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A biomechanical model of the ankle complex: The influence of external forces on the ankle complex	Performance analysis and flowfield characterization of secondary injection thrust vector control (SITVC) for a 2DCD nozzle

Night flushing and thermal mass: Maximizing natural ventilation for energy conservation through architectural features	Experimental and numerical analysis of radiation effects in heat re-circulating combustors

Solar thermal cooling and heating: A year-round thermal comfort strategy using a hybrid solar absorption chiller and hydronic heating scheme	Transient scattering of a plane SH wave by a rough cavity of arbitrary shape embedded in an elastic half-space

Refractive index matching technique for applications to the study of wakes in stratified fluids	Fault detection and diagnosis of photovoltaic systems

Finite element model to understand the role of fingerprints in generating vibrations	The development of a mathematical model of a hybrid airship

Predictions of the sound transmission loss of composite sandwich panels	An argumentation-based approach to negotiation in collaborative engineering design

Analytical and experimental studies in the development of reduced-order computational models for nonlinear systems	Fluid dynamics of a crystallizing particle in a rotating liquid sphere

Design, modeling and analysis of piezoelectric forceps actuator	Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems

Analytical and experimental studies of modeling and monitoring uncertain nonlinear systems	Analytical and experimental studies in system identification and modeling for structural control and health monitoring

Robust control of periodically time-varying systems	Static and dynamic analysis of two-dimensional elastic continua by combined finite difference with distributed transfer function method

N-vortex problem on a rotating sphere	Creep in pure single and polycrystalline aluminum at very low stresses and high temperatures: An evaluation of Harper-Dorn creep

Experimental investigation of the propagation and extinction of edge-flames	High-sensitivity multidimensional photobleaching velocimetry

Model, identification & analysis of complex stochastic systems: Applications in stochastic partial differential equations and multiscale mechanics	Aerodynamics of wings at low Reynolds numbers: Boundary layer separation and reattachment

A theoretical study of normal alkane combustion	Studies on the flame dynamics and kinetics of alcohols and liquid hydrocarbon fuels

Generation and degeneration of long internal waves in lakes	Scattering of a plane harmonic wave by a completely embedded corrugated scatterer

Multiwall carbon nanotubes reinforced epoxy nanocomposites	On the synthesis of dynamics and control for complex multibody systems

Experimental study of radiometric forces with comparison to computational results	A biologically inspired DNA-based cellular approach to developing complex adaptive systems

Information transfer via tangential haptic stimulation	Multiple degree of freedom inverted pendulum dynamics: Modeling, computation, and experimentation

Methodology for design of a vibration operated valve for abrasive viscous fluids	Experimental investigation of soot nucleation and growth in premixed flat flames

Processing of magnesium alloys with ultrafine grain structure	Dynamic rupture processes and seismic radiation in models of earthquake faults separating similar and dissimilar solids

Development of a thermal desorption chemical ionization mobility mass spectrometer for the speciation of ultrafine aerosols	Effect of surfactants on the growth and departure of bubbles from solid surfaces

An approach to experimentally based modeling and simulation of human motion	Bumpless transfer and fading memory for adaptive switching control

Experiments on spray from a rolling tire	The physics and application of compact pulsed power to transient plasma ignition

Accelerated Runge-Kutta methods and non-slip rolling	Periodic solutions of flexible systems under discontinuous control

Development of a novel heterogeneous kinetics reactor and chemical characterization of soot particles	Fluid dynamics of sessile drops in shear flows

Geometrical effects on Swiss-roll heat-recirculating combustors	Flame studies of conventional and alternative jet fuels and their surrogates

Experimental investigation of spray development immediately behind a tire rolling on a wet surface	Truncated Navier-Stokes equations with the automatic filtering criterion

Flame synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles for ultrasensitive gas sensing	Studies of combustion characteristics of alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones

A subgrid-scale model for large-eddy simulation based on the physics of interscale energy transfer in turbulence	Bio-inspired tendon-driven systems: Computational analysis, optimization, and hardware implementation

Building Cellular Self-organizing System (CSO): A behavior regulation based approach	Viscoelastic characterization of soft biological materials

On the synthesis of controls for general nonlinear constrained mechanical systems	A meta-interaction model for designing Cellular Self-Organizing systems

Kinetic modeling of high-temperature oxidation and pyrolysis of one-ringed aromatic and alkane compounds	Fatigue and fracture of pultruded composite rods developed for overhead conductor cables

Flame synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles and its application in dye sensitized solar cells	New approaches to satellite formation-keeping and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations

A synthesis reasoning framework for early-stage engineering design	Metallic part fabrication with selective inhibition sintering (SIS) based on microscopic mechanical inhibition