Metallic nuclear fuels have long been studied for use in advanced nuclear reactors, with efforts invested in improving the viability of metallic nuclear fuel elements and overall safety of advanced reactor design concepts. During reactor operations, fuel forms undergo restructuring due to a variety of physical phenomena. Expansion of the...
As the world's power needs grow, the demand for power from renewable resources, such as wind or solar is increasing. One major drawback associated with these renewable resources is that the power output is dependent on environmental factors, such as cloud cover and wind speeds. This allows the possibility of...
This dissertation concerns a broad range of unique phenomena related to the light propagation at nano- and micro-scales. To access the nano-domain, we introduce anisotropy-based waveguides with positive- and negative-index modes. These novel structures allow energy propagation in subwavelength regions and, in contrast to surface waves, have the mode structure...
We derive an approach to determine the causal direction of wavevectors of modes in optical metamaterials, which, in turn, determines signs of refractive index and impedance as a function of real and imaginary parts of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability. We use the developed technique to demonstrate that the interplay...
We report new major element, trace element, isotope ratio, and geochronological data on the Galapagos
Archipelago. Magmas erupted from the large western volcanos are generally moderately fractionated tholeiites of
uniform composition; those erupted on other islands are compositionally diverse, ranging from tholeiites to picritic
basanitoids. While these volcanoes do not...
We examined high-resolution cross-shelf distributions of particulate organic carbon
(POC) and dissolved O₂ during the upwelling season off the Oregon coast. Oxygen
concentrations were supersaturated in surface waters, and hypoxic in near-bottom
waters, with greatly expanded hypoxic conditions late in the season. Simplified time-dependent
mass balances on cross-shelf integrated concentrations...
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In determining aerosol-cloud interactions, the properties of aerosols must be characterized in the vicinity of clouds. Numerous studies based on satellite observations have reported that aerosol optical depths increase with increasing cloud cover. Part of the increase comes from the humidification and consequent growth of aerosol particles in the moist...