in the present work a two dimensional numerical investigation of steam flows in a turbine blade passage is performed. a finite volume approach has been used and the pressure–velocity coupling is resolved using the simple algorithm. the purpose of this paper is to find that one of the used turbulent models is better for this kind of studies. a structured mesh arrangement with boundary layer mesh...

The efficient management of nursing personnel is of vital importance in a hospital’s environment comprising a vast share of the hospital’s operational costs. In the nurse scheduling problem (NSP), the target is to allocate shifts to the nurses in order to satisfy the hospital’s demand during the planning horizon by considering different objective functions. This paper presents a multi-objective...

Hazardous waste management incorporates collection, separation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous wastes. In this paper, a new multi-objective mixed integer model is presented for hazardous waste collection problem. The model aims to minimize transportation and construction costs, and environmental and population risks in hazardous waste management systems. This model is applied in...

The job shop scheduling problem (JSP) is one of the most difficult problems in traditional scheduling because any job consists of a set operations and also any operation processes by a machine. Whereas the operation is placed in the machine, it is essential to be considering setup times that the times strongly depend on the various sequencing of jobs on the machines. This research is developed ...

As an alternative to constraint logic programming (CLP), LOGISTICA-CFP implements constraint functional programming (CFP) by borrowing from the approach of SCREAMER and building on the nondeterministic functional programming language LOGISTICA. Although currently in the experimental stages, LOGISTICA-CFP demonstrates that a functional approach can be used to implement constraint programming in ...

The redundancy allocation problem (RAP) has been studied for many different system structures, objective functions, and distribution assumptions. In this paper, we present a problem formulation and a solution methodology to maximize the system steady-state availability and minimize the system cost for the repairable series-parallel system designs. In the proposed approach, the components’ time-...

We critically analyze recent attempts to include final state interaction (FSI) effects in the calculation of the CP violating ratio ε/ε. In particular the approach of using the Muskhelishvili-Omnès equation for the decay amplitudes is examined. We find that the values of the dispersive correction factors are very sensitive to initial conditions which are, at present, out of control, and demonst...