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Latest Research - Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
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Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
Minsuok Kim
| | Title: | Computational fluid dynamic studies of endovascular stents for treating cerebral
| | Date: | January 2007
| | Advisor: | Meng, Hui
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Endovascular stents provide a potentially viable treatment paradigm for cerebral aneurysms by modifying their hemodynamics. To understand how different endovascular stent designs and number of stents used can differentially influence the hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms, various stent designs and series of sequential stent placements were investigated. More ...
| | Full text: | PDF at ProQuest
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Edward M. Kasprzak
| | Title: | Extension of the nondimensional tire theory to general operating conditions
| | Date: | December 2006
| | Advisor: | Lewis, Kemper
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Advances in computing technology have led to an increase in the use and complexity of automotive vehicle simulations. The limiting factor in the accuracy and speed of these simulations is often the detail and complexity incorporated into the tire model. There is a need for compact, efficient tire models for use in vehicle simulations. More ...
| | Full text: | PDF at ProQuest
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Ashiwin Prabhu Gurnani
| | Title: | Engineering design at the edge of rationality
| | Date: | December 2006
| | Advisor: | Lewis, Kemper
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In recent times, the engineering design community has accepted and established that product design is primarily a decision-making process. Decisions are made at different stages of the design process with varying amounts of information. The study of engineering design as a series of decisions is termed as Decision-Based Design (DBD) . More ...
| | Full text: | PDF at ProQuest
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Rajankumar Bhatt
| | Title: | Towards modular cooperation between multiple nonholonomic mobile manipulators
| | Date: | November 2006
| | Advisor: | Krovi, Venkat N.
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In recent times, there has been considerable interest in creating and deploying modular cooperating collectives of robots. Interest in such cooperative systems typically arises when certain tasks are either too complex to be performed by a single robot or when there are distinct benefits that accrue by cooperation of many simple robotic modules. More ...
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Sumeet Parashar
| | Title: | Development of multi-objective genetic algorithm concurrent subspace optimization (MOGACSSO) method with robustness
| | Date: | November 2006
| | Advisor: | Bloebaum, Christina L.
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Most engineering design problems are complex and multidisciplinary in nature, and quite often require more than one objective (cost) function to be extremized simultaneously. For multi-objective optimization problems, there is not a single optimum solution, but a set of optimum solutions called the Pareto set. More ...
| | Full text: | PDF at ProQuest
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Harmanjeet Shihn
| | Title: | Near-wall subgrid scale modeling for large eddy simulation of turbulent buoyancy driven non-reactive and reactive flows using one-dimensional turbulence
| | Date: | October 2006
| | Advisor: | Desjardin, Paul E.
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The overall objective of this dissertation is the development of a near-wall modeling and simulation approach for turbulent non-reacting and reacting buoyancy driven flows. The thrust of this effort is two fold. The first is on the development of an advanced near-wall stand-alone model More ...
| | Full text: | PDF at ProQuest
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Kok-Lam Lai
| | Title: | Generalizations of the complex-step derivative approximation
| | Date: | September 2006
| | Advisor: | Crassidis, John L.
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This dissertation presents a general framework for the complex-step derivative approximation to compute numerical derivatives. More ...
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Adam M. Fosbury
| | Title: | Control and Kalman filtering for relative dynamics of a formation of uninhabited autonomous vehicles
| | Date: | August 2006
| | Advisor: | Crassidis, John L.
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An extended Kalman filter for estimation of relative position and relative attitude between a pair of uninhabited autonomous vehicles is developed. More ...
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Erik R. Bardy
| | Title: | Design and testing of a total body thermal protection garment
| | Date: | May 2006
| | Advisor: | Mollendorf, Joseph C.
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The aim of this research was to improve the thermal protection of divers in an underwater environment using currently available, but underutilized, passive and/or active technologies. More ...
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