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Calcium Carbonate Desalination Waste Recycling as Concrete Aggregate
Tiffany Yee, Civil Engineering
Graduation: May 2011 Hometown: Chandler, Arizona
Mentor: Dr. Peter Fox and Dr. Barzin Mobasher, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Grand Challenge: Sustainability
The proposed Western Canal Water Treatment Plant will treat water using crystallactor technology, which
produces the calcium carbonate pellets used in this experiment as a possible fine aggregate. After analyzing
the contents of the pellets, they were used to replace sand in contents of zero, 10, 20, and 30 percent, and
ages of seven days and 14 days. The compressive and flexural strengths of the concrete made with the pellets
were compared with the zero percent pellet replacement. For the future, testing concrete with higher content
percentages and an age of 28 days might be insightful.
Advanced Simulation of Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics Datasets
Susanna J. Young, Mechanical Engineering
Graduation: May 2011 Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Mentor: Dr. Kyle Squires, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Grand Challenge: Restore and improve urban infrastructure
The goal is to apply high-fidelity visualization techniques to the dataset obtained from direct numerical simulation
of the flow over a golf ball. Thus far, two processes for running Fieldview Parallel on the Saguaro supercomputer
have been established. Successful visualizations of the instantaneous flow and animations of the temporallyevolving
solution have been generated and the process for submitting batch processes to generate animations has
been refined to require less user-input. These achievements have provided an efficient approach to visualization of
enormous datasets. Suggested further work includes using newly developed Fieldview tools for insight into better
use of the solver code.
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