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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Response Surface Methods"”.
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Response surface methods applied to submarine concept exploration
… including Lagrange multipliers, steepest ascent methods, linear programming, non-linear programming, and dynamic programming. To further improve submarine concept exploration, this thesis examines a statistical technique called Response Surface Methods (RSM). The purpose of RSM is to lead to an …
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Integrating response surface methods and uncertainty analysis into ship concept exploration
Thesis (Nav.E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2002.
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Adapting Response Surface Methods for the Optimization of Black-Box Systems
… input screening (Welch et al., 1992), mapping a response surface, or optimization (Jones et al., 1998). Only recently have researchers begun to consider these topics in the design and analysis of computer experiments. In this dissertation, we explore a more traditional response surface approach …
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Model selection and analysis tools in response surface modeling of the process mean and variance
… a serious issue facing industry today. And while response surface methods have been developed which address the process mean involved in improving the product there has been little research done on the process variability. Lack of quality in a product can be attributed to its inconsistency in …
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A military effectiveness analysis and decision making framework for naval ship design and acquisition
… a conventional submarine that is performed using Response Surface Methods to facilitate design space visualization and decision maker interaction. Measures of Merit are developed and applied to the case study. The resulting requirements space and methods to visualize and explore it in a decision …
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A decision making framework for cruise ship design
… of a cruise ship. This is performed using Response Surface Methods to enable the user to visualize the design space as well as interact with it; the results and methods to visualize the design space are discussed. Finally, a Unified Tradeoff Environment is discussed, a framework that pools …
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Design, fabrication, and characterization of an ultra-low cost inductively-coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition tool for micro- and nanofabrication
… in research-grade commercial tools. Using response surface methods, the performance of the ICP-CVD system has been characterized for both silicon dioxide and silicon nitride films, and repeatable control of the deposited film properties, including deposition rate, index of refraction, film …
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Production of high quality soybean oil and meal: Studies on extraction methods, processing steps, deep-fat frying and optimization of extrusion aided screw pressing
… were to evaluate the effects of extraction methods, processing steps, frying time and optimization of extrusion aided screw pressing on the quality of soybean oil and meal. The Crude soybean oil was obtained by commercial hexane solvent extraction (SE), or extrusion aided screw pressing …
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Advances in Aero-Propulsive Modeling for Fixed-Wing and eVTOL Aircraft Using Experimental Data
… missions and stimulate future air transportation methods. This dissertation presents several system identification research advancements for these modern aircraft configurations enabling accurate mathematical model development for flight dynamics simulations based on wind-tunnel and flight-test …