Tale fin

Tale fin

A few readers of my last two columns may have suspected that something was afoot. Why, they might ask, does he suddenly produce not one, but two confessions? After shamefacedly exposing his tendency to consider book theft as a way of acquiring knowledge and trying to reverse the hint of plagiarism in his works by suggesting that it was the other way around, we might expect anything. Well, the e...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

Optimization of a Triangular Fin with Variable Fin Base Thickness

A triangular fin with variable fin base thickness is analyzed and optimized using a two-dimensional analytical method. The influence of fin base height and fin base thickness on the temperature in the fin is listed. For the fixed fin volumes, the maximum heat loss, the corresponding optimum fin effectiveness, fin base height and fin tip length as a function of the fin base thickness, convection...

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Proyecto Fin De Carrera

In this M.Sc. Thesis, a biometric recognition system based on images simulated at the millimeter wave band of the electromagnetic spectrum is implemented and tested. In particular, body geometry information obtained from the silhouette of the body is used to determine the user's identity. In order to achieve this goal, firstly, some existing human body imaging technologies working beyond the vi...