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The aquatic canopy areas such as wetlands play an important role in ecology of these area. The exchange flow between open water and vegetated area occurs due to sunlight and surface cooling. Wind also causes surface evaporation and create a cold layer at the surface of water. The creation of exchange flow and its magnitude depends on parameters like solid volume fraction and thermal gradient. In this thesis, the goal is to determine the effects of floating vegetation on the hydrodynamic characteristics of exchange flowas a result of surface cooling experimentally. In this research, the PIV method was used to measure velocity profiles. In the experiments, solid volume fraction, depth of... 

Currently, one of the most important problems in the field of drilling is the issue of drilling fluid loss in different formations. The problem of mud loss has been evident since the beginning of oil and gas well drilling operations, so that oil companies spend millions of dollars annually to solve the problem of mud loss. Problems such as pipe jamming, loss of rig production time, well blowout, loss of a large volume of drilling mud and damage to reservoir formations due to loss of drilling fluid are caused. Regarding the drilling variables, many factors cause the decrease or increase of the loss, the most important of which are the weight on the drill bit, drilling speed, the rate of... 

In this research, first of all, the main question of Heidegger and his epoch is investigated. If we read Heidegger along the tradition of German philosophy, then it is perceived that the problem of science is the most central subject matter standing against Heidegger. My question is this: how Heidegger reaches to this existential phenomenological view about science. Regarding that, by giving a coherent narration about a crucial problem called 'the crisis of science', in the first chapter I gave a short view to philosophies preceding Heidegger, some important of which is Dilthey's philosophy of life, phenomenology of Husserl, and south-west school of neo-Kantianism. The second chapter... 

Bubble collapse near a rigid wall with rapid and non-spherical compression of the internal gas can lead to destructive and unfavorable effects such as erosion, noise, and a fall-off in the performance of devices. Despite the fact that several investigations on this phenomena have been carried out under various conditions, studies indicate that the collapse of a single cavitation bubble next to the liquid jet injected from the wall's side and their interaction have not been studied so far. To achieve this goal, the present study deals with the three-dimensional simulation of the two-phase flow field from the Eulerian point of view. OpenFOAM has been used to solve the equations of conservation... 

It has been demonstrated that the key features of fracture networks can be identified with the help of high-resolution aerial images of outcrops (rock formations exposed at the Earth's surface) obtained by drones and photogrammetry. The aim of this study is to utilize these images to improve the geometrical modeling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFRs). Initially, an algorithm is developed for processing aerial images of outcrops, so that the pattern of fracture network can be obtained. After obtaining the fracture network, the Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM) implemented in the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) is employed to study two-phase (oil-water) flows in the... 

With high power conversion efficiency, comparable to silicon solar cells, the conventional perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are leading the photovoltaic research scene. However, they have poor stability in operation due to instability of organic-inorganic hybrid PSCs. Several methods have been proposed to improve their stability including Substitution of the organic component by an inorganic one For example, inorganic perovskite compound such as 〖 CsPbI〗_3 with bandgap about 1.7 eV is a good candidate. However, it requires high synthesis temperature (about 300 ℃), and the resulting cell has a lower efficiency than the organic one. Introduction of Cs, as an inorganic element, into organic... 

In this thesis, the orbit determination of Low Earth Orbits (LEO) using the integrated magnetometer and horizon sensor data has been investigated. Orbit determination is an essential part of a space mission. Not only the modeling, guidance, navigation and control errors may results in error in injecting the satellite into its nominal orbit, the environmental disturbances deviate the satellite from its predicted orbit and from an operational perspective most satellites need continuous orbit determination. Traditionally, ground based orbit determination is used which are non-autonomous and expensive and just can be used for specific times which the satellite can be observed from the ground... 

Clustering algorithms are developed to provide general attitudes on database, recognizing latent structures and their more effective accessibility. Recently, broad studies are conducted on clustering since it is recognized as an important tool to explore and analyze data. Clustering is a fundamental learning operation without monitoring in data exploration which divides data into groups of objects so that objects in one group have the most similarity to each other and lowest similarity to objects in other groups. Some clustering algorithms such fuzzy clustering model (FCM) are widely used in clustering problem solution although this technique addresses local optimized searches. Additionally,... 

Flameless combustion is among the newest combustion technologies that is used for reducing the pollutants in recent couple of decades. Within this combustion regime, diminution of super hot points throughout the combustion chamber along with decline in production of pollutant gases occur simultaneously. This kind of combustion often is created by applying two processes; first by preheating the fuel and/or oxydizer flows at the inlet to tempratures over the self-ignition level; and second with diluting the whole amount of fuel and oxidizer in the chamber. These two happen by using hot exhaust gas of the same chamber (via feedback) or of the previous section (in multi-section chambers).... 

By an increase in demands for multimedia services of mobile, wireless networks shall provide Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for users moving in cells. Multimedia services such as voice, data and image own different features and every QoS are different from the other due to delay and demand for bandwidth.
This thesis presents a new model of call admission control which consists of a few key elements for protecting the network in different conditions of workload in a manner that calls blocking /dropping are kept under desired level. This model consists of two traffic classes of voice and data in order to give apriority to handoff call over new call, the parameters in this model are... 

The growing number of disasters in recent years has become a significant threat to hospital buildings' resilience and preparedness. Besides, the stochastic nature of these disasters and the complexity of the hospital building systems exacerbate the difficulty of making appropriate decisions during and after disasters. To address the issue, this research proposes a novel model that utilizes the capabilities of Bayesian Networks (BNs) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). This model helps decision-makers in hospitals and medical centers measure various effects of disasters on utility systems and analyze the consequences of their decisions. The capabilities of the proposed model are tested...