case study in financial modeling and simulation of a forestry investment

... watering  Maintenance:- weed control, fertilizing, pruning and thinning, fire and pest protection  Inflows:wood; commercial thinning, final harvest non-wood; flora gathering, recreation, land ... Evaluation Criteria The Land Expectation Value(LEV) model is applied in preference to the NPV model Key Parameters in Forestry Models Establishment:- land, land preparation, plant stock, planting, ... usage and fashion changes  Sovereign risk: regulatory changes, taxation changes, uncertain harvest rights Predicting Cash Flows The key growth indicator is the Mean Annual Increment 20 Years of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... the two softwares This Chapter will describe the software modeling in detail, and provide validation results of the MATLAB/ADAMS model against the ADVISOR simulation data 4.1 MATLAB/Simulink Model ... simulation results obtained from the MATLAB/ADAMS simulation platform and ADVISOR will be presented Chapter will contain comparative analysis of hybrid and conventional vehicle simulation based ... (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) called ADVISOR (Advanced Vehicle Simulator), which was later acquired by AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc ADVISOR is a software based on MATLAB/Simulink...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2016, 13:02

... biomass consumption rate, the airflow rate can be calculated using global mass balance of produced gas, total air, wet biomass and ash For a given input of gas flow rate at gasifier exit and airflow ... functions as a function of temperature are obtained from NASA fits on JANAF Tables data [27] Similarly, heat absorption in reduction zone has been obtained using heats of formation of the reactants and ... of magnitudes [6] Non-equilibrium approaches use char conversion as a surface phenomena describing by char reactivity and global reactions of char–gas and gas–gas reactions An effective global...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 09:53

... degradation of PVA was applied to enzymatic degradation of polylactic acid (PLA), and the degradability of PVA and PLA was compared [17] Dependence of degradation rate on time was considered in study ... (in Japanese) Watanabe, M and Kawai, F (2003) Numerical simulation for enzymatic degradation of poly(vinyl alcohol) Polym Degrad Stab., 81 (3), 393–399 Watanabe, M and Kawai, F (2006) Mathematical ... biodegradability of polyethylene wax by bacteria and fungi Polym Degrad Stab., 86, 105–114 Watanabe, M., Kawai, F., Shibata, M., Yokoyama, S., Sudate, Y., and Hayashi, S (2004) Analytical and computational...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 08:20

... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, and a living, related donor renal transplant ... remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin ... mother) was subsequently performed After the transplant, Mrs A remained well and maintained good kidney function on a combination of anti-rejection drugs, steroids and blood pressure tablets At age...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... Government of India, in 2001 He is a regular visiting fellow at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada He has many national and international research collaborations in the area of modeling and simulations, ... colleagues Anand Sinha, Gaurav Rana, Himanshu Vijay, and Ashish Chandiok for all their help I am thankful to Jessica Vakili and Amber Donley, project coordinators; Nora Konopka, publisher of engineering ... modeling and simulation methodologies, and software engineering at the postgraduate (MTech) level and guided me during my MTech and PhD in the area of modeling and simulation He is the fountain...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 10:55

... layer, architecture model layer, and the mapping layer which is an interface between application and architecture models THE SESAME APPROACH The Sesame modeling and simulation environment facilitates ... than using the traces as input to an architecture simulator, their traces are analyzed statically In addition, a traditional hardware/software cosimulation stage is required in order to generate ... well as that of SCPEx) differs from the popular SystemC language in a number of important aspects Pearl, implementing the messagepassing mechanism, abstracts away the concept of ports and Cagkan...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... research [10] in that there was an overlapping subdomain between the continuum and molecular domains Indeed, the molecular and continuum domains are attached with each other via the interfaces Gint ... kinetic variables of a virtual atom are evaluated from eight nodes located at vertices of the metal paddle Fig The schematic diagram of virtual atoms/bonds at the interface 123 At the beginning ... beginning of a multiscale simulation, the metal paddle is given an initial angle of twist Therefore, the displacements of atoms at the continuum/ molecular interfaces and virtual atoms can be determined...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... distributions such that identical types of forces are parallel and are related in magnitude by a constant scale factor at all corresponding points, the models are said to be dynamically similar, i.e., they ... two colliding particles i and j , normal to the line of impact, a balance of linear momentum relating the states before impact (time = t) and after impact (time = t + δt) reads as mi vin (t) + ... [111] for a more detailed analytical treatment Qualitatively, the coefficient of restitution has behavior as shown in Figure 2.4 A mathematical idealization of the behavior can be constructed as def...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... Farhat and coworkers (Piperno et al [163], Farhat et al [65], Lesoinne and Farhat [130], Farhat and Lesoinne [66], Piperno and Farhat [164], and Farhat et al [67]) Remark It is important to realize ... Remark In the upcoming simulations, the classical random sequential addition algorithm was used to place nonoverlapping particles into the computational domain (Widom [200]) This algorithm was adequate ... transition to a vibrating ensemble This transition can be qualitatively examined by recognizing that the governing equations are formally similar to classical, normalized, linear (or linearized) second-order...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... that interactive cooperative behavior within biological groups or swarms is advantageous in avoiding predators or, vice versa, in capturing prey For example, one of the primary advantages of a ... For example, in many processes, intentional charging and heating of particulates, such as those in inkjet printers, is critical Thus, in addition to the calculation of the dynamics of the particles ... simple and rapid for each individual; however, the aggregate behavior of the swarm can be quite sophisticated Although the modeling of swarm-like behavior has biological research origins, dating back...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... remains the same before and after impact In Figure 7.13, the impact of a cloud against an obstacle is shown.40 Let us focus on a particle impacting a massive obstacle M m (Figure 7.12) A balance ... direction Since a black-body is a perfect emitter, it serves as a standard against which the radiative properties of actual surfaces may be compared The Stefan–Boltzmann law, which is computed by integrating ... Farhat [130], Farhat and Lesoinne [66], Piperno and Farhat [163], and Farhat et al [67]) Generally speaking, if a recursive staggering process is not employed (an explicit scheme), the staggering...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... mechanical forces and heat transfer induced by the fluid on the particles and vice versa Because the coupling of the various particle and fluid fields can dramatically change over the course of a ... approximation) We remark that the validity of assuming a uniform temperature within a particle is dictated by the Biot number A small Biot number indicates that such an approximation is reasonable ... semi-analytical techniques, in particular methods that go beyond local analyses of flow in a single fluid gap, using discrete network approximations, which account for multiple hydrodynamic interactions,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... pertaining to scattering, see Bohren and Huffman [33] and van de Hulst [195] Remark An application of particular interest, where scattering calculations can play a supporting role, is the investigation ... “cross-sectional” area of the ray, ar , we obtain the energy associated with the ray, denoted as I ar = I ab /Nr , where ab is the cross-sectional area of a beam (comprising all of the rays) and Nr ... characteristics of the particulates, such as their reflectivity and volume fractions, are ascertained by the scattering of the rays In this chapter, a raytracing algorithm is developed and combined with a stochastic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... Experimentally speaking, thermal behavior can be a key indicator of the dynamical character of particulate flows For example, in Chung et al [45] and Shin et al [177], techniques for measuring flow characteristics ... particulate media Finally, in addition to a more detailed characterization of the particle geometry, in some cases transparent particle materials, accounting for refractive and dispersive rays traveling ... decade, understanding of the basic mechanisms involved in this process has initiated research efforts in both industry and academia For a review of CMP practice and applications, see Luo and Dornfeld...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... where particle interaction and aggregation is important is the formation of certain types of kidney stones, which start as an agglomeration “seed” of particulate materials, for example, combinations ... number of rays making up the beam and Io = ||I (0)|| is the magnitude of the initial irradiance at time t = The computational algorithm is given as Algorithm B.1, starting at t = and ending at t ... via standard rotational coordinate transformations, with random angles (Figure B.4) The classical random sequential addition algorithm (Widom [200]) is used to place nonoverlapping cells randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 01:21

... Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Programming AddisonWesley [143] Luo, L and Dornfeld, D A 2001 Material removal mechanism in chemical mechanical polishing: Theory and modeling IEEE Transactions: ... [113] Kaazempur-Mofrad, M R and Ethier, C R 2001 Mass transport in an anatomically realistic human right coronary artery Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol 29(2), 121–127 [114] Kaazempur-Mofrad, ... [106] Jaeger, H M and Nagel, S R 1997 Dynamics of granular material American Scientist, Vol 85, 540 [107] Jenkins, J T and Strack, O D L 1993 Mean-field inelastic behavior of random arrays of identical...

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