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The electrohydrodynamic (EHD) 3D printing technology is an Additive Manufacturing (AM) method that can be used in the manufacture of submicron-size structures. Due to the multiphysics dynamics and the multiphase nature of the microdroplet formation in the EHD printers, modeling of this phenomenon is complicated. In this thesis, the formation of a droplet in an EHD printer—under a pulsed electrical field—is simulated using a new numerical model which couples the fluid flow, the electric field distribution and the movement of the electric charges under dynamic and transient conditions. The level-set method is applied to the entire multiphysics domain in order to study the formation of the... 

Alpha amylase enzyme is one of the most important enzymes used in a wide range of industries. The enzyme is used in industries such as detergents, food, pharmaceuticals, paper making and textile. Various national and international articles have been published on this enzyme that focused on specific targets. Despite the extensive studies carried out in this area inside the country, there is still no industrial production of alpha amylase and other enzymes in our country. In the view of the fundamental problem of the lack of industrialization of these studies, in addition to the lack of a riskier investor, it seems that there is a lack of industrial vision in these studies.In this study, the... 

In this thesis, we apply robust optimization to analyze the uncertainty of model parameters of a portfolio optimization which contains stock options. We also develop two robust counterpart models for single period and multiperiod problems. By assuming that the probability distribution of parameters is not known, their uncertainty is considered to lie within known linear intervals. Due to the existence of nonlinear relations (piecewise linear) between uncertain data (stock and option price), we present an over-conservative robust model to make the solution feasible for all parameters. However in the second model by adopting a different approach we develop a robust counterpart model with... 

In this study graphene and graphene adsorbent for the Co2+ ion were created from sodium phenoxide and calcium phenoxide, respectively, using the chemical vapor deposition method, and their chemical, physical, and morphological properties were investigated using FT-IR, UV, XRD, Raman, TEM, FE-SEM, and XPS. The results suggest that the optimum reaction condition for synthesizing mono-layer and multi-layer graphene is the 750 °C temperature for 30 min. The Co2+ adsorbing properties of the synthesized graphene adsorbent from calcium phenoxide was investigated. The investigation of solvation properties suggests insolubility above 650 °C and the kinetic data suggest the rapidness of the Co2+... 

With the proliferation of mass media such as smartphones and the use of social networks, the exchange of video data between users has increased, and according to forecasts in the coming years we will see significant growth in the amount of this data on mobile networks. In this dissertation, we examine the effect of sending video packets via LTE and WiFi and try to calculate two parameters that affect the quality of experience, namely the probability of interruption and the amount of delay. The modeling results show that if the packets are optimally routed to these two paths, there is about a 15% improvement in the probability of interruption. Sending packets from two separate routes Although... 

High-quality online services demand reliable and fast packet delivery at the network layer. However, clear evidence documents the existence of compromised routers in the ISP and enterprise networks, threatening network availability and reliability. A compromised router can stealthily drop, modify, inject, or delay packets in the forwarding path to launch Denial-of-Service, surveillance, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc. So researches tried to create intrusion detection methods to identify adversarial routers and switches. To this end, data-plane fault localization (FL) aims to identify faulty links and is an effective means of achieving high network availability. FL protocols use... 

Confining nematic liquid crystal between two curved boundary conditions while the nematic molecules have a degenerate planar anchoring leads to complex and beautiful textures of molecular disparagement(defect) in the bulk and on the surfaces. Such the liquid crystal shells are made with double-emulsion techniques in microfluidic devices have provided applications for micro-scale colloidal linkers.In this work, we have numerically minimized the elastic energy in one-constant approximation in present of Fournier’s degenerate surface potential with finite element method. The nematic shell is confined between two spherical surfaces that we have studied the final energies and their related... 

A liquid crystal is a state of matter composed of highly anisotropic building blocks. When liquid crystals are exposed to surfaces with given shapes and anchoring conditions, the orientation of their molecules gets spatially disordered and topological defects may form in the system. The interplay between liquid crystals and the geometry and topology of the colloidal particles has motivated extensive recent studies.In this thesis, we present the numerical modeling results for two faceted colloidal particles in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal. To obtain the equilibrium nematic field with a finiteelement method, we numerically minimize the free energy of the system that based on the... 

Providing high bandwidth network infrastructures for ever increasing need of data transport is of great importance. The underling infrastructure for many communication services such as GSM/3G/4G mobile networks and Internet services is Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) optical transport systems. SDH are standardized protocols that multiplex multiple lower rate digital bit streams, such as E1 and Ethernet, and transfer them synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or LEDs. In addition to high data transfer rates, flexible network management and protection mechanisms have great importance, hence are part of SDH standards. In order to obtain flexible network architecture and protected... 

Development of Smart Grid and deployment of smart meters in large scale has raised a lot of concerns regarding customers’ privacy. Consequently, several schemes have been proposed to overcome the above mentioned issue. These schemes mainly rely on data aggregation as a method of protecting users’ privacy from the grid operators. However, the main problem with most of these schemes is the fact that they require a large amount of processing power at the meter side. This, together with the fact that smart meters don’t usually have a powerful processor, can cause the unavailability of smart meter data at the required time for operators of the grid, and at the same time disables smart meters from... 

Secure routing is a major key to service maintenance in wireless ad hoc networks. Ad hoc nature exposes the network to several types of node misbehavior or attacks. Wormhole attack is one of the most severe active attacks to mobile ad hoc networks. Noting the resource limitations in such networks, nodes may have a tendency to behave selfishly. Selfish behavior can have drastic impacts on network performance. We have proposed a Misbehavior-Tolerant Multipath Routing protocol (MTMR) which detects and punishes all types of misbehavior such as selfish behavior, wormhole, sinkhole and grey-hole attacks. The protocol utilizes a proactive approach to enforce cooperation. In addition, it uses a... 

With the increasing tendency of consumers to purchase from online stores and the remarkable growth of this industry in recent years, timely and cost-efficient delivery of goods to the final customer has become one of its major challenges. Accordingly, last-mile delivery has attracted significant attention from both researchers and practitioners. This study addresses a vehicle routing problem that considers customers’ ability to pick up their orders from selected centers and their possible presence at different locations within the planning horizon. This thesis aims to enhance customer satisfaction and reduce distribution costs by employing two innovative vehicle routing approaches. The first... 

Axial compressor design is a very complex and expensive process. In general, for design and development of a new axial compressor, manufacturing companies usually intend to employ an existing and successful axial compressor as an starting point and modify and upgrade it. In this regard, dimensional scaling is a common method for derivative axial compressors. The goal of dimensional scaling is to get a different capacitywhile minimizing the development time and cost. In this thesis, theNASA eight stage transonic axial flow compressor is chosen as the base model for dimensional scaling to lower and upper size of its original dimension. The scaled compressor is analyzed with a quasi 2-D code.... 

Dynamic spectrum access with the aid of cognitive radio (CR) technology is a viable solution to spectrum scarcity. There are many military and emergency applications that require the use of cognitive radio ad-hoc networks (CRAHNs). In these net- works, nodes must first find each other in a wide spectrum and then exchange their desired data. The process of finding each other in a multichannel environment is a challenging task and is usually known as rendezvous. Since rendezvous is the first step in communication, disrupting will disable the nodes from establishing proper communication sessions. That results in a drastic degrade in the performance of the network. Therefore, it is important to... 

Spray-wall impingement is one of the phenomenon that associated in different subject such as spray cooling, combustion chamber and gas turbine. With the impingement of spray to the wall, liquid film begins to form. Wall film characteristics is still an important subject to study. Due to the various stages of liquid film formation from injection of spray till spray-wall impingement, the investigation of this phenomenon is far more complicated. This paper is meant to provide detailed data on spray-wall impingement and wall film formation physics with the help of computational analysis of OpenFOAM . A Lagrangian-Eulerian method based on discrete phase model (DPM) was employed to model... 

Light propagation through turbid media, such as biological tissues, experience scattering due to inhomogeneous distribution of refractive indices of their microscopic structure. Scattering and diffusion of light not only limit many optical imaging techniques, but are also big challenges for telecommunication, spectroscopy, and other optical techniques. Recently many new imaging methods are developed that work in strongly scattering media such as optical coherence tomography, diffusion tomography, and laser speckle velocimetry. In this thesis, we have studied how wavefront shaping techniques can tackle the problem of scattering. By spatially shaping the wavefront of the incident beam, using...