Showing papers in "Ain Shams Engineering Journal in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel approach to determine the optimal location and sizing of Distribution Generation (DG) and Distribution STATic COMpensator (DSTATCOM) is analyzed, and the objective function is formulated for minimizing power loss, operational costs and voltage profile enhancement of the system subjected to equality and in equality constraints.

TL;DR: A multi-objective technique for optimally determining the location and sizing of multiple distributed generation units in the distribution network with different load models and the loss sensitivity factor (LSF) determines the optimal placement of DGs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of metakaolin (MK) substituted granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) on the early strength of geopolymer mortars (GPMs) for potential repair applications was reported.

TL;DR: An extensive and in-depth literature study on current techniques for disaster prediction, detection and management has been done and the results are summarized according to various types of disasters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of two different control techniques applied to high performance brushless DC motor, i.e., self-tuning fuzzy PID controller and model reference adaptive control (MRAC) with PID compensator.

TL;DR: In this paper, a boundary layer analysis is carried out to study the influences of second order slip, viscous and Ohmic dissipations on steady two dimensional, incompressible flow of water based nanofluid over a stretching/stretching sheet embedded in a thermally stratified porous medium with inertia effect in the presence of magnetic field.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the theoretical study of the steady two-dimensional MHD convective boundary layer flow of a Casson fluid over an exponentially inclined permeable stretching surface in the presence of thermal radiation and chemical reaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new mathematical model for investigating the momentum and heat transfer behavior of Jeffrey, Maxwell and Oldroyd-B nanofluids over a stretching surface in the presence of transverse magnetic field, non-uniform heat source/sink, thermal radiation and suction effects.

TL;DR: Teaching Learning Based Optimization method (TLBO) is hybridized with Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm for successful estimation of unknown PEMFC model parameters, and this algorithm surpasses all these optimizers in terms of solution quality and accuracy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach to determine the optimal location and sizing of capacitor is being analyzed and the objective function is formulated to minimize power losses and voltage profile of the system subjected to equality and inequality constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the momentum and heat transfer behavior of MHD nanofluid embedded with conducting dust particles past a stretching surface in the presence of volume fraction of dust particles.

TL;DR: In this article, a new powerful evolutionary algorithm called backtracking search algorithm (BSA) was introduced for solving load frequency control (LFC) problem in power system and the performance was compared with craziness based PSO technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, several homogenous Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) were developed to forecast droughts using the Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI, at short-medium term.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new Shark Smell Optimization (SSO) algorithm is proposed to solve the optimal capacitor placement problem satisfying the operating constraints, which uses a momentum incorporated gradient search and a rotational movement based local search for optimization.

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid Fuzzy C-Means and Neutrosophic approach is used for segmenting jaw image and detecting the jaw lesion region in panoramic X-ray images which may help in diagnosing jaw lesions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the heat and mass transfer in Carreau fluid flow over a permeable stretching sheet with convective slip conditions in the presence of applied magnetic field, nonlinear thermal radiation, cross diffusion and suction/injection effects.

TL;DR: The proposed DESA reduces the number of dead nodes than Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) by 70%, Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA), modified HSA by 40% and differential evolution by 60%.

TL;DR: The methodology is established as a work flow domain model between the utility and the user considering the smart grid framework and exhibits an algorithm which schedules load usage by creating several possible tariffs for consumers such that demand is never raised.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the interaction between lean and sustainability principles on the management process of design and construction projects, and proposed guidelines for AEC companies to help in applying the integrated lean and sustainable principles on managing design processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of TCSC in tie-line power exchange is modeled mathematically based on the Taylor series expansion for small-signal load disturbance, and the performance of the proposed TCSC controller in coordination with integral AGC is compared with cases of TCPS-AGC and SSSC−AGC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of magnetohydrodynamic flow and heat transfer of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting dusty fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet is analyzed numerically.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of diffusion thermo, radiation absorption and chemical reaction on MHD free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a nanofluid bounded by a semi-infinite flat plate are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, Boron Carbide (B4C) ceramic particles are reinforced with Ti-6Al-4V through powder metallurgy route (PM) so as to analyse the effect of reinforcements on mechanical, corrosion and wear properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of heat generating and absorbing fluid on fully developed mixed convection flow in a vertical micro-concentric-annulus (MCA) taking into account the velocity slip and temperature jump at the outer surface of inner cylinder and inner surface of outer cylinder was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach for optimal placement of D-STATCOM in mesh distribution systems using sensitivity approaches is proposed, and the results of voltage profile improvement, reduction in power losses and reduction in cost of energy loss are obtained for UK 38 bus practical mesh distribution system.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed investigation of two-dimensional mixed convection flow of non-Newtonian fluid due to convectively heated stretching sheet in the presence of dust particles is conducted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated optimal values of various decision variables that simultaneously optimize power output, thermal efficiency and ecological function using evolutionary algorithm based on NSGA-II and obtained Pareto optimal frontier between triple and dual objectives.

TL;DR: This study presents an efficient algorithm for optimization of balanced and unbalanced radial distribution systems by a network reconfiguration and capacitor placement that is slightly higher than or similar to other meta-heuristic algorithms.

TL;DR: A new multi-focus image fusion method based on saliency detection and multi-scale image decomposition, which requires considerably less computational time, thus making it preferable for real time implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, a new approximate solution of time-fractional order multi-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation is obtained by adopting a semi-analytical scheme: "Fractional Reduced Differential Transformation Method (FRDTM)".