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Nowadays, nanotechnology has emerged in many processes; hence the construction of this scale is also important. By reducing the size of equipment, raw material consumption is reduced and less space is needed for equipment. In addition it is economical. LIGA method has the potential to make parts with small dimensions and accurate tolerances, that it is impossible with other methods (chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, bulk micromachining, surface Machining). It is possible to assemble the pieces by producing micro-molding in LIGA procedure.In this thesis, numerical simulation of electrodeposition that is one of the main steps in the LIGA procedure has been investigated. One... 

The scarcity of potable water is one of the world's challenges. In the Middle East, this crisis is even worse and as a consequence, the most aggregation of desalination plants has been constructed in this area. However, brine effluent discharged from these plants entails serious environmental issues. Despite the extensive studies about the investigation of dilution and the area which faces the brine discharges as submerge jets, there are a few experimental investigations with a focus on the injecting brine discharge into the shallow environment. Whereas the Persian Gulf's coastal environment is shallow. Moreover, there is a huge construction of desalination held in this area. Accordingly,... 

In this research energy and exergy Balance has been studied for a turbocharged three-cylinder engine. Energy balance is a method based on the first law of thermodynamics and based on this method the control volume is selected on the engine and the input and output energies of the control volume are calculated. Exergy balance is also a method based on the second law of thermodynamics which achieves the amount of irreversibility and ability to convert useful work for different energies in the control volume. In the tests performed, the net output power, output exhaust energy, energy transferred to the cooling fluid and other energies, including convection and radiation heat transfer from the... 

Access to potable water with standard quality is an inevitable component of human’s lives. Seawater desalination is the precedure of removing the impurities and contaminants in water to achieve the suitable quality for human consumption. Freeze desalination, by consuming relatively much lower energy compared to other techniques has shown to be a promising method for desalination. This technique requires the exertion of a cold source to the system which is then accompanied by simultaneous rejection of the impurities from the water. Regarding this, a numerical study on freeze desalination a hollow cylinder is carried out to determine the effects of the design variables such as heat flux,... 

Co-culture of different cells is necessary for cancer spheroid formation in preclinical drug tests. It is possible to produce thousands of micro-droplets containing different cells, i.e. microcapsules, in a short time, using droplet microfluidics. However the homogeneity of the cell numbers in the droplets has remained as an unsolved problem.Despite the large amount of experimental efforts to reduce the number of undesirable microcapsules, no one tried to utilize the ease of computer aided simulation for investigating different parameters. In this study, we develop a novel method for capturing cell encapsulation using CFD simulations. The effect of the cell suspension inhomogeneity and... 

Analytical biological research has gained significant attention due to the critical importance of processes such as cell separation, cell lysis, DNA purification, and amplification for disease diagnosis and genetic studies. These processes are essential in biological assays for molecular pathogen detection, immunological assessments, and studies on the effects of drugs on diseases. The objective of this research is to design and develop microfluidic systems in three main areas: cell separation, DNA extraction, and amplification for the identification of BRCA1 mutations. The cell separation platform is solely designed for simulation on a microfluidic chip, while the extraction and... 

Changes in the internal structure of engines for reducing fuel consumption has almost stopped. While changes in powertrain is a better way to reduce vehicle fuel consumption. Recently, infinitely variable transmissions or IVTs have attracted large attention of car manufacturers . In these systems, due to the continuous transmission ratio, engine speed is kept in a range which is the optimum fuel consumption speed range. Designing of these systems for each vehicle must be done according to the requirements of the vehicle and engine abilities. So, an exact model of engine fuel consumption for the design of these systems is required. One way of improving the accuracy of conventional models, is... 

Helium gas is the working fluid in common Pulse Tube Refrigerators (PTRs) due to its brilliant properties in reaching cryogenics temperature as low as 4 K. Generally ideal gas equation of state has been used to evaluate thermodynamic performance of He. However using ideal gas equation of state for He in 10 bar and 5 K causes considerable error on estimation of density. The objective is to use real gas equation of state for temperatures near zero Kelvin. This approach makes an accurate prediction of PT cooling capacity and COP. In this thesis the objective is to realize the most relevant equations of state describing the proper behavior of He in the regions of operating point of PTR. Later on... 

In this project we focused on Simulation of two-phase (gas-oil) flow in 2D anisotropic porous medium on unstructured grids by finite volume method.Since the permeability assumes to be full tensor, common discretization methods for pressure and flux equations couldn’t satisfy continuity conditions then a new method of discretization named continuous flux approximation introduced.In this new method, cell center pressure calculated by directly applying flux continuity conditions to control volume boundaries. In this project a ninepoint scheme is used, it means that for making the flux continuity conditions over each control volume in two dimensions all neighboring cells are involved.The reason... 

Phase change and deposition of solid particles in liquid flows are undesirable in industrial and natural processes and hazardous in some cases. Considering the intentions to petroleum exploration in deep waters such as Caspian Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea, precipitation and deposition of wax crystals in petroleum and gas pipelines is a real concern due to the fact that during production, oil is exposed to more intense temperature gradient (the dominant mechanism in wax deposition) and its heavier components change their phase to solid and deposit. Wax deposition in production lines starting at crude oil storage tanks is not accepted due to reduction in production rate and... 

First and second law analyses of the pulse tube refrigerator cycle are performed in the present thesis. In this respect, mass, momentum and energy balance equations are employed to derive the system of governing equations. Three models have been resulted depending on the employed theoretical model to analyze the pulse tube and thermal regenerator sections. In the first model, the tube section governing equations have been descritised and finite volume technique has been employed to solve the equations. In the regenerator a linear trend was assumed for the pressure and temperature to complete the solution procedure. To improve the regenerator model, harmonic approximation technique has been... 

If the reservoir temperature lies between the critical temperature and cricondentherm of the reservoir fluid, the reservoir is classified as a retrograde gas-condensate reservoir. When the pressure is decreased on these mixtures, instead of expanding or vaporizing as might be expected, they vaporize instead of condensing. If the reservoir pressure is above the upper dew-point pressure, the hydrocarbon system exists as a single phase in the reservoir (region 3). As the reservoir pressure declines isothermally during production from the initial pressure to the upper dew-point pressure, the attraction between the molecules of the light and heavy components move further apart. As this occurs,... 

In this study, thermo-mechanical behavior of an austenitic stainless steel AISI316L was investigated using mathematical modeling and experimental analysis during warm rolling process. First, the thermo-mechanical analysis was carried out employing the finite element software, Abaqus CAE, to assess temperature, strain, velocity and stress distribution during rolling. Then, rolling operations on 316L austenitic steel were performed under different working conditions while mechanical testing as well as microstructural observations were made on the rolled steels. Using simulation results and practical data, microstructural events and mechanical properties after warm rolling of stainless steel... 

In this research, the hot and warm rolling of stainless steel 304 was studied. First the rolling process was simulated using Finite Element Method software ABAQUS and the distribution of temperature and strain in the process under discontinuous conditions were predicted. Next, hot and warm rolling of stainless steel 304 under different conditions was carried out. Specimens were cut and subject to mechanical testing, metallography and electron microscopic studies. Data obtained from these experiments and the predicted trends from ABAQUS were compared, therefore studying the effect of different parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the rolled specimen. Results indicate... 

A mathematical model was developed to assess thermomechanical behavior of work rolls during warm rolling processes of AA2017. A combined finite element analysis-slab method was first developed to determine thermal and mechanical responses of the strip being rolled under steady-state conditions; Then, the calculated roll pressure and temperature field were utilized as the governing boundary conditions for the thermomechanical problem of the work roll. Finally, the thermomechanical stresses within the work rolls were predicted by a thermoelastic finite element approach. The results indicate that, in warm strip rolling, thermal and mechanical stresses developed in the work rolls are comparable.... 

In this research, temperature distribution and roll force during steady state warm and hot rolling of 6061 Al alloy strip have been simulated, using finite element method and upper bound solution. At first, the velocity field and deformation zone shape have been determined, by means of upper bound solution, then using 2D finite element method, the temperature distribution within rolling and considering rate of heat of deformation, has been calculated. This model generalized for two pass steady state warm and hot rolling. Also, in order to evaluate the predictions, the experimental recorded of temperature variation, during hot rolling and temperature variation predicted by model has been... 

In this study, transformation of austenite to ferrite under continuous cooling condition of a low carbon steel was investigated. In the first step, a heat transfer model was employedconsidering governing heat transfer boundary conditions and a microstructure model based on Cellular Automaton method was used simultaneouslyto predict austenite to ferrite transformation progress. The influence of pre-heating temperature and primary austenite grain size on the final ferrite grain size and distribution were perdected. To verify the simulation results, experimental processes were utilized. The microstructure distribution was determined by means of Clemex Pro software then, these results were... 

Austenite in the 300 stainless steels is not a table phase in deformation processing during which martensite phase forms. This causes significant changes in the microstructures as well as the mechanical properties of deformed steel. In this work, the effects of rolling speed, reduction, temperature and strain pass on the strain-induced martensite during strip rolling operation of stainless steel 304L are studied. Cold rolling experiments under different speeds, reduction and temperature are conducted and then, the microstructural events and mechanical properties of the rolled steel are evaluated. For doing so, different testing techniques including tensile test, hardness measurement, optical...