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In this paper, a new method for microbubble generation independent of porous media has been introduced. The approach used in the microbubble generator is based on high turbulent intensity rotational flow. At first, a simple cylindrical model is investigated experimentally. In the model, water enters the device via six diagonal nozzles and mixes with air coming from six holes at the bottom of the device. Passing a rotational trace around central motionless rod, air particles are broken up to tiny bubbles. Size of bubbles is measured and bubbles smaller than 1mm in diameter were found. Finally, improved microbubble generator with the similar mechanism has been introduced. Internal flow passes longer trajectory around the central rotating hub because of its design characteristic that let it rotate by inlet water excitation. Bubbles with diameters less than 300 microns are generated by this method. Size of bubbles is measured experimentally in different void fractions for different outlet gap size. Outlet flow gap changes from 20mm to 8mm and 3mm in three experiments. The best result is observed in the third experiment at which microbubbles smaller than 100 micron are observed. The desirable bubbles’ size is achieved at void fraction of 15% that could be increased up to 60%.

Enterprise environments are complex and multidisciplinary. As the market competition becomes more and more relentless, business companies must keep adapting their current processes to the new needs of the market. During the adaptation process, enterprises may not have any experience with the new business needs. Many enterprise models from different perspectives have been proposed to facilitate this adaption process and reduce risks. However, due to the complexity of the enterprise environment, none of them takes all needed enterprise elements into consideration. A uniform approach that deals with different elements of an enterprise is needed in order to model all elements and analyze their effects on enterprise operations. Inspired by Galbraith’s information processing view of organizations and the extant modeling work of project organizations, in this paper we propose a unique model of enterprise called PMT that can be used to analyze enterprise operations and their interactions with market demands. Market demand as an independent variable and enterprise capacity (organization, processes and resources) are modeled computationally and the relations between them are captured. In this paper, the background and the major concepts of the PMT model are introduced and an application example demonstrated to show the effectiveness of the PMT model.