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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"predictive simulation"”.
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Predictive Simulation of Musculoskeletal Models Using Direct Collocation
Applications of biomechanical predictive simulation are wide ranging, with the technique used to provide insights into movement disorders, sports performance, and injury prevention. However, current software provision has limitations. Users are restricted from leveraging state-of-the-art methods …
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Defect engineering strategies for solar grade silicon and their optimization by predictive simulation
… and is used as input parameter for the simulations together with total and interstitial Fe concentrations pub lished for this material. As-grown and post-processed electron lifetimes and solar cell efficiencies are calculated assuming the time-temperature profile of a standard PDG during …
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Predictive simulation and design of III-V heterostructures for light emission and detection
… to photodetectors and optical amplifiers. Predictive simulations are key to support the development of these technologies. In this Thesis we employ both first-principles and continuum empirical - based respectively on density functional theory (DFT) and the k·p method – calculations to …
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Full chip modeling for predictive simulation of charged device model electrostatic discharge events
… during CDM events. In this thesis, circuit-level simulations of internal I/O circuits are used to elucidate the roles of the package, power clamp placement, anti-parallel diode placement and decoupling capacitors in determining the amount of stress at the internal I/O circuits. This thesis will …
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Genome-wide Predictive Simulation on the Effect of Perturbation and the Cause of Phenotypic variations with Network Biology Approach
… algorithms from human B cell data. With the same predictive framework, we also computationally predict the master driver (regulator) that is most likely to have produced the observed variations in gene expression levels; these studies as a systematized pre-screening process before genetic …
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Multiscale modeling of thin film deposition processes
… over different length scales. In this work, predictive simulation tools for these two processes have been developed by investigating the surface reaction and the transport phenomena in IPVD and ECD processes. In the IPVD process, molecular dynamics (MD) techniques with embedded-atom …
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Transition metal gettering studies and simulation for the optimization of silicon photovoltaic device processing
… driving forces and kinetic responses to make predictive simulation of gettering during solar cell fabrication possible. We have developed a simulator to explore the impact of various device and process parameters on gettering effectiveness. The relevant heat treatments are ramps up in …
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Co-optimizing silicon solar cell processing for efficiency and throughput
… throughput and steady emitter sheet resistance. Predictive simulation, electrical characterization techniques, and synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence were combined to compare this new processing approach to standard solar cell processing. This continuously ramped temperature processing may be a …
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Coupled fluid structure simulations for application to grid-to-rod fretting
… the United States. The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) has identified GTRF as one of the "Challenge Problems" that motivates the need for development and application of a modeling environment for predictive simulation of light water reactors. In this thesis, an …
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Real time toll optimization based on predicted traffic conditions
… which aims to develop an adaptive integrated simulation-optimization framework that brings together several enhancements: real time, predictive, simulation-based and consistent. The main components of the framework include DTA model, DynaMIT, for evaluating control strategies, optimization …
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Novel Resonance Self-Shielding Methods for Nuclear Reactor Analysis
In the simulation of the behavior of neutrons in a nuclear reactor, there has long been a dichotomy in solution techniques. One can use Monte Carlo methods, known to be very accurate and problem agnostic but also very costly, or deterministic methods, known to be more computationally efficient but …
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A computational and experimental study of spark ignition engine combustion
… relationship was incorporated into the engine simulation code and found to improve greatly the predictions of the two-zone combustion model. New flame acceleration and laminar burning velocity submodels reported in the literature were added to the engine simulation code. The suitability of …
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Adaptive Simulation Modelling Using The Digital Twin Paradigm
… mechanisms such as corrosion and cracking. These predictive models are either physics-based, data-driven or hybrid based. The process of building these predictive models tends to involve processing some input parameters related to the material properties (e.g.: mass density, modulus of elasticity, …
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Modelling atmospheric dispersal of fungal pathogens on continental scales to safeguard global wheat production
… that connect entire continents. Mechanistic simulations of turbulent atmospheric spore dispersal are conducted. The analyses bring together a variety of data, including international field disease surveys and finely resolved meteorological model data. The UK Met Office’s Langrangian …
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Very near-nozzle shear-layer turbulence and jet noise
… on jet noise. These are important both for predictive simulation and lab-scale experiments. One of the principal challenges in the prediction and design of low-noise nozzles is resolving the near-nozzle mixing layers at the high Reynolds numbers of engineering conditions. Faithfully …
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Metal impurities in n-type crystalline silicon for photovoltaics : simulation, synchrotron-based characterization, and mitigation
… This thesis explores why, using a combination of simulation and experiment. In particular, synchrotron-based micro-X-ray fluorescence mapping is used to non-destructively evaluate metal impurity evolution during processing. This thesis demonstrates that metal impurity redistribution during solar …