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  • Heat Loss Characterization of NIST-1's Containment Vessel

    Creator:
    Yoshiura, Ramon K.
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    NuScale Power has designed a small modular reactor using natural circulation cooling dependent systems for both steady-state and transient operations. The NuScale Integral Test System (NIST-1) facility was built to supply test data to NuScale Power to verify and validate computer codes for the NuScale Power Mod- ule (NPM) with...
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    Characterization of NIST-1’s Containment Vessel Abstract approved: Qiao Wu NuScale Power has designed a small

  • Stochastic Characterization of Highway Capacity and Its Applications

    Creator:
    Dong, Shangjia
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    Highway capacity has traditionally been treated as deterministic. In reality, however, capacity can vary from time to time and location to location due to inclement weather, various driving behavior, traffic incident, bottleneck and workzone. This thesis aims to characterize the stochastic variations of highway capacity, and explore its applications. The...
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    Applications Abstract approved: Haizhong Wang Highway capacity has traditionally been treated as

  • Exploring the Relationship between Bicycle Level of Traffic Stress and Reported Bicycle Collisions

    Creator:
    Vogt, Rachel
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    Transportation agencies need efficient methods to determine how to improve bicycle facilities in order to improve connectivity and safety. Many studies have used standalone methods such as level of traffic stress (LTS) and bicycle level of service (BLOS) to better understand bicycle mode share and network connectivity for a region...
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    Haizhong Wang Transportation agencies need efficient methods to determine how to improve bicycle

  • Multi-Modal Biosensing with Diatom Photonic Crystal Biosilica

    Creator:
    Squire, Kenneth J.
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    The need to detect trace amounts of target molecules is great, particularly when it comes to biosensing. With the early detection of a disease, the odds of the successful treatment of an individual increases significantly. To enhance the capability of biomolecular detection, we have created an optical biosensor capable of...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang The need to

  • Crowdsourcing Data-driven Development of Bicycle Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) : Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales

    Creator:
    Chen, Chen
    Abstract:
    While riding bicycles has been promoted for its health, economic, and environmental benefits, it also complements other modes to complete a safe, efficient, and reliable transportation system. However, the dramatic increase of bicycle usage in the U.S. is accompanied by a growth of bicycle crashes. The U.S. Department of Transportation,...
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    Haizhong Wang While riding bicycles has been promoted for its health, economic, and

  • Agent-based Tsunami Evacuation Model : Life Safety and Network Resilience

    Creator:
    Mostafizi, Alireza
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    Natural disasters could result in unnecessary loss of life and disproportionate suffering to families and communities if evacuation plans are not in place or understood by the public. In the Pacific Northwest, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) represents one of the most pressing...
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    Evacuation Model: Life Safety and Network Resilience Abstract approved: Haizhong Wang Natural disasters

  • An Agent-based Evacuation Modeling of Underground Fire Emergency

    Creator:
    Xu, Yue
    Abstract:
    Increasingly congested surface transportation network in urban areas and grow-ing land values make underground transportation systems more attractive for high-ways (i.e., tunnels) and metro system compared to other options [1]. An underground transportation system can preserve the land above for recreational parks, commer-cial buildings, residential homes, or other purposes while...
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    Modeling of Underground Fire Emergency Abstract approved: Haizhong Wang Increasingly congested surface

  • Investigation of Drag Coefficient and Virtual Mass Coefficient on Rising Ellipsoidal Bubbles

    Creator:
    Dueñas, Alexander M.
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    Accurately describing drag and virtual mass forces in two-phase flows is crucial for high fidelity modeling of nuclear thermal hydraulic safety systems. This study compares existing drag coefficient correlations commonly used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications for air bubbles to experimental data collected for ellipsoidal air bubbles of varying...
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    Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ Qiao Wu Wade R

  • A Theoretical Model for Spherical Cap Bubble Geometry

    Creator:
    Wieland, Isaiah T.
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    The significant variation in bubble geometry, as a function of size, has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. However, a comprehensive explanation for these observations and the underlying physics has eluded researchers. A theoretical model which describes a the relationship between forces that produce spherical cap bubble geometry has been...
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    Model for Spherical Cap Bubble Geometry Abstract approved: Qiao Wu Wade Marcum The significant

  • Dynamic Frequency and Amplitude Estimation for Three-Phase Power Systems

    Creator:
    Wu, Chenchen
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    Several frequency and amplitude estimation algorithms are presented for balanced and unbalanced three-phase power grid systems. All the estimators are dynamic in nature and are implemented in the complex domain by transforming the three-phase power signals using Clarke’s transform. Specifically, we first construct a non-linear dynamic model of the complex...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Chenchen Wu for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and