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The extensive use of nonlinear loads such as motor drives and new generation of home appliances has caused a deterioration of power quality in power systems. The use of active power filters due to the fast variation of the loads has been recommended by power engineering. In this method, the harmonic profiles are controlled by applying active filters in a distribution feeder. Optimal placement of active filters in a distribution system due to the increase of harmonic generation loads has attracted researchers. However placement of each filter is the major concern that researchers face. In this paper, a new objective function is introduced to determine the optimal number and location of active... 

Industrial wastewater treatment has always been one of the significant human being problems for the years. In particular, sewage containing heavy metals that, if discharged into nature, would have irreversible effects on the ecosystem and human health. Due to their toxic nature, heavy metals will reduce the efficiency of wastewater treatment systems if they are not efficiently treated. Also, the removal of Nitrate from the wastewater, which is one of the most stable nitrogen oxides, has always been a serious human problem in the treatment of effluents due to their high solubility in water. The simultaneous presence of nitrate and heavy metals in the effluent will cause many problems in the... 

Microgels, three-dimensional networks belonging to the family of smart materials, exhibit significant structural changes in response to external stimuli such as temperature. The rapid deformation of microgels upon thermal stimulation makes them a promising alternative for various mechanisms. Despite the similarities between hydrogels and microgels, many of their properties differ. Moreover, the Flory-Rehner model, typically used to describe the swelling behavior of temperature-sensitive hydrogels, only provides a qualitative description of microgel swelling. Nevertheless, previous numerical models of microgels have largely been based on the assumption that their behavior mirrors that of... 

Many future space missions, will require a high level of autonomy to service, repair, refuel, reconfigure satellites. As we know there is no project that has demonstrated an actual online pathpelanning for a terminal rendezvous phase in docking maneuver, for an uncooperative tumbling target. Particularly when the target is in a noncircular orbit. Such missions require a 6DOF precise position and attitude tracking maneuver that safely can avoid collision to the target and are capable of flying around. This thesis introduce a new guidance method for vectorial approach to the target in terminal rendezvous phase and applies a Sliding Mode method for attitude tracking control with respect to... 

Today, the need for high-speed machine tools, in areas such as defense, medical and electronic for producing parts with millimeter dimensions, and with features smaller than the millimeter, increased. To meet this need, the machine tool can be used with smaller dimensions and with high speed. These machines are able to produce these parts with high production rates.The project aims to improve technical design and construction of a micro spindle to achieve sustained speed about one hundred thousand RPM. In this project, the first step in understanding the fundamentals of the theory and the system components, and the whole operation was performed. The design is based on studies carried out in... 

In recent years, requirement engineering and goal modeling have gained more attention among different organisations. Therefore, different methods have been designed to discover stakeholders’ requirements and translate them into process and organizational goals. Various goal models have been introduced to represent these goals and their relations towards each other. Still, these methods are manual representations of different process scenarios and do not relate to the actual behavior. In 2014, Map Miner Method (MMM) was introduced to discover intentional process models from event logs. MMM uses Hidden Markov Model (HMM) as a means to represent the process as a map model of strategies and... 

Recommending routes to city taxis in order to improve their performance in finding passengers can reduce traffic, pollution and waiting time for passengers, as well as this, increasing the efficiency of taxis can increase their income. In this study, by analyzing trajectory data obtained from 536 taxis in San Francisco over a period of one month, we generated networks of cells, each of which has time-dependent characteristics such as the probability of finding a passenger, the capacity of each cell, or the amount of demand exists is in the cell and the average speed of passing through that cell. also, the connections between these cells in order to make more use of the experiences of taxi... 

Liquid crystals are the type of the matter which show different levels of symmetry and structural properties in between those of a crystalline solid and an isotropic liquid. They can form various phases such as uni- or bi-axial nematics that because of their applications in display technology, have been widely investigated. In this thesis, uniaxial and biaxial ellipsoid liquid crystals have been simulated by using molecular dynamics simulations using LAMMPS simulation software. By control of the density of the system in NVT ensemble, the phase transitions of the systems were investigated. In all the simulations, the mesogens interact with RE-squared coarse grained force field. By calculating... 

The purpose of the present study is to develop neural network estimation method for hybrid or panel data which have a combination of two cross-sectional and time series structures and because of the features of both structures, their use in different sciences offers many advantages; and the analytical methods for this data structure are also different from other one-dimensional structures, so different and specific regression models are presented for this data structure. However, in the artificial neural network method, modeling the development for this data structure is neglected, so in the present study, using the concepts of panel regression methods and their application to the... 

Nowadays, due to gearbox drawbacks, the direct-drive wind turbines have received much more attention. Permanent magnet synchronous machines are commonly used for this purpose. The flux reversal machine with a magnetic gearbox and high power density could be an appropriate alternative. Due to placement of permanent magnets on the stator, the machine has a simple and robust structure and provides more reliability. There is limited study on optimization of the flux reversal machine and the existing papers are not complete and many parameters like PM dimension, working temperature, and winding reactance are not considered in the optimization process.Considering the flux reversal machine... 

Micropollutants are a wide group of organic compounds that are detected in most compartments of the environment. Their environmental concentration is usually in the range of few ng/l to mg/l, but they remain biologically active even at such low concentrations; may be accumulated through the food chain, and pose a serious threat to the environment, fauna, and human health. Among micropollutants, pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) are of special concern. It is accepted that the main sources of PhACs in the environment are effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), where conventional activated sludge processes are not able to degrade most of them. To address these concerns, the... 

The growing requirements for renewable energy production lead to the development of a new series of systems, including wave and tidal energy conversion systems. Due to their sensitivity and the impact of the aggressive marine environment, the selection of the most adequate location for these systems is a major and very important task. Several factors, such as technological limitations, environmental conditions, administrative and logistic conditions, have to be taken into account in order to support the decision for best location. The aim of the present study is to provide an Atlas of IRAN Offshore Renewable Energy Resources (hereafter called ‘the Atlas’) to map out wave and tidal resources... 

One of the utmost important factors during salvage operation of drowned ships is raising velocity. Uncontrolled raise is a dynamic phenomenon which can lead to the sudden tensions, collapse in airbags or ships. Studing this issue helps the engineers which kinds of problems are more important during salvage operations. This study focus on modeling and analysis of raising movment of the ship with FLOW-3D and ABAQUS software.
In FLOW-3D environment, hydrodynamic analysis of rising movment of drowned ship has been done. We should mention that applied forces and velocities and other parameters from the FLOW-3D output should be passed IMCA Criteria to avoid uncontrollable raise. In ABAQUS... 

Supplier selection and order quantity allocation problem is one of the most complex making decision problems comes into account. In the past, supplier selection done based on criteria such as price, quality and delivery time. Today's supply chains with the aim of expanding business activities and improving their performances, Follow process such as outsourcing, product development, and selection of multi-supplier strategies. This conditions will bring opportunities and threats for supply chains. One of the possible risks to supply chains are disruption risks and disruption has been a great concern in the past decade and disruption of suppliers are one of the new topics that have recently... 

Profile Monitoring is a new research topics in the field of statistical process control. In many applications of statistical quality control, sometimes quality of a process or product described by a relationship between a response variable and one or more independent variables.The researchers call this relationship profile. The study seeks to demonstrate that monitoring profiles In addition, the industry can be effective in medical field and improves control of the patient's condition by a doctor. Profiles are usually modeled with a linear regression equation, non-linear or polynomial. finally, the results of this study, using actual data, models and methods to predict and control...