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Modeling and Controller Design of a Wind Energy Conversion System Including a Matrix Converter
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-30)In this thesis, a grid-connected wind-energy converter system including a matrix converter is proposed. The matrix converter, as a power electronic converter, is used to interface the induction generator with the grid and ... -
Modeling and Design of Photoconductive and Superconductive Terahertz Photomixer Sources
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Terahertz technology is a fast growing field with variety of applications in biology and medicine, medical imaging, material spectroscopy and sensing, monitoring and spectroscopy in pharmaceutical industry, security, and ... -
Modeling and Design Optimization of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrains
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) were introduced in response to rising environmental challenges facing the automotive sector. HEVs combine the benefits of electric vehicles and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, ... -
Modeling and Evaluating Energy Performance of Smartphones
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)With advances in hardware miniaturization and wireless communication technologies even small portable wireless devices have much communication bandwidth and computing power. These devices include smartphones, tablet ... -
Modeling and Evaluation of Pollutant Emissions from Industrial Biofilters by Dispersion Models
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-27)With gradually increasing strict environmental regulations that control emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), reduced sulphur compounds and nuisance odors from industries, there is a growing need for air pollution ... -
Modeling and Experimental Studies of SO₂ Effects on CO₂ Capture with Chilled Ammonia Solvent
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-18)Combustion of fossil fuel produces air emissions including carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, and sulfur dioxide, which cause severe environment problems, in particular, global warming and environmental pollution. The discharge ... -
Modeling and Implementing Variability in Aerospace Systems Product Lines
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-24)Avionics systems are becoming indispensable on both military and civil aircraft. As more and more of their vital functions are controlled by electronic devices, their system qualities such as safety, reliability, and ... -
Modeling and Managing Longevity Risk: Models and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-20)With the threat of longevity risk to the insurance industry becoming increasingly apparent in recent years, insurers and reinsurers are concerned about how to better model and manage longevity risk. However, modeling and ... -
Modeling and managing noise in quantum error correction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-19)Simulating a quantum system to full accuracy is very costly and often impossible as we do not know the exact dynamics of a given system. In particular, the dynamics of measurement noise are not well understood. For this ... -
Modeling and Mitigation of Soft Errors in Nanoscale SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-05)Energetic particle (alpha particle, cosmic neutron, etc.) induced single event data upset or soft error has emerged as a key reliability concern in SRAMs in sub-100 nanometre technologies. Low operating voltage, small node ... -
Modeling and Operation of Ground Source Heat Pumps in Electricity Markets Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-17)Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) systems have grown in popularity and acceptance worldwide as an attractive option to replace conventional Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies due to their capacity ... -
Modeling and Optimal Control of Human Walking for Motion Understanding and Usage in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)Wearable robotics, also known as exoskeletons, are devices typically worn over the human limbs to provide support and help with movement. Either by assisting the user to increase their capabilities, to help them regain ... -
Modeling and Optimization of Biomass Supply Chain for Energy, Chemicals and Materials Productions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)In the growing concerns towards global environmental qualities and sustainable feedstocks supplies, scientific and technological efforts were intensified to utilize alternative renewable resources. In this regard, biomass ... -
MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF CRUDE OIL DESALTING
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)When first received by a refinery, the crude oil usually contains some water, mineral salts, and sediments. The salt appears in different forms, most often times it is dissolved in the formation water that comes with the ... -
Modeling and Optimization of Desalting Process in Oil Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Throughout a very long piping network crude oil in Saudi Arabia is sent to Gas Oil Separation Plant called GOSP. The main objectives of the GOSP are: - Separation of the associated gas through pressure drop in two series ... -
Modeling and optimization of natural gas processing and production networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-13)Natural gas is a nonrenewable energy source, so it is important to use it and utilize it in a sustainable manner. Globally, about 25% of energy consumption is supplied and fulfilled by natural gas and this percentage will ... -
Modeling and Performance Analysis of Relay-based Cooperative OFDMA Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-09)Next generation wireless communication networks are expected to provide ubiquitous high data rate coverage and support heterogeneous wireless services with diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. This translates ... -
Modeling and Prediction of Disease Processes Subject to Intermittent Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-21)This thesis is concerned with statistical modeling and prediction of disease processes subject to intermittent observation. Times of disease progression are interval-censored when progression status is only known at a ... -
Modeling and Querying Uncertainty in Data Cleaning
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-09)Data quality problems such as duplicate records, missing values, and violation of integrity constrains frequently appear in real world applications. Such problems cost enterprises billions of dollars annually, and might ... -
Modeling and Reasoning with Multisets and Multirelations in Alloy
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)Multisets and multirelations arise naturally in modeling; however, most modeling languages either have limited or completely lack support for multisets and multirelations. Alloy, for instance, is a lightweight relational ...