The primary scientific mission of the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) at accelerator Nuclotron-based Ion Collider facility (NICA) (Dubna) is to investigate properties strongly interacting matter high net-baryon densities. goal this work study performance MPD detector for directed and elliptic flow measurements identified hadrons by using realistic Monte Carlo simulations heavy-ion collisions energ...

In this chapter we review recent advances in theoretical methods to understand and rationalize anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy (IR-MPD and IR-PD) and collision induced dissociations (CID) in the gas phase. We focused our attention on the application of molecular dynamics-based methods. DFT-based molecular dynamics was shown to be able to reproduce InfraRed Multi-Photon Dissociation (IR-MPD)...

Increasing manufacturing competition has necessitated simultaneous design of multiple products. Various design strategies such as Design for Variety (DfV) and product family design have become critical in this respect. This paper provides a new generic approach, which combines aspects of function architecting, multi-objective optimization, and multi agent systems to tackle product platform prob...

As building structures frequently collapse and cause losses of lives and properties, due to excessive vibrations induced during earthquake periods, it is crucial to reduce the structural vibrations. This paper develops a Lyapunov-based controller for Magnetorheological (MR) dampers embedded in building structures to mitigate quake-induced vibrations. In this work, MR dampers are used as semi-ac...

MPD (presented in Gregory Andrews’ book about Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming[1]) is the successor of SR[2] (“synchronizing resources”), a PASCAL–style language enhanced with constructs for concurrent programming developed at the University of Arizona in the late 1980s[3]. MPD as implemented provides the same language primitives as SR with a different syntax ...

MPD (presented in Gregory Andrews’ book about Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming[1]) is the successor of SR[2] (“synchronizing resources”), a PASCAL–style language enhanced with constructs for concurrent programming developed at the University of Arizona in the late 1980s[3]. MPD as implemented provides the same language primitives as SR with a different syntax ...

Innovative magnetorheological dampers (MR dampers) for shock and vibration damping, based on magnetorheological fluids (MRFs), are described. Important fields of their application are loading processes, impact dampers in security systems as well as vibration dampers for machines and cars. Various models for describing the MR dampers are discussed. The characteristic feature of the MR dampers is...

Seismic excitation can cause significant energy to be released within structures. By using special devices, this consumed and dissipated without deforming structural members significantly. Due this, damage is minimized, casualties are prevented during earthquakes, structures extended in their useful life. Over the past five decades, it has been widely acknowledged that steel yielding dampers am...

We present a novel micro-heat pipe wick design and fabrication technique to significantly boost the effective thermal conductivity of the heat pipe relative to the monolithic substrate material. Extensive porous flow modeling of the process has provided critical information on the key parameters and the resulting anisotropic wick designs have shown robust performance improvements. A methanol ch...