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Simulation in the Service of Design - Asking the Right Questions
This paper proposes an approach to the creation of design tools that address the real information needs of designers in the early stages of design of nonresidential buildings. Traditional simplified design tools are typically too limited to be of much use, even in conceptual design. The proposal is to provide access to the power of detailed simulation tools, at a stage in design when little is known about the final building, but at a stage also when the freedom to explore options is greatest. The proposed approach to tool design has been derived from consultation with design analysis teams as part of the COMFEN tool development. The paper explores how tools like COMFEN have been shaped by this consultation and how requests from these teams for real-world relevance might shape such tools in the future, drawing into the simulation process the lessons from Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of buildings.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Donn, Michael; Selkowitz, Stephen & Bordass, Bill
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Slipstream, Volume 49, Number 3, March 2009
Monthly magazine published by the Maverick Region of the Porsche Club of America containing stories related to the organization or of interest to the group's members including news, upcoming and past events, other feature articles, and classified advertisements.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
Porsche Club of America. Maverick Region.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Solar America Cities Awards, Solar Energy Technologies Program, Fact Sheet, March 2009
This publication represents an ongoing effort to support outreach activities through the Solar America Cities program. The two-page fact sheet offers an overview of the SAC program and lists specific resources for more information on developing solar programs.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Solar Photovoltaic Financing: Residential Sector Deployment
This report presents the information that homeowners and policy makers need to facilitate PV financing at the residential level. The full range of cash payments, bill savings, and tax incentives is covered, as well as potentially available solar attribute payments. Traditional financing is also compared to innovative solutions, many of which are borrowed from the commercial sector. Together, these mechanisms are critical for making the economic case for a residential PV installation, given its high upfront costs. Unfortunately, these programs are presently limited to select locations around the country. By calling attention to these innovative initiatives, this report aims to help policy makers consider greater adoption of these models to benefit homeowners interested installing a residential PV system.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Coughlin, J. & Cory, K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Some guidance on preparing validation plans for the DART Full System Models.
Planning is an important part of computational model verification and validation (V&V) and the requisite planning document is vital for effectively executing the plan. The document provides a means of communicating intent to the typically large group of people, from program management to analysts to test engineers, who must work together to complete the validation activities. This report provides guidelines for writing a validation plan. It describes the components of such a plan and includes important references and resources. While the initial target audience is the DART Full System Model teams in the nuclear weapons program, the guidelines are generally applicable to other modeling efforts. Our goal in writing this document is to provide a framework for consistency in validation plans across weapon systems, different types of models, and different scenarios. Specific details contained in any given validation plan will vary according to application requirements and available resources.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Gray, Genetha Anne; Hough, Patricia Diane & Hills, Richard Guy (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
South Llano River State Park
Map of the South Llano River State Park outlining hiking trails and highlighting activities, facilities, and other features such as bathrooms, lodgings, water/electric, etc. It also contains general information for the park and for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Additionally, there are various advertisements, including one with information about the Texas State Parks Pass.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
South Llano River State Park
Map of the South Llano River State Park outlining hiking trails and highlighting activities, facilities, and other features such as bathrooms, lodgings, water/electric, etc. It also contains general information for the park and for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
South Texas College of Law Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 3, Ed. 1, March, 2009
Student newspaper from South Texas College of Law that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
Poronsky, Bradley L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Special Investigations Unit Report on a Department of Housing and Community Affairs HOME Program Contract Awarded to the Lone Star Garden Development Corporation
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an investigation of allegations that funds the Department of Housing and Community Affairs awarded through its HOME Program had been misapplied.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Special Report on The Department of Energy's Acquisition Workforce and its Impact on Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Signed by the President on February 17, 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) seeks to strengthen the U.S. economy through the creation of new jobs, aiding State and local governments with budget shortfalls, and investing in the long-term health of the Nation's economic prosperity. Under the Recovery Act, the Department of Energy will receive approximately $40 billion for various energy, environmental, and science programs and initiatives. To have an immediate stimulative impact on the U.S. economy, the Department's stated goal is to ensure that these funds are spent as expeditiously as possible, without risking transparency and accountability. Given the Department's almost total reliance on the acquisition process (contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, etc.) to carry out its mission, enhanced focus on contract administration and, specifically, the work performed by Federal acquisition officials is of vital importance as the unprecedented flow of funds begins under the Recovery Act.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Special Report "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Department of Energy"
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law on February 17, 2009, as a way to jumpstart the U.S. economy, create or save millions of jobs, spur technological advances in science and health, and invest in the Nation's energy future. This national effort will require an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability to ensure that U.S. citizens know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent. As part of the Recovery Act, the Department of Energy will receive more than $38 billion to support a number of science, energy, and environmental initiatives. Additionally, the Department's authority to make or guarantee energy-related loans has increased to about $127 billion. The Department plans to disburse the vast majority of the funds it receives through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and other financial instruments. The supplemental funding provided to the Department of Energy under the Recovery Act dwarfs the Department's annual budget of about $27 billion. The infusion of these funds and the corresponding increase in effort required to ensure that they are properly controlled and disbursed in a timely manner will, without doubt, strain existing resources. It will also have an equally challenging …
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
StarDate, Volume 37, Number 2, March/April 2009
Bimonthly publication of the McDonald Observatory discussing research, news, and other topics of interest related to astronomy and science. The publication offers key featured articles, miscellaneous astronomy information, a a current star chart, a calendar of astronomical events, and a Q&A titled Dear Merlin.
Date:
March 2009
Creator:
McDonald Observatory
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
State Clean Energy Practices: Renewable Energy Rebates
This report functions as a primer for renewable energy rebate programs. It highlights the impacts of specific renewable energy rebate programs on renewable energy markets around the country, as well as rebate program impacts on overarching energy policy drivers. It also discusses lessons learned, challenges, ideal applications, keys to success, and complementary and alternative policies. Results indicate that rebate programs can have a strong deployment impact on emerging renewable energy markets. This report focuses on renewable energy rebate programs, which are being analyzed as part of the State Clean Energy Policies Analysis (SCEPA) project. SCEPA is being used to quantify the impacts of existing state policies, and to identify crucial policy attributes and their potential applicability to other states.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Lantz, E. & Doris, E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Status of Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron
Over the last years the Tevatron Run-II has extended several limits on Higgs boson masses and coupling which were pioneered during the LEP accelerator operation between 1989 and 2000. Higgs boson searches will also be at the forefront of research at the LHC. This review concisely discusses the experimental constraints set by the CDF and D0 collaborations in winter 2008/2009 at the beginning of the LHC era. Model-independent and model-dependent limits on Higgs boson masses and couplings have been set and interpretations are discussed both in the Standard Model and in extended models. Recently, for the first time the Tevatron excludes a SM Higgs boson mass range (160-170 GeV) beyond the LEP limit at 95% CL. The experimental sensitivities are estimated for the completion of the Tevatron program.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Sopczak, Andre
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Structural health monitoring algorithm comparisons using standard data sets
The real-world structures are subjected to operational and environmental condition changes that impose difficulties in detecting and identifying structural damage. The aim of this report is to detect damage with the presence of such operational and environmental condition changes through the application of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s statistical pattern recognition paradigm for structural health monitoring (SHM). The test structure is a laboratory three-story building, and the damage is simulated through nonlinear effects introduced by a bumper mechanism that simulates a repetitive impact-type nonlinearity. The report reviews and illustrates various statistical principles that have had wide application in many engineering fields. The intent is to provide the reader with an introduction to feature extraction and statistical modelling for feature classification in the context of SHM. In this process, the strengths and limitations of some actual statistical techniques used to detect damage in the structures are discussed. In the hierarchical structure of damage detection, this report is only concerned with the first step of the damage detection strategy, which is the evaluation of the existence of damage in the structure. The data from this study and a detailed description of the test structure are available for download at: http://institute.lanl.gov/ei/software-and-data/.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Figueiredo, Eloi; Park, Gyuhae; Figueiras, Joaquim; Farrar, Charles & Worden, Keith
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A study of muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations in the MINOS experiment
The observation of neutrino oscillations (neutrino changing from one flavor to another) has provided compelling evidence that the neutrinos have non-zero masses and that leptons mix, which is not part of the original Standard Model of particle physics. The theoretical framework that describes neutrino oscillation involves two mass scales ({Delta}m{sub atm}{sup 2} and {Delta}m{sub sol}{sup 2}), three mixing angles ({theta}{sub 12}, {theta}{sub 23}, and {theta}{sub 13}) and one CP violating phase ({delta}{sub CP}). Both mass scales and two of the mixing angles ({theta}{sub 12} and {theta}{sub 23}) have been measured by many neutrino experiments. The mixing angle {theta}{sub 13}, which is believed to be very small, remains unknown. The current best limit on {theta}13 comes from the CHOOZ experiment: {theta}{sub 13} < 11{sup o} at 90% C.L. at the atmospheric mass scale. {delta}{sub CP} is also unknown today. MINOS, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, is a long baseline neutrino experiment based at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The experiment uses a muon neutrino beam, which is measured 1 km downstream from its origin in the Near Detector at Fermilab and then 735 km later in the Far Detector at the Soudan mine. By comparing these two measurements, MINOS can obtain …
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Yang, Tingjun
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Study of the decay K+ ---> pi+ nu anti-nu in the momentum region 140 < P(pi) < 199-MeV/c
None
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Artamonov, A. V.; /Serpukhov, IHEP; Bassalleck, B.; U., /New Mexico; Bhuyan, B.; /Brookhaven et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Subtask 7.4 - Power River Basin Subbituminous Coal-Biomass Cogasification Testing in a Transport Reactor
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory Office of Coal and Environmental Systems has as its mission to develop advanced gasification-based technologies for affordable, efficient, zero-emission power generation. These advanced power systems, which are expected to produce near-zero pollutants, are an integral part of DOE's Vision 21 Program. DOE has also been developing advanced gasification systems that lower the capital and operating costs of producing syngas for chemical production. A transport reactor has shown potential to be a low-cost syngas producer compared to other gasification systems since its high-throughput-per-unit cross-sectional area reduces capital costs. This work directly supports the Power Systems Development Facility utilizing the Kellogg Brown and Root transport reactor located at the Southern Company Services Wilsonville, Alabama, site. Over 3600 hours of operation on 17 different coals ranging from bituminous to lignite along with a petroleum coke has been completed to date in the pilot-scale transport reactor development unit (TRDU) at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC). The EERC has established an extensive database on the operation of these various fuels in both air- and oxygen-blown modes utilizing a pilot-scale transport reactor gasifier. This database has been useful in determining the effectiveness of design …
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Swanson, Michael & Laudal, Daniel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the LARP Mini-Workshop on Electron Lens Simulations at BNL
N/A
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Valishev, A.; Luo, Y. & Fischer, W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the LARP Mini-Workshop on Electron Lens Simulations at BNL
This was a 1 day workshop that brought together a group of people working on beam-beam simulations, in particular those comprising the simulation part of LARP Beam-Beam Task. There were 8 participants from BNL, and 3 from FNAL. The goals of the mini-workshop were: (1) To identify the beam-beam effects in LHC and RHIC that could be mitigated using electron lenses, and to define machine and beam parameters one should be looking at in simulations; (2) To assess the group capabilities and establish means of collaboration; and (3) To establish near and long term simulation program, set priorities and a schedule.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Valishev, A.; Luo, Y. & Fischer, W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Training Workshop on the Use of NASA tools for Coastal Resource Management in the Gulf of Mexico
A two-day training workshop was held in Xalapa, Mexico from March 10-11 2009 with the goal of training end users from the southern Gulf of Mexico states of Campeche and Veracruz in the use of tools to support coastal resource management decision-making. The workshop was held at the computer laboratory of the Institute de Ecologia, A.C. (INECOL). This report summarizes the results of that workshop and is a deliverable to our NASA client.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Judd, Chaeli; Judd, Kathleen S.; Gulbransen, Thomas C. & Thom, Ronald M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 1, 2009
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Rodriguez, Tatiana
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Systems Biology Knowledgebase for a New Era in Biology A Genomics:GTL Report from the May 2008 Workshop
Biology has entered a systems-science era with the goal to establish a predictive understanding of the mechanisms of cellular function and the interactions of biological systems with their environment and with each other. Vast amounts of data on the composition, physiology, and function of complex biological systems and their natural environments are emerging from new analytical technologies. Effectively exploiting these data requires developing a new generation of capabilities for analyzing and managing the information. By revealing the core principles and processes conserved in collective genomes across all biology and by enabling insights into the interplay between an organism's genotype and its environment, systems biology will allow scientific breakthroughs in our ability to project behaviors of natural systems and to manipulate and engineer managed systems. These breakthroughs will benefit Department of Energy (DOE) missions in energy security, climate protection, and environmental remediation.
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Gregurick, S.; Fredrickson, J. K. & Stevens, R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Task 1: Steam Oxidation,”
Need to improve efficiency, decrease emissions (esp. CO2) associated with the continued use of coal for power generation
Date:
March 1, 2009
Creator:
Wright, I. G. & Holcomb, G. R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library