Heat transfer coefficient in nucleate pool boiling near critical heat flux at least one orderhigher than the convectional heat transfer modes. In this paper, an experimental setup isdesigned and fabricated to investigate the mechanism of heat transfer from boiling surface tobulk liquid near critical heat flux. The images of pool boiling near the high heat flux regionreveals that the individual ...

In this thesis we look at the design and development of a Probabilistic Programming Language (PPL) in Julia named Turing and the challenges of implementing the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampler inside the Turing framework. This dissertation starts with a review of three important fields behind the project, which are Bayesian inference, general inference algorithms and probabilistic programm...

We present our analysis of the nose-to-nose (ntn) method for use as an accurate sampler calibration method. The variations in the measurement of the sampler impulse response using the ntn method are described and the assertion that the kick-out pulse is identical to the sampler impulse response is assessed. Temperature effects on the ntn method are also examined. Finally, the effect of uncertai...

Spectroradiometric color measurements were performed at 26 regularly spaced points of a standard wine sampler into which 100 cc of wine were poured. Our goal is to describe the color changes occurring in this system, but not to propose a new method for wine-color measurement. Three samples of three different wines (red, rosé and white) were studied. From experimental measurements, lines of cons...

Among the computationally intensive methods for fitting complex multilevel models, the Gibbs sampler is especially popular owing to its simplicity and power to effectively generate samples from a high-dimensional probability distribution. The Gibbs sampler, however, is often justifiably criticized for its sometimes slow convergence, especially when it is used to fit highly structured complex mo...