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- 1Beier, Nicholas (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Beier,Nicholas
- 1Kouritzin, Michael (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- 1Leung, Juliana (Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering)
- 1Szepesvári, Csaba (Computing Science)
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A Universal Approximation Theorem for Tychonoff Spaces with Application to Spaces of Probability and Finite Measures
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Universal approximation refers to the property of a collection of functions to approximate continuous functions. Past literature has demonstrated that neural networks are dense in continuous functions on compact subsets of finite-dimensional spaces, and this document extends those findings to...
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Spring 2019
This thesis aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using System Dynamics (SD) techniques to develop a transparent, open-source and reproducible model capable of simulating long-term soil water dynamics in a tailings-cap system subject to upward flux from a consolidating tailings substrate. The...
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Development of a Waste Rock Simulation Model Including Placement Techniques to Minimize Environmental Impacts of Acid Rock Drainage
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This research aims to develop a model using a systems dynamics approach that can be coupled with TMSim to account for the deposition of waste rock at hard rock mines at the feasibility stage of mine planning. The model includes waste rock placement techniques to minimize the environmental impacts...
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2018-11-20
Traditionally, multi-disciplinary modelling exercises involve one discipline mechanistically using the output from a black-box model developed by another discipline. To address this deficiency, the research uses techniques relatively new to the geotechnical community, such as System Dynamics (SD)...
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Spring 2015
Sampling from a given probability distribution is a key problem in many different disciplines. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms approach this problem by constructing a random walk governed by a specially constructed transition probability distribution. As the random walk progresses, the...
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2022-10-05
Reclamation of slurry materials such as mine tailings requires effective management of consolidation-induced water release in the long-term. This is particularly challenging for flocculated or thickened tailings which require excessive time to fully consolidate to the final landform due to their...
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2008
Kouritzin, Michael, Newton, Fraser, Orsten, Sterling, Wilson, Daniel
Classification of data as true or fabricated has applications in fraud detection and verification of data samples. In this paper, we apply nonlinear filtering to a simplified fraud-detection problem: classifying coin flip sequences as either real or faked. On the way, we propose a method for...
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2008
In this paper, we give a direct derivation of the Duncan–Mortensen–Zakai filtering equation, without assuming right continuity of the signal, nor its filtration, and without the usual finite energy condition. As a consequence, the Fujisaki–Kallianpur–Kunita equation is also derived. Our results...
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Re-Sampling the Ensemble Kalman Filter for Improved History Matching and Characterizations of Non-Gaussian and Non-Linear Reservoir Models
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Reservoir simulation models play an important role in the production forecasting and field development planning. To enhance their predictive capabilities and capture the uncertainties in model parameters, stochastic reservoir models should be calibrated to both geologic and flow observations. The...