Hybrid technical systems combine discrete-state event-driven and continuous-state time-driven behavior. In this contribution, a general modeling formalism for such systems is proposed. The discrete subsystem is represented by an interpreted Petri net. In addition to external continuous inputs, discrete variables dependent on the net marking aaect the continuous subsystem which is a time-driven ...

A suspension of wastewater and treatment organisms in an aerated tank is known as the activated sludge process. The activated sludge process can be used for onsite wastewater treatment, generally requiring the addition of an air pump to deliver oxygen to the system and provide mixing energy. Suspended growth treatment systems can be secondary only (require supplemental primary treatment) or com...

This paper presents a qualitative control of a fluid mixer, which is a multivariable and intrinsically non-linear plant. The mixer has as inputs two fluids of different colours and the output is the colour of the resulting mix. The control system consists of two independent fuzzy controllers which are responsible for maintaining the water level at a given height and for adjusting the colour of ...

This paper proposes the adaptation of Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) to the multiple kernel case (MK-SVDD), based on SimpleMKL. It also introduces a variant called Slim-MK-SVDD that is able to produce a tighter frontier around the data. For the sake of comparison, the equivalent methods are also developed for One-Class SVM, known to be very similar to SVDD for certain shapes of kernels....

Impact of the satellite data assimilation on the naval undersea capability is investigated using the ocean hydrographic data without and with satellite data assimilation. The former is the Navy’s Global Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) providing the monthly mean; and the latter is the Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS) proving the synoptic data. The two environmental datasets are ...

This paper presents a numerical analysis for complex 3D simulations of the Stirred Tank Reactor (STR) model by a modified discrete projection method (DPM) for rotating incompressible flow. For several prototypical configurations of the STR model, we examine the multigrid behaviour for the arising momentum and pressure Poisson subproblems for different values of the time step, the angular veloci...

Tomographic particle image velocimetry measurements of homogeneous isotropic turbulence that have been made in a large mixing tank facility at Cambridge are analysed in order to characterize thin highly sheared regions that have been observed. The results indicate that such regions coincide with regions of high enstrophy, dissipation and stretching. Large velocity jumps are observed across the ...

Approximately 20% of the mineral coal ash (MCA) generated worldwide, during combustion this fossil fuel, has been used to produce Portland cement. Other applications include soil improvement, ceramic industry, catalysis, and an application with special interest for work which is synthesis zeolites. A hospital effluent clarification system was developed using MCA as adsorbent substances responsi...

The flux through the interface between a mixing layer and a stable layer plays a fundamental role in characterizing and forecasting the quality of water in stratified lakes and in the oceans, and the quality of air in the atmosphere. The evolution of the mixing layer in a stably stratified fluid body is simulated in the laboratory when “Penetrative Convection” occurs. The laboratory model consi...

Herbicide plays the main role in guaranteeing the quantity and quality of food. Soybean reactive oxygen species scavenging system eliminates the herbicides’ side effects on the plant by activating antioxidant enzymes, which affects the yield. So, we investigated this procedure to reveal the effect of herbicides on food production. Methods: Experiments were carried out in two locations of Alborz...