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(2016-11-09)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 ...
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(2018-05-07)Despite the long history of water research, understanding drinking water microbiome continuum spanning from source water, treatment in the production process, distribution network, and up to the point where water enters a ...
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(2018-04-26)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 ...
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(2019-09-12)Green infrastructure (GI) is becoming a common solution to mitigate stormwater-related problems. Despite wide acknowledgement of GI benefits, there is a lack of decision support tools that allow practitioners to interactively ...
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(2016-07-14)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) ...
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(2019-04-25)Waterborne pathogens related to the lack of safe drinking water and surface water contamination pose a substantial threat to human health. Sunlight-mediated inactivation of waterborne pathogens has been widely studied in ...
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(2020-05-15)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 ...
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(2020-05-08)In many engineering applications, it is necessary to account for interactions among multiple spatial scales through numerical simulations. Resolving fine-scale features such as geometrical details, cracks, and localized ...
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(2019-04-23)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. ...
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(2017-12-13)Topology Optimization often enforces a minimum feature size, also known as a scale, to avoid instability and inaccuracy in the optimized result. This is usually done by applying a discretized convolution kernel on either ...
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(2017-06-21)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 ...
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(2019-07-15)A stabilized variational framework that admits overlapping as well as non overlapping coupling of domains for a variety of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is employed in this work. This method accommodates non-matching ...
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(2016-09-06)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 ...
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(2018-07-11)This dissertation presents a new paradigm for addressing multi-physics problems with interfaces in the field of Additive Manufacturing and the modeling of fibrous composite materials. The unique process of adding the ...
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(2018-12-07)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 ...
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(2002)This research has demonstrated that, while abiotic perchlorate removal by GAC is ineffective, BAC filtration can provide efficient, sustained perchlorate removal under a broad range of operating conditions and water quality ...
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(2000)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.
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(2014-05-30)This project focused on the abrasion resistance of concrete railway crossties. In the first phase of this project, a series of high performance concrete mixes was developed that utilized different replacement levels of ...
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(University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1962-04)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 ...
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