The work was aimed to develop a robust virtual sensing design methodology for sensing and active control applications of vibro-acoustic systems. The proposed virtual sensor was designed to estimate a broadband acoustic interior sound pressure using structural sensors, with robustness against certain dynamic uncertainties occurring in an acoustic-structural coupled enclosure. A convex combinatio...

This study discusses the application of Taguchi method in assessing minimum entropy generation and maximum heat transfer rate for natural convection in an enclosure embedded with isothermal cylinder. The simulations were planned based on Taguchi’s L25 orthogonal array with each trial performed under different conditions of position and aspect ratio (AR) of the cylinder. The thermal lattice Bolt...

A transonic air stream flowing over a rectangular cavity or enclosure is unsteady. At certain flow conditions, large scale oscillations develop in the shear layer which, for an open cavity, spans across the whole enclosure. The convected shear layer instabilities interact with the cavity geometry, they generate resonance, and induce large amplitude wall pressure fluctuations, aerodynamic pressu...

We propose a robust microphone array for speech enhancement and noise suppression. To overcome target signal cancellation problem of conventional beamformes caused by array imperfections or reverberation effects, the proposed method adopts arbitrary transfer function relating each microphone and target speech signal as array channel model. This is achieved in two ways. First, we propose a metho...

During the past eight years, researchers at Brigham Young University have been engaged in a pragmatic effort to actively reduce the noise radiation from small axial cooling fan noise. The first of a series of studies on the subject demonstrated that a feedforward, multichannel controller with near-field error sensors was successful in globally reducing four harmonics of the blade passage freque...

In order to protect devices from physical manipulations, protective security enclosures were developed. However, these battery-backed solutions come with a reduced lifetime, and have be actively continuously monitored. overcome drawbacks, batteryless capacitive based on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) been developed that generate key-encryption-key (KEK) for decryption of the key chain. re...

nowadays green house gases such as carbon have the most effect on global climate changes that can be decreased by plant and soil carbon sequestration of rangelands. livestock grazing has high potential to decrease or increase carbon storage. so this research investigated the effects of enclosure on plant carbon storage in rangeland of enclosure (shah tappeh-chah mahmood) and no enclosure (chiro...

Title of Document: SEPARATING THE EFFECTS OF GROUP SIZE, DENSITY, AND ENCLOSURE SIZE ON MOVEMENT AND USE OF SPACE IN DOMESTIC FOWL (Gallus gallus domesticus) Erin Hoerl Leone, Ph.D., 2008 Directed By: Professor Inmaculada Estevez, Department of Animal and Avian Science This project was designed to separate the confounded effects of group size, density, and enclosure size, and to examine the rol...