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Author:

Lee, Chanyoung

Title:

A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF BONE FORMATION IN THE CRANIAL VAULT USING A REACTION-DIFFUSION-STRAIN MODEL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational morphogenesis
finite volume method
skull growth
developmental biology
mechanobiology
intramembranous ossification

File:

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Committee Members:

Reuben H Kraft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member
Jing Du, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Outside Member

Author:

Xiong, Sihan

Title:

BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC MODELING OF CATEGORICAL DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Bayesian nonparametric
Causal inference
Panel Data
Variational Inference
Sequential Classification
Information fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Outside Member

Author:

Haydt, Shane Elliott

Title:

A Detailed Investigation of the Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Related to Injection from a Compound Angled Shaped Film Cooling Hole

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

film cooling
heat transfer
fluid dynamics
gas turbines
turbomachinery
heat transfer augmentation
particle image velocimetry
ir thermography

File:

Download Shane_Haydt_-_Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen P Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member

Author:

Corbin, David Jeffrey

Title:

Experimental Design for Process Parameter Correlation to Dimensional Inaccuracies in Additive Manufacturing Processes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Distortion
Ti-6Al-4V
Inconel 718
Parameter Development
In situ measurements
Directed Energy Deposition

File:

Download DavidJCorbinThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Reutzel, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Committee Member
Allison Beese, Outside Member

Author:

Hauser, Michael B

Title:

Principles of Riemannian Geometry in Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Neural networks
Algebraic geometry
Riemannian manifolds
Machine learning
Non-abelian gauge theories

File:

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Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member

Author:

Ebrahim, Shikha A

Title:

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE CONDITIONS ON POOL-BOILING HEAT TRANSFER FOR VARIOUS MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Film boiling heat transfer
minimum film boiling temperature
surface characterizations
surface conditions

File:

Download ShikhaEbrahim-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Segall, Committee Member
Stephen Lynch, Committee Member
Stephen M. Bajorek, Outside Member

Author:

Ferreyro Fernandez, Sebastian

Title:

ADVANCED SOOT AND RADIATION MODELS FOR LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLAMES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Computational uid dynamics
soot
spectral radiation
compression-ignition engine
PDF method
Computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download suf157-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel C. Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R. Turns, Committee Member
Robert Santoro, Committee Member
Philip J. Morris, Outside Member
Yuan Xuan, Committee Member

Author:

Mishra, Partha Pratim

Title:

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-BALANCING PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Self-Balancing Systems
Maximum Power Point Tracking
Extremum-Seeking
Lyapunov Methods
Controls
Model-based Estimation
Renewable Energy Systems
Lithium-ion Batteries
State Estimation
Input Estimation
Model Reduction
Stability
Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation

File:

Download Partha_Mishra_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephanie Stockar, Committee Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Member

Author:

Makwana, Anandkumar

Title:

Effects of fuel molecular structure on emissions in a jet flame and a model gas turbine combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Soot
Alternative fuels
Fuel molecular structure
Non-premixed flames
Aromatic species
Premixed flames
Aromatic fuels

File:

Download Thesis_Anandkumar_Makwana.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline O’Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline O’Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas A. Litzinger, Committee Member
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Member
Randy L. Vander Wal, Outside Member

Author:

Chattopadhyay, Pritthi

Title:

Data-Driven Modeling and Pattern Recognition of Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

data-driven modeling
time series analysis

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_PritthiChattopadhyay.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member