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All modern day landfills contain a series of perforated pipes installed beneath the waste whose purpose is to collect all liquid which drains through the cell. This system is called the leachate collection system and its primary purpose...
This work’s objective is to apply the model predictive control method to the intelligent energy management layer of the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management system. This allows for optimal power reference signals to...
Recently, the smart grid technologies have been developed rapidly recently, which an important component is the so called demand response management (DRM). With the help of a DRM program, a utility company can adjust the power demand and...
The dissertation presents the mathematical formulation, experimental validation, and application of a volume element model (VEM) devised for modeling, simulation, and optimization of energy systems in their early design stages. The...
To transfer the incredible properties, including ultrahigh tensile strength, Young's modulus, and electrical conductivity of an individual carbon nanotube (CNT) into composite applications, the constituent nanotubes need to possess...
Health condition monitoring and failure detection play a crucial role in estimating the performance of solar panels such as degradation trend over time and occurrence of failures. Monitoring and detecting significant degradation can help...
Compared to the conventional Si semiconductors, SiC technologies can improve PV converter performance such as a higher power density while leading converters to a higher operating temperature, making the cooling system a significant...
The increasing interest and gradual adaptation of a DC electrical distribution system by the US navy and smart grid designs has demanded a change to the structure of the traditional electrical distribution system. The development of the...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and causes cognitive impairment and memory deficits of the patients. The mechanism of AD is not well known, due to the lack of study materials, e.g., human...
One of the main goals of robotics research is to give physical platforms intelligence, allowing for the platforms to act autonomously with minimal direction from humans. Motion planning is the process by which a mobile robot plans a...
Materials have significant impact on the advances of technology and development of civilization. For instance, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age are three historical periods identified by the materials people used. In more...
Top-down fabrication is widely used for producing micro to nanometer scale features for biomedical applications. Opposed to bottom-up approach, it is superior to control geometry, structure and composition of the product. Traditional top...
With the advent of nanotechnology, nanomaterials have drastically improved our lives in a very short span of time. The more we can tap into this resource, the more we can change our lives for better. All the applications of nanomaterials...
The innovation and accessibility of Internet across the globe has made life easy. For instance, enormous information in the form of digital data (images, audios, videos, pdf, etc.) is available on Internet, which can easily be accessed...
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating...
The simulation and study of fluid properties and dynamics in a microgravity environment on the Earth’s surface is of great interest due to the high costs associated with conducting research in space. Cryogenic fluids like liquid helium, ...
Polymeric foam materials continue to gather commercial and research interests due to their unique physical characteristics and emerging applications in a wide variety of industries. This research work viewed the polymer foam industry...
Many leg controllers and gaits have been designed directly with lower level parameters. This approach can lead to very high performance gaits, but can also lead to platforms highly tuned for one particular application with drastically...
Advanced ceramics and ceramic composites have a variety of advantageous properties, such as high hardness, strength, and wear resistance. This makes them good candidates for materials in the aerospace, automotive and defense industries, ...
Aerodynamics of road vehicles have continued to be a topic of interest due the relationship between fuel efficiency and the environmental impact of passenger vehicles. With the streamlining of ground vehicles combined with years of...
Lithium ion battery discovered since the 1980s has become pivotal to our energy needs. With the need for a shift to renewable energy and increased use of portable devices, energy storage has become a very important aspect of modern day...
Linear low density polyethylenes (LLDPEs are substantially linear polyethylenes [(C2H4)n] with randomly distributed 1-alkyl short chain branches. The presence of branches on the ethylene backbone sharply reduces the crystallinity level...
Asymmetric jets are becoming more prevalent and may offer significant advantages over traditional axisymmetric nozzles for propulsion as well as fluidic mixing applications. The purpose of this work is two fold: 1) to investigate the...
Accurate vehicle classification data is fundamental to pavement design and road safety analysis. In addition, vehicle classification data is important for Florida Department of Transportation’s Transportation Statistics Office’s clients...
Regression over circular response data requires special methods due to the periodic nature of this data type. In previous works, researchers tried to use the concept of projecting real-line distributions on unit circles or using...
Human cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide novel tools for recapitulating the cytoarchitecture of human brain and for studying biological mechanisms of neurological disorders. However, the...
Power system designers have more creative flexibility than ever before due to improvements in power electronics technology. The invention of the silicon (Si) insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) in the 1980s was a major improvement...
Traditional light emitting diodes (LEDs) involve a complicated device structure with multiple layers stacked over one another. Such a complex, multilayered architecture restricts the application of diverse fabrication techniques. Earth...
Power electronics technology has been widely used in electric power system to achieve high energy efficiency and high renewable energy penetration. Small signal instability phenomena could easily occur in systems with abundant power...
Weight of a material and the system formed by such material is a critical factor for many applications. Traditionally, engineering designed porous structures, typically honeycomb structures, have been utilized for weight critical...
This project evaluates using traffic simulation, the performance of a mixed traffic composition of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) and conventional or human-driven vehicles, in comparison with the performance of the existing...
Underwater vehicles suffer from reduced maneuverability with conventional lifting appendages due to the low velocity of operation. Circulation control offers a method to increase maneuverability independent of vehicle speed. However, ...
Future Naval vessels are looking to incorporate a new variety of electrical loads. These loads include rail guns, high power radars, electric propulsion drives, and lasers. These loads, especially the rail gun, can be classified as high...
Recent years, since a large amount of electrical energy for the industrialization based on the high technology is required, many countries make preparations for replacing the non-renewable energy. Especially, a much considering the...
Nowadays the medium-voltage dc system (MVDC) has been proposed in the renewable energy collector fields, long distance power transmission, small-scale industrial networks and all-electric shipboards due to its relatively higher...
Grid codes impose immunity requirements to the generation systems that are connected to the transmission lines. Immunity refers to the generator’s capability to overcome grid abnormal conditions. One of the requirements is to remain...
Power lines in distribution networks are subject to several subjects such as bad weather conditions, contact with animals, equipment malfunction, etc. These conditions may cause a fault in the power lines that may damage the devices in...
The first goal of this study was determining in-situ soil's vertical saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) from the measured steady infiltration rate, initial soil parameters, and test arrangements of the Double Ring Infiltrometer (DRI)...
At high angles of attack, asymmetric vortices are formed on the leeward side of flight vehicles with pointed forebodies due to the random surface imperfections near the forebody apex. These vortices induce adverse side forces and yaw...
High-speed impinging jets are often generated by the propulsive systems of aerospace launch vehicles and tactical aircraft. In many instances, the presence of these impinging jets creates a hazard for flight operations personnel due to...
The study of user-behavior and decision-making dynamics in transportation network are vital in modeling and simulation of user interactions. Different users access transportation network in order to accomplish different activities. Such...
Power Electronic-based Distribution Systems (PEDS) can provide excellent features such as load regulation, high power factor, and transient performance; especially in the large scale grids which are highly penetrated with the renewable...
Tightly coupled microgrid power systems strike a balance between maintaining the desired power quality and insuring a high utilization efficiency of large-nonlinear loads. This is of great interest to the US Navy. Application of large...
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides a unique contrast based on the restricted directionality of water movement in an anisotropic environment. As such, DTI-based tractography can be used to characterize and quantify the structural...
It has been clear in the recent decades that there is an urgent need to progress towards renewable energy. There are few established technologies that provide a suitable economic option. These include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, ...
Ethylene 1-alkene copolymers with the same molar mass, same molar mass distribution and very similar average comonomer content of 3.8 +/- 0.4 mol% but different broad interchain comonomer content distribution (CCD), are found to display...
Intelligent morphing structures will revolutionize micro-robotics, wearable technology, and tiny electro-mechanical systems. The ideal morphing structure is thin and flexible with the ability to deform and sense its surroundings....
Autonomous robots are increasingly working alongside humans in a variety of environments. While simple applications in controlled environments work fine with fully autonomous robots and little interaction between human and robot, mission...
Unsteady fluid flows have complex dynamics due to the nonlinear interactions amongst vortical elements. In this thesis, a network-theoretic framework is developed to describe vortical and modal (coherent structure) interactions in...
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