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Adaptive resonant mode control for high frequency tonal noise	The development of a virtual reality based CAD system for design review

Using X-ray computed tomography to measure local gas holdup in a stirred tank reactor	Computational fluid dynamic modeling of acoustic liquid manipulation

Empirical validation of building energy simulation software: EnergyPlus	The measurement of flame propagation within an electrostatic particulate system

Case study of a high efficiency home	Performance of corn stoves

A technique for shape optimization of ducted fans	Assessment of haptics-based interaction for assembly tasks in virtual reality

Solar heating of a residential building in Kazakhstan	Numerical investigation of effect of buoyancy on the wake of a heated cylinder in contra flow

The PHANTOM Omni as an under-actuated robot	Optimization of a hydraulic mixing nozzle

A techno-economic analysis of syngas fermentation for the production of hydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoate	Investigation of phospholipid separation from soybean oil for biodiesel production

Development of a portable laboratory facility to demonstrate alternative energy technologies	Friction and wear behavior of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene as a function of crystallinity and in the presence of the phospholipid DPPC (dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine)

Investigation into the stress assisted damage of copper surface under single asperity: Influence of contact pressures, surfaces stress states and environments	Simulating energy efficiency in laboratory buildings

Energy efficiency enhancements to a low energy high performance building	Nondestructive detection and characterization of damages in honeycomb composite structures

Devising a more robust automated detection method using audio frequency spectra	Energy comparison of under floor air distribution heating ventilation and air conditioning systems in office buildings

Analysis of a DDGS Air-Drying System with heat recovery	Modeling and simulation of nanoparticle aggregation in colloidal systems

Visualizing fluidized beds with X-rays	Techno-economic evaluations of biofuel technologies

Characterization of actuator behaviors of ferrogels obtained from physical and chemical cross-linking methods	An energy and cost analysis of residential ground-source heat pumps in Iowa

Characterization of conductive surface printing via electric field induced ion transport	Force interaction characterization between thrombin and DNA aptamers

A feasibility study of implementing an ammonia economy	Pulsed laser ablation and micromachining of 4H and 6H SiC wafers for high-temperature MEMS sensors

Autonomous construction agents: An investigative framework for large sensor network self-management	The application of polynomial response surface and polynomial chaos expansion metamodels within an augmented reality conceptual design environment

Numerical simulation of straight line flow with sparse roughness and tornado-like flow on smooth floor	Metamodeling for the quantitative assessment of conceptual designs in an immersive virtual reality environment

Laser microfabrication and testing of silicon carbide diaphragms for MEMS applications	High-frame-rate planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of diesel sprays using pulse burst diagnostics

A method to reduce smearing in the milling of metal foams	Thermal analysis of a fireplace using ANSYS

Tools & techniques for reduced energy consumption with residential energy system example application	Combustion and emissions characteristics of a compression-ignition engine using dual ammonia-diesel fuel

Ultrafast-time-gated ballistic-photon imaging and shadowgraphy in optically dense rocket sprays	Qualitative measurements of pressure-atomized sprays through simultaneous collection of planar fluorescence, phosphorescence, and Mie scattering data

Response of tin whiskers to dynamic input: Mathematical modeling and experimental property measurement	Development of novel semisolid powder processing for micromanufacturing

Closed-loop force control for a semi-automatic grinding system	Control approach to high-speed large-range AFM imaging and nanofabrication

The uses of laboratory testing of biomass cookstoves and the shortcomings of the dominant U.S. protocol	Thermal and mechanical phenomena in nanoscale constrained domains

Development of a rate of injection bench and constant volume combustion chamber for diesel spray diagnostics	Comparison of the energy and economic feasibility of different building systems

Numerical study of effects of high exhaust gas recirculation and energy recovery system on diesel engine performance	The effects of biomass pretreatments on the products of fast pyrolysis

Engine spray combustion modeling using unified spray model with dynamic mesh refinement	Investigations into the fate and behavior of selected inorganic compounds during biomass gasification

Geometric process planning in rough machining	Improving path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles in an immersive environment using meta-paths and terrain information

Laser sintering of nanodiamond powders on aluminum substrate	Development of a lab-scale auger reactor for biomass fast pyrolysis and process optimization using response surface methodology

Hybrid thermochemical/biological processing of biomass for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates and hydrogen gas from Rhodospirillum rubrum cultured on synthesis gas	Design, optimization and evaluation of a free-fall biomass fast pyrolysis reactor and its products

Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell functionally graded electrodes and a feasibility study of fabrication techniques for functionally graded electrodes	A virtual reality interface for the design of compliant mechanisms

Techno-economic analysis of biomass-to-liquids production based on gasification	Survey of gas-liquid mass transfer in bioreactors

Contextual self-organizing maps for visual design space exploration	Laser shockwave sintering of micro and nanoscale powders of yttria-stabilized zirconia

The AugmenTable: Markerless hand manipulation of virtual objects in a tabletop augmented reality environment	Analysis of the passive design and solar collection techniques of the houses in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition

Frequency and load mode dependence of vibrothermography	Bed height and material density effects on fluidized bed hydrodynamics

A comparison study of digital sinusoidal fringe generation technique: Defocusing binary patterns vs focusing sinusoidal patterns	Performance of a pilot scale biomass gasification and producer gas combustion system using feedstock with controlled nitrogen content

Discrete element simulations and constitutive modeling of dense granular flows	Transfer operator-based approach for domain of attraction computation and experimental data analysis

Focused Electric Field Induced Ion Transport: A novel nano-imprinting approach	An automated nozzle controller for self-propelled sprayers

Characteristics of dielectric elastomers and fabrication of dielectric elastomer actuators for artificial muscle applications	Incorporating uncertainty in vehicle miles traveled projections of the National Energy Modeling System

Survey and sustainability of energy technologies	Chemical Mechanical Paired Grinding

Investigation of a novel manufacturing technique for two-dimensional machining of Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride (PCBN) tools	Identifiability analysis of a tractor and single axle towed implement model

Stress analysis of welded gusseted frames	Improved rate and angle estimation through higher accuracy planar motion models

A study on static pressure reset and instability in variable air volume HVAC systems	Performance characterization of a pilot-scale oxygen enriched-air and steam blown gasification and combustion system

A turbulence-based model for the primary breakup of pressure atomized liquid jets	Fluid-phase velocity fluctuations in gas-solid flows

Wave scattering by an integral stiffener	Investigation of biomass gasification and effects of ammonia on producer gas combustion

Removal of particulate matter from condensable vapors using a moving bed granular filter	Low-dimensional micro/nanoscale thermal transport

An investigation of exploitation versus exploration in GBEA optimization of PORS 15 and 16 Problems	The effect of stochastic nano-scale surface roughness on microfluidic flow in computational microchannels

Expanding the usable workspace of a haptic device by placing it on a moving base	Technoeconomic analysis of biorefinery based on multistep kinetics and integration of geothermal energy

An experimental investigation on the spray flow exhausted from a co-swirling air-blast nozzle	Virtual tool mark generation for efficient striation analysis in forensic science

Data driven prognosis: a multi-scale and multi-physics approach	Controlling a satellite dish for two way Internet communication from a moving vehicle

Impact tactor design and research for creating consequence in virtual military training	Experimental characterization of a liquid-liquid co-axial swirl rocket injector using non-invasive optical and X-ray techniques

Interactive design methods in virtual reality with haptics	Large eddy simulation of turbulent pipe/annular supercritical CO2 flow with heat transfer and perfect gas flow in a ribbed annuli passage

Studies of laser-based, solid freeform fabrication and coating processes using nanoscale and functionally-graded materials	Multiscale modeling of segregation in granular flows

Computational analyses for modeling fluidized bed gasification processes	Large eddy simulations of a confined rectangular jet

Residual stress assessment for shot peened nickel based superalloy by eddy current technique	Probability density function formalism for multiphase flows

Large eddy simulation of turbulent heat transfer in stationary and rotating square ducts	Ultrasonic welding of aluminum: A practical study in consistency, part marking and control modes

The effect of surface roughness parameters on contact and wettability of solid surfaces	Engineering design using genetic algorithms

Combining physical constraints with geometric constraint-based modeling for virtual assembly	Gas-liquid mass transfer in an external airlift loop reactor for syngas fermentation

A virtual engineering framework to support progressive interaction in engineering design	Boundary element method in anisotropic media with grain sliding and dislocation dynamics

Development of a multiblock solver utilizing the lattice Boltzmann and traditional finite difference methods for fluid flow problems	Experimental and simulation study of demand controlled ventilation

Predicting loads on ground engaging tillage tools using computational fluid dynamics	The role of information flow in engineering optimization

Mechanics of wire saw machining process: Experimental analyses and modeling	Carbon conversion during bubbling fluidized bed gasification of biomass

Manufacturability analysis for non-feature-based objects	Improving solution characteristics of particle swarm optimization through the use of digital pheromones, parallelization, and graphical processing units (GPUs)

Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden turbulent flows	Study of a compact energy absorber

Modeling, analysis and non-linear control of a novel pneumatic semi-active vibration isolator: A concept validation study	Quenching of particle-gas combustible mixtures using the electric particulate suspension (EPS) method

Effect of conformational change on nanoscale friction behavior of organic thin films	A feasibility study of stationary and dual-axis tracking grid-connected photovoltaic systems in the Upper Midwest

Investigation of tribological properties of biobased polymers and polymeric composites	Mechanics guided design of hybrid laser/waterjet system for machining hard and brittle materials

Modeling and control of material removal and defectivity in chemical mechanical planarization	Surface damage of metallic implants due to mechanical loading and chemical reactions

A non-body conformal grid method for simulations of laminar and turbulent flows with a compressible large eddy simulation solver	Molecular dynamics simulation of shock waves in laser-material interaction

Enhancement of engine simulation using LES turbulence modeling and advanced numerical schemes	Development of adaptive mesh refinement scheme and conjugate heat transfer model for engine simulations

An investigation of active structural acoustic control in resonant enclosures	Performance evaluation of carbon-dioxide sensors used in building HVAC applications

Establishing an advanced engineering framework for engineering decision making	A framework for tumor segmentation and interactive immersive visualization of medical image data for surgical planning

Feedforward control approach to precision trajectory design and tracking: Theory and application to nano-mechanical property mapping using Scanning Probe Microscope	Process planning for an additive/subtractive rapid pattern manufacturing system

Modeling and simulation of two-phase flows	A hybrid method for haptic feedback to support manual virtual product assembly

Modeling and simulation of nanoparticle aggregation in colloidal systems	Pyrolysis oil combustion characteristics and exhaust emissions in a swirl-stabilized combustor

Rapid optimization of interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines using the response surface method and dimensionless parameters	Numerical modeling of free surface and rapid solidification for simulation and analysis of melt spinning

Computational intelligence and transient thermal analysis methods for exploratory analysis of source air quality	Focusing aberration corrections for ultrasonic inspections of disk forgings when using a surface compensating mirror and segmented annular phased array

Techno-economic, location, and carbon emission analysis of thermochemical biomass to transportation fuels	A plug and play framework for an HVAC air handling unit and temperature sensor auto recognition technique

MicroCantilever (MC) based nanomechanical sensor for detection of molecular interactions	3D mesh metamorphosis from spherical parameterization for conceptual design

Laser-based thermophysical properties measurement and nanostructure diagnostics	Multi-objective optimization based engineering decision tool

Application of experimental and numerical simulation techniques to microscale devices	Control tools for rapid broadband nanomechanical spectroscopy using scanning probe microscope

Analysis of residual stress relaxation behaviors	Hydrodynamic characterization of 3D fluidized beds using noninvasive techniques

A numerical and experimental study of in-situ NO formation in laminar NH3-seeded syngas diffusion flames	The impact of household refrigerator storage conditions on the shelf life of fruits and vegetables

Solid oxide fuel cell reliability and performance modeling and fabrication by spray pyrolysis	Fabrication of metal matrix composite by semi-solid powder processing

Weldability of Advanced High Strength Steels using Yb:YAG high power laser for Tailor-Welded Blank applications	Village energy system dynamics of an isolated rural West African village

Constitutive modeling of dense granular flow based on discrete element method simulations	An investigation of sustainable agricultural residue availability for energy applications

Thermophysical properties study of micro/nanoscale materials	Mixing and segregation in 3D multi-component, two-phase fluidized beds

Hybrid femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for gas-phase temperature measurements	A pneumatic semi-active control methodology for vibration control of air spring based suspension systems

Mechanics of magneto-active polymers	Application of atom probe tomography to the investigation of atomic force microscope tips and interfacial phenomena

An experimental and numerical study of NOx formation mechanisms in NH3-H2-Air flames