Dams have been always considered as the important infrastructures and their critical values are counted. Hence, evaluation and avoidance of dams’ destruction have a specific importance. Seepage occurrence in dams is an inevitable phenomenon. Despite all the progress in geotechnical engineering, up to now, seepage problem is the main conflict which occurs in dams. This study tried to estimate se...

This paper presents the use of artificial neural network for the estimation of different performance parameters (i.e. Directivity, Radiation Efficiency, Gain and Bandwidth) of a coaxial feed equilateral triangular microstrip patch antenna. Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithms of MLPFFBP-ANN (Multilayer Perceptron feed forward back propagation Artificial Neural Network) has been used to imple...

Objective(s): This study aims to evaluate and predict the thermal conductivity of iron oxide nanofluid at different temperatures and volume fractions by artificial neural network (ANN) and correlation using experimental data. Methods: Two-layer perceptron feedforward artificial neural network and backpropagation Levenberg-Marquardt (BP-LM) tra...

in this article, the effect of operating conditions, such as temperature, gas hourly space velocity (ghsv), ch4/o2 ratio and diluents gas (mol% n2) on ethylene production by oxidative coupling of methane (ocm) in a fixed bed reactor at atmospheric pressure was studied over mn/na2wo4/sio2 catalyst. based on the properties of neural networks, an artificial neural network was used for model develo...

The viscosities of aqueous two phase system containing bovine serum albumin (BSA) were predicted by artificial neural network (ANN) as a function of concentration of poly-ethylene-glycol (PEG), concentration of BSA and temperature. A three layer feed forward neural network based on Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm which consisted of three input neurons, 10 hidden neurons and one output neuron...

In-situ bioremediation is one of the most economic techniques for groundwater remediation. BIOPLUME III is used to simulate the transport and biodegradation of contaminant. During optimal design of bioremediation system, the simulated BIOPLUME III data for the entire aquifer is usually called several times by optimization algorithm to optimize the system. This is a very time consuming process a...

pomegranate is an important iranian-native fruit, with many varieties cultivated. although the volume of data on the importance of pomegranates in human nutrition has increased tremendously in the last years, the physical properties of the pomegranate fruit during fruit maturity have not yet been studied in detail. thus, the present study aimed to evaluate changes in physical characteristics of...

In this paper, a new method of bandwidth estimation using variation of slot length on interdigital band pass filter has been presented using artificial neural networks for desired frequency range between 1.7—2.5 GHz. Interdigital filter is multifinger periodic structure which offers compact filter design space. An ANN model has been developed and tested for estimating the cut off frequency of b...

in this study, activated sludge process for wastewater treatment in a refinery was investigated. for such purpose, a laboratory scale rig was built. the effect of several parameters such as temperature, residence time, effect of leca (filling-in percentage of the reactor by leca) and uv radiation on cod removal efficiency were experimentally examined. maximum cod removal efficiency was obtained...