Faculty research from the Mechanical Engineering department.

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Submissions from 2012

Impact mitigation of robotic system using variable stiffness joints, S. Opie, H. Yun, and Woosoon Yim

Design of a Compact Ceramic High-Temperature Heat Exchanger and Chemical Decomposer for Hydrogen Production, Valery Ponyavin, Yitung Chen, Taha Mohamed, Mohamed Trabia, Anthony Hechanova, and Merrill Wilson

Polarization of a Diffuse Soft Particle Subjected to an Alternating Current Field, Sebastian Uppapalli and Hui Zhao

Submissions from 2011

Failure Strength of Silicone Carbide Ceramic Disks Under Biaxial Flexure When Exposed to Elevated Temperatures and Concentrated Sulfuric Acid, A. Barreau, R. Hernandez, and Brendan O'Toole

Combining Meshless Analysis and Kalman Filters to Estimate Parameters When System Models are Inaccurate, A. F. Emery and Darrell Pepper

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Long Term Outdoor Testing of Low Concentration Solar Modules, Lewis Fraas, James Avery, Leonid Minkin, H. X. Huang, Tim Hebrink, and Robert F. Boehm

An on Sun Parametric Study of Solar Hydrogen Production using WO3 Photoanodes, Christopher K. Halford and Robert F. Boehm

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Techno-economic analysis and engineering design consideration of algal biofuel in southern Nevada, Jian Ma

Improved Delta-Q Measurement Technique for Estimating the Total and Local Leakages in Residential Buildings, Nabil Nassif and Samir Moujaes

An Hp-Finite Element Method for Simulating Indoor Contaminant Dispersion, Darrell Pepper and Xiuling Wang

Economic Feasibility of Energy Efficiency Measures in Residential Buildings, Suresh B. Sadineni, Todd M. France, and Bob Boehm

Passive Building Energy Savings: A Review of Building Envelope Components, Suresh B. Sadineni, Srikanth Madala, and Bob Boehm

A fuzzy-controlled Hooke-Jeeves optimization algorithm, Deepak Sankar Somasundaram and Mohamed Trabia

Optimization of shock response within a military vehicle space frame, Jagadeep Thota, Brendan O'Toole, and Mohamed Trabia

Modeling of Hysteresis and Backlash for a Smart Fin with a Piezoelectric Actuator, Mohamed Trabia, Woosoon Yim, and Mohammad Saadeh

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Diffuse-Charge Dynamics of Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Systems, Hui Zhao

Double-Layer Polarization of a Non-Conducting Particle in an Alternating Current Field with Applications to Dielectrophoresis, Hui Zhao

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Role of Hydrodynamic Behavior of DNA Molecules in Dielectrophoretic Polarization Under the Action of an Electric Field, Hui Zhao

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Streaming Potential Generated by a Pressure-Driven Flow Over Superhydrophobic Stripes, Hui Zhao

Water Immersion Cooling of PV Cells in a High Concentration System, Li Zhu, Robert F. Boehm, Yiping Wang, Christopher K. Halford, and Yong Sun

Submissions from 2010

Editorial/Foreword, Robert F. Boehm

Performance Model Assessment for Multi-Junction Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems, Christopher Cameron, Clark Crawford, James Foresi, David King, Robert McConnell, Dan Riley, Aaron Sahm, and Joshua Stein

An H-Adaptive Finite Element Method for Turbulent Heat Transfer, David B. Carrington, Xiuling Wang, and Darrell Pepper

Mechanism of Creep Deformation of Alloy 230 Based on Microstructural Analyses, Sudin Chatterjee and Ajit K. Roy

Comparison of CeBr3 with LaBr3:Ce, LaCl3:Ce, and NaI:Tl detectors, P. Guss, Michael Reed, and Ding Yuan