Showing papers in "Ain Shams Engineering Journal in 2015"

TL;DR: An overview of the work and studies done on the incorporation of wood ash as partial replacement of concrete from the year 1991 to 2012 is presented in this paper, where the authors discuss the aspects of Wood Ash such as its physical, chemical, mineralogical and elemental characteristics as well as the influence of Wood ash on properties such as workability, water absorption, compressive strength, flexural rigidity test, split tensile test, bulk density, chloride permeability, freeze thaw and acid resistance of concrete have been discussed in detail.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the main challenges facing the sustainable development of Egypt is the need for better management of its limited fresh water resources, which is addressed by using remote sensing and GIS.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of bio-diesel on a diesel engine when compared to diesel and evolves conclusions with respect to performance and emissions are evaluated, even though the performance reduces slightly when the engine is fueled with biodiesel, significant changes in the combustion parameters observed in case of biodiesel blends are significant to note.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess various combinations of materials using BIM and identify alternative, sustainable solutions to reduce operational energy consumption in a double story bungalow house in Johor, Malaysia.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Modified Integral Derivative (MID) controller is proposed for load frequency control (LFC) of multi-area multi-source power system in deregulated environment.

TL;DR: This survey characterizes the benefits and shortcomings of recent efforts of image compression algorithms over WMSN; and provides an open research issue for each compression method; and its potentials to WMSN.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new Matlab/Simulink model of a PV module and a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) system for high efficiency InGaP/InGaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cell.

TL;DR: Various solution methods for solving the RPP problem are extensively reviewed which are generally categorized into analytical approaches, arithmetic programming approaches, and meta-heuristic optimization techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical network process (ANP) is integrated with Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (in Serbian) (VIKOR) to evaluate the optimum blend.

TL;DR: In this paper, the change of informal settlements upgrading strategies in Egypt starting from negligence to contemporary participatory development approaches and housing policies aimed at providing affordable shelter to the urban poor is mapped.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the analysis for the selection of the best type of DG unit among different categories and its optimal location that can enhance the voltage stability of distribution network with simultaneous improvement in voltage profile.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a fluid over a stretching sheet in the presence of viscous dissipation and heat source.

TL;DR: In this article, a fault detection and classification scheme for transmission line protection using WT and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is proposed for both single circuit and double circuit transmission line.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied three fundamental flows namely Couette, Poiseuille and generalized Couette flows of an incompressible Casson fluid between parallel plates using slip boundary conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Differential Evolution (DE) optimized fuzzy PID controller with derivative filter (PIDF) is proposed for load frequency control (LFC) of a deregulated power system with multi-source power generation and interconnected via parallel AC/DC transmission links.

TL;DR: In this paper, Akbari-Ganji's method was used to solve a nonlinear differential equation with fractional power, which is simpler and more accurate than series method such as HPM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of mixed convective heat and mass transfer flow along a wavy surface in a Darcy porous medium are presented in the presence of cross diffusion effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a robust fractional order PI λ D controller that contains an integral fraction action and a simple filtered derivative action, is investigated on Automatic Generation Control (AGC) of a three areas reheat-thermal system.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of various flow param- eters entering into the problem such as Hartmann number, rarefaction parameter, fluid-wall inter-action parameter and wall-ambient temperature difference ratio are discussed with the aid of line graphs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the control volume based finite element method (CVFEM) to simulate the natural convection heat transfer of Cu-water nanofluid in an annulus enclosure.

TL;DR: In this article, a new formulation based on the derivative of maximum power with respect to current is proposed for fuel cell parameter extraction, which has various features such as faster convergence, higher efficiency and accuracy.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of various flow parameters on the temperature and velocity profiles together with the influence of the velocity slip and temperature jump on the rate of heat transfer and the skin friction are presented and discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors dealt with the laminar flow of a viscous fluid and heat transfer analysis due to a porous stretching/shrinking cylinder with partial slip condition, where flow equations corresponding to momentum and energy equations are transformed into a set of highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations by means of similarity transformations, which are then, solved numerically using Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method.

TL;DR: In this paper, two almost unexplored non-conventional optimization techniques, i.e., gravitational search algorithm (GSA) and fireworks algorithm (FWA), are applied for parametric optimization of USM processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a genetic algorithm was applied to determine good variable shape parameters of radial basis functions for the solution of ordinary differential equations. And the proposed algorithm based on the genetic optimization is effective and provides reasonable shape parameters along with acceptable accuracy in linear and nonlinear case compared with other strategies to determine variable shape parameter.

TL;DR: In this article, the comparative performance of three proposed schemes of coupled building control involving Magnetorheological (MR) damper and elastomeric base isolation, named as, Semiactive, Hybrid 1 and Hybrid 2, was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a user friendly approach based on homotopy analysis transform method to solve a time-fractional nonlinear shock wave equation arising in the flow of gases.

TL;DR: This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm named as Cuckoo Search algorithm applied to non-convex economic load dispatch problems and seems to be a promising technique to solve realistic dispatch problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-Darcy drag force model is employed to simulate the effects of linear porous media drag and second order Forchheimer drag in boundary layer flow of a vis- coelastic Jeffrey fluid from a permeable isothermal sphere embedded in a porous medium.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of heat and mass transfer on two-dimensional unsteady MHD free convection flow past a vertical porous plate in a porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation under the influence of Dufour and Soret effects were dealt with.