A combination of series, parallel and multilevel power electronics has been investigated as a potential interface for two different types of renewable energy sources and in order to reach higher power levels. Renewable energy sources are typically dispersed in a territory, and sources, like wind and solar, allow small to medium-scale generation of electricity. The configuration investigated in ...

OF THE DISSERTATION Enabling Asynchronous Interaction and Coupling for Parallel Scientific Applications using Decentralized Semantically-Specialized Shared Spaces by Li Zhang Dissertation Director: Professor Manish Parashar While large-scale parallel/distributed simulations are rapidly becoming critical research modalities in academia and industry, their efficient and scalable implementations c...

This paper investigates the inertial force effect on nonlinear aeroelasticity of flexible wing aircraft. The geometric are nonlinearity due to rotational and tension stiffening. The effect of large bending deflection will also be investigated. Aeroelastic analysis will be conducted for a truss-braced wing aircraft concept with nonlinear effect of large bending deflection and inertial force coup...

The identification of Drosophila genes that inhibit proliferation while simultaneously promoting apoptosis--decreasing cell number--or that promote proliferation while simultaneously inhibiting apoptosis--increasing cell number--has revealed new ways that cell birth and death may be coupled to meet the needs of development.

In this paper the potential flow approach adopted in previous investigations for the coupling effect between rigid body ship motion and sloshing is extended to the flexible ship-partially filled tank system, using the de-singularised Rankine source method. The unified method is verified by applying it to the sloshing in a partially filled rectangular tank with a flexible wall. The main aim of t...

A method for constructing conformational models of flexible complex polysaccharides on the basis of NMR data and molecular modeling is described and is applied to a polysaccharide which is a lectin-binding receptor important in coaggregation of oral bacteria. The method involves uniform biosynthetic enrichment of the polysaccharide with 13C which allows accurate measurements of heteronuclear co...

A one-dimensional coordination polymer based on planar pentanuclear copper(II) clusters has been assembled from a flexible tripodal ligand, which exhibits a quite strong antiferromagnetic coupling between Cu(II) ions.