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Design Optimization and Combustion Simulation of Two Gaseous and Liquid-Fired Combustors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-17)The growing effect of combustion pollutant emission on the environment and increasing petroleum prices are driving development of design methodologies for clean and efficient industrial combustion technologies. The design ... -
Design Optimization for Spatial Arrangement of Used Nuclear Fuel Containers
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Canada's proposed deep geological repository is a multiple-barrier system designed to isolate used nuclear fuel containers (UFCs) indefinitely with no release of radionuclides for at least one million years. Placing UFCs ... -
Design Optimization of a Porous Radiant Burner
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)The design of combustion devices is very important to society today. They need to be highly efficient, while reducing emissions in order to meet strict environmental standards. These devices, however, are currently not ... -
Design Optimization of the Spacing Parameters in the Canadian Deep Geological Repository Containing High Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)The Canadian Deep geological repository (DGR) is the facility designed to isolate and contain the highly radioactive nuclear waste at approximately 500m underground for approximately one million years. The reliability and ... -
A Design Space for Distributed Producer-Consumer Data Structures Using RDMA
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has become a standard networking technology and is prominently used in high-performance applications. While RDMA can provide both excellent performance and novel capabilities, it can ... -
Design Strategy of 2D Material Field-Effect Transistors: Engineering the Number of Layers in Phosphorene FETs
(AIP Publishing, 2016-06-07)Thickness or the number of layers in 2D semiconductors is a key parameter to determine the material’s electronic properties and the overall device performance of 2D material electronics. Here we discuss the engineering ... -
Design Study of a Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)This thesis documents the development study of a three-wheeled electric urban vehicle through its initial design stages, which includes needs analysis, development of rough order-of-magnitude calculations, and concept ... -
Design Techniques for Lithography-Friendly Nanometer CMOS Integrated Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The Integrated Circuits industry has been a major driver of the outstanding changes and improvements in the modern day technology and life style that we are observing in our day to day life. The continuous scaling of CMOS ... -
Design with Energy in Mind
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-16)This study demonstrates how much impact an architect can have on the environmental loads imposed by a building, through fundamental choices of building form, proportion, orientation, and enclosure design. It also offers ... -
Design, Analysis and Optimization of a Cherenkov radiation based sub-mm/THz BWO
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)The Terahertz (THz) radiation –also known as “T-ray and THz gap”– refers to a certain band of the electromagnetic spectrum whose frequency extends between 0.1THz and 10THz. Compared to the microwave band, the THz radiation ... -
Design, Analysis, and Characterization of Indirectly-pumped Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Quantum cascade laser (QCL), as a unipolar semiconductor laser based on intersubband transitions in quantum wells, covers a large portion of the Mid and Far Infrared electromagnetic spectrum. The frequency of the optical ... -
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Dual Tank Solar-Assisted Heat Pump System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-16)This work investigates the performance of a dual tank solar-assisted heat pump (SAHP) system. These systems combine solar thermal collectors (STCs) and a heat pump (HP) into a hybrid system to meet building thermal loads. ... -
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Isogeny-Based Key Establishment Protocols
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)We analyze the Commutative Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman protocol (CSIDH), a novel supersingular isogeny-based key establishment protocol. Our analysis is from three perspectives: Quantum Cryptanalysis. Building ... -
Design, Characterization and Application of Amphipathic Peptides for siRNA Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are 21-23 nucleotide-long double-stranded RNA molecules that can trigger the RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a post-transcriptional gene silencing process whereby siRNAs induce the ... -
Design, characterization, optical and photophysical properties of novel thiophene monomers and polymers containing pyrene moieties linked via rigid and flexible spacers
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Herein, we report the synthesis of three novel thiophene monomers connected to pyrene moieties via a flexible oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) spacer with an oxygen -to-pyrene (T1), a flexible OEG spacer with an oxygen ... -
Design, construction and characterization of LysK endolysin display phage against Staphylococcus aureus
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-04)The growing threat of drug- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infections mandates the need to develop novel, effective and alternative antibacterial therapeutics. Despite infection prevention and control measures, ... -
Design, Construction and Testing of an Adaptive Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)The objective of this thesis is to describe the design, construction, implementation and performance of a prototype adaptive pendulum tuned mass damper (APTMD). Furthermore the thesis aims at demonstrating the performance ... -
Design, Dynamics, and Control of Active-passive Upper-limb Exoskeleton Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-21)Modern power assistive technologies, neuromuscular rehabilitation engineering, and haptic research have all entered into a new age thanks to wearable exoskeleton robotics. Exoskeleton robots, which range from fully passive ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Unipolar Charge Sensing Amorphous Selenium X-ray Detector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-19)Amorphous Selenium is a direct conversion photoconductor that has been widely used in X-ray imaging applications. Due to its high spatial resolution A-Se plays an important role in breast cancer screening and diagnostics, ... -
The Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Imaging Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have proven themselves to be excellent candidates for medical ultrasonic imaging applications. The use of semiconductor fabrication techniques facilitates the fabrication ...