Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Extreme Heat Increases Strength of Pure Metals

A rule-breaking discovery by Dean Christopher Schuh reveals a new way to strengthen metal in extreme conditions.

Big data and human height: Scientists develop algorithm to boost biobank data retrieval and analysis

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...
IEEE

Comparative Study of Numerical Solutions to non-Linear Equations Using Regula-Falsi and Newton-Raphson Method

Abstract: This study aimed at comparing the rate of convergence and performance of Newton-Raphson and Regula-Falsi method for solving the nonlinear equations. To solve nonlinear equations, two ...
IEEE

Discontinuous Galerkin Method With a Novel Physics-Informed Flux for Elastic Wave Simulations in Heterogeneous Media

Abstract: We present an innovative physics-informed numerical flux within the framework of the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving elastic wave equations in 2-D heterogeneous media that ...