Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Sour Gas Injection to Enhance Oil Recovery
(2017-02-13)Proper handling of sour gas produced is crucial to the development of sour reservoirs. Over years of research and practice, many methods of sour gas processing have been developed from the solid storage of sulfur to ...
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Spectral Decomposition of Compact Operators on Hilbert Spaces
(2017-11-23)Compact operators are linear operators on Banach spaces that maps bounded set to relatively compact sets. In the case of Hilbert space H it is an extension of the concept of matrix acting on a finite dimensional vector ...
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Spectral Theory of Compact Linear Operators and Applications
(2011-12-15)This Project primarily falls into the field of Linear Functional Analysis and its Applications to Eigenvalue problems. It concerns the study of Compact Linear Operators (i.e., bounded linear operators which map the closed ...
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Spiking Neural Network Architecture Design and Performance Exploration towards the Design of a Scalable Neuro-Inspired System for Complex Cognition Applications
(2017-12-09)Research into artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by how information is dynamically and massively processed by biological neurons. Conventional ANNs research has received a wide range of applications including ...
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Spontaneous Flow Transitions in Active Polar Gels
(2011-11-20)Active polar gels are a type of viscoelastic soft material formed by polar filaments which are constantly driven out of equilibrium by the consumption of chemical fuel such as ATP. Following the approach of Voituriez et ...
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Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Hindmarsh-Rose Neuronal Model With Time Delay
(AUST, 2019-07-20)In this research work, we study and analyse Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal system with time delay. Considering the fast sub-system of the model, all the possible non-negative equilibria are obtained and their local as well as ...
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Statistical Characterization of Performance of Biopolymer Drill-In Fluid for Different Rheological Models
(2010-11-15)Appropriate selection of rheological models is important for hydraulic calculations of pressure loss prediction and hole cleaning efficiency of drilling fluids. Power law, Bingham-Plastic Herschel-Bulkley models are the ...
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Statistical Data-Driven Models for Forecasting Production Performance with Uncertainty Analysis
(2014-12-20)Data-driven analytical models are important tools employed in the petroleum industry to forecast production rates and reserves of petroleum assets. Studies have shown that existing rate forecasting models project future ...
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Stochastic Modelling of a Chemotactic Microswimmer
(2011-11-20)Key to Escherichia coli (E-coli) bacteria survival is its ability to direct its movement to greener pasture and flee harmful environment - also known as chemotaxis. This thesis focuses on the modelling of E-coli chemotaxis ...
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Strategies to Implement Parallel Discrete Event System Specification Algorithms
(AUST, 2014-12-15)Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism is a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) framework that provides a means of specifying systems. It separates a model from its simulator. The former describes the structure and ...
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Strength and Fracture of Earth-Based and Natural Fiber-Reinforced Composites
(2010-12-15)This study examined the mechanical properties of earth-based materials that are relevant to the future development of affordable housing. Earthcrete structures were produced by mixing various proportions of laterites, clay ...
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A Strong Convergence for the sum of three Monotone Operators in a Real Banach Space
(AUST, 2021-07-09)Let E be a real 2-uniformly convex Banach space with topological dual E∗. We established strong convergence for the class of variational inclusion for the sum of three monotone operators. More over, we give a variant of ...
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A Strong Convergence Theorem for Zeros of Bounded Maximal Monotone Mappings in Banach Spaces with Applications
(2016-06-07)Let E be a uniformly convex and uniformly smooth real Banach space and E ∗ be its dual. Let A : E → 2 E be a bounded maximal monotone map. Assume that A −1 (0) 6 = ∅. A new iterative sequence is constructed which converges ...
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Structural and electronic properties of a two-dimensional hybrid system of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride: A first-principles study
(AUST, 2019-06-02)Despite the excellent properties of graphene, graphene based electronic devices are yet to be realized, one of the reason for such is the absence of band gap in graphene. Due to its large band gap, hexagonal boron nitride ...
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Structural and Mechanical Properties of Termite Soil as a Partial Replacement to Cement
(2016-03-22)Materials selection is done regarding to the availability, cost and performance of the candidates. In buildings, cement is the material that is widely used, even though it is releases co2 (estimated about 7% of the worldwide ...
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Structural, Electronic and Optical Properties of Cu 2 Sns 3 Solar Absorber: A First-Principle Density Functional Theory Investigation
(2019-06-23)The development of inexpensive, non-toxic, high efficiency and earth-abundant solar absorbers is critical for terawatt scale implementation of photovoltaics. Cu 2 SnS 3 is a promising earth abundant absorber material that ...
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Studies of the Chemical Vapor Deposition Method of Generating Graphene
(2009-12-15)Since the pioneering report of the discovery of graphene in 2004 by Novoselov et al, scientists and researchers worldwide have carried out in depth investigations in this new family of carbon because of its myriad properties ...
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Studies on Methylene Blue Dye Adsorption, using Carbonized, Activated Carbon and Magnetic Carbonized Samples from Kentucky Coffee Tree Pods
(2020-04-12)This study was carried out under various experimental conditions and rate of dye adsorption such as the solution pH, the adsorbent preparation concentration, and contact time to assess the potentiality of Kentucky coffee ...
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Study and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks to Manage Energy in a Smart Home
(2017-12-15)Many studies have shown that smart homes can use energy more efficiently than traditional buildings. Thus, several researchers have advocated building a smart home in order to reduce energy consumption. In the literature, ...
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Study and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks to Manage Energy in a Smart Home
(2017-12-09)Many studies have shown that smart homes can use energy more efficiently than traditional buildings. Thus, several researchers have advocated building a smart home in order to reduce energy consumption. In the literature, ...