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Multidisciplinary Study of Soft Shape Morphing Systems
(2021)
Nature abounds with examples of shape morphing systems where an entity either gradually grows into a complex 3-D shape pattern or rapidly morphs into a new configuration. Inspired by the shape shifting capabilities of ...
Correlation Functions in Two-Dimensional Critical Systems with Conformal Symmetry.
(2012)
This thesis presents a study of certain conformal field theory (CFT) correlation functions that describe physical observables in conformally invariant two-dimensional critical systems. These are typically continuum limits ...
Numerical and Analytical Multiscale Modeling of High Cycle Fatigue in Advanced Materials
(2018)
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) approaches are gaining popularity in various industries, such as electronics, automobile, and aerospace, due to their focus on multiscale simulation-based design and ...
Symmetry and Reformulation: On Intellectual Progress in Science and Mathematics
(2022)
Science and mathematics continually change in their tools, methods, and concepts. Many of these changes are not just modifications but progress---steps to be admired. But what constitutes progress? This dissertation addresses ...
Autonomous Scene Understanding, Motion Planning, and Task Execution for Geometrically Adaptive Robotized Construction Work
(2019)
The construction industry suffers from such problems as high cost, poor quality, prolonged duration, and substandard safety. Robots have the potential to help alleviate such problems by becoming construction co-workers, ...
Separable Inverse Problems, Blind Deconvolution, and Stray Light Correction for Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Images.
(2013)
The determination of the inputs to a system given noisy output data is known as an inverse problem. When the system is a linear transformation involving unknown side parameters, the problem is called separable. A quintessential ...
Exploring Drug Bioaccumulation and Stabilization with Respect to Endolysosomal Ion Homeostasis Using a Systems-Based Mathematical Modeling Approach
(2018)
Even though most of the FDA approved drugs currently out in the market and in the process of development are weakly basic drugs, the bioaccumulation and stabilization of these drugs are not well understood. For this purpose, ...
Efficient Algorithms for Light Transmission, Focusing and Scattering Matrix Retrieval in Highly Diffusive 3D Random Media
(2018)
Wavefront shaping provides an increasingly appealing avenue for imaging and other applications that require controlling electromagnetic waves passing through complex and disordered media. Indeed, these techniques allow ...
Firing-Rate Models in Computational Neuroscience: New Applications and Methodologies
(2023)
Neurons make the nervous system tick. By communicating via electrical impulses, neurons form concentrated networks in localized regions of the brain to carry out the complex tasks required of the nervous system, ranging ...
Spatial Nonlocality and Its Effects on the Scattering Characteristics of Wave-Bearing Media
(2022)
Reciprocity is the principle in the study of wave propagation that states that given a source and a receiver in a linear domain, switching their locations will not affect the received signal. Systems that break reciprocity ...