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- Reversal in Spreading of a Tabbed Circular Jet Under Controlled Excitation
- Creator
- Zaman, Kbmq, Raman, G.
- Date
- 1997-12
- Publisher
- American Inst Physics
- Description
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Detailed flow field measurements have been carried out for a turbulent circular jet perturbed by tabs and artificial excitation. Two ''delta...
Show moreDetailed flow field measurements have been carried out for a turbulent circular jet perturbed by tabs and artificial excitation. Two ''delta tabs'' were placed at the nozzle exit at diametrically opposite locations. The excitation condition involved subharmonic resonance that manifested in a periodic vortex pairing in the near flow field. While the excitation and the tabs independently increased jet spreading, a combination of the two diminished the effect. The jet spreading was most pronounced with the tabs but was reduced when excitation was applied to the tabbed jet. The tabs generated streamwise vortex pairs that caused a lateral spreading of the jet in a direction perpendicular to the plane containing the tabs. The excitation, on the other hand, organized the azimuthal vorticity into coherent ring structures whose evolution and pairing also increased entrainment by the jet. In the tabbed case, the excitation produced coherent azimuthal structures that were distorted and asymmetric in shape. The self-induction of these structures produced an effect that opposed the tendency for the lateral spreading of the streamwise vortex pairs. The passage of the distorted vortices, and their pairing, also had a cancellation effect on the time-averaged streamwise vorticity field. These led to the reduction in jet spreading. [S1070-6631(97)03012-2].
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- Laboratory Notebook 123
- Creator
- Didsatha-amnarj, Yanan, Slade, Peter
- Date
- 2010-03-03T21:24:34Z
- Description
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This laboratory notebook relates to the "Furans in food; Mechanism in food" project which is under the Chemical Constituents and Allergens...
Show moreThis laboratory notebook relates to the "Furans in food; Mechanism in food" project which is under the Chemical Constituents and Allergens Platform with Peter Slade as the Principle Investigator.
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- Collapsible Isolation Apparatus
- Creator
- Gauger, James R., Mullins, Robert L., Stefanek, George L., Petrovic, Joseph J.
- Date
- 2009-05-11, 2001-11-27
- Description
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A collapsible personnel isolation apparatus for preventing unwanted contaminations of hazardous biological and chemical materials including a...
Show moreA collapsible personnel isolation apparatus for preventing unwanted contaminations of hazardous biological and chemical materials including a base. A cover connects to the base by way of a zipper. A plurality of glove box ports are provided to allow rapid and convenient treatment of the patient.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- MODELING, CONTROL, AND DESIGN OF HYBRID FUEL CELL VEHICLES
- Creator
- Ahmed, Syed
- Date
- 2011-12, 2011-12
- Description
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The Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) has been projected to be the fuel cell of choice for future automotive applications. Among...
Show moreThe Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) has been projected to be the fuel cell of choice for future automotive applications. Among the challenging aspects of this application is maintaining highly efficient operation of the fuel cell. The key component of the PEMFC, the Nafion Membrane, can reach two critical states: drying and flooding. In drying, high resistance prevents normal operation of the fuel cell. In flooding, reactants are prevented from reaching reaction sites and there is a reduction of performance of the fuel cell. To address the first point, a spatially distributed along the plane membrane model was developed and tested with proportional-integral control of voltage and temperature. To analyze the occurrence of severe and frequent changes in power demand, a model aimed at mimicking the load expected in a fuel cell vehicle, including a DC motor, DC-DC converters and a rechargeable battery for peak-shaving and regenerative braking was developed. The model includes rotational and translational inertia as well as a simple wind resistance model for a vehicle. In contrast to simple lab-focused loads where load impendence is directly manipulated, the manipulated variable within this load is the DC-DC converter gain. Based on this model a control system architecture was developed consisting of a number of low level regulatory loops, a power distributor for peak-shaving and finally a high level loop for tracking vehicle speed. After understanding the load demands to a fuel cell vehicle with only a battery, the issue of multiple energy storage technologies is addressed. Designing a vehicle with these technologies poses an optimization problem. A high-level model of a fuel cell vehicle with two storage technologies, a battery and super-capacitor was developed. The model accounted for the constraints of each component and a drive cycle characterized the power demand. An economic-based optimization problem xv was posed whereas its objective was to minimize the capital cost of the system, while meeting power demand and keeping the technologies within their constraints. The result of the optimization provided a controller from which a high-level power coordination unit can be developed for the fuel cell vehicle.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, December 2011
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- Method of Making a Magnetic Head
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1964-08-25
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Aqueous Medium Management via Super Absorbent Materials
- Creator
- Teymour, Fouad, Al-hallaj, Said
- Date
- 2013-10-09, 2013-10-01
- Description
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A super absorbent polymer material is contacted with an aqueous medium to absorb at least a portion of the aqueous medium. At least portion of...
Show moreA super absorbent polymer material is contacted with an aqueous medium to absorb at least a portion of the aqueous medium. At least portion of the aqueous medium absorbed super absorbent material is subsequently regenerated to release water therefrom and to form a regenerated super absorbent material suitable for the contacting with a second quantity of an aqueous medium. Also disclosed are layered composites including an electrically conductive metal support layer, a layer of super absorbent material disposed thereon, and a layer of a selective semi-permeable material disposed adjacent the layer of the super absorbent material and spaced apart from the electrically conductive metal support layer.
United States Patent
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- Tape Cartridge Selector Transducing Machine
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1964-05-26
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Reaction Frame for Restraining High Loads
- Creator
- Cornish, Rodney H., Finlayson, Lawrence A.
- Date
- 4/23/2009, 1969-11-04
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
- Title
- High Tensile Vanadium Alloys
- Creator
- Rostoker, William
- Date
- 2012-03-20, 1957-09-03
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- AN INVESTIGATION OF THE QUASI-STANDARD ERROR FOR QUASI-MONTE CARLO METHOD
- Creator
- Deng, Siyuan
- Date
- 2013-05-01, 2013-05
- Description
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In this thesis we discuss the theory of the Quasi-Standard Error(QSE) estimate which plays an important role in the practice of the Quasi...
Show moreIn this thesis we discuss the theory of the Quasi-Standard Error(QSE) estimate which plays an important role in the practice of the Quasi-Monte Carlo method. In the first part the deduction using Walsh series reveals an expression for the Quasi- Standard Error for digital nets. The second part of this thesis a special class of functions has been designed to fool the Quasi-Standard Error, and based on the previous theory we reveal the reason why the Quasi-Standard-Error can be fooled. The third part, apply the theory we developed to some actual application in financial mathematics, to see if the QSE works well in practice. There are mixed results.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, May 2013
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- Fault detection and diagnosis in a food pasteurization process with hidden Markov models
- Creator
- Tokatli, F., Cinar, A.
- Date
- 2004-12
- Publisher
- CANADIAN SOC CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
- Description
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Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are used to detect abnormal operation of dynamic processes and diagnose sensor and actuator faults. The method is...
Show moreHidden Markov Models (HMM) are used to detect abnormal operation of dynamic processes and diagnose sensor and actuator faults. The method is illustrated by monitoring the operation of a pasteurization plant and diagnosing causes of abnormal operation. Process data collected under the influence of faults of different magnitude and duration in sensors and actuators are used to illustrate the use of HMM in the detection and diagnosis of process faults. Case studies with experimental data from a high-temperature-short-time pasteurization system showed that HMM can diagnose the faults with certain characteristics such as fault duration and magnitude.
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- Overview of Higgs results from CMS, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
- Creator
- Merkel, Petra
- Date
- 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
- Publisher
- IIT Press
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
In this article we present an overview of...
Show moreSponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
In this article we present an overview of Higgs boson results from the CMS Collaboration as presented at the ISMD13 conference.
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- NON-LINEAR CREEP-RELAXATION CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR PLAIN CONCRETE WITH ANISOTROPIC DAMAGE
- Creator
- Teran Torres, Bernardo
- Date
- 2016, 2016-05
- Description
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A thermodynamic constitutive model for plain concrete, and other quasi-brittle materials, is developed. The model accounts for the anisotropic...
Show moreA thermodynamic constitutive model for plain concrete, and other quasi-brittle materials, is developed. The model accounts for the anisotropic damage-induced and the aging viscoelasticity of the material. The model is based on the theory of solidi cation proposed by Baºant and the continuum damage mechanics theory. The material is considered to be a viscoelastic-damageable material. The Helmholtz free energy utilized in the formulation is treated by means of the representation theorem of coupled damage-strain tensors. The model is capable of analyzing time-dependent damage (tertiary creep) under constant loading and damage due to cyclic creep. Two simple but practical examples are presented in order to illustrate the applicability of the model. The determination of the functions and constants representing the material behavior as well as any experimental companion is proposed for the continuation of the research.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2016
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- SYNTHESIS OF NANOPLATE STRUCTURES IN NI-BASED ALLOYS VIA DISCONTINUOUS PRECIPITATION
- Creator
- Zhou, Yang
- Date
- 2017, 2017-07
- Description
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Nanostructured materials are of increasing interest due to their potential for use in numerous applications including catalysis and filtration...
Show moreNanostructured materials are of increasing interest due to their potential for use in numerous applications including catalysis and filtration. Methods of synthesizing nanomaterials often include chemical techniques producing individual particles, which gives rise to issues of agglomeration and containment, and the processes are difficult to scale-up. This work is directed at addressing issues of the occurrence and kinetics of self-assembly and structural alignment of nanostructures, which involves the discontinuous precipitation transformation followed by selective dissolution. This synthesis method has been demonstrated using a Ni-49at.%Co-12at.%Al alloy. A complete discontinuous transformation in the Ni 49-12 alloy can be achieved in times as short as 30min. Thus, the large-scale production of such structures is feasible using conventional heat treatment facilities. The synthesis technique is generally applicable to any alloy system in which DP goes to completion and one phase can be selectively removed. The nanoplates are self-assembled, self-supported and well aligned if the precipitate is coherent with the matrix. In order to control the process it is necessary to understand the phase equilibria involving γ, γ′ and β phases in the Al-Co-Ni system. This has been investigated both experimentally and computationally. The isothermal sections at 1100°C and 800°C as well as a partial liquidus projection were determined which result in modifications to previously published work. Comparing the experimental results with the calculated results using Thermo-Calc (TCNI8), there is reasonable agreement. The predicted separation of the γ phase into a two-phase ferromagnetic and paramagnetic region has never been observed experimentally in this or other published work. Future work should explore the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phase separation as predicted using Thermo-Calc to verify its occurrence in this system. The nanostructured material produced by complete DP transformation may have interesting mechanical properties and these have been studied to a limited extent in this work. The hardness tests show that with decreasing annealing temperature to 600°C, the hardness of certain samples increases significantly due to the precipitation of second phase. The tensile and creep properties of alloy samples with DP phase present were also investigated. The results imply that the occurrence of DP will have a favorable effect on the tensile strength of the sample while lowering the ductility at the same time. A method to generate serrated grain boundaries based on the DP transformation is proposed. Such structures are expected to increase the creep resistance. This was found to be the case in a limited temperature and loading range. Higher temperature or stress levels lead to DP occurrence and cause negative effects on the creep resistance compared to conventionally processed material. The Curie temperature in the Al-Co-Ni alloy system was also studied and determined using a combined magnetic TG and DSC method. A ternary contour map of the Curie temperature has been constructed. From the contour map, the Curie temperature was seen to decrease from high Co, low Al content samples to low Co, high Al samples bypassing a platform at mid Co content. A nonlinear surface fitting was made through a Exponential2D model, the function is helpful for the prediction of Curie temperature of γ phase in Al-Co-Ni alloy system. This method also provides a novel idea of detecting phase transformation and precipitation through thermo-magnetically analyzing the magnetic behavior of the alloys.
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, July 2017
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- Single Phase Ternary Pt-Ru-Os Catalysts for Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells
- Creator
- Smotkin, Eugene S., Ley, Kevin L., Pu, Cong, Liu, Renxuan
- Date
- 2009-05-11, 1999-01-05
- Description
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A catalyst composition for use in electrochemical reactor devices comprising platinum, ruthenium, and osmium and having a single phase crystal...
Show moreA catalyst composition for use in electrochemical reactor devices comprising platinum, ruthenium, and osmium and having a single phase crystal structure comprising a face centered cubic unit cell. In accordance with a particularly preferred embodiment, in atomic percentages, platinum comprises about 65% of the catalyst composition, ruthenium comprises about 25% of the catalyst composition, and osmium comprises about 10% of the catalyst composition.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Flame-Retardant Additive for Li-Ion Batteries
- Creator
- Prakash, Jai, Lee, Chang Woo, Amine, Khalil
- Date
- 2009-05-14, 2002-09-24
- Description
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A lithium-ion battery having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and a non-aqueous solvent lithium electrolyte. At least one...
Show moreA lithium-ion battery having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and a non-aqueous solvent lithium electrolyte. At least one cyclophosphazene is added to the non-aqueous solvent lithium electrolyte, which cyclophosphazene acts as a flame-retardant material. The non-aqueous solvent lithium electrolyte is preferably a carbonate-based electrolyte and the preferred cyclophosphazene is hexamethoxycyclotriphosphazene.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- MANAGING STOCHASTIC WIND POWER GENERATION BY INCORPORATING DEMAND RESPONSE IN DAY-AHEAD SCHEDULING
- Creator
- Al Hassan, Hassan
- Date
- 2015, 2015-05
- Description
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This thesis proposes a stochastic algorithm for managing the variability of wind energy by incorporating hourly demand response in the day...
Show moreThis thesis proposes a stochastic algorithm for managing the variability of wind energy by incorporating hourly demand response in the day-ahead scheduling in power systems. Monte Carlo simulation with Latin hypercube sampling technique is applied to represent the uncertainties of wind energy via different wind scenarios. Demand response has several physical and operating constraints to be considered into the stochastic security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) for economic, reliability, and security purposes. Benders decomposition method is applied to decompose the large-scale complex stochastic SCUC problem into several tractable problems. Different case studies are analyzed in this thesis to demonstrate the benefits of applying DR to the proposed day-ahead scheduling model with variable wind energy.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
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- VIEW SYNTHESIS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEOS USING VIDEO PLUS DEPTH
- Creator
- Loghman, Maziar
- Date
- 2012-07-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This thesis investigates the use of segmentation in view synthesis for three- dimensional video. View synthesis is the process of generating...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the use of segmentation in view synthesis for three- dimensional video. View synthesis is the process of generating novel views of a scene, using set of views as the reference. Recently, several techniques have been suggested that use the depth maps for rendering virtual views. However, inaccuracy in depth maps causes annoying visual artifacts in depth-based view synthesis. This thesis presents an e cient depth image-based rendering technique based on segmentation using multi-level thresholding. In the proposed algorithm, rst all the images are segmented according to the depth and the pixels belonging to di erent objects are warped and blended independently. Based on multi-level thresholding, an algorithm for nding the ghost contour pixels is provided which simpli es the computations. A novel method for inpainting for disocclusions is introduced which uses the segmented images to nd the associated background boundary pixels. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves the PSNR of the synthesized views up to 0:68 dB for the multi-view video test sequences and eliminates the annoying artifacts.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012
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- Combined Erasing and Recording Magnetic Transducer
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1949-07-05
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Electrostatic Encapsulation
- Creator
- Berger, Bernard B., Miller, Caroline D., Langer, Gerhard
- Date
- 1965-09-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent