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Spring 2014

Fang, Guoping

This thesis is concerned with effects of surface microgeometries on wetting, aiming at providing instructions for reproducing controllable wettability on artificial surfaces and designing robust superhydrophobic surfaces. First, the origin of edge effect is understood by a thermodynamic approach...

Spring 2013

Shamsaddini Shahrbabak, Abouzar

A thorough understanding and precise characterization of powdered excipients and drugs are of great importance to enhance the quality of the final product. Powder compression is a common method to evaluate their properties and behavior. It is essential to understand the elastic, viscoelastic and...

Fall 2015

Xie, Yanan

Chemical process engineering projects are complex and multi-disciplinary, requiring collaboration of different domains, such as business project management, chemical process, mechanical, electrical, and instrument with specific computer-aided tools. Current research on semantic interoperability...

Fall 2017

Elyasi, Mohammad Mahdi

A great number of studies have been undertaken to understand separated turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) due to its importance in the performance, design and control of many engineering systems (Hal 2000). Flow separation has a complicated three-dimensional nature in many flow configurations...

1972

Chattopadhyay, Tapan Kumar

2007

Gilbert, Stuart Karl

I. 'Void' structure in the wake of a self-oscillating flexible cylinder -- II. Design of a backward-facing step control device.

Fall 2020

Ma, Austin

The subject of interest for this thesis is the detachment of a turbulent boundary layer. Engineers are interested in techniques that delay or suppress flow separation entirely because the performance of many fluidic devices, such as airfoil and diffuser, are hindered by this flow phenomenon. The...

2005

Arthur, David M

Spring 2020

Kurian, Daniel G

Many companies maintain large databases of incident reports. Incidents that have severe consequences are analyzed in detail to prevent recurrence, while minor incidents are typically stored without any further evaluation. Especially with common incidents and those with lesser consequences,...

Spring 2013

Mohammed, Ahmed Ahmed Shehata

Strain gauges have been powerful tools in experimental stress analysis. This importance is expected to continue, even though other means of strain measurement are continually introduced to the market. The strain gauge is a simple device that can be easily installed to measure mechanical strain....