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Performing accurate simulations of large- and multi-scale electromagnetics problems has far-reaching implications The same physics governs applications as diverse as rare earth content reduction in DC motor design; wireless propagation in dense urban environments and novel antenna design, both key issues in the pending 5G communications boom; electromagnetic sounding for subsurface exo-terrestrial ...

International demand for wood has grown steadily in the past few decades due to the growth in the world’s population and is expected to continue to grow rapidly as policies promoting greater use of renewable energy are adopted globally. Providing over 9% of the global primary energy supply, wood energy is as important as other renewable energy sources. Due to wood’s potential for large-scale c ...

Wind power plays an increasingly important role in satisfying the power needs of the United States With increased market penetration, failures from unanticipated unsteady loads, installation related reductions in power generation and significant maintenance costs have underscored the need to predict the unsteady fluid structure interactions related to turbine layout and off-design wind conditions ...

With the electrification of transportation, the increased number of portable and connected devices, and the modernization of our grid to include energy storage coupled with renewable energy sources, increased demands of power, energy, lifetime, cost, and safety performance metrics for electrochemical energy storage are at an all-time high. Specifically of interest to the US DOE Vehicle Technologie ...

While aluminum casing materials provide some enhanced performance and thermal loading to explosive ordinance, their overall effectiveness is highly limited by incomplete combustion and long residence times. In order to reduce these problems, the casing material must be designed to facilitate rapid fragmentation through either specialized casing geometries or greatly refined initial particle sizes. ...

The product concept combines stability and high gas transport of amorphous fluoropolymers with high selectivity of silver salts to create a new membrane with excellent separation, fouling resistance to sulfurous and other gases, and superb stability at high flux.

Surgical simulations aiming to support surgeon practices and medical education have attracted enormous research effort over the last two decades. However, the physical reality, especially on simulating aggregated tissue interaction, is still unsatisfactory. In this proposed work, an open source surgery simulation framework, SoFMIS, will be utilized and enhanced with tissue interaction models to a ...

Despite the dramatic growth of natural gas resources, methane (the major component in natural gas) is underutilized as a feedstock for the production of chemicals and liquid fuels. Currently, methane conversion relies on an indirect two-step gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology. This process is energy intensive and has high operating costs. We propose to develop a new approach to directly convert methan ...

The demand for increased brightness of synchrotron light sources is driven by advancement of novel experimental techniques to study nanomaterials, micro- and nanocrystals, and interactions of atomic and molecular structures Strong demand has pushed technologies of low emittance electron sources, novel concepts in electron storage rings, free electron lasers (FELs) and undulators – the primary so ...

The modern warfighter faces the constant threat of endemic infections, multi-drug resistant bacteria and Biological Warfare Agents. In order to provide accurate front-line treatment that will curtail the overuse of antibiotics, a rapid and robust molecula