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Surface phenomena is one of the fundamental branches of science that has many applications in industries related to multiphase processes. One of the most important issues of this knowledge is inter-phase transport phenomena in contacting gas - liquid and liquid – liquid systems. Multiphase systems generally include dispersions such that in many cases are associated with the relative motion between the continuous and dispersed phase. One of the most widely used inter-phase flow systems is dispersion of gas bubbles in the bulk of liquid. The overall efficiency of these systems is often determined by the characteristics of the gas phase. In order to understand the dynamic behavior of such... 

Performance of civil infrastructures, such as high-rise buildings, bridges, tunnels, offshore platforms and other structures may be critically influenced by existence of structural damages or even lead to devastating consequences. Structural Health Monitoring(SHM) and damage detection denotes the ability to monitor the performance of structure, detect and assess any damage at the earliest stage in order to reduce the life-cycle cost of structure and improve its reliability and safety. Generally, damage is defined as some changes in the physical properties of a structure, such as stiffness matrix. On the other hand, presence of damage causes changes in structural dynamic characteristics, such... 

With increasing number of processors on a chip, the role of interconnections becomes more important in both power consumption and bandwidth. As a result, in MultiProcessor System-on-Chip architectures, the design constraints will shift from "Computational Constraints" to "Communicational Constraints". Nowadays, optical information transfer is introduced as a suitable substitution for electrical interconnections in chips, which can eliminate their problems. Many different optical networks have been presented so far. These networks can be divided into two subcategories. Networks of the first category use an electrical infrastructure as well as optical one. Hence, the scalability of scheme is... 

In this project ionic liquid and there mixtures were coated on Pt/ Al2O3 , the prepared catalyst were characterization by SEM, BET and XRD techniques.In the first stage the effect of the coated ionic liquid on the Pt/Al2O3 were investigated, on the rate of C=C hydrogenation. in the second stage effect of the thickness of ionic liquids on the rate of the cyclohexene hydrogenation were studied. Result revelad that by increasing the ionic liquid polarity, the reaction rate increased. Also the reaction rate decreased by increasing the thickness of ionic liquid  

Considering the advantages of heterogeneous catalysts for the easy work up procedure, being eco-friendly, and the reusability, herein, two projects are carried out by metal-supported SBA-15 catalysts. The first one is the oxidative deprotection of trimethylsilyl ethers catalyzed Cr (VI) in the presence of TBHP as oxidant. In this project, trimethylsylil ethers are oxidized in good to high yields. The second project is the oxidative coupling of thiols to disulfides catalyzed by Fe (III) in the presence of hydrogenperoxide. This catalyst/oxidant system convets different aromatic thiols to corresponding disulfides efficiently  

Hadron therapy is one of the cancer treatment methods using the targeted dose distributhion. In hadron therapy, the prompt gamma is produced from excited nucleas of target in the following of non-elastic nuclear interactions between the target and the incident proton within few nano-seconds and with energy less than 10 MeV. The excited energy level depends on incident particle energy and the target materials. Since the Spatial distribution of prompt gamma rays depends on incident particles energy, it can be useful for determinding the incident particle range. Also, the prompt gamma energy spectrum of each element is an individual feature, thereby targets with different composition of... 

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) provide high performance, low power consumption, and hence are widely used in the I/O cache of enterprise storage systems and high performance servers. Although employing high performance SSDs in the I/O cache of storage systems significantly improves system performance, it comes with significant reliability threats for write operations upon power failures. In order to provide high level of reliability, storage architectures employ SSDs in I/O cache with RAID-1 configuration, however, such configuration only partially mitigates the reliability issues of the SSDs. In this thesis, we analyze the reliability of SSD-based I/O caches against power outage and high... 

With increasing rate of digital information in the world, design, configuration, and networking of enterprise storage systems has become an essential part in designing data centers. The performance of data storage systems in serving incoming requests is one of the major parameters of such systems. A major metric to measure performance is response time. This parameter is, in particular, crucial in enterprise applications such as financial, credit, multimedia, and real-time applications. A common approach to enhance the performance of enterprise storage systems is improving the hit ratio of the system global memory using prefetching technique. Using prefetching technique, a data block is... 

Nowadays, enterprise storage systems are widely used in data centers such as databases, servers, and bank institutes. Due to mechanical activity of disk drives, these systems are one of the most power consumptive components in data centers. Prefetching and RAID, which are employed to enhance performance, are widely used in data storage systems. These two methods, however, impose significant energy overhead to the system due to the increased disk activity. In this thesis, we first elaborate shortcomings of prefetching and RAID methods. Then, we propose a new energy efficient and RAID-compatible prefetching method (LPTAP), which aims at improving performance and energy consumption. To evaluate...