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  • Empirical Characterization and Data-Driven Optimization of Water-Energy Systems

    Creator:
    Elhashimi, Mohammed A.
    Abstract:
    The accelerated development in water-energy systems calls for advanced modeling and optimization tools to improve technologies’ performance. Water desalination is a manifestation of water-energy system that is challenged by different operational constraints. The scarcity and uneven distribution of freshwater around the world makes water desalination an indispensable process to address...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mohammed

  • Vortical Structures in Transition to Turbulence through Randomly Packed Porous Media: Scale, Energy, and Mixing Characteristics

    Creator:
    Mohammadi Ziazi, Reza
    Abstract:
    Vortical structures are the driving mechanism of transition to turbulence in porous media requiring adequately resolved observations along with analysis of the scale and energy of flow within the pores. Of specific interest is to understand the vortex dynamics, energy, and turbulent mixing and transport properties in the scale of...
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    Dissertation
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    Mixing Characteristics Abstract approved: James A. Liburdy Vortical structures are the driving

  • The impact of shared ownership on virtual team effectiveness

    Creator:
    Bonnono, Mark A.
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    This research studied the role of shared ownership on virtual team effectiveness, using student teams enrolled in engineering management coursework at Oregon State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. After a thorough review of the literature, the concept of shared ownership was developed. This concept was operationalized as the extent to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark A

  • Investigation of In-tube Non-equilibrium Condensation of Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants

    Creator:
    Jacob, Tabeel A.
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    This work investigates the in-tube condensation of low global warming potential (GWP) zeotropic refrigerant mixtures R448A, R450A, R452A, R454B and R454C. These refrigerants have been proposed for a wide range of commercial heating, ventilation, air-conditioning applications, but their heat and momentum transport phenomenon were not well understood. Thus, in this...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Tabeel A. Jacob for

  • Mining Temporal Patterns for Prediction: A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach

    Creator:
    Mansourifard, Farzaneh
    Abstract:
    In the past two decades, the advancement in data collection and storage have led to the accumulation of complex datasets. Consequently, various industries have sought data-driven solutions to predict and detect anomalies. Temporal patterns have emerged as potential features in prediction models that could improve the performance of the identification...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Mining Temporal Patterns for Prediction: A Mixed-Integer Programming Approach Abstract approved

  • Thermal Actuation and Atomization for Desalination Systems

    Creator:
    Sharma, Deepak
    Abstract:
    Desalination stands for removing salt from saline water, and produce freshwater. Desalination technologies have been envisioned as a potential solution for freshwater production from oceans as an immense source of water acquiring 97% earth’s water, and 75% of earth’s surface. However, one third of world’s population face water scarcity every...
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    Dissertation
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    water, and produce freshwater. Desalination technologies have been envisioned as a potential solution

  • Swept time-space domain decomposition on GPUs and heterogeneous computing systems

    Creator:
    Magee, Daniel J.
    Abstract:
    Modern scientific and engineering problems often require simulations with a level of resolution difficult to achieve in reasonable amounts of time—even in effectively parallelized programs. Therefore, applications that exploit high performance computing (HPC) systems have become invaluable in academia and industry over the past two decades. Addressing the questions that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Niemeyer Modern scientific and engineering problems often require simulations with a level of res- olution

  • Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam C.
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    Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
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    . Abstract approved: Robert Paasch Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of

  • Providing Informative Feedback for Learning in Tightly Coupled Multiagent Domains

    Creator:
    Rockefeller, Golden C.
    Abstract:
    Autonomous agents that sense, decide, act, and coordinate effectively with each other are critical in many real-world domains such as autonomous driving, search and rescue missions, air traffic management, and underwater or deep space exploration. All such domains share a key difficulty: though high-level mission goals are clear to system...
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    Dissertation
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    underwater or deep space explo- ration. All such domains share a key difficulty: though high-level mission

  • Model Predictive Control of a Phase Change Process for Wastewater Purification Application

    Creator:
    Anderson, Kyle S.
    Abstract:
    In the United States, the oil and gas extraction industry produces large amounts of highly contaminated wastewater that is seldom treated for reuse in other applications. Current wastewater storage and disposal strategies lead to contamination of valuable freshwater resources that can have negative effects on both human communities and the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Model Predictive Control of a Phase Change Process for Wastewater Purification Application