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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Computational Engineering"”.
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Computational engineering of small molecules to treat infectious diseases
… Work from this thesis accelerates the field of computational drug design, which has implications in many uncured diseases and diagnostics.
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Pré e pós-processamento gráfico para análise global de risers e linhas de ancoragem
… is the result of the combination of Offshore Engineering and Computational Engineering knowledge ainnning to produce a group of pratical and efficient tools for the analysis of structural components used offshore by the petroleum industry. The engineering mathematical models used in this work, …
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Analysis and implementation of a high-order reconstruction algorithm for an unstructured finite volume flow solver
… with high fidelity. High-order schemes overcome computational limitations by computing comparable solutions on grids that are coarser than grids required by a second-order flow solver. The scheme was chosen based on two criteria. The first being that it is well documented in the literature for …
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Validation of interpolative interfaces for rotorcraft applications
The study uses computational methods to simulate fluid flow on the NASA ROBIN helicopter model and on a simplified rotor geometry previously tested at Mississippi State. The ROBIN model and the rotor are run using an unstructured grid. Results from the Tenasi flow solver are compared against both …
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Linear elastic mesh deformation via localized orthotropic material properties optimized by the adjoint method
… method has been shown to be a powerful tool in computational engineering with recent application to electromagnetics and fluid dynamics. However, achieving the high orders of accuracy easily available to the finite element method has proven difficult due to conforming higher-order meshes to …
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Design optimization using CAD parameterization through CAPRI
Design optimization is one of the many areas of Computational Engineering that is directly applicable to almost any engineering endeavor. The design cycle is a multi-step process, beginning with a Computer Aided Design (CAD) model and ending with an optimized version of that model relative to some …
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Service-oriented grids and problem solving environments
… fits the problem solving process needs of the computational engineering design community. Their unique requirements have created specific challenges for Grid technologies to bring interoperability, stability, scalability and flexibility, in addition to, transparent integration and generic …
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Novel Techniques for Quantifying Secondhand Smoke Diffusion into Children's Bedroom
<p>The impact of secondhand smoking to health of general population, and specifically children, is a well-known phenomenon that researchers have studied for years. In this dissertation, I extend work done within a secondhand smoke intervention to understand and quantity the impact of intervention …
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A Machine Learning Approach to Network Intrusion Detection System Using K Nearest Neighbor and Random Forest
<p>The evolving area of cybersecurity presents a dynamic battlefield for cyber criminals and security experts. Intrusions have now become a major concern in the cyberspace. Different methods are employed in tackling these threats, but there has been a need now more than ever to updating the …
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Combination of a Probabilistic-Based and a Rule-Based Approach for Genealogical Record Linkage
<p>Record linkage is the task of identifying records within one or multiple databases that refer to the same entity. Currently, there exist many different approaches for record linkage. Some approaches incorporate the use of heuristic rules, mathematical models, Markov models, or machine learning. …
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On Intelligent Mitigation of Process Starvation In Multilevel Feedback Queue Scheduling
<p>CPU time-share process schedulers for computer operating systems have existed since Corbato published his paper on the Compatible Time Sharing System in 1962 [8]. With this new type of scheduler came the need to effectively divide CPU time between N processes, where N could be 2 or more …
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Computing Radiation Exchange
<p>A computational tool to simulate thermal radiation between surfaces is developed. The output is verified against cases for which the analytical solutions are available. The tool can be used as a stand-alone program, or as an interactive module for CFD. In such an application the module would …
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Optimizing the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model for Uncertainty Assessment with Serial, Multicore and Distributed Accelerations
<p>Hydrology is the study of water. Hydrology tracks various attributes of water such as its quality and movement. As a tool Hydrology allows researchers to investigate topics such as the impacts of wildfires, logging, and commercial development. With perfect and complete data collection …
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Leveraging Intermediate Artifacts to Improve Automated Trace Link Retrieval
<p>Software traceability establishes a network of connections between diverse artifacts such as requirements, design, and code. However, given the cost and effort of creating and maintaining trace links manually, researchers have proposed automated approaches using information retrieval techniques. …
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IoTA: Internet of Things Assistant
… with very little hardware. As scale and computational requirements increase, these micro-controllers are unable to grow without being physically replaced.</p> <p>This thesis proposes a system, IoTA, that assists the Internet of Things by pro- viding a shared computational resource for …
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Artificial Neural Network-Based Robotic Control
<p>Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are highly-capable alternatives to traditional problem solving schemes due to their ability to solve non-linear systems with a nonalgorithmic approach. The applications of ANNs range from process control to pattern recognition and, with increasing importance, …
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Bias and Fairness of Evasion Attacks in Image Perturbation
<p>When talking about protecting privacy of personal images, adversarial attack methods play key roles. These methods are created to protect against the unauthorized usage of personal images. Such methods protect personal privacy by adding some amount of perturbations, otherwise known as "noise", …
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Interoperation for Lazy and Eager Evaluation
<p>Programmers forgo existing solutions to problems in other programming lan- guages where software interoperation proves too cumbersome; they remake so- lutions, rather than reuse them. To facilitate reuse, interoperation must resolve language incompatibilities transparently. To address part of …
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Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of a Parafoil
… parachute design and optimization using modern computational methods to reduce costs in experimental testing. This thesis investigates the foundation for using an implicit fluid-structure interaction computational model to tackle the challenges of modeling a highly-flexible, porous fabric for …
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