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Development Of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Based Erosion Models For Oil And Gas Industry Applications
(Mechanical Engineering, )
Erosion prediction plays a critical role in different oil and gas industry segments including drill bit manufacturing, measurement & logging while drilling (M&LWD), and reservoir engineering/completions tools. Recently, ...
Adaptive Dynamic Programming For High-dimensional, Multicollinear State Spaces
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Dynamic programming (DP) is a mathematical programming method for optimizing a system changing over time and has been used to solve multi-stage optimization problems in manufacturing systems, environmental engineering, and ...
No Utopia Is An Island: The Ecosystem Of Utopias In Paul Mcauley's Quiet War Saga
(English, 2013-03-20)
In this thesis, I argue that a new, ambitious variety of literary utopia, which I call an ecosystem utopia, has developed over the past forty years, chiefly in science fiction and fantasy. My primary examples are Paul ...
The Effect Of Tonality And Rhythm On Memory Recall In Elementary General Education Classrooms: A Quasi-experimental Study
(Education, 2013-10-23)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of rhythm and tonality on an academic memory task by comparing three different treatment conditions: a poem, a rhythmic chant (or rap), and a melodic rhythm (or song). ...