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Mathematics & Statistics

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Conceptual Modeling

August 19, 2017
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, Fatma Dandashi, Sanford Friedenthal, Natalie Harrison, Steven Jenkins, Leon McGinnis, Janos Sztipanovits, Adelinde Uhrmacher, Eric Weisel, Lin Zhang
Understanding and developing complex systems requires collaboration between individuals with widely varying expertise. Communication between these individuals is facilitated by conceptual models. Conceptual models are early stage artifacts that integrate

Scaling Methods for Dynamic Building System Simulation in an HVACSIM+ Environment

August 9, 2017
Author(s)
Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, Anthony Kearsley, Amanda Pertzborn
A robust and efficient nonlinear algebraic and differential equations solver is increasingly essential as the scale of dynamic building system simulation grows larger and the models employed become more complex. There are many factors affecting the

Towards a Semantically-Enabled Control Strategy for Building Simulations: Integration of Semantic Technologies and Model Predictive Control

August 9, 2017
Author(s)
Parastoo Delgoshaei, Mark Austin, Amanda Pertzborn, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Vikas Chandan
State-of-the-art building simulation control methods incorporate physical constraints into their mathematical models, but omit implicit constraints associated with policies of operation and dependency relationships among rules representing those

Energy renormalization approach to coarse-graining of polymer dynamics

August 8, 2017
Author(s)
Wenjie Xia, Jake Song, Cheol Jeong, David D. Hsu, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Jack F. Douglas, Sinan Keten
A major challenge in soft matter science is the bottom-up prediction of the temperature- dependent behavior of amorphous glass-forming (GF) polymers. Coarse-grained (CG) models derived from atomistic simulation data offer chemical specificity and access to

Temperature extrapolation of multicomponent grand canonical free energy landscapes

August 7, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We derive a method for extrapolating the grand canonical free energy landscape of a multicomponent fluid system from one temperature to another. Previously, we introduced this statistical mechanical framework for the case where kinetic energy contributions

Transport Effects on Multiple-Component Reactions in Optical Bionsensors

August 1, 2017
Author(s)
Ryan M. Evans, David A. Edwards
Many biochemical reactions involve a stream of chemical reactants (ligand molecules) flowing over a surface to which other reactants (receptors) are confined. Scientists measure rate constants associated with these reactions in an optical biosensor: an

Receptor heterogeneity in optical biosensors

July 13, 2017
Author(s)
David A. Edwards, Ryan Evans
Many biochemical reactions in nature involve a stream of chemical reactants (ligand molecules) flowing over a surface to which other reactants (receptors) are confined. Scientists measure rate constants associated with these reactions in an optical

Sampling Architectures for Ultra-Wideband Signals

July 3, 2017
Author(s)
Howard S. Cohl, Steve Casey
Ultra-wideband (UWB) signal processing is a technology with many features that could develop into advances in communication and information technology. The technology has tremendous potential, but also presents challenges to the signal processing community

Integrating Finite Element Analysis with Systems Engineering Models

June 11, 2017
Author(s)
Jerome Szarazi, Axel Reichwein, Conrad Bock
In order to promote traceability, consistency, interoperability and better collaboration between systems engineering and Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-based simulation activities, we propose a tool-independent description of FEA models that integrates with

Indicator frameworks

April 26, 2017
Author(s)
Sokwoo Rhee, Christine Kendrick, Abhishek Dubey, Joshua Tan
We develop a diagrammatic tool for constructing correlations between random variables, called an abstract indicator framework. Abstract indicator frameworks are modeled off operational (key performance) indicator frameworks as they are used in city

Assessing the wavelength extensibility of optical patterned defect inspection

March 29, 2017
Author(s)
Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Mark-Alexander Henn, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver
Qualitative comparisons have been made in the literature between the scattering off deep- subwavelength-sized defects and the scattering off spheres in free space to illustrate the challenges of optical defect inspection with decreasing patterning sizes

Evaluating the Effects of Modeling Errors for Isolated Finite3-D Targets

March 29, 2017
Author(s)
Mark-Alexander Henn, Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou
Optical 3-D nanostructure metrology utilizes a model-based metrology approach to determine critical dimensions (CDs) that are well below the inspection wavelength. Our project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is evaluating how to

A Fast Summation Method for Oscillatory Lattice Sums

March 6, 2017
Author(s)
Ryan Denlinger, Leslie Greengard, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Vladimir Rokhlin
We present a fast summation method for lattice sums of the type which arise when solving wave scattering problems with periodic boundary conditions. While there are a variety of effective algorithms in the literature for such calculations, the approach

Leaching of Conductive Species: Implications to Measurements of Electrical Resistivity

February 20, 2017
Author(s)
Robert Spragg, Scott Jones, Yiwen Bu, Yang Lu, Dale P. Bentz, Kenneth A. Snyder, Jason Weiss
Electrical tests have been used to characterize the microstructure of porous materials, the measured electrical response being determined by the contribution of the microstructure (porosity and tortuosity) and the electrical properties of the solution

Benchmark Problems for Phase Field Modeling

January 2, 2017
Author(s)
Andrea Jokisaari, P W. Voorhees, Jonathan E. Guyer, James A. Warren, O. G. Heinonen
We present the first set of benchmark problems for phase field models that are being devel- oped by the Center for Heirarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). While many scientific research areas
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