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Time-Varying System Identification Using Modulating Functions And Spline Models With Application To Bio-Processes, Sridhar Ungarala, Tomas B. Co Dec 2000

Time-Varying System Identification Using Modulating Functions And Spline Models With Application To Bio-Processes, Sridhar Ungarala, Tomas B. Co

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Time dependent parameters are frequently encountered in many real processes which need to be monitored for process modeling, control and supervision purposes. Modulating functions methods are especially suitable for this task because they use the original continuous-time differential equations and avoid differentiation of noisy signals. Among the many versions of the method available, Pearson–Lee method offers a computationally efficient alternative. In this paper, Pearson–Lee method is generalized for non-stationary continuous-time systems and the on-line version is developed. The time dependent parameters are modeled as polynomial splines inside a moving data window and recursion formulae using shifting properties of …


Fluid Mechanic Assessment Of The Total Cavopulmonary Connection Using Magnetic Resonance Phase Velocity Mapping And Digital Particle Image Velocimetry, Ann E. Ensley, Agnès Ramuzat, Timothy M. Healy, George P. Chatzimavroudis, Carol Lucas, Shiva Sharma, Roderic Pettigrew, Ajit P. Yoganathan Oct 2000

Fluid Mechanic Assessment Of The Total Cavopulmonary Connection Using Magnetic Resonance Phase Velocity Mapping And Digital Particle Image Velocimetry, Ann E. Ensley, Agnès Ramuzat, Timothy M. Healy, George P. Chatzimavroudis, Carol Lucas, Shiva Sharma, Roderic Pettigrew, Ajit P. Yoganathan

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

The total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) is currently the most promising modification of the Fontan surgical repair for single ventricle congenital heart disease. The TCPC involves a surgical connection of the superior and inferior vena cavae directly to the left and right pulmonary arteries, bypassing the right heart. In the univentricular system, the ventricle experiences a workload which may be reduced by optimizing the cavae-to-pulmonary anastomosis. The hypothesis of this study was that the energetic efficiency of the connection is a consequence of the fluid dynamics which develop as a function of connection geometry. Magnetic resonance phase velocity mapping (MRPVM) and …


Mushy Zone Morphology During Directional Solidification Of Pb-5.8 Wt Pct Sb Alloy, L. Yu, G. L. Ding, J. Reye, S. N. Ojha, Surendra N. Tewari Sep 2000

Mushy Zone Morphology During Directional Solidification Of Pb-5.8 Wt Pct Sb Alloy, L. Yu, G. L. Ding, J. Reye, S. N. Ojha, Surendra N. Tewari

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

The Pb-5.8 wt pet Sb alloy was directionally solidified with a positive thermal gradient of 140 K cm(-1) at a growth speed ranging from 0.8 to 30 mu m s(-1), and then it was quenched to retain the mushy zone morphology. The morphology of the mushy zone along its entire length has been characterized by using a serial sectioning and three-dimensional image reconstruction technique. Variation in the cellular/dendritic shape factor, hydraulic radius of the interdendritic region, and fraction solid along the mushy zone length has been studied. A comparison with predictions from theoretical models indicates that convection remarkably reduces the …


A Multiscale, Bayesian And Error-In-Variables Approach For Linear Dynamic Data Rectification, Sridhar Ungarala, Bhavik R. Bakshi Jul 2000

A Multiscale, Bayesian And Error-In-Variables Approach For Linear Dynamic Data Rectification, Sridhar Ungarala, Bhavik R. Bakshi

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

A multiscale approach to data rectification is proposed for data containing features with different time and frequency localization. Noisy data are decomposed into contributions at multiple scales and a Bayesian optimization problem is solved to rectify the wavelet coefficients at each scale. A linear dynamic model is used to constrain the optimization problem, which facilitates an error-in variables (EIV) formulation and reconciles all measured variables. Time-scale recursive algorithms are obtained by propagating the prior with temporal and scale models. The multi-scale Kalman filter is a special case of the proposed Bayesian EIV approach.