Chemical Transport Models (CTMs) are important tools for air quality research, and it is of the same importance to provide accurate weather information as input data to CTMs. In this thesis, the Weather Research and Forecast ...

This work contains analysis of directionally oriented material with heterogeneity across the spacial domain, between materials, and over time. Composite material containing directionally oriented material have become a ...

Effective water resources management typically relies on numerical models to analyze groundwater flow and solute transport processes. Since the important hydrogeological parameters of these models (e.g., hydraulic conductivity) ...

Travel safety research works include the studies of risk factor investigation, crash detection, and crash frequency prediction. However, the existing studies are focused on the macro level, paying little attention to the ...

Current and future food security are threatened by impending population growth, increasing demand for resource intensive foods, and climate change. Coping strategies at various scales have been proposed to help food security. ...

Water shortages and flooding have caused large property losses and endangered human lives in many areas. Rapid and informed response is needed to ensure effective water management, including reliable and immediate data ...

This thesis presents new theoretical and computational developments and an integrated approach for interface and interphase mechanics in the process and performance modeling of fibrous composite materials. A new class of ...

With the recent advances in material processing technologies and the introduction of the material genome initiative, material processing has gained an increased level of attention in the research community. Primary challenges ...

This study demonstrated that non-biologically active GAC filtration cannot provide sustained bromate removal whereas BAC filtration can provide sustained removal under a wide variety of water quality conditions.

This thesis deals with certain iterative methods of solving finite difference equations arising from elliptic type boundary-value problems. A procedure that accelerates the convergence of explicit) linear iterative methods ...