Although the moment frame can show deformable behavior against seismic loads, but its flexibility and low stiffness, especially in tall structures, cause the governance criterion to be designed. The use of eccentrically braced frames was able to solve the displacement problem to some extent, because it has the characteristics of both flexural frame systems and conccentric bracing. Different methods have been proposed to eliminate residual displacements in this type of system, one of which is the use of post tensioned cables. The aim of this study was to investigate the seismic behavior of a steel structure with a eccentrically braced frame system with post tension cable.The cables are anchor... 

Studying the puzzling aspects of quantum phenomenon is quite important subject from different points of view. It must be specially regarded through some major aspects such as: wave-particle dualty, Bell’s theorem no-go theorems, complementarity, entanglement and measurement problem. In this project, we survey subsequently the above topics with a careful attention regarding the measurement problem. One of the most relevant ways claiming to solve measurement problem is the decoherence theory. Scrutinizing the details of formalism and description basis of decoherence, we critically explain and asses the different aspects of this theory  

The relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics has gained so much attention in recent years. Thermodynamics is indeed a phenomenological science and its theoretical foundations are not clear as well. In the nineteenth century, Boltzmann tried to establish a connection between concepts of thermodynamics and classical mechanics (as a consistent theoretical domain). With development of quantum mechanics in twentieth century, the possibility of analyzing and formulating of the multi-particle systems based on quantum formalism increased. Quantum approach to thermodynamic phenomena has been studied in various ways. Here basic questions are, e.g. how to define Thermodynamic entities... 

Quantum correlations are among most intriguing problems in physics. Bell’s inequality which was proved in 1964 provides with us the possibility of comparing the predictions of quantum theory with what an underlying local realistic theory may reproduce for some given observables in correlated states. The violation of Bell’s inequality in practice prohibits the existance of such underlying theories. Yet, it is not clear which of the assumption, i.e., locality or reality is responsible for explaining the experimentally verified violations. In 2003, a Nobel prizewinner A. J. Leggett proved a new inequality in which the locality assumption was not crucial. Here, we explore different aspects of...