Browsing CE Theses and Dissertations by Title

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H2 control of singularly perturbed aircraft system

Zaveri, Viral Shailesh (Wichita State University, 2011-07)

The objective of this research is to develop an analytical approach to control two-time-scale systems operating under certain noise parameters. This approach addresses two important design criteria: augmentation of large-scale ...
Head and neck injury analysis due to fall at the aircraft entry door

Dhillon, Kyle (Wichita State University, 2007-05)

Falls are one of the most common causes of injury among young children and have been recognized as a major cause of death and disability worldwide among children 1-3 years old. A characteristic of injuries among very young ...
Highly hydrophilic electrospun fibers for the filtration of micro and nanosize particles treated with coagulants

Muppalla, Harish (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

Electrospinning has been widely used in the last decade for research in the field of nanotechnology because of its ability to create sub-micron to nanoscale fibers. In this research work, hydrophilic nanofiber membranes ...
High-order incompressible Navier-stokes equations solver for blood flow

Khurshid, Hassan (Wichita State University, 2012-07)

A high-order finite difference solver was written to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations and was applied to analyze the blood flow. First, a computer code was written to solve incompressible Navier- Stokes ...
High Rayleigh number flows in a cubical enclosure

Bende, Balaraju (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

The current study was undertaken with an intention to verify and extend the boundaries of the work produced by Xia & Murthy [24] and Vargas [23] on natural convective flows inside a cubical enclosure to observe the transition ...
A hybrid approach to forecasting wind power using Artificial Neural Networks and Numeric Weather Prediction

Pfeifer, Mark B. (Wichita State University, 2011-07)

A methodology to forecast wind power production 24 hours ahead is developed using a hybrid approach of an artificial neural network (ANN) and numerical weather prediction (NWP). The methodology is simple and designed to ...
I-ALOHA: intelligent ALOHA protocol for efficient RFID tag reading

Alavi, Khubaib Ahmad (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) has made a revolutionary mark in identifying and tracking number of different industry objects, which has reduced the manual tracking to much higher extent. The key problem which is ...
I-broadcast: broadcasting scheme for vehicular ad-hoc networks

Srikumar, Aravind (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

With the rapid development of wireless technology and the wide availability of low cost wireless devices, the domain of mobile computer networks has expanded in the recent past. Mobile ad-hoc networks promise to be the ...
Ice particle trajectory simulation

Suares, Ian Greg (Wichita State University, 2005-12)

Large ice particles shed from an airframe can cause damage to downstream aerodynamic surfaces and aft mounted engines. A simulation tool was developed to compute the trajectories of shed ice particles and determine the ...
An IDEF0 model for a terrorist resistant Global Supply Chain (GSC)

Tay, Choon Ling (Bobby) (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

After the infamous terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 in the United States, the world has become increasingly vulnerable to terrorist activities. International businesses that function through Global Supply Chain ...
Identification and mitigation of bottlenecks in complex production system

Narayanasamy, Pradeesh (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

A production system is a system where the raw materials are converted to finished products. A production system is classified in to two types based on the products processed namely single product production system and ...
Image change detection using wireless sensor networks

Yelisetty, Sree Ramya (2007-05)

Change detection in images is of great interest because of its relevance in many applications such as video surveillance. This thesis presents the underlying theoretical problem of distributed image change detection using ...
Image registration in low resolution visual sensor networks

Balasubramanian, Harini (Wichita State University, 2007-12)

Image registration is the process of integrating data from different coordinate systems into one coordinate system. It is of great interest in video surveillance because of its capability to combine images and generate a ...
Impact dynamics of mechanical systems and structures, and applications in crash energy management, impulse mitigation, and impact injury biomechanics

Moradi, Rasoul (Wichita State University, 2012-05)

Among the different load conditions on a mechanical system, impact loading and its contribution to the design process require special consideration. The static methods of stress, strain, and deflection analyses are ...
Impact of calling locations on energy consumption of VoIP over wireless LAN

Devalla, Aashish Raj (Wichita State University, 2009-12)

Currently there are a wide range of applications for mobile devices. However, mobile devices with an inbuilt wireless interface card are known to have very small operating life. Energy plays a vital role especially for the ...
The impact of MAC contention and route failures on burst losses in saturated ad hoc networks

Zaman, Shahid (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

Medium access contention and route failures in the saturated wireless ad hoc networks increase the average number of transmission attempts required to successfully deliver a frame. MAC contention and route failures also ...
The impact of MAC service-time and route discovery time on packet queuing delay in saturated ad hoc networks

Siddiqui, Usman Ghani (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This thesis presents a quantitative analysis of packet queuing delays in saturated DCF networks. It presents the relationship between medium access control (MAC) delays, routing delays, and the packet queuing delays, in ...
Impact of riveting sequence, pitch and gap between sheets on quality of riveted lap joints

Faishal, Kazi Aman Ullah Mohammad (2006-12)

This thesis presents a study on the effect of controllable process parameters in riveting (i.e., such as the sequence of riveting, distance between rivets (pitch) and gap between sheets) on the quality of riveted lap ...
Implementation and evaluation of automotive child restraint systems in mass transit buses

Balwan, Nishant Kuber (Wichita State University, 2008-12)

Mass transportation systems and specifically bus systems are a key element of the national transportation network. Buses are one of the safest forms of transportation. Nonetheless, bus crashes resulting in occupant injuries ...
Implementation of a channel selection algorithm using cognitive radios

Cabrejos, David (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

With the increase of wireless devices, the wireless spectrum is becoming overloaded causing users to experience delays and performance degradation. Typically, a device will start transmitting data on a frequency and ...