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Integration of a surcharged pipe model and an overland flow model for flood prediction in a highly urbanized area
(1999)
Two models were incorporated to evaluate the hydrologic and hydraulic behavior of the Harris Gully watershed in Houston, Texas. A HEC-1 model was created and calibrated to three historical storms for average errors of 6% ...
Developing an introductory civil engineering course
(1999)
A new course designed to introduce freshmen to civil engineering and to give non-engineers a taste of engineering was developed and taught. The course is divided into four sections (demand, design, construction, and effects) ...
Characterization of alumina membranes derived from alumoxanes
(1999)
Alumoxane-derived membranes are characterized and compared with commercial anodized alumina and polycarbonate track-etched membranes. The alumoxane-derived membranes were produced using two different types of ligands, ...
Dynamic response of force-excited systems
(1999)
The elastic and inelastic responses of the force-excited single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems are investigated from the gross characteristics of forcing functions such as the frequency content, the integrals and the ...
Settling characteristics of fractal aggregates
(1999)
The settling velocity of aggregates found in engineered water and wastewater treatment facilities are usually assumed to follow Stokes' law. These particles, however, are typically porous and may be fractal in nature. As ...
A software simulation testbed for CDMA wireless communication systems
(1999)
This thesis develops a software wireless communication testbed which simulates a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) link. CDMA is a popular technology in cellular systems due to its superior capacity and performance. The ...
Exploration of Tikhonov regularization for the fusion of experimental data and computational fluid dynamics
(1999)
A method is developed to fuse Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and experimental data through the use of Tikhonov regularization. Inviscid-Viscous Interaction and Thin-Layer Navier-Stokes Equation models are ...
Efficient techniques for n-body simulation on distributed memory architectures
(1999)
High Performance Fortran (HPF) provides a high-level model for expressing parallel programs. However, the efficiency of HPF as an implementation vehicle for irregular applications is still largely unproven. While recent ...
Object-oriented implementation of p-adaptive finite element method
(1999)
A finite element analysis methodology employing p-adaptivity is proposed. Object-oriented design and methodologies are used to implement the finite element package. The p-refinement phase is facilitated through the addition ...
I/O-oriented applications on a software distributed-shared memory system
(1999)
This thesis evaluates the use of a software distributed shared memory system, Treadmarks, as a platform for supporting an I/O-intensive application, specifically the database Postgres. Software distributed shared memory ...