ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my greatest appreciation to Dr. Louis J. Thibodeaux for the endless guidance, complete support, positive criticism, and efforts to provide unending assistance throughout this research period. I also thank Dr. Kalliat Valsaraj for his help with ideas and discussions throughout the course of this project. My thanks go to Dr. Kalliat Valsaraj and Dr. William Moe for accepting my invitation to serve as committee members for my thesis defense. I would also like to thank Dr. Ravikrishna for his assistance with the wind tunnel experiment. His previous research proved indispensable to this research. Special thanks are extended to Cindy Price with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at WES for all the collaborati...
ii To my parents and my sister iii Acknowledgement I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Wei Shyy f...
To my mother Linda and my father Brian who always pushed me to work hard and pursue my goals. ACKNOW...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues in the University of Minnesota, Twin Ci...
ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To try and thank everyone who contributed to the completion of my thesis would b...
I wo'uld like to thank Dr. Kenneth Rainwater for s~rving as my thesis chai1man. He provide inva...
The work presented in this thesis could not have been performed had I not been given the chance to d...
The authors wish to express their deep appreciation to Prof. Otto K. Koppen and to Prof. Robert C. S...
This project would have never come to the current state without extensive support from a few people ...
First and foremost, I thank my advisor Prof. Ned Mohan for giving me the opportu-nity to work on thi...
The credit for the successful completion of this research project goes to many individuals and organ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I owe a great debt of gratitude to the many people who have helped make this work p...
ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank the almighty God, the Creator and the Guardi...
I would like to express my deepest gratitude and sincere thanks to my advisor Professor Ned Mohan fo...
I would like to express my extreme gratitude to Dr. Asok K. Ray for his help and support in completi...
I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Asok Ray, for his s...
ii To my parents and my sister iii Acknowledgement I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Wei Shyy f...
To my mother Linda and my father Brian who always pushed me to work hard and pursue my goals. ACKNOW...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues in the University of Minnesota, Twin Ci...
ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To try and thank everyone who contributed to the completion of my thesis would b...
I wo'uld like to thank Dr. Kenneth Rainwater for s~rving as my thesis chai1man. He provide inva...
The work presented in this thesis could not have been performed had I not been given the chance to d...
The authors wish to express their deep appreciation to Prof. Otto K. Koppen and to Prof. Robert C. S...
This project would have never come to the current state without extensive support from a few people ...
First and foremost, I thank my advisor Prof. Ned Mohan for giving me the opportu-nity to work on thi...
The credit for the successful completion of this research project goes to many individuals and organ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I owe a great debt of gratitude to the many people who have helped make this work p...
ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank the almighty God, the Creator and the Guardi...
I would like to express my deepest gratitude and sincere thanks to my advisor Professor Ned Mohan fo...
I would like to express my extreme gratitude to Dr. Asok K. Ray for his help and support in completi...
I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Asok Ray, for his s...
ii To my parents and my sister iii Acknowledgement I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Wei Shyy f...
To my mother Linda and my father Brian who always pushed me to work hard and pursue my goals. ACKNOW...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues in the University of Minnesota, Twin Ci...