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Lithium Molybdate-Sulfur Battery., Ruchira Ravinath Dharmasena
Lithium Molybdate-Sulfur Battery., Ruchira Ravinath Dharmasena
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Rechargeable energy storage systems play a vital role in today’s automobile industry with the emergence of electric vehicles (EVs). In order to meet the targets set by the department of energy (DOE), there is an immediate need of new battery chemistries with higher energy density than the current Li- ion technology. Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have attracted enormous attention in the energy-storage, due to their high specific energy density of 2600 Wh kg-1 and operational voltage of 2.0 V. Despite the promising electrochemical characteristics, Li-S batteries suffer from serious technical challenges such as dissolution of polysulfides Li2Sx …
A Study Of Several Applications Of Parallel Computing In The Sciences Using Petsc, Nicholas Stegmeier
A Study Of Several Applications Of Parallel Computing In The Sciences Using Petsc, Nicholas Stegmeier
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The importance of computing in the natural sciences continues to grow as scientists strive to analyze complex phenomena. The dynamics of turbulence, astrophysics simulations, and climate change are just a few examples where computing is critical. These problems are computationally intractable on all computing platforms except supercomputers, necessitating the continued development of efficient algorithms and methodologies in parallel computing. This thesis investigates the use of parallel computing and mathematical modeling in the natural sciences through several applications, namely computational fluid dynamics for impinging jets in mechanical engineering, simulation of biofilms in an aqueous environment in mathematical biology, and the solution …