Browsing by Author "Ley, Obdulia"
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Mendez, Tanya (2009-05-15)The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between environ-mental heat exchange and vascular response in the pallid bat wing during systemicheating and to develop a simplied model of heat transfer for ...
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Ley, Obdulia; Kim, Taehong (BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2007)
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Development of a microfluidic device for patterning multiple species by scanning probe lithography Rivas Cardona, Juan Alberto (2009-06-02)Scanning Probe Lithography (SPL) is a versatile nanofabrication platform that leverages microfluidic “ink” delivery systems with Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) for generating surface-patterned chemical functionality on ...
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Berchane, Nader Samir (2009-05-15)The need to tailor release-rate profiles from polymeric microspheres remains one of the leading challenges in controlled drug delivery. Microsphere size, which has a significant effect on drug release rate, can potentially ...
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Kim, Bo Hung (2009-06-02)A graphical preprocessor for Spectral Element Method (SEM) is developed with an emphasis on user friendly graphical interface and instructive element construction. The interface of the preprocessor helps users with every ...
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Ijaz, Muhammad (2009-05-15)A numerical method (SIMPLE DIRK Method) for unsteady incompressible viscous flow simulation is presented. The proposed method can be used to achieve arbitrarily high order of accuracy in time-discretization which is otherwise ...
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Balasubramanian, Ashwin Kumar (2009-05-15)A microfluidic device, based on electrophoretic transport and electrostatic trapping of charged particles, has been developed for continuous capture and concentration of microorganisms from water. A generic design, utilizing ...
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Sun, Chih-Chen (2009-05-15)This research focuses on characterizing a potato with extra sugar content and identifying the location and depth of the extra sugar content using the active thermography imaging technique. The extra sugar content of the ...
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Supak, Kevin Robert (2009-05-15)Liquid-metal Rankine power conversion systems (PCS) coupled with a fission reactor remain an attractive option for space power applications because system specific power and efficiency is very favorable for plant designs ...
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Supak, Kevin Robert (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Liquid-metal Rankine power conversion systems (PCS) coupled with a fission reactor remain an attractive option for space power applications because system specific power and efficiency is very favorable for plant designs ...
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Simultaneous and instantaneous measurement of velocity and density in rayleigh-taylor mixing layers Kraft, Wayne Neal (2009-05-15)There are two coupled primary objectives for this study of buoyancy-driven turbulence. The first objective is to create a new diagnostic for collection of measurements to capture the physics of Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing. ...
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Kim, Ho Jun (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Theoretical and numerical studies of chaotic mixing are performed to circumvent the difficulties of efficient mixing, which come from the lack of turbulence in microfluidic devices. In order to carry out efficient and ...
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Deshpande, Chinmay Vishwas (2009-05-15)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Analysis of vascular reactivity (VR) in response to brachial artery occlusion is used to estimate arterial health and to determine the ...
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Kim, Taehong (2009-05-15)Atherosclerotic plaques with high probability of rupture show the presence of a hot spot due to the accumulation of inflammatory cells. This study utilizes two and three dimensional (2-D and 3-D) arterial geometries ...