Parabolic trough collectors are a low cost implementation of concentrated solar power technology that focuses incident sunlight onto a tube filled with a heat transfer fluid. The efficiency and cost of the parabolic trough ...

High resolution imaging in three dimension is important for biological research. The RESOLFT (Reversible Saturable Optical Fluorescence Transitions) fluorescent microscopy is one technique which can achieve lateral ...

This research presents a parallel hypothesis method for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation that enables a vehicle to expand the operating envelope of existing long baseline acoustic navigation systems by incorporating ...

The accelerating growth of our ability to engineer at the nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunity to control the world around us in meaningful ways. One particularly exciting development is the production of nanofibers, ...

In this thesis, we explore the different methods for parameter estimation in straightforward diffusion problems and develop ideas and distributed computational schemes for the automated evaluation of physical and numerical ...

This thesis describes the effects of operational parameters upon aeroengine flutter stability. The study is composed of three parts: theoretical development of relevant parameters, exploration of a computational model, and ...

Internal gravity wave beams are time-harmonic plane waves with general spatial pro- le that arise in continuously stratified fluids owing to the anisotropy of this wave motion. In the last decade, these wave disturbances ...