Background and Objectives: Food wastes are sometimes valuable; of which, seeds are significantly important. Grape seeds, as byproduct of grape processing, contain valuable substances for the production of advanced oils as well as feeds. Therefore, the major aim of this study was to assess moisture sorption isotherms of black grape seeds at various conditions. Materials and Methods: Moisture so...

The present work involves numerical simulation of a steady, incompressible forcedconvection fluid flow through a matrix of porous media between two parallel plates at constanttemperature. A Darcy model for the momentum equation was employed. The mathematical model forenergy transport was based on single phase equation model which assumes local thermal equilibriumbetween fluid and solid phases. ...

evaporation is a fundamental parameter in the hydrological cycle. this study examines the performance of m5model tree and artificial neural network (ann) models in estimating potential evapotranspiration calculated bypenman- monteith and hargreaves- samani equations. daily weather data from two meteorological stations in asemi-arid climate of iran, namely kerman and zahedan, were collected duri...

A model of the grain surface chemistry involving the accretion of atoms of two different elements, X and Y, and their reactions to form species X2, XY, and Y2 was examined for a wide range of choices for the values of its three free parameters – the accretion rate of X and Y, the desorption rate of X and the grain surface sweeping time of Y, all considered relative to the grain surface sweeping...

We study a sigmoidal version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system based on an analytic description using piecewise linear approximations of the reaction kinetics. We completely describe the dynamics of wave fronts and discuss the properties of the speed equation. The speed diagrams show front bifurcations between branches with one, three, or five fronts that differ significantly fro...

West Africa is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This paper analyzed the impacts of climate change on economic growth in Anglophone West Africa with similar background, during the periods 1969-2016. Five growth model equations have been developed to incorporate climate change variables into the model. Panel data estimations such as the fixed effect model, random effect model and Haus...

The present study is an attempt to find a solution for Volterra's Population Model by utilizing Spectral methods based on Rational Christov functions. Volterra's model is a nonlinear integro-differential equation. First, the Volterra's Population Model is converted to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE), then researchers solve this equation (ODE). The accuracy of method is tested i...

in this paper a new form of the homptopy perturbation method is used for solving oscillator differential equation, which yields the maclaurin series of the exact solution. nonlinear vibration problems and differential equation oscillations have crucial importance in all areas of science and engineering. these equations equip a significant mathematical model for dynamical systems. the accuracy o...