In the past, wind towers were applied as the main architectural part of building construction in the desert areas of Iran. These almost high structures were used as cooling load suppliers at residential buildings. In the present study, the effect of symmetric four-sided wind tower in flow induction to the bottom space has been analysed by using a wind tunnel and numerical simulations. In the nu...

in the present study, computational fluid dynamics (cfd) techniques and artificial neural networks (ann) are used to predict the pressure drop value (δp ) of al2o3-water nanofluid in flat tubes. δp  is predicted taking into account five input variables: tube flattening (h), inlet volumetric flow rate (qi  ), wall heat flux (qnw  ), nanoparticle volume fraction (φ) and nanoparticle diameter (dp ...

we report engineering experiences from the critical task of relief well installation under high artesian flow conditions at the downstream toe of the karkheh earth dam, iran. due to the establishment of excessive uplift pressure at the downstream toe of the karkheh dam, installation of a series of new relief wells was considered to permanently relieve part of these pressures. the mentioned upli...

this paper proposes a novel robust control scheme based on delay-dependent h∞for unified power quality conditioner (upqc) in a microgrid under the influence of the delay and parameter uncertainties. a new upqc model considering the effects of the delay and parameter uncertainties is established. then, the h∞ controller is designed based on the cone complementarity linearization (ccl) algorithm....