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According to the growth in the world population and the decrease in fossil fuels resources and also according to the pollution caused by these unrenewable resources, using hydrogen as an alternative energy resource seems to be unavoidable. In the past decades, semi-conductor metal oxides were being used widely in the energy domain of study, due to their appropriate band gap in the ultra-violet and visible spectra. Among these metal oxides, ZnO has been under special attention because of its electron mobility and its reasonable production cost and also its friendliness to environment. But the high band gap of ZnO (3.2 eV) has impeded its use in visible light spectrum. In this project,... 

The sustainable development in societies and the global energy challenge requires usage of clean energy systems that have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent decades. One of the major challenges in generating renewable resources is the problem of energy storage and imbalance between supply and demand cycles. Hydrogen as one of the clean energy carriers and due to having the highest energy density in terms of weight, is one of the important research topics. From this point of view, the preparation of electrocatalysts for hydrogen production, based on available materials, via simple and environmentally friendly production methods, was considered in this research.... 

The use of flash-based Solid State Disks (SSDs) has been increased in the past decades because of their high performance and low power consumption. As SSDs have no moving mechanical parts, they are more reliable than HDDs. SSDs have specific errors, such as read, program, and erase disturbs, data retention, and endurance. It is so common in storage systems to apply an array of disks called Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) together for the aim of reliability and performance. Erasure codes are one of the main methods applied in storage systems for the aim of reliability. Erasure codes increase the reliability of storage systems by protecting them against disk failures and sector... 

With the increasing number of elderly people as a proportion of the total population in the world and the aging of the world's population, the need for medical care has increased. On the one hand, most of the elderly population have chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, etc., which do not require hospitalization in healthcare centers, but they need to monitor their health status. Given the progress of technology, the measurement of vital body signals has been made possible with non-invasive methods. In this thesis, an attempt has been made to provide a wearable and portable solution for the measurement, monitoring, and collection of vital signals based on the Internet of Things... 

Jetsurf is a recreation vessel at sea. It is a surfboard that is equipped with a motor propulsion system and provides surfing, which is an exciting and popular sport, in calm seas, lakes, dams, rivers and natural and artificial canals. This project is divided into four steps. In the first step, the appropriate dimensions for the design of this device are specified. In the second step, to calculate the resistance of jetsurf, at first a model with similar dimensions including experimental results in Star CCM+ software was validated by computational fluid dynamics method and Overset dynamic mesh technique and then jetsurf resistance with dimensions of 1.8x0.6x0.225 meters was calculated. In the... 

HCCI engines have lower NOX and PM emissions and higher thermal efficiency compared to spark ignition engines. But these engines have some deficiencies which up to now have prevented their widespread employment. These engines have not been very successful at high loads and speeds and in these conditions normally produce high pollution and noise. In order to solve this problem the present research proposes to equip the HCCI engines with fuel injection system so that at low loads and speeds operate at HCCI engine mode and at loads and speeds higher than pre-set limits, use the fuel injection system in order to operate at a combined HCCI and compression ignition engine mode and provide a... 

The idea of improving performance of internal combustion engines has always been important for researchers and manufacturers. In recent decades, due to limited resources of fossil fuels and introduction of vehicle emission regulations, researchers have undertaken more efforts to achieve goals such as increased horsepower, reduced fuel consumption and pollutant emissions reductions. Homogeneous charge compression ignition engine is a modern and efficient design that has attracted attention of many researchers. In[[ these engines, homogenous mixture of fuel and air enters into the combustion chamber and with a mechanism of self ignition, produces more power and has less fuel consumption... 

In this research, aluminium sandwich structure was manufactured by accumulative roll bonding (ARB). In this method, aluminum AA5083 strip was used as the matrix and titanium hydride was selected as the foaming agent powder. Due to the use of particle foaming agent in the first pass, reduction, preheat temperature, rolling speed and the percentage of powder particles parameters were examined. Finally, the 66% reduction, 400 °C preheat temperature and 25 rpm rolling speed, were considered as the optimal values. At the next stage of this process 50% reduction was applied at each pass and this process was repeated up to five passes. After ward, in order to create a sandwich structure, aluminum... 

Due to the presence of a random variable in the process dynamics or due to the presence of measurement noise, many processes have stochastic in nature. Behaviors of these processes are different from the deterministic processes and therefore their controllers are also different. The aim of this research is to design adaptive controller for stochastic processes with a non-strict feedback structure and in the presence of input constraints. Also, the considered system has other limitations such as the unmeasured states, actuator failure, unknown dynamics and fixed time stability is desired. The input limitation can be caused by the limitation of the final control element, because the input... 

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types and is the leading cause of cancerrelated death among females according to American Cancer Society statistics. Breast screening and early detection is the most effective method of management and treatment of this disease. Currently, several imaging systems for breast cancer detection are being used among which microwave imaging has caught the attention of many as a promising tool for early breast cancer detection. Microwave imaging is considered as a non-invasive, relatively low-cost, Fast, convenient, and safe method for breast cancer screening. this research aims to implement a 3D imaging system that operates based on the microwave... 

Chatter in milling causes problems like damage to the device, losing precision or sleekness, increase in cannibalization, damage to the spindle, higher level of noise, and problem in thin objects. Current theories in regenerative chatter in filing, has a high relation with a work time (ρ~1), but in less deep filing (ρ≪1), these theories have errors (ρ is time per rotation period). Some of the usages of less deep filing are: 1- surfaces that are hard to file 2- creating curve surfaces 3- sleeking surfaces.Formulating these chatters and solving them using nonlinear methods help using the correct filing depth to reduce them. Goal of this project is to solve chatter equations in low depth filing... 

Structure of colloidal particles in anisotropic solvent with long-range orientational ordering, such as nematic liquid crystals, has attracted great attention in science and technology. The nematic director is distorted from its uniform orientation in the bulk due to anchoring on the surface of the colloidal particles. These elastic distortions create topological defects around the particles and induce long and short range anisotropic interactions between the particles. Depending on the anchoring type and the colloidal geometry, the particle-defect can induce a long-range dipolar-dipolar, quadrupolar-quadrupolar and/or dipolar-quadrupolar potential.Experimentally, the colloidal interactions... 

Nematic liquid crystal shells (droplets) containing cores have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Defect structures that form in such systems do not emerge in the bulk.These shells which could be created using double emulsion techniques in the laboratory have provided applications in microscale optical structures.In the past just boundary conditions and bulk parameters were noticed but recently the geometry of the core is considered likewise.In this work oblate ellipsoid cores are examined numerically using finite-element method. The boundary conditions in studied systems are perpendicular in outer surface of droplet and planar in the vicinity of the core. First by minimizing...