Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is essential for extracting the large amounts of oil remaining in an oil reservoir after primary and secondary recoveries. Several methods of EOR are available and the use of each of these methods depends on the characteristics and properties of the o…
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This thesis consists of two research problems in the air conditioning (A/C) area. For the first problem, the aim is to model and simulate a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air conditioning system. The coefficient of performance (COP) for refrigeration or heat pump system is one …
Droplet dynamics involves multi-scale forces from inertia body force, interior viscous shear stress to surface tension. The main purpose of this thesis is to simulate the normal impact of a liquid droplet on a hydrophobic surface by solving for the Navier-Stokes equations. The n…
This study focuses on the appointment scheduling for patients traveling from out-of-town to Destination Medical Center (DMC) for follow-up medical treatment. The scheduling system in this study is intended to address patient concern of waiting time which is considered as the tim…
Improving safety during medication administration has been a goal of today’s healthcare environment. The complexity of both medication use and the medication management process, especially in the in-patient setting, creates a significant risk for hospitalized clients. Medication…
The present thesis is primarily motivated by the will to provide help for decisionmaking on the overall layout of a house or a housing development in the very early stages of design from the point of view of energy efficiency and thermal comfort. This study contributes towards a…
Airport operation level of service (LOS) and performance management are among the major concerns by any airport authority. Two aspects considered in that kind of measurement: passengers prospective and operators prospective. This thesis tries to combine both in its produced opti…
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones, in general, are of great interest to weather and climate scientists alike due to their destructive tendency. Though Hawaii has historically avoided being hit directly by hurricanes, it is certain that the islands are uniquely vulnerable to cyclo…
Randomized trials are the gold standard for assessing causal relationships between an intervention and a clinical outcome. The challenge with randomized trials is that they are very expensive to perform, often take place at different times and locations, take many years to compl…
The destructive potential of wildfires has been exacerbated by climate change, causing their frequencies and intensities to continuously increase globally. In this context, increasing wildfire activity across the globe has become an urgent issue with enormous ecological and soci…
Most technological relevant structural materials are polycrystals that contain many (millions) so-called grains. Plastic deformation in polycrystalline metallic materials is not homogeneous at the microscale, but sometimes strongly heterogeneous among grains and varies spatially…
In-situ foaming the injection gas for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) can improve the volumetric sweep efficiency of the gas phase and reduce gas channeling and viscous fingering in the oil reservoirs with permeability contrast. However, the success of foam displacement in porous me…
In this document a highly detailed stochastic soot model limited to 0D simulations is coupled to 3D domains through the use of a Lagrangian parcel-Eulerian fluid method. Although both the stochastic soot model used and the Lagrangian parcel-Eulerian fluid method have long histor…
Fueled in part by recent applications in neuroscience, high-dimensional Hawkes processes are widely used for modeling the network of interactions among multivariate point processes. Despite this popularity, existing methodological and theoretical work has mainly focused on estim…
The game of Gomoku, also called Five in a Row, is an abstract strategy board game. The Gomoku program is constructed upon an algebraic monomial theory to aid values for each possible move and estimate chances for the artificial intelligence program to accomplish a winning path f…
Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) are perhaps the most efficient method for tunnel excavation, as they have become the dominant mode and method of tunneling around the world. One of the essential steps for justification of the use of TBMs as well as planning the completion time and e…
Throughout the history of mankind, we have sought ways and means to extend the boundaries of our sensory system with the help of science and technology. Active sensing systems have played a vital role in the advancement of human civilization— in navigation, communication, system…
Transitions between neuronal states are essential to cognitive and motor processes but are less understood than the states themselves. Transitions often consist of irregular activity which computational models predict is chaotic, and thus activity is deterministic and sensitive …
Advancements in technology have always been limited by the availability of the necessary materials. The greatest marvels in engineering have both caused and motived advances in materials science. This symbiotic relationship between advancements in science and technology as well …