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ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
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Author
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Khan, Muhammad Safeer
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Sound
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Description
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Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...
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An Investigation Into the Torque Density Capabilities of Flux-Focusing Magnetic Gearboxes
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Author
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Uppalapati, Krishna Kiran
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Power resources, Electromagnetism
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Description
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Wind and many rotary based ocean energy conversion devices rely on a mechanical gearbox to increase their speed so as to match the requirements of the electromagnetic generator. However, mechanical gearboxes have a number of disadvantages such as ...
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Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
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Author
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Pottathuparambil, Robin
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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Scientific computing or Computational science, is a field of study where engineers and scientists use computer simulations to solve equations that model the physical world. In some cases, these equations come from the first principles of physics. ...
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CHARACTERIZATION OF LIGHT-META STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS
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Author
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Chandra, Nitish
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics
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Description
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The advent of metamaterials has increased the complexity of possible light-matter interactions, creating gaps in knowledge and violating various commonly used approximations and rendering some common mathematical frameworks incomplete. Our forward...
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Electromagnetic and vibration energy harvesting utilizing a piezoelectric device
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Author
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Vo, Misa
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Power resources
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Description
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The main goal of this research is to design an energy harvesting device that produces enough power to supply a voltage sensor deployed on a power line. Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is one of the promising methods of powering the ...
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Title
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Exploiting Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
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Author
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Karami, Morteza
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics, Electromagnetism
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Description
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Metamaterials are man-made structures developed to engineer electromagnetic waves, and they have been studied intensely in recent decades. Although there are still debates about the performance of these types of artificial materials, many practica...
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Metasurfaces for Field Control and Detection
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Author
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Rosenbury, Christopher
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
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Description
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Metasurfaces have been of increasing interest in the scientific community due to their consistent ability to efficiently reproduce traditional optical elements via quasi-monolithic patterning. In this dissertation I will examine various metasurfac...
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THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
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Author
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Fullager, Daniel
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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ABSTRACTDANIEL B. FULLAGER. Theory, characterization and applications of infraredhyperbolic metamaterials. (Under the direction of DR. MICHAEL A. FIDDY)Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered structures capable of supporting lightmatterinte...
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENT EDDY CURRENT MODELING
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Author
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Paul, Subhra
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
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Description
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Maglev transportation using electrodynamic wheels is a promising new technology aimed at providing a low cost, high-speed and environmental friendly mode of transportation. In this technology, Halbach permanent magnet rotors, termed electrodynamic...
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Thread Mapping Using System-Level Model for Shared Memory Multicores
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Author
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Mitra, Reshmi
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering, Mathematics
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Description
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Exploring thread-to-core mapping options for a parallel application on a multicore architecture is computationally very expensive. For the same algorithm, the mapping strategy (MS) with the best response time may change with data size and thread c...
