Sharif Digital Repository

Nowadays, with increasing concerns about health of food and its influence on human health,food authenticity has become a vital issue and a major challenge for consumers and regulatory agencies. It's especially remarkable about food with high nutritional and economical value. On the other hand, solving these challenges necessitates the use of fast and reliable techniques.Among the various foods, saffron is the main candidate for food adulteration due to its low production and high economic value and from this viewpoint it's in fourth place. Since the scope of fraud in this food is vast and also Iran is the major producer of saffron in the world,the present project has highlighted the... 

In recent years, the development and optimization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have become crucial in fields such as marine science and rescue operations, owing to their extensive applications. However, challenges such as improving the stability and coordination of AUV fleets remain. This study aims to simulate and evaluate the performance of two advanced reinforcement learning algorithms, namely Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) and Soft Actor-Critic (SAC), to optimize the behavior and control of an AUV fleet. To achieve this, we employed the Python Vehicle Simulator and the Gymnasium library within the Stable Baselines3 framework. The findings indicate that... 

Atmospheric corrosion as one of the most principal factors of destruction is not Climatic map of atmospheric corrosion is closely related to air and atmospheric factors among which we can point out to different types of atmospheric pollutions such as NOX, SOX gases and pendant materials as well as the rate of humidity and rain and even the rate of sun radiation. The effects of these factors beside each other cause the speed of corrosion from a climate to another climate to be changed, which is presentable in form of a map. There is a 2 method to provide this map. First build up a station to measure the corrosion data and collect them in a long period of time. This method are time consuming... 

Modern broadband microwave and millimeter-wave systems often struggle with excessive pass band ripple and negative gain slopes due to the loss of transmission lines such as coaxial cables, or ripples in the gain characteristic of broadband amplifiers. The common solution for this problem is using a gain equalizer to compensate for the intrinsic pass band variation with some extra loss in the band of interest in return.Designed equalizers often have a constant slope in their bandwidth. However, having ripples in pass band or in other words slope changing in some parts of the band is one of the issues that designers should deal with. In this thesis, after reviewing the previous works on the... 

In this study, a novel multiscale analysis is proposed to utilize atomistic properties of crystalline nano-materials as an input to continuum problems in the range of large deformation. The main purpose of presented work is investigating the capability of different hyperelasticity models based on molecular statics (MS) and molecular dynamics methods to attain proper hyperelastic strain energy density function to illustrate atomistic information under various types of deformation loadings. Also, the proficiency of hyperelastic model is investigated for nano-structure including different percentages of voids. The material parameters of hyperelastic strain energy density can be obtained from... 

This dissertation focuses on addressing electromagnetic forward and inverse scattering problems using physics-based deep learning models. A key challenge in integrating physics with data-driven models lies in the implicit nature and nonlinearity of the forward scattering operator. To address this, a novel closed-form expression is proposed for piecewise homogeneous media. By formulating the scattered field as an implicit function of the permittivity values in each homogeneous region, the computational complexity of solving the forward problem for a fixed geometry is changed from O(N^3 ) to O(NΣM_k^2), where N is the total number of meshes, and M_k refers to the meshes in the kth region. This... 

Bearing capacity of foundations is one of the most controversial issues in foundation engineering. In this study regarding to the previous researches which has done by the other researchers the bearing capacity factors of a footing has calculatedusing finite element method. On the next step of this study some footings has modeled on different positions near slopes with different angles and bearing capacity of them has calculated, then some strip foundation has modeled and bearing capacity of them has calculated and compared with the values of the footings in this study and strip foundations of the other researches. Furthermore some foundations have modeled on the solpe and bearing capacity... 

Deployment of demands, increase in users and new services highlight the necessity of effective frequency allocation i.e. dynamic allocation instead of fixed allocation. Cognitive radio is a proper solution for dynamic frequency allocation. Cognitive radio can scan the spectrum and use the idle bands for transmitting and receiving data. The main part of this radio which is responsible for the most pivotal task is spectrum sensing. Recently, varied methods have been proposed to sense the spectrum. The scope of this research is on designing a very high-speed spectrum sensing system. In this thesis, in order to meet the required scan rate, a tunable complex filter with 40MHz pass-band has... 

The potential future use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel must be evaluated from a supply chain perspective. However, the main challenge in motivating the hydrogen supply chain network is the lack of existing hydrogen infrastructure. Strategic decisions for planning sustainable infrastructure can be analyzed hierarchically in time-related stages (2025-2030-2035). Meanwhile, a time- and location-based design has been specifically applied to a few selected ports in southern Iran, with limited focus on a national or countrywide scale. This study proposes a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimization model to logically design the hydrogen supply chain, considering primary energy... 

In this thesis, the transmission characteristics of a vertical tunneling transistors based on graphene-hBN-MoSe2 heterostructure is studied. We first obtain the tight-binding parameters required for Hamiltonian matrix and bandstructure calculations using density functional theory results. Once we have the tight-binding parameters, Hamiltonian and coupling matrices are calculated both of size 326×326. We then proceed to calulate the density of stated for source and drain contacts using the aforementioned matrices and nonequilibrium Green’s function(NEGF) formalism. We can then calculate the quantum capacitances of source and drain and acquire source/drain potentials using a capacitive circuit... 

The objective of this research is to investigate fluid flow in cracked porous media. Fluid, mass, and heat transfer in porous and cracked porous media, particularly in subsurface environments characterized by complexity and uncertainty—such as hydraulic fracturing, lowـpressure groundwater flow, and more—are of great importance in the oil and geothermal energy industries. The problem domain consists of three main sections: the saturated porous medium, the crack or channel within this porous medium, and the boundary layer between the crack and the adjacent environment. The phase field method is utilized in this study to model these discontinuities. Phase field models are similar to... 

In recent years, various research has been done on the severe deformation of low carbon steel sheets. One of the methods used is the pressing in the grooved die, only two passes of the pressing process in the grooved mold have been successful when applied to these sheets, but on the other hand, these two passes also lessen the sheet's ductility while increasing its strength. Due to the fact that the sheet surface produced by the pressing in the grooved die is not entirely smooth, the attempt in this project was to improve the ductility to some extent using warm rolling in addition to the smoothness of the surface using higher temperature while improving the strength or maintain it. To... 

Each year, large quantities of low/intermediate operational radioactive wastes are produced in different matrices. Usually, these wastes are temporarily stored within the plants and after a certain period, they have to be transferred to landfill sites for final disposal. According to international regulations recommended by IAEA as well as, requirements imposed by national regulatory bodies, waste packages must clear certain requirments called Waste Acceptance Criteria. As such, all waste packages are subject to certain inspections in plant or at disposal facilities. Computerized Tomography (CT) is proven to be one of the most efficient inspection tools for waste packages that can reveal... 

Considering the role of artificial intelligence and the opening of the window of opportunity to use this technology and the possibility of catching-up it, in this research, the factors affecting the technological catching-up of artificial intelligence in countries have been studied. By using the components of the technology regime, the impact of each component on the technological convergence of artificial intelligence in leading and latecomer countries has been investigated, and the indicators of technological appropriability, Cumulativeness of technological innovation, originality, Technological cycle, Concentration and Diversity to understand the changes in the share of patents of... 

Nowadays, advanced and inexpensive pre-clinical methods for investigating the effects of anti-cancer drugs are expanding. One of the latest three-dimensional laboratory modeling for evaluating the effects of drugs is the use of tumor-on-chip technology, which actually models the physiological system of the body through three-dimensional scaffolds, multicellular cultures, and shaped vascular systems. In this study, three-dimensional culture of cancer cells was performed in the form of spheroids. A chip of U-shaped microstructures with and without gaps was used to trap cells and form cancer spheroids. We simulated the simultaneous effect of drug and oxygen concentration distribution inside the... 

With the spread of threats against industrial control systems, preserving the security of these systems faces serious challenges. On the other hand, with the increase of communication between industrial control networks and external communication networks, the entry points of these networks have also increased and this exposes them to IP network threats. Beside that, traditional attacks on these systems, which generally occur by infiltrating the internal network, are also constantly changing and becoming more complex. These attacks mainly have a phase of hiding the attack from the monitoring systems, which eliminates the possibility of identifying the attacker's operations to a great extent... 

In the presented research, feasibility of producing hybrid nano-composite on the surface of Al1050 with TiO2 (~15 nm) and Graphite (~100 μm) reinforcement particles via Friction Stir Processing (FSP) has been investigated. 1.93%, 1.68% and 1.44% are the weight percentage of added reinforcement particles in the nano-composite. Rotational and travelling speeds (and their ratio, ω/v) and volume fraction of the embedded reinforcement particles, mentioned as variable parameters in this research. Despite, effect of these parameters on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties such as strength, hardness and wear, were studied. Results in the ratio of Gr/TiO2 = 1/3, revealed that by... 

Ionic liquids (IL's) are found to be potentially suitable solvents for the chemical process industry, especially due to their negligible vapor pressure which can result in a major decrease of solvent loss and the environmental harm. One of the foreseeable industrial applications in the field of natural gas processing is the replacement of traditional organic solvents (usually alkanol amines) presently used for the absorption of H2S from sour gases, by suitable IL's. Ionic liquids have been proposed for the separation of gas mixtures. In particular, ionic liquids have been suggested for the removal of the acid gases, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide, from natural gases and refinery gases.... 

Modeling and performance evaluation of the real time distributed systems is a significant problem. Stochastic activity network is one of the high level models used for this purpose. This network is an extension of generalized stochastic Petri net which is more powerful and flexible than other Petri net extensions. Checking the satisfiability of properties such as performance, dependability and user's expected properties is considerable in these models. Thus, using the approaches and generating modeling and model checking tools with the mentioned purpose is attractive. A model checker automatically checks the correctness of the system behaviors as properties against the model by getting the... 

This study has focused on the important problem of landing on a planet as an important current and future space mission. In this regard, dynamics modeling and integrated state estimation and control problems have been investigated in different views. To this aim, first a novel concurrent representation for translational and rotational kinematics has been developed based on the extension of modified Rodrigues parameters to dual space. This parameter set, called dual modified Rodrigues parameters (DMRP), is then utilized to establish an integrated roto-translational dynamic. The proposed DMRP-based kinematics and dynamics have been verified via comparison to traditional methods of...