The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
Integrated Distributed Electric Augmented Lift (IDEAL) applies upper-surface blowing in a novel way using an array of electric ducted fans (EDFs) to achieve electric short take-off and landing to meet the growing need for urban air transportation. Additional research on the use of vortex generators (VGs) to reduce flow separation...
Polymer samples of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and a PTFE-glass weave (RF- 35P) are exposed to low pressure, non-equilibrium glow discharge plasmas for enhanced wettability as measured by static contact angles. Plasma treatments are performed in two parallel plate RF plasma systems, a downstream microwave plasma and a barrel etcher using feed...
The goal of this research project is to determine the fractal nature, if any, which
certain surface water waves exhibit when viewed on a microscopic scale. We make
use of the mathematical formulation of non-viscous fluids describing their physical
properties. Using these expressions and including boundary conditions for free
surfaces...
Fluid simulation is an interesting research problem with a wide range of applications including mechanical engineering, special effects in movies and games, and scientific simulation. Due to the complex nature of typical fluid flow equations, there are circumstances where a full volumetric fluid simulation may not be necessary to generate...
Adsorption kinetic data recorded for α-lactalbumin, β-casein, β-lactoglobulin, bovine serum albumin and lysozyme at silianized silica surfaces of low and high hydrophobicity, along with a simple model for adsorption and surfactant-mediated elution of protein, were used to analyze the removal of each protein by sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) and dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide...
A study of potentiostatic and galvanostatic electrochemical etching of silicon in tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) has been carried out. In TMAH baths,, we find that biased (100) silicon etch rates increase 21% over OCP etch rates. For TMAH baths seasoned with silicon, biased silicon etch rates increase to 63% over those...
In this paper we consider the behavior of certain surfaces at
certain boundary points. The surfaces under consideration satisfy
a topological definition and are of 2-dimension in 3-dimensional
Euclidean space with the boundary a finite set of straight line
segments. It is shown that the surface of minimum area with...