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Author:

Spires, James Michael

Title:

MODEL FOLLOWING AND HIGH ORDER AUGMENTATION FOR ROTORCRAFT CONTROL, APPLIED VIA PARTIAL AUTHORITY

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft control
model following control
dynamic decoupling
explicit model following
H2
Hinf
dynamic inversion
nonlinear dynamic inversion
handling qualities
partial authority control
feed forward
turbulence rejection
piggyback compensation

File:

Download SpiresDissertation-postDefense.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Committee Member
Chris Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Oruc, Ilker

Title:

Towards Real-Time Pilot-in-the-Loop Simulation of Rotorcraft with Fully-Coupled CFD Solutions of Rotor / Terrain Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
simulation
pilot-in-the-loop
rotorcraft
terrain
ship airwake
dynamic interface
DI
helicopter/ship
coupled
fully-coupled
fully coupled
ground effect
CFD
aerodynamics
flight control
flight dynamics
ship landing
ship approach
computational
fluid
dynamics
real-time
manned
sloped
partial ground
acceleration
helicopter simulation
high-performance-computing
flight simulator
MPI
helicopter dynamics
SFS2
MPMD
actuator disk
ADM
ALM
simple frigate ship
non-linear
NLDI
UH-60
flight performance
one-way coupled
two-way coupled
recirculation
coupled simulation
coupling interface
IGE
OGE
hover
GENHEL
GENHEL-PSU
Navier-Stokes
Gaussian

File:

Download IlkerOruc-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Outside Member

Author:

Lavely, Adam Wesley

Title:

Effects of Daytime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence on the Generation of Nonsteady Wind turbine Loadings and Predictive Accuracy of Lower Order Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Wind Turbine
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Engineering-Design Models

File:

Download AdamLavely-Dissertation-v20.pdf

Committee Members:

James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip Morris, Committee Member
Eric Paterson, Outside Member
Dan Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

McTernan, Jesse Kane

Title:

Passive Plasma Contact Mechanisms for Small-Scale Spacecraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

spacecraft charging
dual-purpose material
pulsed Langmuir probe
ionosphere
charge mitigation
plasma source
LEO simulator

File:

Download McTernan-Dissertation_Submitted_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilén, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Bilén, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Sean Knecht, Outside Member

Author:

Oliveira Vieira, Bernardo A

Title:

Consideration of Unsteady Aerodynamics and Boundary-Layer Transition in Rotorcraft Airfoil Design

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Airfoil Design
Boundary-Layer Transition
Unsteady Aerodynamics
Dynamic Stall
Helicopter Aerodynamics
Transonic Flow
Compressible Flow
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD

File:

Download Bernardo_Vieira_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark D. Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Michael P. Kinzel, Special Member

Author:

Hanson, David Royal

Title:

Computational Investigation of Convective Heat Transfer on Ice-Roughened Aerodynamic Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Ice Accretion
Discrete Element Roughness Method
Convective Heat Transfer
Large Eddy Simulation
Surface Roughness

File:

Download Hanson_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Kinzel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Stephen M Lynch, Outside Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Reich, David B

Title:

Experimental Investigation of A Helicopter Rotor Hub Flow

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter
Rotorcraft
Aerodynamics
Rotor Hub
Hub Drag
Rotor Hub Drag
Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
Rotorcraft Aeromechanics
Unsteady Aerodynamics

File:

Download Reich-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Outside Member