Browsing by Author "Mohanty, Binayak"
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A 0.18-μm BICMOS 20-57 GHz Ultra-Wideband Low-Noise Amplifier Utilizing Frequency-Controlled Positive-Negative Feedback Technique
Luo, Yuan (2015-12-02)Silicon based complementary metallic oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (BiCMOS) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), including microwave and millimeter-wave (MMW), are ... -
Aquitard control of stream-aquifer interaction and flow to a horizontal well in coastal aquifers
Sun, Dongmin (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This dissertation is composed of three parts of major contributions: In Chapter II, we developed a new conceptual model and derived a new semi-analytical model for flow to a horizontal well beneath a water reservoir. Instead ... -
Calibration of Cosmic-Ray Soil Neutron Sensors (CRNS) in Different Land Use-Land Covers in Lower Brazos River Basin: A Modeling Approach
Singh, Siddharth (2019-07-29)The cosmic-ray neutron sensors (CRNS) are a proximal sensor that can be used to estimate spatially averaged soil moisture at hectometer scale. The sensor measures the number of thermalized neutrons created by the collision ... -
Characteristics and Effects of Metal(II)-Doped Iron Oxides on the Reactivity of the Activated Iron Media Treatment System
Lin, Sin-Hong (2016-12-07)The activated iron media (AIM) treatment system is an innovative ZVI-based water treatment technology for removing heavy metals, reactive oxyanions and nutrients from a contaminated water stream. The AIM treatment system ... -
Designing a Modeling Framework for Estimating Soil Moisture in Heterogeneous Landscape
Rana, Samagra (2016-04-26)Soil moisture is an important component in many hydrologic and land– atmosphere interactions. Proper characterization of soil moisture variability is vital for understanding hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical ... -
Developing Soil Moisture Maps in Skeletal Soils Using a COSMOS Rover
Medina, Candice Renee (2018-05-07)The presence of coarse fragments (rocks) can impact soil physical properties such as volumetric water content, bulk density, and plant available water. Soils containing greater than 35 percent coarse fragments by volume ... -
Development of indices for agricultural drought monitoring using a spatially distributed hydrologic model
Narasimhan, Balaji (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Farming communities in the United States and around the world lose billions of dollars every year due to drought. Drought Indices such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) ... -
Earth Systems Modeling in the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer: Improvement of Computational Methods and Development of Conceptual Model
Merket, Courtney Brooke (2017-08-16)Traditional hydrologic modeling has compartmentalized the water cycle into distinct components (e.g. Traditional hydrologic modeling has compartmentalized the water cycle into distinct components (e.g. rainfall-runoff, ... -
Effective Modeling Approaches for CO2 EOR Developments
Onishi, Tsubasa (2017-12-12)We present a simulation study of a mature reservoir for COv2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) development. This project is currently recognized as the world’s largest project utilizing post-combustion COv2 from power generation ... -
Evaluating Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing Towards Improving Site-specific Management
Rouze, Gregory Scott (2019-10-15)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer exciting new potentials within the field of precision agriculture. However, the technology remains in an experimental setting because of questions concerning data quality and quantity. ... -
Evaluation of Contaminant Mixing in Rainwater Harvesting First Flush Diverters
Mechell, Justin K. (2010-01-14)As the world population increases, the demand increases for quality drinking water. The harvesting of rainwater has the potential to assist in alleviating pressures on current water supplies and storm water drainage systems. ... -
Evapotranspiration and Its Partitioning in Tallgrass Prairie under Woody Plant Encroachment
Sun, Xiangmin (2019-11-20)Evapotranspiration (ET) drives the energy and mass exchanges between ground and atmosphere. Partitioning of ET into evaporation from both bare soil (E) and vegetation interception (I) and plant transpiration (T) is essential ... -
A Fully Integrated Multi-Band Multi-Output Synthesizer with Wide-Locking-Range 1/3 Injection Locked Divider Utilizing Self-Injection Technique for Multi-Band Microwave Systems
Lee, Sang Hun (2012-10-19)This dissertation reports the development of a new multi-band multi-output synthesizer, 1/2 dual-injection locked divider, 1/3 injection-locked divider with phase-tuning, and 1/3 injection-locked divider with self-injection ... -
High-Isolation Low-Power Active Quasi-Circulator for 44GHz Transceiver with Power and Noise Optimization in 0.18 Micrometer BICMOS
Meng, Fangyu (2014-12-03)Circulator is an important directional component in RF, microwave and millimeter wave communication front ends for certain communications, which requires transmitting and receiving signal simultaneously in the same band ... -
Hot Spots and Persistence of Nitrate in Aquifers Across Scales
Dwivedi, Dipankar; Mohanty, Binayak (Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2016) -
The impact of grid geometry on displacement calculations
Jimenez Arismendi, Eduardo A. (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Reservoir simulation models are becoming increasingly sophisticated in tandem with the rapid development of geological modeling methods. Widely used commercial simulators usually model flow through heavily faulted and ... -
Improving Predictions of Soil and Plant Evapotranspiration in Vadose Zone and Land Surface Models
Song, Jae Young (2019-11-22)This study focuses on the surface hydrology to contribute to its better parameterization through inter-comparison and direct improvement with two scopes: (1) soil evaporation process, and (2) the forest hydrological/physiological ... -
Influence of Atmospheric Pressure and Water Table Fluctuations on Gas Phase Flow and Transport of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Unsaturated Zones
You, Kehua (2013-04-19)Understanding the gas phase flow and transport of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in unsaturated zones is indispensable to develop effective environmental remediation strategies, to create precautions for fresh water ... -
Integration of Time Lapse Seismic Data Using Onset Time and Analysis of Spatial Resolution
Hetz, Gill (2017-09-12)Integration of time-lapse seismic data into the reservoir model offers great potential in understanding reservoir flow patterns as well as reservoir properties. However, it also requires the solution of an inverse problem, ... -
Investigation of Non-homogenous hidden Markov models and their Application to Spatially-distributed Precipitation Types
Song, Jae Young (2012-08-29)Precipitation is an important element in the hydrological cycle. To predict and simulate large-scale precipitation, Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are widely used. However, their grid scale is too big to apply to local ...