A wide selection of deterministic and stochastic methods have been developed to conduct nuclear reactor criticality calculations and to improve the efficiency of these methods, a branch of neutronics method research focuses on the acceleration of source convergence process which…
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Simulation is a powerful technique to study complex problems and systems. This thesis explores two different problems. Part 1 (Chapters 2 and 3) focuses on the theory and practice of the problem of simulating graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. Part 2 (Chapter 4) focuses o…
New unsaturated coupled models have been developed for fluid transport in deformable rock by using modified mixture theory rather than a fully mechanics-based approach. These models include the following: an unsaturated hydro-mechanical coupled model for both non-swelling and sw…
There is evidence that a stably stratified layer of fluid, which is not penetrated by the convective flow of fluid in the bulk of the outer core, is located below the Core-Mantle Boundary (CMB). The question considered in this thesis is whether such a layer also affects the core…
It is proven that if one desires self-similar asymptotic limit points in spatially homogeneous cosmological models, then dimensionless equations of state are necessary. The converse is also true; it is proven that dimensionless equations of state imply self-similar asymptotic li…
My installations are collaborations with time, material, and chaos. I want to show the beauty and sadness which lies in the process of entropy. Entropy (the second law of thermodynamics) is a term used in physics to measure the cooling and gradual loss of energy in all things; f…
The interface and interchange between humans and machines are investigated in this dissertation as a boundary limed by the onto-epistemology of antiblack racism since the turn of the nineteenth century. By framing the nineteenth century plantation as a machine template for the i…
It has often been the case in history that the laws of physics have been used as the framework for understanding and implementing information processing. The tacit assumption is that the laws of physics are fundamental and that the notion of information is derived from these law…