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Picowatt Resolution Calorimetry for Micro and Nanoscale Energy Transport Studies.
(2014)
Precise quantification of energy transport is key to obtaining insights into a wide range of phenomena across various disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. This thesis describes development of ...
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, ...
Optical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (OQCM) for Dual-Mode Analysis
(2018)
Label-free biosensors allow for real-time measurements of the target molecule, providing valuable kinetic data about the unperturbed biological system. Yet, they generally rely on a single transduction mechanism that ...
Computational Studies of Turbulent Skin-Friction Drag Reduction with Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces and Riblets
(2017)
Skin-friction Drag Reduction (DR) with SuperHydrophobic (SH) surfaces and riblets was investigated using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) to study the scaling and mechanism of DR, and the pressure loads on SH surfaces in ...
Probing Heat Transport and Energy Conversion at the Atomic and Single Molecule Scale
(2018)
The study of heat transport and energy conversion constitutes an important subject in modern physics and engineering research. The widely-applied Fourier’s and Planck’s laws have proven to be very useful to describe heat ...
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 ...
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fuel Injector Tip Wetting as a Source of Particulate Emissions in Gasoline Direct-Injection Engines
(2019)
Gasoline fuel film deposited on the tip of a fuel injector, i.e. injector tip wetting, has been identified as a significant source of particulate emissions at some operating conditions of gasoline direct-injection engines. ...
Understanding the Importance of an Energy Crisis.
(2009)
Human development and energy, in general, and electrical energy, specifically, co-exist seamlessly in high HDI countries where reliability and availability is greater than 99%. In numerous low HDI countries, there is 2-50% ...
Regulating Gene Expression Through DNA Mechanics: Tightly Looped DNA Represses Transcription.
(2010)
It is now widely accepted that the mechanical state of DNA can play a major role in regulating the activity of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Not only have the global levels of supercoiling been shown to regulate transcription, ...
Electron Thermal Transport Modeling of Laser-Plasmas
(2023)
A longstanding challenge in the field of high-energy-density physics is the development of a predictive simulation framework for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments, which are complex multi-physics systems that ...