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Calculating Center-Glass Performance Indices of Glazing Systems with Shading Devices
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2008)Building energy consumption and loads are strongly influ-enced by solar gain and heat transfer through the centre-glass area of windows. Methods have been devised to calculate the corresponding energy performance indices ... -
Calculating Center-Glass Performance Indices of Windows
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1998)Building envelope performance is strongly influenced by solar gain and heat transfer through windows. The majority of this energy gain or loss passes through the center-glass area of the glazing system. Various methods ... -
Calculating Center-Glass Performance Indices of Windows with a Diathermanous Layer
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2006)The fenestration chapter of the 2005 ASHRAE Hand-book—Fundamentals (ASHRAE 2005) has long included methods for determining the U-factor and solar heat gain coef-ficient (SHGC), or window performance indices, using the ... -
Calculating the Solar Heat Gain of Window Frames
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1999)It is not practical to measure the solar heat gain of a window frame. It is more practical to do so by calculation. Typically, the frame solar heat gain is a small component of the total or is small in absolute terms so ... -
Calculating Window Solar Heat Gain
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1995-07)Window design has been revolutionized-largely by the introduction of low emissivity (low-e) coatings and substitute fill gases. The large number of design options necessitates the use of computer simulation for development ... -
Calibration and 3D Model Generation for a Low-Cost Structured Light Foot Scanner
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The need for custom footwear among the consumers is growing every day. Serious research is being undertaken with regards to the fit and comfort of the footwear. The integration of scanning systems in the footwear and ... -
Can physical joint simulators be used to anticipate clinical wear problems of new joint replacement implants prior to market release?
(Sage Publications, 2016-05-09)One of the most important mandates of physical joint simulators is to provide test results that allow the implant manufacturer to anticipate and perhaps avoid clinical wear problems with their new products. This is best ... -
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers for Non-Destructive Testing Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-26)The need for using ultrasound non-destructive testing (NDT) to characterize, test and detect flaws within metals, led us to utilize Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUTs) in the ultrasound NDT field. This ... -
Capillary-discharge ignition of dispersed-phase Al@CuO core-shell thermite particles in a liquid filled microchannel
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-09)Aluminum based thermites are a broad class of highly tunable solid energetic materials that can be formulated to perform as pyrotechnics, propellants, or explosives. Their functional versatility, energy density, reactivity ... -
Carbon and TiO2 based electrodes with metal alloy electrode for self-powered detection of water
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-27)Self-powered devices are an emerging research field that could be leveraged into many devices that ordinarily are cost-prohibitive or otherwise high maintenance to utilize. The emergence of self-powered devices that do ... -
Cascaded Use and Sustainable Management of Lithium-ion Batteries in Mobility and Stationary Power
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)The purpose of this thesis is to assess —from a life cycle perspective — the environmental benefits of re-purposing electric vehicle Li-ion batteries to re-use in stationary applications. The thesis consists of three ... -
Catalyst Layers in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Formation, Characterization and Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)The structure of the catalyst layers (CLs) has a decisive impact on the performance, durability, and cost of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells – these are the main technical challenges to the commercialization ... -
Catalytic Combustion and NO Formation of Natural Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)As the world energy demand increases and the utilization of non-traditional fossil fuels becomes more attractive, natural gas, from shale gas and in gaseous and liquefied forms, becomes one of the most promising alternative ... -
Catalytic Conversion of Waste Plastics into Value-Added Chemicals
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Plastics are indispensable in many industries (such as packaging and transportation) owing to its durability, diversity and versatilities. However, the decomposition rate of plastic is far from generation speed. The plastic ... -
Catalytic isomerization of glucose to fructose using heterogeneous solid Base catalysts in a continuous-flow tubular reactor: Catalyst screening study
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Isomerization reactions of glucose into fructose in aqueous media were studied in a continuous-flow tubular reactor using different heterogeneous solid base catalysts, including calcined-rehydrated hydrotalcite, magnesium ... -
Cell Permeabilization Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Supercritical fluids have unique properties which may make them ideal as reaction media for biotransformation or extractive solvents. Supercritical fluids are ideal for reducing diffusivity limitations over conventional ... -
Cervical Spine Segment Modeling at Traumatic Loading Levels for Injury Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-21)Cervical spine injury can range from minor to severe or fatal, where severe injuries can result in incomplete or complete quadriplegia. There are close to 45,000 Canadians currently affected by paralysis due to traumatic ... -
Cervical Total Level Arthroplasty System With PEEK All-Polymer Articulations
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-25)The cervical spine must provide structural support for the head, allow large range of motion and protect both the spinal cord and branching nerves. There are two types of spinal joints: the intervertebral discs which are ... -
A CFD Investigation of Balcony Spill Plumes
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-05)A series of numerical modeling studies were conducted to characterize the mass flow rates in balcony spill plumes (BSP), a type of buoyant fire plume occurring in atria. The variation of BSP mass flow rate as a function ... -
A CFD Investigation of Turbulent Buoyant Helium Plumes
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)The objective of this work is to assess the capabilities of two modeling approaches, Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES), to investigate turbulent buoyant helium plumes for the purpose ...