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For the past few years, increasing the airspace capacity has been one of the most detrimental issues facing air traffic management. Statistically speaking, the demand for aerial transportation has been continuously growing hitting an %8.1 growth in 2017. This growth rate in conjunction with the performance and safety considerations for the ATC systems, clearly indicate the need for a practical and safe solution to the airspace capacity problem. Dynamic Airspace Configuration (DAC), is one of the proposed methods addressing this problem by changing the airspace configuration over time.In this research, we have introduced an intelligent method for airspace configuration given the forecast of... 

The main goal of this research is to reduce aircraft design cycle period, by reducing the necessary number of design cycle iterations. The Design cycle period is one of the main characteristics of the design process and design cycle iterations play a major role in the design cycle period. To achieve the above mentioned goal, we present a mathematical model of iterations for the aircraft design process. This model describes the design coupled tasks as a discrete-linear time invariant dynamic system. This model also helps identify tasks which are the most important for generating iterations. This new method basically helps break information cycles that create iterations among important tasks.... 

Considering the annual growth in the air traffic, new challenges arise; one of which is the appropriate level of automation that needs to be brought into the picture. This research focuses on the characteristics of a high level automation device, such as level 6 and upper, which could be used onboard a transport for traffic conflict prevention. The main objective behind such a device is to help ground controllers in crowded airspaces. In this work, we discuss the abilities of a new algorithm to resolve a general conflict in the absence of ground based ATC centers. The proposed algorithm considers the Earth rotation as well as general wind patterns. Mathematically, it is based on real-time... 

In the absence of appropriate control, several accidents in the nuclear power, lead to serious consequences including core melted and radiation leakage outside reactor containment. In all these events, when core melted, the reactor operation is always finished and all efforts are then directed to environmental impacts of radioactive materials to the external environment. However, the occurrence of events that would bypass reactor containment, have special significance, because all possible efforts in order to limit the leakage of radioactive materials to the external environment are ineffective. In this respect the occurrence of such incidents, as most of which is considered the worst... 

Today global network of transportation is mainstream for economic growth and business development, growth in population made a need in optimization of using routes in global air transportation network, research shows cooperating with Airline Alliances is beneficial and gives much more freedom to their members in schedule planning and pricing as well as common interest in market share in international market. Joining an alliance affects decision making process of airline (e.g. fleet design, scheduling, route planning and crew assignment) in competitive market. Difficulty and complexity of evaluation in cooperative decision making that needs research to develop a model to evaluate decision... 

The objective of this research is to develop a mathematical model for analysis and design of airport cities. In this model, the interactions among the elements of an airport city -regarded as a complex system- will be analyzed, and the impact of the stakeholders’ requirements on the functional and physical architecture of the airport city will be investigated. So as the first step, the stakeholders of the system and their requirements are identified and classified. Second, the concept of operation of the airport city is investigated, and then the architecture of the system is modeled as a queuing network. So that each element of the airport city is regarded as a service center, including the... 

The case of rapid small satellite aerial launch by mother airplane has various applications; such as space experiment, weather monitoring, and getting information from the earth monitoring during natural disasters. In this method, the satellite and the launch vehicle will be carried up by mother airplane to the definite height; then, the launch vehicle will be released and flied - to the insert of satellite into the desired orbit. Aerial launch system success depends on a set of complex elements and their interactions. In the present study, first of all, the element interactions will be investigated by system engineering approach based on operational scenarios; then, a new approach for... 

Various factors, such as increasing or decreasing the heat removal from the initial circuit, or increasing the flow rate of the cooling fluid in the reactor, causes the phenomenon of the coolant mixing in the PWR reactors. In this project, the thermohydraulic test of coolant mixing has been simulated in the pressure vessel of the Bushehr nuclear reactor. In this test, the mixing of the coolant caused by the reduction of heat removal from the primary circuit by the secondary circuit is investigated. In this case, the primary circuit temperature increases in the loop where the heat removal is reduced. The most important consequence of this event is the reactivity changes at the core of the... 

This study explores the trajectory optimization of two aircrafts’ formation flight seeking minimization of fuel consumption and flight duration while considering activation of the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) during the flights. In order to model the effects of this system, a set of codes has been developed in the Matlab software environment, which utilizes an estimation model of induced drag for each aircraft by their relative positions. Also, position rotation is allowed, and the number and location of rotations are controllable by the user. The TCAS determines the allowable distances between aircrafts during flights based on relative velocities and relative heading angles.... 

In order to ensure the safety of the plants, a set of commissioning tests based on international standards for nuclear power plants is carried out before operation. In this research, one of the Bushehr power plant commissioning tests, the loop connection primary circuit cooling pump test, was simulated using the RELAP5 code. In this test, the effects of loop connection primary circuit pumps on the thermohydraulic parameters and the eneterance of test-related systems was evaluated. After simulating the systems related to the test and extracting the results of the stable state, were evaluated the transient results was obtained with the experimental results of the test of loop connection the... 

This study investigates consumers’ response to changing the household electricity meter from single stroke case to three stroke case. Existence of different prices in different hours during the day is the advantage of three stroke electricity meters compared to single stroke ones. Electricity bill data of 19,742 subscribers, in Tehran Interior Region 2, during the period 1387 to 1393, has been used to evaluate this policy. Subscribers who always use only single stroke electricity meters or three stroke ones are considered as the control group; and subscribers who have experienced electricity meter change during the period are considered as the experimental group. Changing electricity meters... 

Identifying fractional systems and designing controllers for these systems is one of the leading challenges due to their limitations. Systems can have constraints on output, input, and states. These constraints make it difficult to design a controller. In this project, controller design methods for fractional-order systems with output constraints are investigated. A controller is designed for a strict feedback nonlinear system with unknown dynamics subject to asymmetric and variable output constraints, unknown direction of the controller, and unmeasurable states. To design the controller, the direct and backstepping technique is used and the Lyapunov barrier function is applied for the first... 

This work describes a methodology to enhance aircraft performance via proper mass distribution management. The methodology aims to limit aircraft configuration in early stages of the design process to its desired performance. Mass Distribution Management (MDM), that is used in this work, is a new mathematical model which predicts the so-called aircraft Handling Qualities (HQ) via proper positioning of aircraft mass. This work shows how proper changes in B-747-100 fuel tanks arrangement can enhance its flight quality up to level one during its entire cruise flight without use of any stability augmentation systems. In general this work introduce a methodology to examine different fuel tanks... 

An automatic air traffic controller system is designed in this research. The major goal is to aid the human controller in decision making at real air traffic control situations. The air traffic system is modeled by queuing theory. Since respond rapidity is very important in air traffic control, so the fuzzy logic is utilized to construct a rule-base. This rule-base determines optimum policies while considering the operational matters, minimum separation distance requirements, air traffic controller techniques, and work-load. This project is an initial design for air traffic automation system which considers scheduling optimality as well as delay reduction. The case study is done on Denver... 

This work investigates the possibility of developing suitable design guidelines for aircraft flying in very low altitude as well as terrain following flights (TFF). The work aims to highlight the TFF mission in the early stages of design process; as oppose to other mission conducted by the aircraft. Current approach in TFF relies heavily on efficient Flight Control System (FCS) regardless of the overall configuration of aircraft. However, in this work, we show not all aircraft in the service could conduct TFF and maneuverability of airplane is very important. In fact, we investigate the overall impact of TFF on the wing loading (W/S) and thrust loading (T/W); if we were to design an aircraft... 

Functional Requirements (FR) are traditionally known to be "input" as far as an engineering process is concerned. However, for a Systems Engineer (SE), this is not the case. A well-known task of a SE is, in fact, to develop FRs from what is considered as the customer needs. The traditional approach to develop suitable FRs involves an algorithmic procedure; which mostly relies on the skills, knowledge, attitude, and experiences of the SE or experts members of design team. It is therefore an ad-hoc method which results in quite a few numbers of trial-errors and its effectiveness only reveals itself as time goes on. The current work aims to address such a shortcoming in Systems Engineering... 

Towards basic-applied Research in the System Sciences fields, this Research has been to try to understand the behavior patterns and Functional Architecture of parasitic organisms and Use these in Social-Economic Systems. In this research four scenarios for parasite behavior were found and based on one of them, the recent "Financial Crisis in Greece" has been evaluated. The results show that the developed model, can be effective in similar conditions.
 

LOOP accident is one of the most important accidents in NPPS and it leads to loss of power supply of the RCP pumps which are the main pumps of primary circuit. Subsequently trip of the rector occurs. In safety analysis, concerning worst conditions, assumes that after a small period of time, main generator of plant stops working and loss of AC power supply of all power plant loads including safety systems ocures. To control of this accident, it’s necessary to startup and load backup power supply system (EDGs) for at least one safety channels, if not, the accident moves forwards and becomes S.B.O accident which is more important accident that ends to core damage because of stops working of all... 

Continuous variation of electrical loads in the power grid results in fluctuations of voltage frequency and. Accordingly, the need to the dynamic stability of the power grid would necessitates a constant balance between the production and consumption rates of electric power. In the same vein, given the launch of Bushehr nuclear power plant and its connection to the national electricity network, an investigation of the power plant’s capabilities in changing the produced power seems to be an important necessity.
Therefore, modeling the Bushehr reactor core in the DynCo code, the present thesis is aimed at investigating the reactor behavior during the power change periods with the... 

Identification of different hazards in a UF6 production process, and evaluation of the risk originated from these hazards is the main objective of this project. A number of hazards are present in a typical UF6 production process, such as leakage of chemical gases like HF and F2 and also radioactive UF6 gas release. In order to evaluate risk due to these hazards, probabilistic approach has been used. Due to lack of probabilistic safety criteria (PSC) for chemical releases, only for UF6 gas release risk assessment has been done. As a first step in PSA of this process eight groups of initiating events have been identified using HAZOP study, and for each initiating event, event tree analysis...