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Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Messinger, Steve

Title:

Modeling, Adaptive Control, and Flight Testing of a Lighter-than-Air Vehicle Validated Using System Identification

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Model Reference Adaptive Control
System Identification
Adaptive Control
Lighter-than-Air Vehicle
Vehicle Design
Sparse System Identification
Flight Testing
Modeling
Simulation
Control
Aerospace

File:

Download Messinger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Topper, Evan

Title:

Calibration and Validation of a Rotorcraft Design and Analysis Tool for Electric Powered Multirotor Configurations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
NDARC
Simulation
Validation
eVTOL
Rotorcraft

File:

Download FINAL_AERSP_MS_Thesis_Evan_Topper.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Roessler, Arya

Title:

Resin Film Infusion Process for Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

carbon fiber reinforced plastics
OOA
out-of-autoclave
B-staging
epoxy
short beam shear
ILSS
DSC
carbon fiber
composites

File:

Download Roessler_MS_Thesis_May_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Xin Ning, Committee Member

Author:

Weitsman, Daniel

Title:

Theoretical and experimental study of the effects of cyclic pitch variations on rotor noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL Noise
eVTOL
Helicopter Noise
Acoustics
Cyclic Pitch
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Weitsman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Connell, Ryan

Title:

Acoustic Analysis of an Ultra-Efficient Commercial Transport Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
Noise
SNLF
Commercial Aircraft
ANOPP

File:

Download R.McConnell_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Pannebaker, Jeremy

Title:

Development of Empirically-Driven Axisymmetric Turbulence Models Using a Symmetry-Based Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

symmetry scaling
turbulence
axisymmetric turbulence
Lie theory
PIV
symmetries

File:

Download JPannebaker_Master_s_Thesis_2022__Grad_School_Edits_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David K Hall, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Zachary P Berger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Murray, Special Signatory

Author:

Oyama, Kohei

Title:

COMSOL simulation of CNT assembly in an epoxy matrix under static magnetic fields for polymer nanocomposite applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
Composites
Epoxy
FEM
COMSOL
MATLAB
Magnetic field
Nickel

File:

Download KoheiOyama_msthesis_sp22.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Nicholson, Duncan

Title:

Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ship
Deck
Landing
UAV
UAS
Fiducial
Control
Estimation
Precision Landing
shipboard
sUAS

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Duncan_Nicholson.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Khokhar, Gohar

Title:

An Aerothermal Study of Ejector-Based, Coandă-Surface-Driven, Gas Turbine Tip Leakage Mitigation Schemes: A Computational and Experimental Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Ejector-Based
Coandă-Surface-Driven
Gas Turbine Tip Leakage Mitigation
Gas Turbine
Tip Leakage
Ejector
Coanda Surface

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Major Field Member
Michael Krane, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Cengiz Camci, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Special Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Opazo Toro, Tomas

Title:

Power Minimization For Fixed-Pitch Coaxial Rotors In Hover

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

coaxial rotor power minimization optimization control allocation

File:

Download toopazo_psu_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Horn, Major Field Member
Puneet Singla, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Konzel, Nicholas

Title:

Ground Based Measurements and Acoustic Characterization of Small Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
UAV
Data Collection
Noise Characterization
Multirotor

File:

Download MastersThesis_Konzel_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Purzak, Jake

Title:

Structural Design of a Rigid Coaxial Rotor System for Wind Tunnel Testing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

rotorcraft
coaxial
structural design
structural analysis
dragonfly
rotor design
rigid rotor
coaxial test system
wind tunnel test system

File:

Download PurzakJake_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Villa, Amber

Title:

Computational Modeling of Monitoring within Human-Autonomy Teams with Novel Delegations of Authority and Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

human-autonomy teams
computational modelling
Work Models that Compute
Advanced Air Mobility
Authority/Responsibility

File:

Download A._Villa_Revised_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member

Author:

Roffman, Kaila

Title:

Design of Tensegrity Structures for Shape Changing Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

tensegrity structures
morphing structures
shape change analysis
form finding
space structures
deployable structures

File:

Download Roffman_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Major Field Member
Xin Ning, Major Field Member
Mary Frecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
George Lesieutre, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Rachaprolu, Joel Sundar

Title:

Development of a Source Separation Process for Multirotor Aeroacoustic Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Aeroacoustics
Vold-Kalman Filter
De-Dopplerization
Acoustic Hemisphere
UAS and UAM Noise
Noise Source Separation

File:

Download rachaprolu_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Owsley, Isaiah

Title:

The Effects of Foil Geometry and Inflow Turbulence Characteristics on Unsteady Hydrodynamic Forcing Function

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Turbulence Ingestion
real foil effects
camber effects
thickness effects
angle-of-attack effects

File:

Download Isaiah_Owsley-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margalit Zipora Goldschmidt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Nangle, Joseph

Title:

Experimental test rig for hover and forward flight icing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

icing
eVTOL
Helicopter Icing
Preformance
Helicopter Performance
Performance Change
Empirical Model
Tilt-rotor icing

File:

Download Nangle_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Weist, Lauren

Title:

Helicopter Noise Modeling With Varying Fidelity Prediction Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
rotorcraft
noise prediction systems
helicopter noise

File:

Download LWeist_MastersThesis_07182022.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Tianliang

Title:

Parametric and Topology Optimization for Multidisciplinary Design Using a Decomposition Method to Address Nonlinear Boundary Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Topology Optimization
Decomposition Method
Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
Spacecraft Passive Thermal Control
Synthetic Jet Actuator

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Tianliang_Yu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Stephen Conlon, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor
George Lesieutre, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Brownell, Matthew

Title:

A Time-Varying Subspace Method for Shape Estimation of a Flexible Spacecraft Membrane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

subspace
spacecraft
flexible
solar
solar power
ERA
reduced-order modeling
analytical modeling
dynamics
structures
space structure
large

File:

Download Brownell_MastersThesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Andrew Sinclair, Special Signatory

Author:

Baker, Logan

Title:

Thermal Design and Analysis of the BlackCAT CubeSat

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

BlackCAT CubeSat
CubeSat
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Design
Astronomical CubeSat

File:

Download BAKER_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilén, Committee Member
Abe Falcone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gueho, Damien

Title:

Data-Driven Modeling For Analysis And Control Of Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Koopman Operator
System Identification
Dynamical System
Subspace Method
Uncertainty Quantification
Bilinear System
Controlled Koopman Operator
Time-varying Dynamics
Reduced-order Model

File:

Download Gueho-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Melton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Puneet Singla, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daning Huang, Major Field Member
Manoranjan Majji, Special Member
Vishal Monga, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair