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Two-stage Ignition as an Indicator of Low Temperature Combustion in a Late Injection Pre-mixed Compression Ignition Control Strategy
(2011-02-22)
Internal combustion engines have dealt with increasingly restricted emissions requirements. After-treatment devices are successful in bringing emissions into compliance, but in-cylinder combustion control can reduce their ...
Use of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Transportation Infrastructure Condition Surveys
(2011-02-22)
This thesis provides an assessment of the effectiveness of micro unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs) as a tool for collecting condition data for transportation infrastructure based on multiple field experiments. The primary ...
Chinese Painting in 3D: An Artistic Study of the Use of the Traditional Chinese Painting Aesthetic in Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics
(2011-02-22)
This thesis presents a study of both traditional Chinese painting and threedimensional
(3D) digital non-photorealistic shading techniques, the results of which are used
to create a short animation illustrating an environment ...
The Beef Nutrient Database Improvement Project: Retail Cuts From the Rib and Plate
(2011-02-22)
The purpose of this study was to collect and analyze retail cuts from the beef rib and plate that had been identified as needing nutrient composition updates in the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National ...
Massively-Parallel Direct Numerical Simulation of Gas Turbine Endwall Film-Cooling Conjugate Heat Transfer
(2011-02-22)
Improvements to gas turbine efficiency depend closely on cooling technologies,
as efficiency increases with turbine inlet temperature. To aid in this process, simulations that consider real engine conditions need to be ...
Freehand Sketch Recognition for Computer-Assisted Language Learning of Written East Asian Languages
(2011-02-22)
One of the challenges students face in studying an East Asian (EA) language
(e.g., Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) as a second language is mastering their selected
language’s written component. This is especially true for ...
An Exact Algorithm and a Local Search Heuristic for a Two Runway Scheduling Problem
(2011-02-22)
A generalized dynamic programming based algorithm and a local search heuristic
are used to solve the Two Runway Departure Scheduling Problem that arises at
an airport. The objective of this work is to assign the departing ...
Study of Possible Applications of Currently Available Building Information Modeling Tools for the Analysis of Initial Costs and Energy Costs for Performing Life Cycle Cost Analysis
(2011-02-22)
The cost of design, construction and maintenance of facilities is on continual rise. The demand is to construct facilities which have been designed by apply life cycle costing principles. These principles have already given ...
The STAPL pList
(2011-02-22)
We present the design and implementation of the Standard Template Adap-
tive Parallel Library (stapl) pList, a parallel container that has the properties of
a sequential list, but allows for scalable concurrent access when ...
Light Scattering Problem and its Application in Atmospheric Science
(2011-02-22)
The light scattering problem and its application in atmospheric science is studied
in this thesis. In the first part of this thesis, light scattering theory of single irregular
particles is investigated. We first introduce ...