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Simulation Modeling For Sustainability: A Review Of The Literature, Young B. Moon

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - All Scholarship

This article is a review of work published in various journals and conference proceedings on the topics of Simulation Modelling for Sustainability between January 2000 and May 2015. A total of 192 papers are reviewed. The article intends to serve three goals. First, it will be useful to researchers who wish to know what kinds of questions have been raised and how they have been addressed in the areas of simulation modelling for sustainability. Second, the article will be a useful resource for searching research topics. Third, it will serve as a comprehensive bibliography of the papers published during the …

Enhancing Erp System’S Functionality With Discrete Event Simulation, Young Moon, Dinar Phatak

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - All Scholarship

Purpose – To develop a methodology to augment enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with the discrete event simulation’s inherent ability to handle the uncertainties.

Design/methodology/approach – The ERP system still contains and uses the material requirements planning (MRP) logic as its central planning function. As a result, the ERP system inherits a number of shortcomings associated with the MRP system, including unrealistic lead-time determination. The developed methodology employs bi-directional feedback between the non-stochastic ERP system and the discrete event simulation model until a set of converged lead times is determined.

Findings – An example of determining realistic production lead-time data …

Inclusion Of Lubrication Forces In Dynamic Simulations, Ashok S. Sangani, Guobiao Mo

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering - All Scholarship

A new method is described for incorporating close-field, lubrication forces between pairs of particles into the multiparticle Stokes flow calculations. The method is applied to the suspensions of both spherical as well as cyliridrical particles, and results computed by the method are shown to be in excellent agreement with the exact known results available in the literature.