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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 477Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- 2Department of Biological Sciences
- 2Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 1Department of Computing Science
- 1Department of Public Health Sciences
- 7Frei, Christoph (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Hillen, Thomas (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Kong, Linglong (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 7Lewis, Mark (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 6Han, Bin (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 6Kashlak, Adam (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
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Dimensionality Reduction via the Johnson and Lindenstrauss Lemma: Mathematical and Computational Improvements
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In an increasingly data-driven society, there is a growing need to simplify high-dimensional data sets. Over the course of the past three decades, the Johnson and Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma has evolved from a highly abstract mathematical result into a useful tool for dealing with data sets of...
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Fall 2014
This thesis presents recent developments in direct numerical simulations of fluid-structure interaction occurring in biological systems, with particular interest in the modeling of particle deposition within the human respiratory system. Two numerical techniques are proposed. The first one is...
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Direction-Dependent Communication Mechanisms in Individual-Based Models of Collective Behaviour
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In this thesis, we study direction-dependent communication mechanisms in individual-based models (IBMs) of collective behaviour. Previously, direction-dependent communication mechanism were incorporated into a non-local hyperbolic PDE model for collective behaviour. The PDE model exhibits...
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Fall 2013
This thesis introduces a new temporally second-order accurate direction-splitting scheme for implicitly solving parabolic or elliptic partial differential equations in complex-shaped domains. While some other splitting schemes can be unstable in such domains, numerical evidence suggests that the...
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Spring 2016
A cell centered finite difference scheme for 2D parabolic problems on grids with a local refinement is presented. Peaceman and Rachford directional splitting is used in the discretization of time. The scheme is unconditionally stable and proven to be of second order convergence in time. Numerical...
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Fall 2015
This thesis concentrates on the construction of directional tensor product complex tight framelets. It uses a complex tight framelet filter bank in one dimension and the tensor product of the one-dimensional filter bank to obtain high-dimensional filter bank. It has a number of advantages over...
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Fall 2013
It is well known that most information of an image is contained in its edges. Therefore capturing edges in an image is of fundamental importance in image processing. Tensor product real-valued wavelets only capture edges along the horizontal and vertical direc- tions. Hence they are only...
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Fall 2024
The interplay between order structure and probability theory has long been studied. In recent years this has led a generalization of many of the concepts from probability theory to arbitrary vector lattices. In this thesis, we study the generalization of discrete stopping times in vector...
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Fall 2021
This thesis includes 2 parts. Part 1 is: Discretization on High Dimensional Compact Domains. Part 2 is: Polynomial Approximation on High Dimensional Spheres. A special example for part 1 is the result on the unit sphere of high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In chapter 2, we obtained general...