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Boundary Element Method (Bem) And Method Of Fundamental Solutions (Mfs) For The Boundary Value Problems Of The 2-D Laplace's Equation, Ermes Anthony Salgado-Ibarra
Boundary Element Method (Bem) And Method Of Fundamental Solutions (Mfs) For The Boundary Value Problems Of The 2-D Laplace's Equation, Ermes Anthony Salgado-Ibarra
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In this thesis we study the solution of the two dimensional Laplace equation by the boundary Element method (BEM) and the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). Both the BEM and MFS used to solve boundary value problems involving the Laplace equation 2-D settings. Both methods rely on the use of fundamental solution of the Laplace's equation (the solution of Laplace's equation in the distributional sense). We will contrast and compare the results we get using the BEM with results we get using the MFS.
Improved Algorithms For Ear-Clipping Triangulation, Bartosz Kajak
Improved Algorithms For Ear-Clipping Triangulation, Bartosz Kajak
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
We consider the problem of improving ear-slicing algorithm for triangulating a simple polygon. We propose two variations of ear-slicing technique for generating “good-quality” triangulation. The first approach is based on searching for the best triangle along the boundary. The second approach considers polygon partitioning on a pre-process before applying the ear-slicing. Experimental investigation reveals that both approaches yield better quality triangulation than the standard ear-slicing method.
A Comparison Of Spatio-Temporal Prediction Methods Of Cancer Incidence In The U.S, Michelle Hamlyn
A Comparison Of Spatio-Temporal Prediction Methods Of Cancer Incidence In The U.S, Michelle Hamlyn
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Cancer is the cause of one out of four deaths in the United States, and in 2009, researchers expected over 1.5 million new patients to be diagnosed with some form of cancer. People diagnosed with cancer, whether a common or rare type, need to undergo treatments, the amount and kind of which will depend on the severity of the cancer. So how do healthcare providers know how much funding is needed for treatment? What would better enable a pharmaceutical company to determine how much to allocate for research and development of drugs, the amount of each drug to manufacture, or …
Implementation Of Hidden Semi-Markov Models, Nagendra Abhinav Dasu
Implementation Of Hidden Semi-Markov Models, Nagendra Abhinav Dasu
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
One of the most frequently used concepts applied to a variety of engineering and scientific studies over the recent years is that of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The Hidden semi-Markov model (HsMM) is contrived in such a way that it does not make any premise of constant or geometric distributions of a state duration. In other words, it allows the stochastic process to be a semi-Markov chain. Each state can have a collection of observations and the duration of each state is a variable. This allows the HsMM to be used extensively over a range of applications. Some of …
A Statistical Model For Long-Term Forecasting Of Strong Sand Dust Storms, Siqi Tan
A Statistical Model For Long-Term Forecasting Of Strong Sand Dust Storms, Siqi Tan
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Dust elevated into the atmosphere by dust storms has numerous environmental consequences. These include contributing to climate change; modifying local weather conditions; producing chemical and biological changes in the oceans; and affecting soil formation, surface water, groundwater quality, crop growth, and survival (Goudie and Middleton, 1992). Societal impacts include disruptions to air, road and rail traffic; interruption of radio services; the myriad effects of static-electricity generation; property damage; and health effects on humans and animals (Warner, 2004).
In this thesis, we extend the idea of empirical recurrence rate (ERR), developed by Ho (2008), to model the temporal trend of the …
Mathematical Modeling Of Metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
Mathematical Modeling Of Metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Metamaterials are artificially structured nano materials with negative refraction index. The successful construction of such metamaterials in 2000 triggered a great interest in study of metamaterials by researchers from different areas. The discovery of metamaterials opened a wide potential for applications in diverse areas such as cloaking, sub-wavelength imaging, solar cell design and antennas.
In this thesis, we investigate the most popular Drude metamaterial model. More specifically, we first present a brief overview of metamaterials and their potential applications, then we discuss the well-posedness of this model, and develop several numerical schemes to solve it. We implement our schemes using …