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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...