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Stratified Hydrogen Combustion With Various Mixing Processes, Youngmin Ki, Heetae Yang, Jungho Justin Kim, Seong Young Lee, Joonsik Hwang, Choongsik Bae Sep 2025

Stratified Hydrogen Combustion With Various Mixing Processes, Youngmin Ki, Heetae Yang, Jungho Justin Kim, Seong Young Lee, Joonsik Hwang, Choongsik Bae

Michigan Tech Publications

Hydrogen is recognized as a key alternative fuel for mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions owing to its high fuel efficiency and carbon-free combustion. In the stratified charge combustion (SCC) mode, ensuring optimal air-fuel mixing in the combustion chamber is crucial because the local equivalence ratio has a dominant influence on combustion characteristics. Therefore, this study aims to build a detailed understanding of stratified hydrogen combustion under various local equivalence ratios. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was used to measure the local equivalence ratios in hydrogen jets at different mixture-formation times (MFTs) and laser-ignition points (LIPs). The results showed that shorter MFTs induced highly …


Smart Dressings Accelerating Wound Healing With Tranexamic Acid-Infused Aligned Electrospun Nanofibers: In Vitro And In Vivo Assessments, Samar A. Salim, Abdullah Elbadry, Eman Gomaa, Mennatullah Faisal, Elbadawy A. Kamoun Sep 2025

Smart Dressings Accelerating Wound Healing With Tranexamic Acid-Infused Aligned Electrospun Nanofibers: In Vitro And In Vivo Assessments, Samar A. Salim, Abdullah Elbadry, Eman Gomaa, Mennatullah Faisal, Elbadawy A. Kamoun

Nanotechnology Research Centre

The development of advanced wound dressings capable of accelerating healing and achieving effective hemostasis remains a critical challenge in managing traumatic and surgical wounds. This study reports the fabrication and comprehensive evaluation of a novel multilayered, sandwich-structured nanofiber scaffold composed of Tranexamic acid (TXA), chitosan (CS), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), L-arginine, and polylactic acid (PLA) for biodegradable wound dressing applications. Using sequential electrospinning, a four-layered scaffold was developed as a smart wound dressing, comprising an immediate-release TXA-CS-PVA layer for rapid clotting, a hydrophobic PLA barrier layer for protection, a sustained-release L-arginine-PVA layer to promote tissue regeneration, and a final PLA protective …


Fluorinated Electrolytes For Lithium–Sulfur And Beyond-Lithium Metal–Sulfur Batteries, Avinash Raulo, Saheed Lateef, Hunter Mcray, Kaushek Rahul Ilancheran, Fabio Albano, Golareh Jalilvand Sep 2025

Fluorinated Electrolytes For Lithium–Sulfur And Beyond-Lithium Metal–Sulfur Batteries, Avinash Raulo, Saheed Lateef, Hunter Mcray, Kaushek Rahul Ilancheran, Fabio Albano, Golareh Jalilvand

Faculty Publications

Metal–sulfur batteries, particularly lithium–sulfur (Li–S) systems, have attracted significant attention due to their high theoretical energy densities, low cost, and sustainability benefits arising from sulfur’s abundance and non-toxicity. Despite extensive research, their practical deployment remains limited by persistent challenges such as polysulfide shuttling and metal anode degradation, which collectively lead to poor coulombic efficiency and limited cycle life. These issues are further intensified in emerging systems employing sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and siliconbased anodes. Fluorinated electrolytes have emerged as a promising approach to address these limitations. Fluorination enhances oxidative stability, suppresses polysulfide dissolution, promotes stable solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation, and …


Cryogenic Gas Cell For Infrared Space Instrumentation, Trent Newswander, Scott Bailey, Mark Hervig, Phillip Scott, Ryan Luder, Mike Watson, Mike Oksness, Cody Secrist, Zack Hatfield Sep 2025

Cryogenic Gas Cell For Infrared Space Instrumentation, Trent Newswander, Scott Bailey, Mark Hervig, Phillip Scott, Ryan Luder, Mike Watson, Mike Oksness, Cody Secrist, Zack Hatfield

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

The Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder (DWTS) is being developed for flight on NASA’s Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) satellite. DWTS will view the Earth limb orthogonal to the spacecraft ram and uses gas-filter correlation radiometry to detect the Doppler shift of atmospheric emission. The observations yield horizontal winds and kinetic temperature with high precision, excellent spatial resolution, and altitude coverage from 40–250 km. DWTS detects Doppler shifting of NO and 13CO2 atmospheric emission lines by passing the incident light through an onboard cell containing both gases that is cooled to near cryogenic temperatures. This work describes the DWTS instrument, …


Uncalibrated Visual Servoing For Spatial Under-Constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, Jarrett-Scott K. Jenny, Matt Marshall Sep 2025

Uncalibrated Visual Servoing For Spatial Under-Constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, Jarrett-Scott K. Jenny, Matt Marshall

Faculty Articles

Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) offer large workspaces with minimal infrastructure, but their control becomes difficult when the platform is under-constrained and sensing is limited. This paper investigates uncalibrated visual servoing (UVS) with a single monocular camera, asking whether simple global static Jacobians (GSJ) can be sufficient and how an adaptive Jacobian estimator behaves. Two platforms are evaluated: a three-cable (3C) platform and a redundant six-cable du-al-plane platform (RC). Motion-capture (MoCap) validation shows that redundancy improves stability and tracking by reducing platform tilt and making image errors correspond more directly to Cartesian motions. Across static and low-speed tracking tasks, GSJ proved …


Tissue-Like Fracture Toughness And Stress–Relaxation Ability In Pva-Agar-Based Hydrogels For Biomedical Applications, Ismael Lamas Jr., Bhuvana L. Chandrashekar, Cláudia C. Biguetti, Mohammad R. Islam Sep 2025

Tissue-Like Fracture Toughness And Stress–Relaxation Ability In Pva-Agar-Based Hydrogels For Biomedical Applications, Ismael Lamas Jr., Bhuvana L. Chandrashekar, Cláudia C. Biguetti, Mohammad R. Islam

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Soft tissues exhibit remarkable stretchability, fracture toughness, and stress–relaxation ability. They possess a large water content to support cellular processes. Mimicking such a combination of mechanical and physical properties in hydrogels is important for tissue engineering applications but remains challenging. This work aims to develop a hydrogel that can combine excellent mechanical properties with cellular viability. The research focused on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/agar double-network (DN) hydrogels, fabricated by thermal gelation and freeze–thawing methods. Their mechanical properties were characterized through tension, compression, fracture, and stress–relaxation tests, and their cellular viability was measured through cytotoxicity tests. The results show that the PVA/agar …


Spatiotemporal Deep Learning To Forecast Storm Surge Water Levels And Storm Trajectory: Case Study Hurricane Harvey, Junqin Hou, Muhammad K. Akbar, Manar D. Samad, Lizhi Ouyang Sep 2025

Spatiotemporal Deep Learning To Forecast Storm Surge Water Levels And Storm Trajectory: Case Study Hurricane Harvey, Junqin Hou, Muhammad K. Akbar, Manar D. Samad, Lizhi Ouyang

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Faculty Research

No abstract provided.


Insights Into The Construction Of The Oruanui Magma Reservoir From A Comparison Of Zircon Hosted In Plagioclase And Whole-Rock, Tyler D. Schlieder, Kari M. Cooper, Adam J.R. Kent, Darren Gravley, Chad Deering, Seth Rubin, Adelicia Johnson Sep 2025

Insights Into The Construction Of The Oruanui Magma Reservoir From A Comparison Of Zircon Hosted In Plagioclase And Whole-Rock, Tyler D. Schlieder, Kari M. Cooper, Adam J.R. Kent, Darren Gravley, Chad Deering, Seth Rubin, Adelicia Johnson

Michigan Tech Publications

Silicic magmatic systems play a critical role in the evolution of continental crust, and their eruptions could pose significant hazard to modern civilization. However, the processes of silicic magma storage and assembly prior to eruption are not well understood. We report new 238U-230Th ages and trace-element data for both rims and interiors of zircons separated from whole-rock (WR) samples and from bulk plagioclase separates from the 25.4 ka Oruanui eruption, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. These data provide petrologic context and a more complete record of zircon crystallization than previous analyses of whole-rock hosted zircon interiors. In …


Non-Invasive Wearables In Pediatric Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review Of Uses And Implications, Kyra-Angela Magsayo, Seyedeh F. Khatami Firoozabadi Sep 2025

Non-Invasive Wearables In Pediatric Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review Of Uses And Implications, Kyra-Angela Magsayo, Seyedeh F. Khatami Firoozabadi

Pacific Faculty Work

Wearable technology is rapidly evolving, with increasing efforts to integrate a wide range of sensors capable of capturing real-time physiological and behavioral health data from users. These devices have shown significant promise in supporting health monitoring and promoting well-being by providing continuous, objective feedback based on data analytics. Importantly, they enable early detection of potential health issues, allowing for timely intervention and more personalized healthcare. While a wide variety of commercially available wearable devices are designed for adults—tracking metrics such as physical activity, heart rate, body temperature, electrocardiograms (ECG), and oxygen saturation—there remains a notable gap in the availability and …


Novel Biomolecule-Infused Gelatin Injectable For Treatment Of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury, Ananya Tadikonda, Sunjay Anekal, Lena W. Chen, Gabriel Sobczak, Troy Wesson, Carmilya Jackson, Marisa A. Egan, Julie C. Liu, Patrick R. Finnegan, Stacey Halum Sep 2025

Novel Biomolecule-Infused Gelatin Injectable For Treatment Of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury, Ananya Tadikonda, Sunjay Anekal, Lena W. Chen, Gabriel Sobczak, Troy Wesson, Carmilya Jackson, Marisa A. Egan, Julie C. Liu, Patrick R. Finnegan, Stacey Halum

School of Chemical Engineering Faculty Publications

Objective

Unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) due to recurrent laryngeal nerve injury (RLN) is a major cause of voice disorders. We have recently identified three biomolecules (agrin, acetylcholine, and neuregulin) with the potential to promote reinnervation after RLN injury. This study aimed to determine if a gelatin injectable with the reinnervating biomolecules will induce site-specific amplification of neurotrophic factor release and reinnervation after RLN injury in unilateral vocal fold paralysis.

Methods

C57BL/6 mice underwent RLN transection with the following treatment allocations: saline control (N = 16), biomolecule cocktail only (N = 16), and biomolecule-infused gelatin (N = …


Coumarin/Nitrogen-Bearing Heterocyclic Hybridloaded Electrospun Pmma/Pvp Nanofibrous Scaffolds For Accelerating Topical Wound Healing Rates: Synthesis And In Vitro Bio-Evaluation, Samar A. Salim, Mohamed Ali, Tasneem Abed, El Badawy Kamoun Sep 2025

Coumarin/Nitrogen-Bearing Heterocyclic Hybridloaded Electrospun Pmma/Pvp Nanofibrous Scaffolds For Accelerating Topical Wound Healing Rates: Synthesis And In Vitro Bio-Evaluation, Samar A. Salim, Mohamed Ali, Tasneem Abed, El Badawy Kamoun

Nanotechnology Research Centre

Coumarin-nitrogen heterocyclic compounds (e.g. quinoline, acridine, and phthalazine) were synthesized by facile reactions and elucidated by FTIR, 1H, and 13C-NMR analyses, which showed consistency with the expected structures. Coumarin-quinoline (drug A)- and coumarin-acridine (drug B)-loaded electrospun PMMA/PVP nanofibrous scaffolds were fabricated using electrospinning techniques. Results showed a successful PMMA/PVP blend, which formed the matrix that was used as the main scaffold for drug loading/release. The drugs (A and B) were encapsulated within the matrix as verified by IR and SEM results. Bio-evaluation through cytotoxicity and anticancer screening was conducted using the MTT assay against lung fibroblast (Wi-38), colon carcinoma (Caco-2), …


Development Of A Water Temperature Modeling Platform To Support Short- And Long-Term Water Temperature Management In Reservoir-River Systems, Michael Deas, Yung-Hsin Sun, John Degeorge, Benjamin T. Saenz, Thomas A. Evans, Scott Burdick-Yahya, Stephen Andrews, Jeff Schuyler, William Candy, Lin Zheng, Scott Wells, Multiple Additional Authors Sep 2025

Development Of A Water Temperature Modeling Platform To Support Short- And Long-Term Water Temperature Management In Reservoir-River Systems, Michael Deas, Yung-Hsin Sun, John Degeorge, Benjamin T. Saenz, Thomas A. Evans, Scott Burdick-Yahya, Stephen Andrews, Jeff Schuyler, William Candy, Lin Zheng, Scott Wells, Multiple Additional Authors

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) supports water temperature management for fishery species protection in downstream river reaches below Central Valley Project (CVP) reservoirs in the Sacramento, American, and Stanislaus River systems. The Water Temperature Modeling Platform (WTMP) Project was initiated to modernize and enhance modeling capabilities to predict summer–fall water temperature through reservoir cold water pool management using temperature control facilities designed for temperature management. The WTMP supports forecasts, historical analyses, and long-term planning efforts and advances previous modeling approaches by using an integrated modeling platform. This platform includes a data management system that acquires …


Road Performance Evaluation Of Preventive Maintenance Techniques For Asphalt Pavements, Fansheng Kong, Yalong Li, Ruilin Wang, Xing Hu, Miao Yu, Dongzhao Jin Sep 2025

Road Performance Evaluation Of Preventive Maintenance Techniques For Asphalt Pavements, Fansheng Kong, Yalong Li, Ruilin Wang, Xing Hu, Miao Yu, Dongzhao Jin

Michigan Tech Publications

Preventive maintenance treatments are widely applied to asphalt pavements to mitigate deterioration and extend service life. This study evaluated four common technologies: a high-elasticity ultra-thin overlay, an Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA)-10 thin overlay, micro-surfacing (MS-III), and a chip seal. Laboratory testing focused on skid resistance, surface texture, and low-temperature cracking resistance. Skid resistance was measured with a tire–pavement dynamic friction analyzer under controlled load and speed, while surface macrotexture was assessed using a laser scanner. Low-temperature cracking resistance was determined through three-point bending beam tests at −10 °C. The results showed that chip seal achieved the highest initial friction and …


Superhydrophobic Cerium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks/Polymer Nanofibers For Water Treatment, Samar A. Salim, Hani Nasser Abdelhamid, Sep 2025

Superhydrophobic Cerium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks/Polymer Nanofibers For Water Treatment, Samar A. Salim, Hani Nasser Abdelhamid,

Nanotechnology Research Centre

No abstract provided.


Robotic System With Tactile-Enabled Leaf Tracking For High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging Device For Autonomous Corn Leaf Phenotyping In Controlled Environments, Xuan Li, Ziling Chen, Raghava Uppuluri, Pokuang Zhou, Tianzhang Zhao, Darrell Zachary Good, Yu She, Jian Jin Sep 2025

Robotic System With Tactile-Enabled Leaf Tracking For High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging Device For Autonomous Corn Leaf Phenotyping In Controlled Environments, Xuan Li, Ziling Chen, Raghava Uppuluri, Pokuang Zhou, Tianzhang Zhao, Darrell Zachary Good, Yu She, Jian Jin

School of Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

Hyperspectral imaging of individual corn leaves provides valuable data for analyzing nutrient content and diagnosing diseases. However, existing leaf-level imaging techniques face challenges such as low spatial resolution and labor-intensive processes. To address these limitations, this study developed a robotic system integrated with a high-resolution line-scanning hyperspectral imaging device to autonomously scan a corn leaf. The hyperspectral imaging device used a vision-based tactile sensor for active leaf tracking throughout the scanning process, ensuring high image quality. Additionally, the device incorporated an in-hand leaf manipulation mechanism that ensured the leaf was properly positioned on the tactile sensing area at the start …


Enhancement Of Spin Transport Properties In Angled-Channel Graphene Spin Valves Via Hybrid Spin Drift-Diffusion, Samuel Olson, Kaleb Hood, Otto Zietz, Jun Jiao Sep 2025

Enhancement Of Spin Transport Properties In Angled-Channel Graphene Spin Valves Via Hybrid Spin Drift-Diffusion, Samuel Olson, Kaleb Hood, Otto Zietz, Jun Jiao

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Graphene has promise as a channel connecting separate units of large-scale spintronic circuits owing to its outstanding theoretical spin transport properties. However, spin transport properties of experimental devices consistently fall short of theoretical estimates due to impacts from the substrate, electrodes, or defects in the graphene itself. In this study, we fabricate both traditional non-local spin valves (NLSVs) and novel hybrid drift-diffusion spin valves (HDDSVs) to explore the impact of charge current and AC spin injection efficiency on spin transport. HDDSVs feature channel branches that allow investigation of charge-based spin drift enhancement compared to diffusion-only configurations. We investigate the modulation …


Transparent Eeg Analysis: Leveraging Autoencoders, Bi-Lstms, And Shap For Improved Neurodegenerative Diseases Detection, Badr Mouazen, Ahmed Bendaouia, Omaima Bellakhdar, Khaoula Laghdaf, Aya Ennair, El Hassan Abdelwahed, Giovanni De Marco Sep 2025

Transparent Eeg Analysis: Leveraging Autoencoders, Bi-Lstms, And Shap For Improved Neurodegenerative Diseases Detection, Badr Mouazen, Ahmed Bendaouia, Omaima Bellakhdar, Khaoula Laghdaf, Aya Ennair, El Hassan Abdelwahed, Giovanni De Marco

Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

Highlights

  • Novel hybrid architecture: Combined autoencoders with bidirectional LSTM networks for enhanced EEG signal classification, achieving 98% accuracy in distinguishing AD, FTD, and healthy controls.

  • Explainable AI integration: Implemented SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) framework to enhance model transparency and identify entropy as the most influential feature for neurodegenerative disease detection.

  • Optimal temporal segmentation: Demonstrated that 5-s EEG windows with 50% overlap provide the best balance between classification accuracy and computational efficiency.

  • Comprehensive feature extraction: Utilized Power Spectral Density (PSD) analysis across standard frequency bands (Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma) following autoencoder-based dimensionality reduction.

  • Superior performance validation: Outperformed traditional machine learning …


Self-Organization In Metal Plasticity: An Ilg Update †, Avraam Konstantinidis, Konstantinos Spiliotis, Amit Chattopadhyay, Elais C. Aifantis Sep 2025

Self-Organization In Metal Plasticity: An Ilg Update †, Avraam Konstantinidis, Konstantinos Spiliotis, Amit Chattopadhyay, Elais C. Aifantis

Michigan Tech Publications

In a 1987 article of the last author dedicated to the memory of a pioneer of classical plasticity Aris Philips of Yale, the last author outlined three examples of self-organization during plastic deformation in metals: persistent slip bands (PSBs), shear bands (SBs) and Portevin Le Chatelier (PLC) bands. All three have been observed and analyzed experimentally for a long time, but there was no theory to capture their spatial characteristics and evolution in the process of deformation. By introducing the Laplacian of dislocation density and strain in the standard constitutive equations used for these phenomena, corresponding mathematical models and nonlinear …


Energy-Aware Optimal Reconfiguration Of A Heterogeneous Connected And Automated Vehicle Cohort On A Limited-Access Highway, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Darrell Robinette, Daniel Knopp, Jeffrey Naber, Jungyun Bae Sep 2025

Energy-Aware Optimal Reconfiguration Of A Heterogeneous Connected And Automated Vehicle Cohort On A Limited-Access Highway, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Darrell Robinette, Daniel Knopp, Jeffrey Naber, Jungyun Bae

Michigan Tech Publications

This paper presents an optimized vehicular reordering methodology designed to minimize energy consumption within heterogeneous cohorts operating at constant velocity on limited-access highways. The approach addresses the challenge of optimizing vehicle sequencing by considering both aerodynamic drag reduction benefits and the energy costs of reconfiguring a cohort from a stochastic initial state. This study provides empirical validation through on-road vehicle tests, demonstrating significant energy savings, achieving up to 10% reduction in axle energy for optimally configured cohorts compared to independent operation. A System of Systems (SoS) simulation environment, integrating micro-traffic, validated powertrain, and aerodynamic drag reduction models, was developed to …


Terra Lunaris: Assessment Of A Lunar Habitat For Scientific Astronauts, Space Miners, Or Space Tourists, Dirk Schumann, Robert A. Goehlich Sep 2025

Terra Lunaris: Assessment Of A Lunar Habitat For Scientific Astronauts, Space Miners, Or Space Tourists, Dirk Schumann, Robert A. Goehlich

Publications

This conceptual paper explores ground- based habitable space modules for various applications. The Terra Lunaris concept serves as the baseline and is evaluated in comparison to existing and theoretical studies in this field. Terra Lunaris is a compact hybrid habitat that expands to offer nearly four times its transport volume by combining rigid modules with an inflatable shell. With most interior elements pre-installed and foldable, setup time and complexity are minimized. The design integrates technical zones, living quarters, and shared spaces, while also supporting psychological well-being under extreme conditions. The paper provides both qualitative and quantitative analyses of lunar habitation …


Nitric Oxide Radiometer Development, Deron Scott, Phil Scott, Trent Newswander, Marty Mlynczak Sep 2025

Nitric Oxide Radiometer Development, Deron Scott, Phil Scott, Trent Newswander, Marty Mlynczak

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

SDL developed a small satellite payload to support the NICEcube mission concept capable of measuring vertical profiles of infrared radiance at 5.3 µm from nitric oxide (NO) in the atmospheric limb (100-250 km). These radiance measurements can be directly inverted to achieve vertical profiles of infrared cooling rates which are crucial to understanding the density response to the thermosphere in times of elevated geomagnetic activity. The payload was designed to fit on a 12U cube sat, function at low power and small mechanical envelope. Completed work includes building the telescope, integrating a representative detector, alignment, test planning, and initial testing. …


Ferric Metal-Organic Frameworks (Mofs)-Based Electrospinning Fibers For Supercapacitors, Samar A. Salim, Hani Nasser Abdelhamid Sep 2025

Ferric Metal-Organic Frameworks (Mofs)-Based Electrospinning Fibers For Supercapacitors, Samar A. Salim, Hani Nasser Abdelhamid

Nanotechnology Research Centre

Ferric-based metal-organic frameworks (Fe-MOFs) were synthesized and incorporated into poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) using electrospinning to produce PMMA_Fe-MOF nanofibers. The materials were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The electrospun materials were directly integrated into nickel foam (NF) electrodes for energy storage applications, e.g., supercapacitors. The electrochemical performance was assessed using cyclic voltammetry (CV), galvanostatic charge-discharge curves (GCDC), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), and electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation (EPR). The PMMA_Fe-MOF electrodes exhibited outstanding capacitive performance, achieving specific capacitances of up to 1017.5 F/g at 1 A/g for the 2.5 % Fe-MOF …


Underwater Acoustic Integrated Sensing And Communication: A Spatio-Temporal Freshness For Intelligent Resource Prioritization, Ananya Hazarika, Mehdi Rahmati Sep 2025

Underwater Acoustic Integrated Sensing And Communication: A Spatio-Temporal Freshness For Intelligent Resource Prioritization, Ananya Hazarika, Mehdi Rahmati

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Underwater acoustic communication faces significant challenges including limited bandwidth, high propagation delays, severe multipath fading, and stringent energy constraints. While integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has shown promise in radio frequency systems, its adaptation to underwater environments remains challenging due to the unique acoustic channel characteristics and the inadequacy of traditional delay-based performance metrics that fail to capture the spatio-temporal value of information in dynamic underwater scenarios. This paper presents a comprehensive underwater ISAC framework centered on a novel Spatio-Temporal Information-Theoretic Freshness metric that fundamentally transforms resource allocation from delay minimization to value maximization. Unlike conventional approaches that treat all …


Development Of Gelma-Based Hydrogel Scaffolds With Tunable Mechanical Properties For Applications In Peripheral Nerve Regeneration, Kylie M. Schmitz, Tanner L. Larson, Michael W. Borovich, Xianfang Wu, Geyou Ao, Megan Jack, Liqun Ning Sep 2025

Development Of Gelma-Based Hydrogel Scaffolds With Tunable Mechanical Properties For Applications In Peripheral Nerve Regeneration, Kylie M. Schmitz, Tanner L. Larson, Michael W. Borovich, Xianfang Wu, Geyou Ao, Megan Jack, Liqun Ning

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) have a significant impact on the quality of life for patients suffering from trauma or disease. In injuries with critical nerve gaps, PN regeneration requires tissue scaffolds with appropriate physiological properties that promote cell growth and functions. Hydrogel scaffolds represent a promising platform for engineering soft tissue constructs that meet key physiological requirements. Nonetheless, ongoing innovation remains essential, as current designs continue to fall short of replicating the functional performance of autografts in bridging critical-sized nerve defects. In this study, gelatin methacrylate (gelMA)-based hydrogels are evaluated to fully characterize their pore structure, compressive stiffness, viscoelasticity, and …


A Polar Turbulence Invariant Map With Applicability To Realisable Machine Learning Turbulence Models, James G. Wnek, Christopher Schrock, Eric M. Wolf, Mitch Wolff Sep 2025

A Polar Turbulence Invariant Map With Applicability To Realisable Machine Learning Turbulence Models, James G. Wnek, Christopher Schrock, Eric M. Wolf, Mitch Wolff

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Invariant maps are a useful tool for turbulence modelling, and the rapid growth of machine learning-based turbulence modelling research has led to renewed interest in them. They allow different turbulent states to be visualised in an interpretable manner and provide a mathematical framework to analyse or enforce realisability. Current invariant maps, however, are limited in machine learning models by the need for costly coordinate transformations and eigendecomposition at each point in the flow field. This paper introduces a new polar invariant map based on an angle that parametrises the relationship of the principal anisotropic stresses, and a scalar that describes …


Impact Of Composite Materials Research On Underrepresented Communities, Neil Mahesh Bedagkar, Ramanan Sritharan, Wyatt Barnes Sep 2025

Impact Of Composite Materials Research On Underrepresented Communities, Neil Mahesh Bedagkar, Ramanan Sritharan, Wyatt Barnes

Mechanical Engineering

This research assesses how advancements in composites material research affect communities from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, using a dual track strategy to quantitatively and qualitatively examine their impact. A keyword-based classification algorithm was applied to a sample of research papers from ScienceDirect spanning the last 24 years to quantify which engineering industries benefit most from this research. The findings indicate that the construction industry benefits the most, followed by the automotive, defense, renewable energy, and biomedical sectors. A broader qualitative analysis of the social implications of these industries was also conducted to provide context. Each sector were found to have either …


Evaluation Of User Interactions And Preferences Of Shared Bicycle And Pedestrian Transit Platforms, Nathan Mcneil, Sirisha Kothuri, Jennifer Dill, Chris Monsere, Elizabeth Yates, Julia Plotts Sep 2025

Evaluation Of User Interactions And Preferences Of Shared Bicycle And Pedestrian Transit Platforms, Nathan Mcneil, Sirisha Kothuri, Jennifer Dill, Chris Monsere, Elizabeth Yates, Julia Plotts

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Shared bike and bus platforms have been deployed in an effort to minimize conflicts between bicycles and buses (and other motor vehicles) on streets with bike lanes and bus transit service. This paper assesses bicycle/micromobility user and pedestrian behavior in shared bicycle and transit platforms along a bus rapid transit corridor in Portland, OR. Research objectives include understanding interactions between these users and potential conflicts between people on foot (or wheelchair/mobility devices) who are waiting for, boarding, and/or alighting a bus and people on bicycles riding in the bike lane. The research also assessed how well the shared transit platforms …


Event-Based Sensor Noise Modeling For Space-Based Space Domain Awareness, Rachel Oliver, Brian Mcreynolds, Dmitry Savransky Sep 2025

Event-Based Sensor Noise Modeling For Space-Based Space Domain Awareness, Rachel Oliver, Brian Mcreynolds, Dmitry Savransky

Faculty Publications

Building off the foundation of a physics-based end-to-end model for event-based vision sensors (EVS) observing resident space objects (RSOs), we apply new techniques to model realistic low-light sensor noise. While previous approaches simulate memorized current leakage and apply temporal noise models, our methods improve on these approaches and additionally account for current-following noise as an event source. These improvements are key components for accurate event-generating simulators which can advise requirements and concepts of operations for dedicated event-based Space Domain Awareness (SDA) architectures. The EVS pixel’s independent and asynchronous recording of changes in photocurrent produces data with high temporal resolution and …


A C++ Library For Turbulent Mixing Simulation Using Hierarchical Parcel Swapping (Hips), Masoomeh Behrang, Tommy Starick, Heiko Schmidt, David O. Lignell Sep 2025

A C++ Library For Turbulent Mixing Simulation Using Hierarchical Parcel Swapping (Hips), Masoomeh Behrang, Tommy Starick, Heiko Schmidt, David O. Lignell

Faculty Publications

Turbulence models are crucial for simulating flows at all scales, capturing both large-scale structures and small-scale mixing. Software libraries that implement such models should support modular integration, customization, and scalability across different simulation frameworks. This paper presents Hierarchical Parcel Swapping (HiPS), a C++ library documented with Doxygen and available on GitHub. HiPS supports both mixing and reactions and can be used as a standalone model or as a subgrid model in CFD simulations. The code includes examples for users to run it as a standalone model. Additionally, considerations for using it as a subgrid model are provided.


Performance Analysis Of Flapping-Foil Energy Harvesters Under Shear-Flow Conditions, Maqusud Alam, Bubryur Kim, Shehnaz Akhtar, Sujeen Song, Zengshun Chen, Jinwoo An Sep 2025

Performance Analysis Of Flapping-Foil Energy Harvesters Under Shear-Flow Conditions, Maqusud Alam, Bubryur Kim, Shehnaz Akhtar, Sujeen Song, Zengshun Chen, Jinwoo An

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Flapping-foil energy harvesters represent a promising technology for extracting energy from fluid flows, although their performance under shear-flow conditions is poorly understood. To address this research gap, we investigated the impact of power-law shear flow on the performance of flapping-foil energy harvesters. We conducted numerical simulations at different Reynolds numbers (Re = 1000, 50 000, and 500 000) under uniform-flow and shear-flow conditions. Based on the results, shear flow minimally affected the power outputs at Re = 1000 and 50 000, where viscous forces dominate the flow dynamics. However, at Re = 500 000, shear flow significantly reduced the …