Due to developments in additive manufacturing, the production of piezoelectric materials with complex geometries is becoming viable and enabling the manufacturing of thicker harvesters. Therefore, in this study a piezoelectric harvesting device is modelled as a bimorph cantilever beam with a series connection and an intermediate metallic substrate using the plain strain hypothesis. On the other...

in this paper geometry optimization of two ionic complexes such as cr042-gly+1, and mo042- gly+i have been carried out at the hf and b3lyp levels oftheory with 6-31g* basis set in the gas phase. moreover, chemical shift andnatural bond of orbital (nbo) of these compounds have been obtainedusing nmr and nbo methods. finally, the obtained theoretical results werecompared with each other.

This study presents an optimization problem for shape design of a 2-D radiant enclosure with transparent medium and gray-diffuse surfaces. The aim of the design problem is to find the optimum geometry of a radiant enclosure from the knowledge of temperature and heat flux over some parts of boundary surface, namely the design surface. The solution of radiative heat transfer is based on the net r...

  In the present study, the effect of stirring speed and the type of cross linking agent on the size and formation of microencapsulated Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) oil were investigated. The gelatin/gum Arabic was used for encapsulating and the capsules were prepared by complex coacervation. Microcapsules were analyzed by optical microscopy technique and particle size analyzer. Re...

One alternative energy source is thermoelectric which able to convert waste heat into electricity. However, research on thermoelectrics still needs a lot of development, especially module design. Therefore, optimization based the design was carried out using computer simulation. parameters that can be used for analysis maximum output power thought increased through cross-sectional area, length,...

Meta-heuristic algorithms are applied in optimization problems in a variety of fields, including engineering, economics, and computer science. In this paper, seven population-based meta-heuristic algorithms are employed for size and geometry optimization of truss structures. These algorithms consist of the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm, Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm, Cuckoo Search algori...