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  • Modeling of Power Efficiency in a Magnetohydrodynamic Generator

    Creator:
    Redle, Michael T.
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    The introduction of an Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator in coal or natural gas energy plants could significantly increase the efficiency by converting kinetic and thermal energy of the combustion exhaust to electrical energy by the generation of a Faraday and Hall current. The traditional MHD system was transformed into a simplified...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , Mentor, representing the Department of Mathematics Vrushali A. Bokil, Committee Member, representing the

  • Optimization under Uncertainty of a Magnetohydrodynamics Generator

    Creator:
    Rajbhandari, Evan
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    Within this dissertation, we develop tools and techniques to demonstrate the feasibility of real-time optimization of a magnetohydrodynamics generator. To ease computational complexity, we work on the kinematic magnetohydrodynamic system, prescribing the fluid-flow and model the material response of the system through an updated Generalized Ohm’s law. We focus on...
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    Dissertation
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    Uncertainty of a Magnetohydrodynamics Generator Abstract approved: Nathan L. Gibson Within this

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

    Creator:
    Magee, Daniel J.
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    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

  • Optimizing HIV Treatment in Resource-Limited Settings

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    Akudibillah, Gordon Amed
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    Apart from the traditional role of preventing progression from HIV to AIDS, antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) has an additional benefit of substantially reducing infectiousness, making them potentially an important strategy in the fight against HIV. Recent advances in drug therapy have also seen the use of antiretroviral drugs as a...
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    Dissertation
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    valuable support. To my committee members, Dr. John Bolte, Dr. Charlotte Wickham, Dr. Vrushali Bokil and

  • Numerical Simulation of a Thouless Pump

    Creator:
    Wall, Bryce
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    At the macroscopic scale, we have pumps that use the classical laws of physics to move liquids at a well defined rate. In the microscopic world, physicists are exploring pumps that make use of quantum mechanical behavior to build analogous pumps for quantum particles. The importance of such “quantum pumps”...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , representing Physics Vrushali Bokil, Committee Member, representing Mathematics Elizabeth Gire, Committee

  • Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Undergraduate Engineering Students: Perspectives, Resiliency, and Suggestions for Improving Engineering Education

    Creator:
    Haverkamp, Andrea E.
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    Gender has been the subject of study in engineering education and science social research for decades. However, little attention has been given to transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) experiences or perspectives. The role of cisgender or gender conforming status has not been investigated nor considered in prevailing frameworks of gender...
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    Dissertation
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    overwhelming majority of literature in the field remains within a reductive gender binary. TGNC students and

  • Music Generation and Evaluation Using R

    Creator:
    Lanz, Andrea L.
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    The main goal of this project is to implement an algorithmic music composition procedure and present all procedures and results in a reproducible fashion by creating a web application produced by R. To approach the implementation of the algorithmic composition of music, we start by exploring various models, but ultimately...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    APPROVED: Charlotte Wickham, Mentor, representing Statistics Vrushali Bokil, Committee Member

  • Polynomial Chaos Expansions for Random Ordinary Differential Equations

    Creator:
    McKenzie, Brian
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    We consider numerical methods for finding approximate solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) with parameters distributed with some probability by the Generalized Polynomial Chaos (GPC) approach. In particular, we consider those with forcing functions that have a random parameter in both the scalar and vector case. We then consider linear...
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    Capstone Project
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    greatly. I also wish to express my gratitude to my committee members Dr. Vrushali Bokil and Dr. Malgorzata

  • Branching random walk and probability problems from physics and biology

    Creator:
    Johnson, Torrey
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    This thesis studies connections between disorder type in tree polymers and the branching random walk and presents an application to swarm site-selection. Chapter two extends results on tree polymers in the infinite volume limit to critical strong disorder. Almost sure (a.s.) convergence in the infinite volume limit is obtained for...
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    Dissertation
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    . Chapter three establishes results for a simple branching random walk in connection with a related tree

  • Branching Brownian Motion with One Absorbing and One Reflecting Boundary

    Creator:
    Felder, William F.
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    In this work we will analyze branching Brownian motion on a finite interval with oneabsorbing and one reflecting boundary, having constant drift rate toward the absorbingboundary. Similar processes have been considered by Kesten ([12]), and more recently byHarris, Hesse, and Kyprianou ([11]). The current offering is motivated largely by the...
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    work we will analyze branching Brownian motion on a finite interval with one absorbing and one