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Local scouring at the downstream of sluice gates in the erosive beds is one of the main concerns of hydraulic engineers because of the significant damage that it can cause to the hydraulic structures. It is important to control the local scour depth at downstream of hydraulic structures to ensure safety operation of these systems. Many researchers have conducted various studies to predict the maximum depth and diameter of scour hole and develop new methods in order to control this phenomenon. One way to overcome this problem is the use of apron, or non-erosive bed. In order to shorten the apron length or decrease the effect of the... 

Sharp crested weirs are one of the main and oldest means of measuring discharge in water conveyance systems. Many studies have been done on sharp rectangular weirs and have provided many relationships regarding the effect of geometric parameters and various factors on discharge coefficient of the weirs.In some places, due to existence of obstacles or barriers in the channel, it is impossible to create a symmetrical continuous weir some other cases,multiple or asymmetric weirs should be used, which is the main concept of this project.Since it seems unlikely that a purely mathematical model can review the impact of the multiplicity and asymmetry of these weirs without using empirical... 

One of the most important methods of controlling discharge in water industry which is widely used in irrigation, water distribution, waste-water engineering, drainage, flood control and other water related projects, is side weir. The hydraulic behavior of flow over side weir is spatially varied flow with decreasing discharge. Various investigators have related the weir discharge coefficient as a function of main channel upstream Froude number and the fraction of weir height to upstream depth . Performance of sharp crested side weirs with extended length (as labyrinth side weir with asymmetric geometry) has been studied in this thesis. The variables for this study are height of weir ,... 

Local scour downstream of sluice gates in the erosive bed is one of the main concerns of hydraulic engineers, since it can cause serious damage to the structure. One of the ways to overcome this problem is the use of apron, or non-erosive bed. In order to shorten the apron or decrease the effect of the turbulence flow, different measures can be used. These approaches can be divided into two main branches, "Energy dissipating" and "bed reinforcement" measures. This study has investigated the scour phenomenon under the different conditions of the bed material gradation and bed reinforcement using vertical buried plates. The effect of sediment non-uniformity, unlike uniform sediment, has a... 

Designers consider formation of slug flow in pressurized pipes because of hazardous effects of this flow pattern. Therefore, researchers, using different methods, attempt to study formation of slug flow and its effects. For numerical simulation of this phenomenon, In spite of existence of commercial 2D or 3D two-phase models, numerical models used for the slug flow modeling are 1D. In this thesis, a 2D model has been developed to simulate the initiation and formation of slug flow and estimation of the effects in pressurized pipes. Most important assumptions used in this model are existence of turbulence, surface tension and air compressibility. Isothermal condition has been supposed for... 

Air enterance in to flowing water is something that is commonly seen in the water conveyance systems. The mixture of Air and water that flow together create a kind of flow that is called two phase flow. This kind of flow is often seen in culverts and water conveyance systems. There are different flow patterns in two phase flow. Considering pressure fluctuation, pressure drop and pressure recovery, slug flow pattern is the most complicated pattern among all.
Sometimes a singularity is used in a tunnel; one of the singularities that are frequently used in water conveyance system is expansion transition. In this study an experimental setup is used to model two phase slug flow, which passes... 

It is well known that arrays of antennas make it possible to steer the radiation pattern without steering a physical structure. For the past few decades this has been considered for many civil and military communication systems. Recently, ultra-short pulses are considered for high resolution radars and ultra-wideband communication systems. Systems with short pulses and large antenna arrays may benefit from high resolution in both temporal and spatial domains. But the implementation of the ultra-wideband feeding circuits for such antenna arrays is a hard job even with state of the art electronics. Optical technology has been applied, successfully, to a number of radio applications such as... 

High-power (108 – 109 W) RF pulses with a carrier frequency of C band and a duration of several oscillation periods can be produced through direct energy conversion of a travelling high-voltage pulse with the use of nonlinear elements.
Nonlinear transmission lines consist either of lumped nonlinear elements and provide spatial dispersion of excited oscillations or of elements uniformly distributed on a certain line segment. The first type of NLTL’s can be referred to NLTL’s with spatial dispersion. The second type of NLTL’s is ensemble of nonlinear oscillators with a characteristic natural frequency and temporal dispersion. In the first case, the duration of electromagnetic pulses is... 

During 1980s Additive Manufacturing technologies for the purpose of prototyping with fast and less expensive, under the name of Rapid Prototyping was invented. But nowadays under the vast progress made in this field, it possesses a notable place in different industries such as automobile manufacturing, aerospace, architecture, medicine and so on for part manufacturing. In all AM machines, the CAD model design part is manufactured by adding layered to each other. In this research, at first by explaining manufacturing process and current different technologies, the place of this manufacturing process in today and future industry, is analyzed. For discussing replacement of this method instead... 

If the size of the conventional telecommunication antennas -that are widely used in transmitting broadcasted radio and TV messages- is reduced by a nanometer size these antennas can be used at optical frequencies. Dimensions of these optical nanoantennas -that made of nanoparticles with highly permittivity- can be smaller than half of the wavelength. Based on this capability, optical nanoantennas have some important applications such as optical communication, photovoltaic devices, non-classical light, and optical sensing. After studying on optical nanoantennas and their features, in this project, we present distinctions between optical NAs and MW antennas and then investigate about different... 

The Deep Fading Effect is a destructive factor in communication systems, one of the solutions to eliminate it is the use of Diversity, and there are two types of indicators of Diversity, Spatial Diversity and Polarization Diversity. Spatial Diversity is a common method to reduce the Fading Effect while increasing the cost and increasing the volume of the communication station, which to optimize the cost and reduce the volume of the communication station, the Polarization Diversity Structure is added to the telecommunication system. To apply Spatial Diversity, several Antennas with different Polarizations are used, which The most common method in mobile telecommunication station systems is... 

Cloud computing has brought about many changes in the new business arena. These changes do not only include technological changes, but have penetrated the business models of many companies. For example, in recent years, many companies have migrated from their former systems to cloud computing for reasons such as easy and low-cost access to high-performance hardware and software systems, and to avoid maintenance and repair costs and security costs.Due to the economic conditions in recent years and the high cost of electronic items, the criterion of purchase price has become much more important than in the past among people when buying such goods. Now in the Iranian electronics market,... 

Wireless communication systems play a pivotal role in the daily lives of individuals. Given the escalating demand for higher data rates and enhanced reliability, there is an imperative need for cutting-edge communication technologies. Rigorous research is being conducted in these systems to refine and optimize antenna structures, aiming at augmenting performance, escalating data transmission rates, and mitigating interference. Microstrip antenna structures have garnered considerable attention due to their diminutive dimensions, adaptability to planar and non-planar surfaces, simplistic design, cost-effectiveness, and mechanical resilience. These antennas, featuring diverse patch shapes,... 

In recent years, along with development of technology and decrease in size of digital devices, copying and editing of digital multimedia products has become easier. Also, broadband technology caused simpler distribution of data. Considering above mentioned problems, we can use watermarking. Nowadays, watermarking has many applications such as secure transmission of data, owner identification, proof of ownership, authentication, broadcast monitoring etc. Watermarking is the process of hiding information in a secure host, in a way that it does not change the quality of signal. Watermarking is the science and art of hiding secret information in which neither the sender nor the receiver would... 

The Fourier modal method is one of the most important methods in the analysis of flat periodic structures (gratings). Using this method, the problem of wave propagation in the periodic medium leads to an eigenproblem, in which eigenvalues represent the propagation constants and eigenvector or eigenfunctions determine the filed distribution of the modes. On the other side, considering all the generalizations and modifications reported so far, the Fourier modal method still faces two fundamental problems. First, for problems involving large dielectric constants or high contrasts, the matrix form of the eigenproblem (the modal matrix) can be large, dense, and require a high computational cost.... 

In this study biological denitrification method by moving bed biofilm reactor is investigated. The main advantage of MBBR reactor is due to their capacity for high removal rates and low operational problems such as clogging. Two MBBRs in series with 3 liter volume each, were designed in experimental set up and used in this research. Nitrification reactor worked under aerobic conditions and denitrification reactor operated under anaerobic conditions. Methanol was used as carbon source in the reactors throughout the study. Fifty percent of each reactor volume was occupied with KMT1 packing. To finding the optimum nitrate loading rate, the concentration of ammonium and nitrate were changed from... 

Different strategies for the treatment and disposal of petroleum and biological sludge found in the treatment and reuse unit of Arak Petroleum Refinery have been studied in the present study. To this end, the resources found in the literature corresponding to the different fields of sludge treatment were studied and a summary of them which was required by this research was mentioned in the thesis. Considering the problems bound to the wastewater treatment unit of this refinery plant and the previous studies, two completely separate strategies were devised. The first one concerns petroleum and biological sludge being produced continuously. The method of aerobic fixation of petroleum sludge by...