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Thermal Effusivity Assessment of Sportswear Fabrics in the Dry State: Stacked and Air-Hoop Methods
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Islam, Md. Rashedul, Gholamreza, Farzan, Golovin, Kevin, Dolez, Patricia I.
Thermal effusivity is an essential fabric characteristic that influences the perception of coolness or warmth due to the exchange of thermal energy between the human body and the cloth layer when they come into contact. In the current study, thermal effusivity measurements were conducted on a...
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Lawyer-Politicians and Law Societies: Navigating the Intersection between Democracy and Accountability
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Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
In this essay that won the 2024 Sheldon M. Chumir Memorial Award in Ethics, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, I argue that striking the proper balance between a law society’s commitment to democracy and its jurisdiction over lawyer-politicians warrants the limiting of actionable complaints to...
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Stability and Intervehicle Distance Analysis of Vehicular Platoons: Highlighting the Impact of Bidirectional Communication Topologies
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Amir Zakerimanesh, Tony Z. Qiu, Mahdi Tavakoli
Vehicular platooning, a configuration comprising a leading vehicle and multiple follower vehicles (FVs) seeks to achieve and maintain specific intervehicle distances (IDs) while synchronizing FVs with the velocity and acceleration of the leading vehicle. Before attaining a desired stable state,...
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Detailed Multi-Domain Modeling and Faster-Than-Real-Time Hardware Emulation of Small Modular Reactor for EMT Studies
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Weiran Chen, Venkata Dinavahi, Ning Lin
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are gaining significant attention as a promising solution to address the global energy demand and simulation is pivotal in expediting the construction of SMRs. However, the point-reactor neutron-kinetics equations of SMRs are strongly stiff nonlinear ordinary...
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Energy management of buildings with energy storage and solar photovoltaic: A diversity in experience approach for deep reinforcement learning agents
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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a suitable approach to handle uncertainty in managing the energy consumption of buildings with energy storage systems. Conventionally, DRL agents are trained by randomly selecting samples from a data set, which can result in overexposure to some data...
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Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Shapelet Based Real-Time Fault Detection and Localization on ISS Electrical Power Distribution System
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Qin Liu, Weiran Chen, Venkata Dinavahi
International space station (ISS) is a grand invention for human beings to have a chance at exploring the outer space. Its operation is completely dependent on the autonomous power distribution system which transforms energy by solar arrays from the sun. There is a high demand for a reliable...
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Detailed Modeling of a Practical 1400MW Hydropower Plant and Real-Time Hardware Emulation For Governor Tuning Application
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Ritu Tiwari, Thanga Raj Chelliah, Venkata Dinavahi
This paper presents the detailed nonlinear mathematical model of a 1400MW hydro power plant (HPP) and it’s faster than real-time dynamic emulation on hardware architecture of the field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). This model is used to study the interactive effect of hydro turbine governor...
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Partial Element Equivalent Circuit Based Parallel Electromagnetic Transient Simulation on GPU
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Madhawa Ranasinghe, Venkata Dinavahi
The partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method effectively solves Maxwell’s equations in integral form by converting electromagnetic field components into the electrical circuit domain. This article proposes a novel transmission line modeling (TLM) based parallel PEEC time-domain solver to...
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Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Transient Emulation of Large-Scale Renewable Energy Installations Based on Hybrid Machine Learning Modeling
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Ruogu Chen, Tianshi Cheng, Ning Lin, Tian Liang, Venkata Dinavahi
For the integration of large-scale renewable energy resources into power grids, the complex and dynamic behavior of Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs), such as wind farms, photovoltaic (PV) arrays, and battery energy storage systems (BESSs), poses significant challenges. Traditional models often...