Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the northern Iranian Plateau: insights from middle–late Miocene foreland‐basin deposits          下载免费PDF全文

Paolo Ballato  Francesca Cifelli  Ghasem Heidarzadeh  Mohammad R. Ghassemi  Andrew D. Wickert  Jamshid Hassanzadeh  Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet  Philipp Balling  Masafumi Sudo  Gerold Zeilinger  Axel K. Schmitt  Massimo Mattei  Manfred R. Strecker 《Basin Research》2017,29(4):417-446

Sedimentary basins in the interior of orogenic plateaus can provide unique insights into the early history of plateau evolution and related geodynamic processes. The northern sectors of the Iranian Plateau of the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone offer the unique possibility to study middle–late Miocene terrestrial clastic and volcaniclastic sediments that allow assessing the nascent stages of collisional plateau formation. In particular, these sedimentary archives allow investigating several debated and poorly understood issues associated with the long‐term evolution of the Iranian Plateau, including the regional spatio‐temporal characteristics of sedimentation and deformation and the mechanisms of plateau growth. We document that middle–late Miocene crustal shortening and thickening processes led to the growth of a basement‐cored range (Takab Range Complex) in the interior of the plateau. This triggered the development of a foreland‐basin (Great Pari Basin) to the east between 16.5 and 10.7 Ma. By 10.7 Ma, a fast progradation of conglomerates over the foreland strata occurred, most likely during a decrease in flexural subsidence triggered by rock uplift along an intraforeland basement‐cored range (Mahneshan Range Complex). This was in turn followed by the final incorporation of the foreland deposits into the orogenic system and ensuing compartmentalization of the formerly contiguous foreland into several intermontane basins. Overall, our data suggest that shortening and thickening processes led to the outward and vertical growth of the northern sectors of the Iranian Plateau starting from the middle Miocene. This implies that mantle‐flow processes may have had a limited contribution toward building the Iranian Plateau in NW Iran.  相似文献   

Planning versus youth: Stamping out spatial unruliness in Harare   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Amin Y. Kamete   《Geoforum》2008,39(5):1721-1733

The paper examines the illegal occupation and use of urban spaces by Harare’s youth and the ensuing tussles with the repressive machinery of the local authority and the nation-state. It analyses efforts by planning to contain rampant spatial unruliness. The paper maps the patterns of official hostile responses to the illegal activities of the youth whose daily routines inevitably entail the disregard of the spatial planning framework as reflected in existing legal and regulatory controls. The analysis reveals the reliance by the urban planning and management system on the use of force and violence, a feat made possible by the mobilisation of the repressive state apparatus. The discussion argues that what comes out in the relationship between the order-imposing planning system and the regulation-flouting youth is a situation that can largely be comprehended by turning to the non-progressive side of planning.  相似文献   

晴空回波的大气风温湿结构及双偏振雷达参量分析     

黄琴  魏鸣  胡汉峰  ABRO Mohammad Ilyas 《气象》2018,44(4):526-537

晴空回波有助于认识大气的风温湿结构,双偏振多普勒天气雷达为探测晴空大气提供了丰富信息。本文以2015年夏季南京信息工程大学C波段双偏振雷达探测的晴空回波为例,结合探空资料分析大气风温湿结构及晴空回波的影响因素,分析了晴空大气的反射率因子Z、径向速度Vr以及差分反射率因子ZDR回波特征。研究表明:大气温、压、湿梯度造成折射指数分布不均以及背景风场引起的湍流增强,均可造成晴空回波,其回波机理为湍流散射;差分反射率因子受到多普勒效应的影响;在风场及大气湍团干湿特性不同的情况下,晴空回波的差分反射率因子呈现不同的特征。研究结果有益于深入认识大气风温湿结构特征对雷达电磁波的散射的影响以及雷达资料质量控制。  相似文献   

Improved Minimum Miscibility Pressure Prediction for Gas Injection Process in Petroleum Reservoir     

Mohammad Reza Tarybakhsh  Mehdi Assareh  Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi  Ali Ahmadi 《Natural Resources Research》2018,27(4):517-529

Determination of gas–oil minimum miscibility conditions is one of the important design parameters to improve the displacement efficiency of the hydrocarbon reservoir during enhanced oil recovery with gas injection. In this work, a support vector regression (SVR) model is developed using experimental data to estimate the minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) for various reservoir fluids and injection gases. Experimental MMP data taken from the reliable literature were used as input. Each data point input includes methane and intermediate components mole percent, plus fraction properties and reservoir temperature related to reservoir fluid and CO₂, H₂S, N₂ and intermediate mole fractions, and intermediate properties of the injected gas. Experimental MMP is regarded as the model output. The database contains 135 datasets, from which 125 datasets were used for model development, and the rest were used for model evaluation. Genetic algorithm was implemented to optimize the SVR model parameters. The proposed data-driven model was verified by statistical validation data. The model results illustrate a correlation coefficient (R²) of 0.999. In addition, the SVR results demonstrate the proposed model to be a fast tool and a robust approach to map input space to output features. The SVR model was compared to popular data-driven MMP estimation models as well. This comparison presents an acceptable accuracy relative to this estimation model. Finally, the presented model was evaluated against a comprehensive theoretical model of slim tube compositional simulation on a trusted literature dataset.  相似文献   

Parameter estimation of copula functions using an optimization-based method     

Amin?AbdiEmail author  Yousef?Hassanzadeh  Siamak?Talatahari  Ahmad?Fakheri-Fard  Rasoul?Mirabbasi 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2017,129(1-2):21-32

Application of the copulas can be useful for the accurate multivariate frequency analysis of hydrological phenomena. There are many copula functions and some methods were proposed for estimating the copula parameters. Since the copula functions are mathematically complicated, estimating of the copula parameter is an effortful work. In the present study, an optimization-based method (OBM) is proposed to obtain the parameters of copulas. The usefulness of the proposed method is illustrated on drought events. For this purpose, three commonly used copulas of Archimedean family, namely, Clayton, Frank, and Gumbel copulas are used to construct the joint probability distribution of drought characteristics of 60 gauging sites located in East-Azarbaijan province, Iran. The performance of OBM was compared with two conventional methods, namely, method of moments and inference function for margins. The results illustrate the supremacy of the OBM to estimate the copula parameters compared to the other considered methods.  相似文献   

Sensitivity analysis of monthly reference crop evapotranspiration trends in Iran: a qualitative approach     

Mosaedi  Abolfazl  Ghabaei Sough  Mohammad  Sadeghi  Sayed-Hossein  Mooshakhian  Yousof  Bannayan  Mohammad 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2017,128(3-4):857-873

Theoretical and Applied Climatology - The main objective of this study was to analyze the sensitivity of the monthly reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) trends to key climatic factors (minimum...  相似文献   

An intelligent spatial land use planning support system using socially rational agents     

Seyed Morsal Ghavami  Mohammad Taleai  Theo Arentze 《International journal of geographical information science》2017,31(5):1022-1041

This research presents an intelligent planning support system based on multi-agent systems for spatial urban land use planning. The proposed system consists of two main phases: a pre-negotiation phase and an automated negotiation phase. The pre-negotiation phase involves interaction between human actors and intelligent software agents in order to elicit the actors’ social preferences. The agents employ social value orientation theory, which is rooted in social psychology, in order to model actors’ social preferences. The automated negotiation phase involves negotiation among autonomous software agents, the aim being to achieve consensus about the spatial problem on behalf of the relevant actors and using the information obtained.

This study employs a computationally effective Bayesian learning technique, along with social value orientation theory, to design socially rational intelligent agents who work on behalf of real actors. The proposed system is applied to a real world urban land use planning case study. Human actors participate in a pre-negotiation phase, and their social preferences are elicited by intelligent software agents through a number of interactions. Then, software agents come together to engage in an automated negotiation phase and eventually reach an agreement on the spatial configuration of urban land uses on behalf of the actors. The results of the study show that the proposed system is effective at performing an automated negotiation, plus that the final plan – which is the output of the automated negotiation – produces higher social utility and better spatial land use configurations for the agents.  相似文献   

Development Optimization and Uncertainty Analysis Methods for Oil and Gas Reservoirs     

Amin Ettehadtavakkol  Christopher Jablonowski  Larry Lake 《Natural Resources Research》2017,26(2):177-190

Uncertainty complicates the development optimization of oil and gas exploration and production projects, but methods have been devised to analyze uncertainty and its impact on optimal decision-making. This paper compares two methods for development optimization and uncertainty analysis: Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and stochastic programming. Two example problems for a gas field development and an oilfield development are solved and discussed to elaborate the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Development optimization involves decisions regarding the configuration of initial capital investment and subsequent operational decisions. Uncertainty analysis involves the quantification of the impact of uncertain parameters on the optimum design concept. The gas field development problem is designed to highlight the differences in the implementation of the two methods and to show that both methods yield the exact same optimum design. The results show that both MC optimization and stochastic programming provide unique benefits, and that the choice of method depends on the goal of the analysis. While the MC method generates more useful information, along with the optimum design configuration, the stochastic programming method is more computationally efficient in determining the optimal solution. Reservoirs comprise multiple compartments and layers with multiphase flow of oil, water, and gas. We present a workflow for development optimization under uncertainty for these reservoirs, and solve an example on the design optimization of a multicompartment, multilayer oilfield development.  相似文献   

Gas-Phase Chemistry of the Star Forming Region W3 IRS4     

Magdy Y. Amin 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,260(3):405-420

We have followed the chemistry of W3 IRS4, as one of the most famous regions with a chemistry similar to that found in quiescent molecular clouds. Here the time scale, since star formation, has probably been long enough for the gas-phase ion-molecule chemistry to become dominant again. We have constructed a reaction system containing the chemical families of H, C, O, N, S and metals (Me:Fe, Mg, Na and Si). A total of 282 species have been included and a network of 1270 reactions has been used. The chemical kinetic equations were integrated as a function of pseudo-time-dependent approach. The evolution of the different chemical species are followed in models of density n equal to 10⁶ cm^-3 and temperature T equal to 55 K. Different initial abundances have been assumed. Our results are in reasonable agreement with the observation, especially in Model 6. The resulting molecular abundances are compared with those obtained in the intermediate mass star NGC 2264 IRS1, as well as the low mass IRAS 16293-2422. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Application of artificial intelligence techniques in automatic hull form generation     

Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam  M. Reaz H. Khondoker  Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman 《Ocean Engineering》2001,28(12)

The paper describes a methodology for automatic hull form generation of ships with some desired performances using artificial intelligence techniques. The whole implementation process is divided into three main components. First of all the half-breadth weight matrices are generated that would provide population with pre-fitness by examining the relationship of the hull form with the principal dimensions of a number of existing vessels. Secondly, breadth and draft are adjusted using Neural Network Concepts. Breadth, draft, length, displacement and speed of the ship are very related terms and relations among them create some constraints. Neural Networks solve these constraints and adjust the parameters. Finally, Genetic Algorithm is used for searching the exact solution by examining several generations. For this, the algorithms need to measure fitness for every population in every generation. Unfortunately, GA doesn't guarantee fairness of the surface of the hull form, which can't be ignored. So, for every population especially for newborn population fairing techniques would be used. However, being complex geometric shape, hull form surface can't be faired using least-square or other single equation fitting techniques. Fairness is done taking pair-wise points using B-spline functions [CAD 20(1988)].  相似文献