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Legorburu, Gabriel | Using Observed Data During Early Design To Simulate Building Mechanical System Energy Performance | | Energy Modeling; Real-World Data; Neural Networks | 2019 |
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Didier, Richard C. | Linking microclimate and energy use with a low cost wall mounted measurement system | Urban microclimate plays a critical role in overall urban energy demand and efficiency. At the building scale, energy use and internal conditions are directly impacted by local microclimate. The direct link between building energy use and local microclimate is through building envelope heat fluxes. ... | Microclimate; Energy; Temperature; Humidity; Arduino; EnergyPlus | 2016-06 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Predicting electricity consumption for commercial and residential buildings using deep recurrent neural networks | This paper presents a recurrent neural network model to make medium-to-long term predictions, i.e. time horizon of ≥ 1 week, of electricity consumption profiles in commercial and residential buildings at one-hour resolution. Residential and commercial buildings are responsible for a significant fr... | Building Energy Modeling; Machine learning; Recurrent neural networks; Deep learning; Electric load prediction | 2017 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Deep recurrent neural networks for building energy prediction | This poster illustrates the development of a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) model using long-short-term memory (LSTM) cells to predict energy consumption in buildings at one-hour time resolution over medium-to-long term time horizons ( greater than or equal to 1 week). | Machine learning; Energy; Building energy modeling; Deep learning; Recurrent neural networks; Prediction | 2017-01-13 |
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Brown, Don R. | The design and implementation of partnet | PartNet is a federated database for providing interactive online access to mechanical parts catalogs. The data contained in the vendor's product database is exported to the federated database using a networkbased distributed database protocol. A Single coherent view of these vendor databases is pro... | | 1995 |
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Ameel, Timothy A | Microchannel fluid behavior using micropolar fluid theory | In this paper, we describe microchannel fluid behavior using a numerical model based on micropolar fluid theory and experimentally verify the model using micromachined channels. The micropolar fluid theory augments the laws of classical continuum mechanics by incorporating the effects of fluid ... | | 1998 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Predicting fuel consumption for commercial building with machine learning algorithms | This paper presents a modeling framework that uses machine learning algorithms to make longterm, i.e. one year-ahead predictions, of fuel consumption in multiple types of commercial prototype buildings at one-hour resolutions. Weather and schedule variables were used as model inputs, and the hourly ... | Building energy modeling; Machine learning; Prediction; Heating load; Data-driven modeling | 2017-08 |
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Bianchi, Carlo | Energy demands for commercial buildings with climate variability based on emission scenarios | The impacts of a changing climate are wide-ranging in both impact and scope. This paper investigates the effect that realistic climate variability would have on building energy demands in Salt Lake City, UT to inform planning for air quality impacts. Energy demand scenarios were derived using climat... | BEM; EnergyPlus; Emissions; Climate; Energy | 2017 |
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Legorburu, Gabriel | Energy modeling framework for optimizing heat recovery in a seasonal food processing facility | Societal, cultural and economic factors are driving food processors to reduce energy consumed per unit mass of food. This presents a unique problem because time variant batch processing using low to medium grade heat is common in food production facilities. Heat recovery methods may be implemented b... | Energy efficiency; Food industry; Heat recovery; Optimization; Simulation | 2018-07-20 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Horch, Kenneth W.; Cha, Kichul | Mobility performance with a pixelized vision system | A visual prosthesis, based on electrical stimulation of the visual cortex, has been suggested as a means for partially restoring functional vision in the blind. The prosthesis would create a pixelized visual sense consisting of punctate spots of light (phosphenes). The present study investigated the... | Visual Prosthesis; Mobility; Phosphene Simulator | 1992 |
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Bozorgmehr, Behnam | QES-Winds v1.0: Theory and User's Guide | A new dispersion modeling system based on the well-used FORTRAN-based QUIC (Quick Urban and Industrial Complex) dispersion modeling system originally developed by the University of Utah and Los Alamos National Laboratory [1], has been under development as collaboration between the University of Utah... | | 2021 |
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Lucich, Stephen; Smith, Amanda | Estimating building CO2 emissions reductions with EnergyPlus | The aim of this research is to investigate the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the buildings sector in the Salt Lake Valley by altering the operational strategies of existing buildings. Air quality efforts typically focus on reducing emissions from transportation and industri... | Building energy modeling, Energy efficiency, HVAC, Greenhouse gas emissions | 2014-02-07 |
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Roundy, Shadrach J. | A cost-effective planar electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer | This paper presents a planar multi-pole electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer. We report on the design, manufacture, and performance results of integrated devices based on this transducer. The transducer leverages recent advancements in the manufacture of multi-pole magnets and can be impleme... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Guilkey, James Edward | Improved contact algorithm for the material point method and application to stress propagation in granular material | Contact between deformable bodies is a difficult problem in the analysis of engineering systems. A new approach to contact has been implemented using the Material Point Method for solid mechanics, Bardenhagen, Brackbill, and Sulsky (2000a). Here two improvements to the algorithm are described. The f... | Contact algorithm; Material point method; Wave propagation; Granular material; Solid mechanics | 2001 |
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Malinowski, Nicholas | Improving water heaters for sustainability | Buildings use about 40% of the total U.S. energy demand. Water heaters provide hot water for a variety of building uses including sinks, showers, dishwashers, washing machines, and space heating. Water heaters are the second most energy intensive appliances in a common household. Typically a home... | Water heaters; Energy efficiency; Electricity; Emissions; Natural gas | 2018 |
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Tran, Thomas T.D. | Incorporating performance-based global sensitivity and uncertainty analysis into LCOE calculations for emerging renewable energy technologies | Assessing system costs for power generation is essential for evaluating the economical aspect of energy resources. This paper examines traditional and renewable energy resources under uncertainty and variability of input variables. The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of each technology is compu... | Renewable energy technologies; LCOE levelized cost of electricity | 2018-02-14 |
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Adams, Daniel | Micromechanical modeling of high energy composites | High-energy polymer-binded explosives (PBXs) are composed of high-energy crystaline particles and a rubbery binder. The volume fraction of particles is approximately 92 percent. The high-energy particles have a Young's modulus that is three orders of magnitude higher than that of the binder. Eff... | | 2000 |
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Smith, Amanda D. | Modeling two-phase flow and vapor cycles using the generalized fluid system simulation program | This work presents three new applications for the general purpose fluid network solver code GFSSP developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: (1) cooling tower, (2) vapor-compression refrigeration system, and (3) vapor-expansion power generation system. These systems are widely used across eng... | Modeling; Fluid systems; Cooling tower; Vapor compression refrigeration, vapor power cycle | 2017-09 |
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Harman, Todd B. | Multiscale modeling of accidental explosions and detonations | Accidental explosions are exceptionally dangerous and costly, both in lives and money. Regarding worldwide conflict with small arms and light weapons, the Small Arms Survey has recorded more than 297 accidental explosions in munitions depots across the world that have resulted in thousands of deaths... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Characterization of a microscale thermal-electrical field-flow fractionation system | A microscale thermal-electrical field-flow fractionation (ThElFFF) channel is reported for the first time and preliminary characterization results show high retention at certain operating conditions including relatively high flow rates when compared to standard microscale electrical or thermal field... | | 2010 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Predicting heating demand and sizing a stratified thermal storage tank using deep learning algorithms | This paper evaluates the performance of deep recurrent neural networks in predicting heating demand for a commercial building over a medium-to-long term time horizon (≥ 1 week), and proposes a modeling framework to demonstrate how these longer-term predictions can be used to aid design of a strati... | Building Energy Modeling; Machine Learning; Recurrent Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Heating Load Prediction; Thermal Energy Storage | 2018 |
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Colter, Jourdan; Wirostko, Barbara; Coats, Brittany | Finite element design optimization of hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel drug delivery device for improved retention | Drug-loaded hydrogel devices are emerging as an effective means of localized and sustained drug delivery for the treatment of corneal conditions and injuries. One such device uses a novel, thiolated crosslinked carboxymethylated, hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel (CMHA-S) film to deliver drug to the oc... | Ocular drug delivery; CMHA-S; antibiotics; ophthalmology; computation | 2018 |
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Bianchi, Carlo | Coupling of building and vegetation resolving urban microclimate model with a building energy simulation program | The objective of this work is to develop and validate a coupled fast-running Building Energy Modeling/Microclimate model for use in developing site-specific design strategies which minimize energy and water use All the micro-climate variables affecting the building energy consumption, such as solar ... | Building energy modeling; Urban; Microclimate; Simulation; Energy; Environment | 2018-08 |
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Roundy, Shadrach J. | MEMS testing: transition from millions to billions to trillions | Sensors, specifically MEMSbased, have created multiple market tornados over the past 40 years. Most recently there has been a market explosion driven by the widespread adoption of MEMS sensing devices in mobile consumer applications. In the past 5 years the worldwide market has grown from roughly 10... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Optimization and characterization of a microscale thermal field-flow fractionation system | A thorough investigation of the design considerations for microscale thermal field-flow fractionation and characterization of a 25 μm thin microscale thermal field-flow fractionation system is reported. A 4-50 times volume reduction from mesoscale and macroscale systems warrants customized design a... | | 2010-01-01 |