Scenarios considered included water percolating through the material (flow-through) and run-off (flow-around), both important leaching pathways in highway environments.
Balancing workload between the cells reduces work-in-process inventory, improves material flow through the cells, and prevents overutilization of some cells and underutilization of others (Baykasoglu et al. 2001).
It deals with a broad set of design issues (e.g., bill-of-material restrictions, international financial considerations, and material flow through the entire supply chain) using effective modeling devices (e.g., linearizing non-linearities that arise in modeling transfer prices and allocating transportation charges).
Trophic dynamics became the foundation for much of the work to follow on energy and material flow through ecosystems.
Comparison with an analytic solution for material flow through an infinite wedge-shaped die is made and a high accuracy of the numerical solution is demonstrated.
To describe material flow through the ball mills, two tanks-in-series models called Weller's model and one plug flow unit plus n perfect mixers units (1PF + nPM) model have been used.
This supported the identification of options to alter material flow through changes to the product assembly design, to improve overall resource efficiency through eliminating resource intensive changeovers.
The strategic dynamic supply chain reconfiguration (DSCR) problem is to prescribe the location and capacity of each facility, select links used for transportation, and plan material flows through the supply chain, including production, inventory, backorder, and outsourcing levels.
Furthermore, the system can trace material flows through associated production supply chain and consumption activities.
Such systems capture the dynamics of some material flowing through a network of interconnected reservoirs and have become popular, in particular, as models of air traffic flows.
A closed-loop production system, or loop, is a system in which a constant amount of material flows through a single fixed cycle of workstations and storage buffers.
