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Most of residual oil is difficult to displace and recover during water flooding process. One of the most important chemical flooding processes is polymer flooding that can improve microscopic and macroscopic sweep efficiency. Since, a large percent of reservoirs rocks is consisted of the dead ends in which oil remains immobile during water flooding, study of sweep efficiency from dead ends is important to improve oil recovery efficiency. In this study, effects of polymer flooding on oil recovery from dead end in glass micromodel have been studied experimentally and obtained results are compared with those of simulation of polymeric fluids in this micromodel. A correlation has been presented... 

In recent decades, the air pollution issue and fuel resource constraints have compelled researchers to find ways to replace fossil fuels or reduce their consumption. Since the Vehicles are one of the most important sources of pollution and energy consumer, efforts to reduce vehicles fuel consumption can be an effective action to reduce air pollution. A proper powertrain system has an important task to reduce fuel consumption and air pollution.
Uses of continuously variable transmission system (CVT) and infinitely variable transmission (IVT), which makes the internal combustion engine to operate in optimal condition, can help to achieve this goal. In this thesis, the target is find... 

Each year about 23 thousand people will be death in the road accidents in our country. According to the Legal Medicine Organization of Iran, about 24 percent of pedestrian fatalities in road accidents are the result of a collision with a car and because of that studying the different parameters that reduce pedestrian injury became an important issue to study. There are different techniques such as simulating crash tests on cadavers, experiments on pedestrian dummy and numerical simulation. The purpose of this project is simulating the car-pedestrian crash with numerical software called Madymo. Then optimize of the various parameters such as the height of the front bumper height, hood,... 

Reducing noise, vibration and damage to the vehicle's passenger compartment was always a problem that has been investigatedin many researches. Here engine mounts as connecting members between engine and chassis play a big role. Because both of engine and road vibration put on it. Many studies have been done to optimize the engine mounts. As a result, many of hydraulic engine mounts with different variety of system control. But a few researches did about optimization of location and orientation of engine mounts. Therefore this project is to provide a process to optimize the location and orientation of engine mounts. The optimization process is First the dynamic equations of dynamic system are... 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been used for different applications despite their short life. In last recent years, the developements in technology which leads to producing smaller electronical and electromechanical deveices, attract more attention to the researches in these fields. Among these vehicles, unmanned helicopters are more important because of their special abilities and capabilities. However there are some drawbacks which makes using them more difficult.
In this project, the first principle modeling of a RC helicopter has been accomplished and a parametric model including different sections effects has been created. This model has been implemented for a Trex600 CF helicopter.... 

The main object of the presented thesis is manufacturing ultra high molecular weight polyethylene(UHMWPE)/Graphene nanocomposites by insitu polymerization using Ziegler Natta catalysts. In this study, three types of Ziegler Natta Catalysts such as Magnesium ethoxide supported, single-supported and bi-supported have been studied. Experimental conditions are optimized (from point of productivity and molecular weight) by Design expert software with response surface methodology (Box-Behnken design). Effect of process parameters like temperature, pressure and [Al]/[Ti] molar ratio on productivity and Molecular weight are investigated. Also, the effect of hydrogen presence and type of cocatalyst... 

Servo control valves including pressure control valves and flow control valves are the main components of the hydraulic system. Since these valves are responsible for controlling the flow or pressure in hydraulic systems, are important. In the present study, we focus on modeling and sensitivity analysis of an electro-servo-hydraulic valve with two stages. The first stage mechanism is the seating type (flapper-nozzle) and the second stage mechanism is the sliding type (spool type). For simulation main components of the servo valve include torque motor, flapper, flow through the nozzle-flapper, flow through the orifice and flow through the valve spool and body separately have been modeled.... 

Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene has attracted the attention of numerous researchers and industries. This polymer due to its strong properties can be used in advanced military industries, medical engineering and cases in which high strength and high abrasion resistance is required. Present study aims to fabricate UHMWPE/Molybdenum disulfide composites, using in-situ polymerization. Before carrying out the polymerization process, nanoparticles of molybdenum disulfide underwent various processes such as oxidation, pickling, ultrasonic and thermal shock, in order to increase the interlayer distance and creating functional groups on the surface, then various analyzes, such as XRD, FESEM,... 

One of the most important unit operations in the production of dry powder biological products involves a freeze dryer apparatus. In this process, Liqueur, which is containing the α-amylase enzyme, undergoes a frigidity condition in which loses its moisture during sublimation. Under these circumstances, applying an adequate supply of sublimation enthalpy without raising the temperature of the frigid material up to melting, plays an important role in the quality of the product and preventing degradation of the α-amylase enzyme. Freeze drying depends on two main factors; time and energy. Furthermore, it is necessary to obtain an optimal temperature and pressure for different steps and... 

Multiscale modeling is performed within the framework of homogenization methods for problems in which the scales are separated. The existence of representative volume element (RVE) is one of the main ingredients of homogenization methods. Due to non-existence of RVE and macroscale mesh sensitivity, the continuous homogenization method is not applicable for softening materials. Despite the non-existence of RVE for softening materials, it has been demonstrated that by performing the average over the active damage zone rather than the entire domain, objective responses with respect to RVE size could be obtained. That is why discontinuous homogenization is used instead of continuous... 

For over a hundred years, vehicles have entered the human environment and influenced it. One of the most important effects that vehicles have on their surroundings and humans is their acoustic noise. The gearbox is one of the important components of the vehicle's transmission chain, in which the gears interact with each other and cause to create noise and vibration. These vibrations are transmitted through the bearings to the gearbox casing and then transferred to other parts of the vehicle via gearbox supports. Many researchers have studied the factors of NVH production in gearboxes and used methods such as gear profile modification and optimization of shaft and casing to reduce NVH. This... 

Nowadays, hybrid electric vehicles get more attention, not only for decreasing fossil fuel resources, but also for increasing environmental pollution. Using multi-propulsion system in hybrid vehicles causes, the low efficient performance of combustion engine is reduced compare to conventional vehicles. Fuel consumption and pollution that reduced in hybrid vehicles is related to how the multi-propulsion system works. Some researches that have been done about hybrid control algorithms, are completely software modeling and development. Despite importance of these researches in development and evaluation of power distribution algorithms, hardware-based evaluations are also necessary. In all... 

In recent years health monitoring and prognostics of complex systems have been considered more than ever.. In the present researh, data - based approach has been selected among various prognostics and health monitoring approaches. One of the most challenging issues in data-based methods is how to map system sensor information to its health status. In this research, different methods of mapping are discussed. The results show that sensor fusion by principal component analysis (PCA) offers acceptable performance. This pattern produces a single-dimensional signal for health monitoring with high reliability.The second challenge is to predict the status and design of the prognostics module. For... 

Due to enhancements in medical world, some medical instruments have been developed in order to assist surgeons. Navigation systems as one of the progressive ones make a virtual environment to simplify the surgeons. Three-dimensional registration is a necessary step through these systems and widely used in shape analysis, surface representation, and medical image-aided surgery. In addition, It’s relevance to medical imaging is that there is much useful anatomical information in the form of collected surface points which originate from complimentary modalities. In this study, the kinematic relations between two point clouds with different coordinate definitions have been generated. Using... 

Polymer flooding can yield considerable increase in percentage recovery. However, there are limitations with the existing polymer flooding technology, such as thermal, mechanical, bacterial degradation, surface absorption and undesirable plugging. A novel nanocore shell structure of polyacrylamide and polystyrene designed and prepared to intellectually control mobility ratio in oil reservoirs and overcome weakness and limitations of classical polymer flooding. Polyacrylamide particles have been obtained using spray drying of dilute solution of polyacrylamide. Then, polystyrene shell has been produced on polyacryamide particles by in-situ polymerization of styrene monomer in hydrophobic... 

The main objective of this project is to take the first step in designing torsional vibration damper (TVD) for engines in Iran. To this end a complete dynamic model of a 4 cylinder internal combustion engine comprising of all reciprocating parts plus the crankshaft was developed using Bond Graph method. Real firing data of the engine was used as input to the system and output torque to gearbox shaft as the output. The system equations in two cases, with TVD and without TVD were derived. MATLAB software was used to solve these equations in finding the quality of performance of the torsional vibration damper. Dynamic properties of crankshaft and designed TVD were obtained using finite element... 

Gearbox is one of the important components of power transmission chain in the car which the engagement of the gears inside it causes noise. The following thesis, is in line with the project that was defined as "NVH reduction of the Tiba X200 gearbox" and to increase the correlation between university and industry, the aim of which was to improve all the noise sources in the mentioned vehicle. The purpose of this project is to reduce the noise of the gearbox shell by using reinforcing blades called ribs. For this purpose, first the desired changes were made in Solidworks software on the 3D model of the gearbox shell, and then the finite element model of the gearbox shell was prepared in...