Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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Simulating Remediation of Trichloroethylene in Fractured Bedrock by Thermal Conductive Heating Using the Numerical Model TMVOC
(2013-01-07)A thermal conductive heating (TCH) pilot test was conducted at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in West Trenton, New Jersey in 2009 in collaboration with TerraTherm, Inc., the Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center ... -
Simulating solute transport in discretely fractured rocks: Computational limitations and a hybrid method
To investigate the computational limitations arising when simulating large-scale groundwater flow and solute transport using a 3D control volume finite element model (the FE model) in discrete-fracture mode, numerical ... -
Simulation and Optimization of Hybrid Photovoltaic (PV) and Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) Systems Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms
(2016-01-18)Two identified strategies to reduce GHG emissions that threaten the global climate stability include 1)the utilization of renewable sources of energy such as solar electricity from photovoltaic (PV) devices and 2)more ... -
Simulation of Engineered Nanostructured Thin Films
(2009-04-01)The invention of the Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) technique a decade ago enabled the fabrication of nanostructured thin films with highly tailorable structural, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties. Here a ... -
Simulation of wrist kinematics on the basis of a rigid body spring model
(2007-09-13)The purpose of this thesis was to create a computational wrist model that predicts carpal bone motion in order to investigate the complex kinematics of the human wrist. The tuning of this model was primarily based on in ... -
Simulations and validation of an axial-flow pit turbine
The geometric design of an axial-flow pit-turbine is essential as flow separation will decrease turbine efficiency. In this thesis, steady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted with a two-equation ... -
Simulations of Nottawasaga River Plume
Water quality degradation, in the form of undesirable algae, occurs near the Nottawasaga River mouth and along Wasaga Beach, located in southeastern Georgian Bay, Ontario. Runoff from fertilized agricultural areas, in the ... -
Simulations of planet migration driven by the scattering of smaller bodies
(2007-09-17)Planet migration is an important part of the formation of planetary systems, both in the Solar system and in extrasolar systems. When a planet scatters nearby comet- and asteroid-size bodies called planetesimals, a significant ... -
Simulations of Scale-Free Cosmologies for the Small-Scale Cold Dark Matter Universe
(2009-09-26)Cosmological simulations show that dark matter halos contain a wealth of substructure. These subhalos are assumed have a mass distribution that extends down to the smallest mass in the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) hierarchy, ... -
Simulations of the Muon Veto and Background Expectations for the PICO500 Dark Matter Experiment
PICO500 is an upcoming dark matter experiment searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. The experiment is a 500L bubble chamber and is currently in the design phase. This thesis presents simulations ... -
Simultaneous Degradation of Toxic and Volatile Substrates by Two Phase Partitioning Bioreactor Systems: Performance Characterization and Rational Polymer Selection
(2013-05-02)The degradation of toxic and volatile contaminants in aqueous streams is considered a challenge using conventional bioremediation strategies. At moderate concentrations, toxic contaminants induce microbial inhibition, which ... -
Simultaneous Imaging and Current Clamp Recordings from Hippocampal Slices during Simulated Ischemia
(2008-09-27)Following sudden failure of the Na+/K+ATPase pump, the acute neuronal swelling and dendritic damage that occurs within minutes of stroke onset are consequences of anoxic depolarization (AD). The AD front in our protocol ... -
Simultaneous Recordings of Head and Hand Tremor in Subjects With Essential Tremor: an Investigation of Coherence
(2010-10-25)The pathophysiology of essential tremor (ET) is not clearly understood but is thought to involve multiple brain regions. The purpose of this study was to describe in greater detail head tremor in ET and to investigate the ... -
Simultaneous Topology and Build Orientation Optimization for Minimization of Additive Manufacturing Cost and Time
The ever-present demand for increased performance in mechanical systems, with reduced cost and manufacturing time, has led to the adoption of computational design tools and innovative manufacturing methods. Among these ... -
Single Canadian mothers of Jamaican heritage share experiences about their children's education
(2007-09-18)This thesis examines the experiences of four single Canadian mothers of Jamaican heritage with respect to their children’s education. Four themes suggested in the literature—beliefs, practices, barriers, and supports—guided ... -
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Carotid Ultrasound Imaging as Biomarkers to Determine the Severity of Atherosclerosis
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the number one cause of death in the world for several decades and will continue to worsen as a global epidemic. The underlying cause of CVD is atherosclerosis: most myocardial infarctions ... -
Single Stage Grid-Connected Micro-Inverter for Photovoltaic Systems
(2012-07-09)This thesis presents a novel Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) approach in a grid connected single-stage flyback inverter without using any additional auxiliary circuits. The soft-switching of the primary switch is achieved by ... -
Single Stage LED Driver Technology With Low Frequency Ripple Cancellation
(2016-09-28)Because of high efficacy, long lifespan, and environment-friendly operation, LED lighting devices become more and more popular in every part of our life, such as ornament/interior lighting, outdoor lightings and flood ... -
Single Stage Power Factor Corrected Three-Level Resonant Converters
(2008-02-01)In this thesis, a new approach for single-stage power factor correction converters is proposed to increase their power ratings to be in the multiple kilowatts levels. The proposed techniques are based on the utilization ... -
Single-Microphone Speech Dereverberation: Modulation Domain Processing and Quality Assessment
(2011-07-25)In a reverberant enclosure, acoustic speech signals are degraded by reflections from walls, ceilings, and objects. Restoring speech quality and intelligibility from reverberated speech has received increasing interest ...