In-mold assembly can be used to create mesoscale articulating polymeric joints that enable the miniaturization of devices, reduction of production costs, and increase in throughput. One of the major challenges in miniaturizing devices using in-mold assembly is to develop appropriate characterization techniques and modeling approaches for the interaction between polymer melt flow fronts and prem...

Dispersive effects induced by weak hydrostatic imbalance in the presence of topography and stratification are incorporated into a new model of barotropic (vertically integrated) mesoscale ocean dynamics. This barotropic model is obtained by first expanding the solutions of three dimensional Euler-Boussinesq equations in a regular perturbation expansion in terms of the several small dimensionles...

The physiological properties of biological soft matter are the product of collective interactions, which span many time and length scales. Recent computational modeling efforts have helped illuminate experiments that characterize the ways in which proteins modulate membrane physics. Linking these models across time and length scales in a multiscale model explains how atomistic information propa...

Masonry structures constitute an important part of the built environment and architectural heritage in seismic areas. A large number these old showed inadequate performance suffered substantial damage under past earthquakes. Realistic numerical models are required for accurate response predictions addressing implementation effective strengthening solutions. comprehensive mesoscale modeling stra...

In this project, we develop an objective and automatic intensity estimator of Tropical Cyclones (TCs) based on satellite infrared (IR) imagery. The proposed methodology analyzes the TC’s shape or pattern to perform the intensity estimates, which will be available every 30 minutes (or depending on image acquisition availability) for the Atlantic, Eastern North Pacific and Western North Pacific b...

The long-term goals of this project are to first develop a three-dimensional time-evolving non-linear numerical model of the mesoscale ionosphere, second to couple the mesoscale model to a mesoscale data assimilative analysis, third to use the new data-assimilative mesoscale model to investigate ionospheric structure and plasma instabilities, and fourth to apply the data-assimilative mesoscale ...