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Mathematical modeling of separated two-phase turbulent reactive flows using a filtered mass density function approach for large eddy simulation
(2006)
The overall objective of this dissertation is the development of a modeling and simulation approach for turbulent two-phase chemically reacting flows. A new full velocity-scalar filtered mass density function (FMDF) ...
Imaging characteristics of iodine-124 on animal PET
(2006)
We studied the imaging characteristics of Iodine-124 (I-124) on an animal scanner, a microPET Focus 120. The motivation was to develop I-124 applications that take advantage of the long half-life (4.2 days) of I-124 and ...
Deterministic and stochastic models of development of resistance to genetically modified pesticidal crops
(2006)
This thesis describe the bifurcation structure and dynamics of some simple deterministic population models for an insect pest on a crop divided into two parts, one consisting of genetically modified plants that are toxic ...
Solution phase synthesis of multicomponent and anisotropic nanostructures
(2006)
The ability to explore additional dimensions besides particle size to tune the properties of nanomaterials has important implications for the development of new materials, and may provide a basis for the development of new ...
The use of mass spectrometry in biomarker discovery and molecule identification
(2006)
Over the past few years greater emphasis has been placed on biomarker discovery. Of most importance is identifying potential protein biomarkers of disease in biological fluids. Identification of such biomarkers would allow ...
Photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy
(2006)
As the African American community witness thousands dying per year from cancer, many advances are being made in the arena of cancer treatment. Although the current methods of cancer treatment are considered viable, the ...
Improving thermal interface materials through the liquid component
(2006)
Thermal interface materials for thermal conduction of excess heat from microelectronics have been developed and evaluated. The optimum carbon black content of the thixotropic paste based on polyol ethers is 2.40 vol.%. The ...
The hyper-radial visualization (HRV) method for visualization of the hyperspace pareto frontier for multi-objective optimization problems
(2009)
Most engineering design problems are characterized by more than two objective functions, and these problems are termed Multi-objective Optimization Problems (MOPs). MOPs always yield multiple Pareto optimum solutions, which ...
Carbon and related materials for thermal and electrical applications
(2008)
High thermal stability has been attained in polyol ester by using a sterically half-hindered phenolic primary antioxidant and a thiopropionate secondary antioxidant. Carbon black and boron nitride (BN) serve as antioxidants ...
Topological excitations and fluctuations in superconducting nanostripes
(2008)
Described in this dissertation is the investigation of competition between one- and two-dimensional topological excitations, phase slips and vortices, in the formation of resistive states in quasi-two-dimensional superconductors ...