This calendar lists graduate thesis and dissertation events. Send all notices to the College of Graduate Studies at editor@ucf.edu
Nitric oxide (NO), long thought of purely as a poison, experienced a renaissance in study beginning in the 1970’s leading to the discovery that NO is a crucial secondary messenger in pathways throughout the human body, including the activation of guanylate cyclase to produce cGMP and eventually the relaxation of smooth muscle in blood vessels; providing evidence that NO …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationThe main objective of this dissertation was to investigate the impacts of human activities and climate control on hydrologic responses using the Integrated Hydrologic Model (IHM), which couples HSPF and MODFLOW. The study first evaluated the impacts of land use change and rainfall variability on hydrologic responses-such as streamflow, evapotranspiration (ET), groundwater ET, recharge, and groundwater heads-in the Anclote River …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationThis thesis focuses on the direct numerical simulation of the combustion of a single aluminum droplet with phase change. For this purpose, the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method was employed for the direct numerical simulation of two distinct phases. Furthermore, this work proposes a new form of species source term induced by phase change, based on the local instant formulation …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationThe addition of hydrogen and oxygen to a hydrocarbon fuel mixture has significant effect on its sooting tendencies at high pressures. Understanding the mechanism behind and rates of soot formation are key to proper chemical modeling of fireballs. The objective of this research is to investigate the soot formation rates and soot induction times of several intermediary chemicals found in …
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation