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Showing 1 to 20 of 513 for “"Computational modeling"”.
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Computational modeling of melanin aggregation
… building blocks in aqueous solutions using computational meth- ods, in particular multi-microsecond molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and density func- tional theory (DFT) calculations. The results of the MD simulations show that DHI-eumelanin aggregates through nanoscale stacking, and …
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Computational modeling of discourse comprehension
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Computational Modeling of Biological Function
… manifestation and demonstrates the potential of computational modeling in uncovering new dimensions of cellular function and complexity.
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Computational Modeling of Bacterial Biofilms
With recent advances in experimental imaging and image analysis techniques, highly time-resolved measurements of complex bacterial communities at single-cell resolution are now possible to obtain. Guided by these rich experimental data sets, we improve a recently proposed three-dimensional …
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Computational modeling of granular materials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Computational modeling of health decision-making
… value-based food and activity choice using computational methods. Individuals completed a series of decision-making tasks for food and activities while electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) were recorded. EEG data were then input into a convolutional neural network (CNN) to …
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Computational modeling of indentation of materials
This thesis focusses on computational modeling of several different indentation problems involving the microindentation, nanoindentation and reference point indentation (RPI). The goal of this thesis is to develop better understanding of indentation processes in different materials utilizing …
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Computational modeling of asthmatic airway collapse
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Multiscale computational modeling of nanofluidic transport
… critical knowledge gap by adapting multiscale computational modeling to better understand the mechanisms of intrinsic molecular interaction in nanofluidic applications. We performed ab initio molecular dynamics to study the nanoscale solvation behavior of selected ions on finite graphene …
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Computational Modeling of Total Temperature Probes
A study is presented to explore the suitability of CFD as a tool in the design and analysis of total temperature probes. Simulations were completed using 2D axisymmetric and 3D geometry of stagnation total temperature probes using ANSYS Fluent. The geometric effects explored include comparisons of …
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Computational Modeling of Claudin-15 Paracellular Channels
… molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, reduced computational modeling, and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to address these gaps. Atomistic MD simulations of Cldn-15 strands in opposing plasma membranes demonstrated that lateral flexibility emerges from multiple modular cis interfaces, …
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Computational modeling of wind turbine wake interactions
… energy market necessitates the need for advanced computational modeling and understanding of wind turbine aerodynamics and wake interactions. The following thesis work looks to study turbulence closure methods widely used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and their applicability for modeling …
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Computational modeling of brittle impact erosion mechanisms
… in material loss and damage. Proper analytical modeling of the erosion-corrosion processes validated by experiments is needed to estimate the extent of damage in the material.;Empirical relations are available in the literature for predicting the amount of material loss due to erosion. These are …
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Comprehensive Computational Modeling of Hypergolic Propellant Ignition
… red fuming nitric acid (RFNA) is investigated computationally. A hierarchical approach is chosen to study parametric behavior of isolated processes and complex interactions thereof, in this transient phenomenon. Starting with a homogeneous reactor, performance of three reduced kinetic …
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Computational Modeling And Simulation Of Thrombus Formation
… (Chapter 1). In Chapter 2, mathematical modeling and sensitivity analysis were used to explore the mechanistic model of thrombus formation; the results support our working hypothesis that computationally derived points of fragility of human relevant cascades could be used as a rational …
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Computational Modeling of Planktonic and Biofilm Metabolism
… Therefore, in this study, I have applied computational modeling approaches (i.e., 13C assisted pathway and flux analysis, flux balance analysis, and machine learning) to both planktonic and biofilm cells for better understanding intracellular metabolisms and providing valuable biological …
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Computational modeling of hydrogen embrittlement of iron aluminides
… embrittlement, comparative finite element modeling simulations of intergranular fracture of two iron aluminides (FA186 and FA189) were carried out. The computational simulations involved sequentially coupled stress and hydrogen diffusion analyses to determine crack-tip stress state and the …
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The application of computational modeling to data visualization
… theory and practice in a more rigorous way, a computational model of the primary visual cortex is used to explore the perception of data visualizations.</p><p>A method is presented for automatically evaluating and optimizing data visualizations for an analytical task using a computational model …
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