Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA; Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA; Divisions of Human Biology and Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA; Department of Microbiology and De...

A theoretical investigation of local scour downstream of grade-control structures based on two-dimensional jet diffusion and particle stability is experimentally verified. Turbulent jet diffusion reduces fluid velocity near the bed particles and equilibrium scour is obtained when noncohesive bed particles cannot be removed from the scour hole. Equilibrium scour depth is written as a function of...

the objective in this study was to assess the performance of the control algorithms and determine the appropriate controller for aghili irrigation network. to evaluate the efficiency of the control algorithms, the performance criteria of the maximum absolute error, integral absolute error and steady state error were considered during the simulations of a one month period and with regard to the ...

This paper presents a method to design efficient automatic controllers for an irrigation canal pool, that realize a compromise between the water resource management and the performance in terms of rejecting unmeasured perturbations. This mixed controller design is casted into the H∞ optimization framework, and experimentally tested on a real canal located in Portugal. The experimental results s...

background: groundwater is the most important source of water supply in industries and agricultures; therefore the need to protect this valuable resource against pollution is felt more than ever. in this study, the possible impact of yazd municipal solid waste landfill was investigated on the chemical quality of the area’s groundwater. methods: groundwater samples were collected from three well...