Selecting a location for a potential hospital often decides the success or the failure of such a facility. It is thus important to assess the locations from multiple dimensions before selecting the site. This paper focuses on the multi factor evaluation of hospital sites using Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP)and evaluates three potential rural hospital sites in India. This study considered three major factors and eleven sub factors in the evaluation. Findings show that among the sub factors, cost of land, population density and proximity to public transport evolved as the three most significant sub factors.
General TermsMulti criteria decision making
The aim of this paper is to study the momentum and the heat transfer characteristics in incompressible electrically conducting boundary layer flow over an exponentially stretching sheet under the effect of magnetic field with thermal radiation through porous medium. The governing boundary layer equations are converted into self-similar nonlinear ordinary differential equations, using similarity transformations in exponential form and then solved numerically using shooting method. The velocity profile, skin friction-co-efficient and rate of heat transfer are computed numerically and then graphically studied with respect to similarity variable (η) for different cases of velocity ratio parameter (β)
The present paper represents an analytical solution of fingering phonomenon arising in double phase flow through homogeneous media under certain initial & boundary condition using techniques of calculus of variation and similarity theory. The numerical and graphical representation of solution has been given the graph of saturatin F(η) of injected liquid, is increasing after η = 0.5 for t > 0, which indicates that when injected liquid entries into native liquid at common-interface, then suddenly the native liquid enters into injected liquid due to difference in wettability. Hence initial saturation will decrease and then after η > 0.5 the saturation uniformly increases parabolically which is physically consistent with the available theory.
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