Resource-rich nations have been found to experience slower economic growth than their resourcescarce peers. This phenomenon is known as the Dutch disease. The theory of the Dutch disease posits that when an economy discovers ...

In this dissertation, we study a range of exotic quantum phases and dynamics in BoseEinstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Firstly, inspired by the recent experimental progresses in engineering supersolid ...

Fine particulate matter, also known as PM2.5, is one of the major risk factors to human health. Because of their small size, these particles travel deep within human lungs and pose a variety of health problems. A primary ...

In this work we are interested in the (ill-posed) inverse problem for absolute permeability characterization that arises in predictive modeling of porous media flows. We consider a Bayesian framework combined with a ...

The first chapter, Two-Way Fixed Effects versus Panel Factor Augmented Estimators: Asymptotic Comparison among Pre-testing Procedures, provides asymptotic analyses of pretesting procedures when the slope coefficients are ...

Shrinking transistor sizes are jeopardizing the reliability of runtime reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs),coarse-grained runtime reconfigurable architectures (CGRRAs) and application-specific integrated ...

Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term impairment in the United States, and as many as half of all stroke survivors with difficulty walking will continue to have walking dysfunction after rehabilitation therapy ...

Conventional, widely adopted common source packaged silicon-carbide Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (SiC MOSFET) has raised concern in generating more switching losses. During every switching cycle, the ...

This work introduces numerical frameworks that enable the prediction of residual stress (RS), distortion, and microstructure from the metal additive manufacturing (AM) process, to reveal new insights that offer a deeper ...

In this dissertation molecular dynamics computer simulations (MD) were used to explore molecular scale behavior in order to interpret experimental results and guide challenging experimental work. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 MD ...