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Title: Characterization of Highly Efficient Delivery Models for Eye Care Services in Veteran Affairs
Author: Kilambi, Sruthi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Veterans Affairs (VA) provides eye care and vision treatment to all eligible veterans to help improve eye and vision health. Over the past years, timely access to eye care has become a challenge with the increase in its demand. Therefore, it is im...

Title: Coordinated optimal control of smart buildings and PV systems in active distribution networks
Author: Kodanda Pani, Naveen Kumar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the electrical grid system. With advancement in smart technology such as smart me...

Title: Experimentally Infused Active System Optimization - Theoretical Framework and Airborne Wind Energy Case Study
Author: Deodhar, Nihar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: This research pioneers formal combined plant and controller optimization (termed ``co-design") schemes for complex systems where accurate but expensive experiments are fused with cheap but less accurate numerical simulations. This fusion of experi...

Title: Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Bafandeh, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...

Title: Mechanical Instability of the Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries
Author: Yuan, Chunhao
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are considered promising candidates for next-generation batteries due to their excellent safety performance guaranteed by inorganic solid electrolytes (SEs) with the non-flammability nature, as well as the greatly...

Title: Multi-sensor Remote Sensing for Understanding the Interacting Environmental Disturbances of Forest Fire and Plant Disease
Author: He, Yinan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...

Title: Multiphysics nature of Lithium-ion Battery safety issues
Author: Jia, Yikai
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Safety issues of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are usually initiated from an internal short circuit (ISC) that can be triggered by external accidental abusive loadings. The generated heat and the increased temperature would lead to several complica...

Title: Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Based Energy Storage System Selection for Marine Renewable Energy Storage Systems
Author: Konka, Shravani
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: An exponential increase in energy demand worldwide induces researchers to opt foralternative energy sources that are cleaner. The most effective solution to the global warming risk is to use sustainable sources. Researchers consider oceans can con...

Title: NESTED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR FUSING ITERATIVE PLANT OPTIMIZATION WITH CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER OPTIMIZATION
Author: Deese, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization process by adjusting controller parameters during an experiment while plant parame...

Title: Reconﬁguration of distribution network with distributed energy resources for enhancing resilience
Author: Arora, Mohit
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Industrial engineering, Operations research
Description: Enhancing the resiliency of the electric grid is a major challenge facing the electric regulatory bodies. Beyond the traditional approaches of improving the resiliency such as vegetation management, damage assessment and communication technology, ...