Turbomachinery disks are heavy, highly stressed components used in gas turbines. Improved design of turbomachinery disks could yield a significant reduction in engine weight. This paper focuses on rapid low fidelity design and optimization of isotropic and transversely isotropic disks. Discussion includes the development of a one dimensional plane stress model, disk parameterization methods, an...

a new method derived by salem et al. (2004) for interpretation of gravity and magnetic anomalies is used to determine the depth and shape factor of the gravity anomalies. the depth and shape factor of some rectangular prisms as synthetic models are estimated using the method. the gravity effects of the models are contaminated with some random noise and then the parameters of the models are extr...

Fifty years ago Warren and Root have introduced the shape factor. This fundamental parameter for modeling of naturally fractured reservoirs has been discussed stormily ever since. Different definitions for shape factor have been suggested which all of them are heuristically based. Recently, Heinemann and Mittermeir mathematically derived - based on the dual-continuum theorem assuming pseudo-ste...

We extend the notion of shape-Wilf-equivalence to vincular patterns (also known as “generalized patterns” or “dashed patterns”). First we introduce a stronger equivalence on patterns which we call filling-shape-Wilfequivalence. When vincular patterns α and β are filling-shape-Wilf-equivalent, we prove that α⊕ σ and β ⊕ σ must also be filling-shape-Wilf-equivalent. We also discover two new pairs...

The brainstem, critical for motor function, autonomic regulation, and many neurocognitive functions, undergoes rapid development from the third trimester. Accordingly, we hypothesized it would be vulnerable to insult during this period, and that a difficult clinical course in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) would affect development, and be reflected through atypical shape. Our study pop...

Abstract: Problems such as the difficulty of the selection of processing parameters and the large quantity of experimental work exist in the morphological evolutions of Semisolid Metal (SSM) processing. In order to deal with these existing problems, and to identify the effect of the processing parameters, (i.e. shearing rate-time-temperature) combinations on particle size and shape factor, ...

in the present paper, the deformation zone of the ecae (equal channel angular extrusion) process was investigated using the upper bound theorem. for this purpose, the shape of the streamlines in the deformation zone was assumed to be cubic bezier curves. then, the force required for the ecae process was optimized with regard to the parameters defining the shape of streamlines by the upper bound...

Roasting is the most common way for pistachio nuts processing, and the purpose of that was to increase the products total acceptability. Purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of temperature (90, 120 and 150°C), time (20, 35 and 50 min), and roasting air velocity (0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 m/s) on geometrical attributes of pistachio nuts and kernels including principle dimensions, shape fac...

investigating downstream changes in bed load shape can be useful to detect watershedhydrological processes and it is very important to design hydraulic structures and to managecapacity of large storage dams, properly. regarding to doing of enforcement studies, thisresearch was conducted in qalesar river in upstream of chahardangeh watershed in mazandaranprovince. after recognition of the study ...

Vector quantization is an eecient lossy digital signal compression method. It encodes a k-dimensional vector by a reference in a dictionary { or code-book { of representative vectors called codewords. Mean-shape-gain vector quantizers (MSGVQ) encode separately the mean and the length { or gain { of the vector, using two scalar quantizers. The mean-removed, normalized vector is called the shape,...