Recently, many new types of wireless networks have emerged for both civil and military applications, such as cognitive radio networks, MIMO networks. There is a strong interest in exploring the optimal performance of these ...

This thesis describes a multidisciplinary design optimization approach to containership design. The method employs widely accepted regression equations for computing resistance, weights, building costs and operating costs. ...

Large scale, multidisciplinary, engineering designs are always difficult due to the complexity and dimensionality of these problems. Direct coupling between the analysis codes and the optimization routines can be prohibitively ...

This thesis presents the foundation of a computer program for the unified design of spatial mechanisms. The program will be capable of synthesizing any mechanism that can be described using an equivalent chain containing ...

In this thesis, we develop a data-driven correction reduced order model (DDC-ROM) for numerical simulation of fluid flows. The general DDC-ROM involves two stages: (1) we apply ROM filtering (such as ROM projection) to the ...

Reduced-order models have long been used to understand the behavior of nonlinear partial differential equations. Naturally, reduced-order modeling techniques come at the price of either computational accuracy or computation ...

An organized evacuation of pedestrians entrapped in a building in emergencies such as those caused by fire, bomb blast, or intentional or unintentional release of toxins in the environment is of utmost importance. The focus ...

This dissertation presents both analytical and numerical approaches to optimizing thrust and thrust efficiency of harmonically deforming thin airfoils and membrane wings. A frequency domain unsteady aerodynamic theory for ...

Bilinear systems are a class of nonlinear dynamical systems that arise in a variety of applications. In order to obtain a sufficiently accurate representation of the underlying physical phenomenon, these models frequently ...

This thesis presents a technique for the optimal synthesis of planar five-link mechanisms that produce a desired mechanical advantage function over a specified path. Since a five-bar linkage has two degrees of freedom, ...