A design process that included high and low fidelity modeling integrated through Kriging-based fits of the high fidelity results was developed and demonstrated on conventional and oblique wing designs. Additional design variables are required when higher fidelity models are introduced, and rather than sub-optimize the design (for example using additional design variables to minimize drag), the ...

Solubilization of sewage sludge creates favorable conditions for anaerobic microorganisms to produce biogas. In this paper, we quantify the effect of heating pretreatment on the degree of solubilization of sewage sludge. The pretreatment process was carried out using a lab-scale industrial microwave unit (2450 MHz frequency). Response surface analysis was applied to determine the combination of...

in design of experiments, analysis and identifying those variables that affect the outputs are of interest. response surface methodology is a mathematical-statistical method to optimize the experiment outputs. this method tries to find the best response levels by optimizing the design variables called factors. in many engineering applications, robust design has become the most important issues....

conclusions the results of this study show that it is possible to remove nitrate, and its intermediates from waste water. regarding the desirability of the process, the field scale study is proposed. results the results showed that by applying electric current of 0.14 a for 120 minutes, the nitrate content would reduce down to 97%. the obtained r2 for the nitrate removal model was higher than 0...

Articular cartilage is a low-friction white connective tissue. The only cell type in articular are chondrocytes. They permit smooth articulation cartilage. have insufficient regenerative capacity. Response surface methodology very useful tool for the modelling of any processes using polynomials. This study investigated depth-dependent chondrocyte area from bovine Confocal microscope was utilize...

the photocatalytic activity of nano-bi2o3 was evaluated in degradation of rhodamine b (rhb) as a model of dye pollutant from waste waters. nano sized bi2o3 was synthesized using the chemical precipitation method. the as-prepared sample was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and fourier transform infrared spectrometry (ft-ir). structural analysis reveale...

this study investigates removing ash and pyrite sulphur from bitumen by column flotation process. central composite design (ccd) of response surface methodology (rsm) was applied for modeling and optimization of the percentage of ash and pyrite sulphur removal from bitumen. the effects of five parameters namely the amounts of collector and frother agents, particle size, wash water rate and feed...

production of several yeast products occur in presence of mixtures of monosaccharides. to study effect of xylose and glucose mixtures with system aeration and nitrogen source as the other two operative variables on xylitol production by pichia guilliermondii, the present work was defined. artificial neural network (ann) strategy was used to athematically show interplay between these three contr...

this paper was aimed to address the modeling of effective thermal conductivity and viscosity of carbon structured nanofluids. response surface methodology, d_optimal design (dod) was employed to assess the main and interactive effects of temperature (t) and weight percentage (wt %) to model effective thermal conductivity and viscosity of multi wall and single wall carbon nanotube, cvd and rgo g...