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- 1Aulakh, Amit
- 1Babazadeh, Hamed
- 1Bera, Bijoyendra
- 1Boddez, Jason Bradley
- 1Cao, Wenrui
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Spring 2011
The statistical properties of training, validation and test data play an important role in assuring optimal performance in artificial neural networks (ANN). Re-searchers have proposed randomized data partitioning (RDP) and stratified data partitioning (SDP) methods for partition of input data...
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Spring 2011
Active flow control of a precessing jet is the focus of this work. A round jet confined by a round cavity exhibits a self-excited rotational motion, precession, for a specific range of cavity lengths. Active flow control of this unstable flow provides the ability to control near-field mixing of...
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Analysis of Displacement in an Elastic Solid with a Mode-III Crack in the Presence of Surface Elasticity
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The focus of this work is the study of anti-plane deformations of an elastic solid containing a crack. A more comprehensive model of the mechanism of fracture was found by incorporating surface mechanics on the crack face. Included are comparisons between the refined model and the classical model...
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Fall 2011
Utilization of renewable bioenergy is a sustainable approach to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, efficient use of this resource is hindered by the current knowledge-gaps concerning collecting and processing dispersed biomass from large areas. This study focuses on developing...
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Fall 2011
High aspect ratio microelectromechanical structures have been found, in the literature, to collapse due to capillary forces of liquids. In this dissertation, mathematical models are developed to study (i) the collapse of a microstructure represented by a double cantilevered beam (DCB) with a free...
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Charged Entities Interacting with Electronically Responsive Structures with Implications for the Modeling of Interactions between Carbon Nanotubes and DNA
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Understanding interactions between charged entities with electronically responsive structures embedded in an electrolytic environment is important because of the diverse range of practical applications. This study was motivated by the technique where single stranded DNA was used to separate...
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Design and development of a two dimensional scanning molecular tagging velocimetry (MTV) system
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The design and development of a MTV approach, based on photobleaching, is discussed. The MTV techniques developed so far for microfluidic application provide either only a one dimensional flow measurement or use a grid and a structured mask for macro-scale and micro-scale flows respectively. The...
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Fall 2011
AC Dielectrophoresis, the motion of dielectric colloidal particles in the presence of an inhomogeneous AC electric field, has been utilized in this work as a mechanism for preventing channel wall fouling due to particle deposition for a multi-component colloidal system. Both attractive and...
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Spring 2011
This dissertation investigates the size based separation of DNA molecules in nanoparticle arrays under asymmetric pulsed electrophoresis. Crystalline arrays of nanoparticles within microfluidic channels are fabricated using colloidal self-assembly, yielding structures with pore sizes ranging from...
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Spring 2011
Generally, a design process involves multiple modeling and analysis interaction iterations accommodating changes and verifications. It is convenient to develop generative programs to automate some tedious and repetitive processes in order to minimize cycle times and the engineer’s routine efforts...