The cross-stream migration of a deformable drop in two-dimensional Poiseuille flow at finite Reynolds numbers is studied numerically. In the limit of a small Reynolds number (<1), the motion of the drop depends strongly on the ratio of the viscosity of the drop fluid to the viscosity of the suspending fluid. For a viscosity ratio 0.125, the drop moves toward the centre of the channe while for t...

The present study proposes an algorithm to evaluate the fuzzy availability, reliability, steady state availability, and mean time to failure of a repairable parallel system which consists of three identical and independent components by using Markov model. This system fails when the three components fail or it goes to the critical case. The failure rate and the repair rate of each component is ...

The aim of this paper is the steady state and dynamic simulations of the ammonia unit of Shiraz petrochemical complex and system behavior study versus the feed flow rate change for producing a good quality product. The ammonia unit consists of the reformer units, shift converter units, carbon dioxide absorption unit, methanation unit, and ammonia synthesis unit. For this purpose, in the first s...

ABSTRACT This paper Study the reliability and availability characteristics of the system with PM and CCF. The failure times , replacement times, PM times and CCF times of a components are assumed to be exponentially distributed. We derive the mean time to failure( MTTF) and the steady state availability( ) in this system. Some Special cases have been studies theoretically and graphically to obs...

In this paper, we compare the availability characteristics between three different series system configurations with mixed (cold and warm) standby components and k-stage Erlang repair times. Three configurations are studied under the assumption that the time-to-failure for each of the operative and warm standby components are assumed to be exponentially distributed with parameters λ andα , resp...