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This Thesis presents a robust network design model for supplying blood during and after an earthquake disaster. A two stage optimization model based on several real-world scenarios is developed. The purpose of this research is to locate and allocate fixed and mobile facilities in probabilistic situation, in which Tehran city with 22 districts is considered as a case study. This model can be categorized as a probabilistic model which demand and supply rate for blood and its derivatives is uncertain. Furthermore the blood transition between different blood types and conversion to its derivatives such as Platelet and plasma are involved in the proposed model. The supply chain for blood consists... 

This project studies the effects of different blade and different velocity fields on reducing drag coefficient. A numerical simulation was set up for a circular cylinder to represent the effects of blade on reducing drag. In this study, velocity, density and the cylinder diameter were constant and different viscosities were selected for different regime flows. The computational fluid dynamic programmer FLUENT was used to simulate results for this project. Arrays of cylinders were set up to see the changes in velocity profiles and drag coefficients for a range of Re. In this study, I studied three cases of setting up blade and concentrated on friction drag coefficient and pressure drag... 

This research aims to numerically investigate the Counter-Current Flow Limitation (CCFL) phenomenon in the hot leg of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, with a focus on its unique Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) design. To achieve this, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was utilized through the commercial software ANSYS CFX. A two-stage methodology was employed: Initially, the numerical model was validated against experimental data from the TOPFLOW facility to ensure its predictive accuracy for two-phase flow phenomena. Subsequently, the validated model was used to simulate the CCFL phenomenon in the real, full-scale geometry of the Bushehr power plant's hot leg, with boundary conditions... 

This thesis presents a fuzzy-based interaction prediction approach (F-IPA) for two-level optimal control of large-scale systems. The design procedure uses a decomposition/coordination framework of hierarchical structures. At the first level, the system is decomposed into subsystems for which subproblems are formed. At the second level, a fuzzy coordinator is used to predict the coordination parameters needed to coordinate the solutions of the first level subproblems. The fuzzy coordinator uses a critic vector to evaluate its performance and learn its parameters by minimizing an energy function. The proposed control scheme is implemented on a two-degrees-of-freedom (2DOF) model of robot... 

There has been a growing interest in studying asymptotically AdS space times given the AdS/CFT conjecture. Among different models finding the one which decribes broader phenomena is important.The importance of a dynamical metric stems from the fact that one can see thermalization in its dual description. We introduce a dynamical metric and study apparent horizon formation and energy evolution as well. We plot its appparent horizion curve and show that it aproaches the static limit within our numerical accuracy. We then review quasi-normal modes of this space time  

Although general relativity is the underlying assumption in modern cosmology, there are still many simplifying assumptions neglecting higher order general relativistic effects. Given the precision cosmology and future surveys and the amount of data on large scales, higher order relativistic effects are to be taken into account. We will consider two categories of relativistic effects on large scale structures. First, the inhomogeneities between the source and the observer may lead to observable effects neglected so far. As future surveys will probe the universe on large scales, these effects have been the focus of recent studies. The observables being defined first, are cosmic rulers and... 

Lithium is a soft, silvery-white alkali metal that is recognized as the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. The increasing demand for lithium, driven by the global shift towards electrification and sustainable energy solutions, has transformed this material into a crucial resource in the modern economy. Lithium has applications in various industries, including the nuclear industry. 6Li is used for the production of tritium, and 7Li, in the form of 7LiOH, is used to adjust the pH in light water reactors and as an anti-corrosion compound in fission reactors. In this study, the extraction of lithium from the aqueous phase using a Y-shaped microchannel was carried out, and the mass...