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Author:

Christoffel, Tyler T

Title:

Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK

File:

Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Johnson, Samuel

Title:

A Computational Study of Flow Over a 6:1 Prolate Spheroid at Incidence

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD
RANS
LES
Prolate Spheroid

File:

Download SamThesis_10_31.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas S Chyczewski, Jr., Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

Author:

Altland, Samuel

Title:

A Distributed Element Roughness Model Based on the Double Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DERM
Surface Roughness
CFD
Roughness Modeling

File:

Download Sam_Altland_Thesis_5.23.22.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member