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In this research, first of all, the main question of Heidegger and his epoch is investigated. If we read Heidegger along the tradition of German philosophy, then it is perceived that the problem of science is the most central subject matter standing against Heidegger. My question is this: how Heidegger reaches to this existential phenomenological view about science. Regarding that, by giving a coherent narration about a crucial problem called 'the crisis of science', in the first chapter I gave a short view to philosophies preceding Heidegger, some important of which is Dilthey's philosophy of life, phenomenology of Husserl, and south-west school of neo-Kantianism. The second chapter... 

Bubble collapse near a rigid wall with rapid and non-spherical compression of the internal gas can lead to destructive and unfavorable effects such as erosion, noise, and a fall-off in the performance of devices. Despite the fact that several investigations on this phenomena have been carried out under various conditions, studies indicate that the collapse of a single cavitation bubble next to the liquid jet injected from the wall's side and their interaction have not been studied so far. To achieve this goal, the present study deals with the three-dimensional simulation of the two-phase flow field from the Eulerian point of view. OpenFOAM has been used to solve the equations of conservation... 

The aquatic canopy areas such as wetlands play an important role in ecology of these area. The exchange flow between open water and vegetated area occurs due to sunlight and surface cooling. Wind also causes surface evaporation and create a cold layer at the surface of water. The creation of exchange flow and its magnitude depends on parameters like solid volume fraction and thermal gradient. In this thesis, the goal is to determine the effects of floating vegetation on the hydrodynamic characteristics of exchange flowas a result of surface cooling experimentally. In this research, the PIV method was used to measure velocity profiles. In the experiments, solid volume fraction, depth of... 

It has been demonstrated that the key features of fracture networks can be identified with the help of high-resolution aerial images of outcrops (rock formations exposed at the Earth's surface) obtained by drones and photogrammetry. The aim of this study is to utilize these images to improve the geometrical modeling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFRs). Initially, an algorithm is developed for processing aerial images of outcrops, so that the pattern of fracture network can be obtained. After obtaining the fracture network, the Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM) implemented in the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) is employed to study two-phase (oil-water) flows in the... 

With high power conversion efficiency, comparable to silicon solar cells, the conventional perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are leading the photovoltaic research scene. However, they have poor stability in operation due to instability of organic-inorganic hybrid PSCs. Several methods have been proposed to improve their stability including Substitution of the organic component by an inorganic one For example, inorganic perovskite compound such as 〖 CsPbI〗_3 with bandgap about 1.7 eV is a good candidate. However, it requires high synthesis temperature (about 300 ℃), and the resulting cell has a lower efficiency than the organic one. Introduction of Cs, as an inorganic element, into organic... 

Nowadays, methods based on deep learning networks are the most effective artificial in­ telligence methods. Although they have achieved success in various fields (such as machine vision and object recognition), practical and experimental cases show the fragility of deep learning networks against perturbations and unwanted changes of the input pattern. All these perturbations must be in a way that the main class of the perturbed input pattern can be rec­ ognized by human, but the network makes a mistake in recognizing its correct class. This thesis seeks a more accurate evaluation by designing adversarial attacks such that the main class of the adversarial pattern is detectable by human... 

The main goal of this thesis is the design and development of a rehabilitation device for helping patients “to improve blood circulation” & retain and recover their abilities if possible that were lost during the stroke or a accident like that (my research in karaj/iran shows that it is possible by just movement of the specific body part). The focus is on hand in this thesis because Injuries to the hand are common and can be very debilitating since our hands are our primary means for interacting with our world. For rehabilitation in case of human hand there are several practices that should be done for patients either in home or in a rehabilitation center, time and money that is supposed to... 

In the past few decades, shaking tables are widely used to evaluate system response of structures under seismic excitations. These devices are used without any fundamental research performed on a shaking table system as an entity model. In most of these studies for simplicity, it is assumed that there exist no considerable vibration and displacement around the shaking tables, and no attention is paid to the peripheral substances such as soil settled under the foundation.
In this thesis, result of ambient vibration test on shaking table system (solid deck, concrete foundation and soil layer) has been presented. Precise sensors known as low frequency and high accuracy accelerometers have... 

Out of several ground improvement techniques available, stone columns have been widely used. This technique has been successfully applied to increase the bearing capacity and to reduce the settlement for foundation of structures like liquid storage tanks, earthen embankments, raft foundations, etc., where a relatively large settlement is permissible. This technique has, generally, been proven successful in increasing the stiffness of weak soils, upgrading their safe bearing capacity, and reducing their total and differential settlements, as well as speeding up their consolidation process. The beneficial effects of stone column installation in weak deposits is manifested in the form of... 

Laminar forced convection flow through a channel partially filled with a porous material was numerically studied in this thesis. The Navier-Stokes and Brinkman-Forchheimer equations were used to model the fluid flow in the free and porous regions, respectively. Coupling of the pressure and velocity fields was resolved using the SIMPLEC algorithm. The local thermal equilibrium was adopted in the energy equation. The effects of the thermal conductivity ratio, Darcy number, porosity, Reynolds number and height of the porous insert on velocity and temperature field were investigated. The results show that the flow behavior and its associated heat transfer are susceptible to the variation of the... 

In the present study, a new version of haptic devices is presented in which user’s hand is in contact with the device just while collision with virtual surface. In this system, the position of user’s finger can be traced by using a camera and the haptic device follows user’s finger at the distance of about two centimeters. While the haptic device approaches to the virtual surface, gradually reduces its speed and stops about two centimeters distant of virtual plane. Then user’s hand collides with the haptic device which is static. Greater fidelity, transparency, more stability and also no need to large actuators are of the advantages of this system. In this project, first we present a new... 

In this thesis we try to find optimized parameters for imaging and manipulation of a biosample with AFM. For this we have prepared a numerous Molecular Dynamics simulation and find some reliable result. So, first we have focused on imaging process in Non contact mode (the less harmful mode). Then we headed into the manipulation process. The main problem about manipulating a biosample is the environment. In imaging section, the process of imaging a biomolecule by AFM is modeled using molecular dynamics simulations. Since the large normal force exerted by the tip on the biosample in contact and tapping modes may damage the sample structure and produce irreversible deformation, the non-contact... 

Results of previous studies on silt and clay indicated that variations in the small strain shear modulus, Gmax, during drying had a non-linear increasing trend with matric suction with greater values upon wetting. However, due to different material properties and inter-particle forces, different behaviour in Gmax is expected for sand. Although considerable research has been devoted in recent years to characterize the behaviour of Gmax of sand during drying, rather less attention has been paid to the effect of hydraulic hysteresis on Gmax and its variations during wetting. In the study presented herein, an effort was made to characterize the variation of Gmax for specimens of sand during... 

Abstract The problem of competetive facility location can be defined as follows: There are a number of customers in the form of points in space, and two players arrange a number of facilities in the form of points in space, given some limitations, respectively. Each customer’s connection to each facility has a cost for the customer and an advantage for the facility, and each customer wants to be connected to at most one of the facilities which has the lowest cost for him. The goal is to find the strategy of placing the facilities and determining the cost which the facility receives from the customer, in such a way that the player’s profit is maximised.In this thesis, we first sought to...