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Author:

Thrift, Alan Albright

Title:

Cooling of a Turbine Vane Endwall Through Contouring and Flow Injection

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Gas Turbine Cooling
Endwall Contouring
Film Cooling
First Stage Vane

File:

Download Thrift_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Dr Eric Paterson, Committee Member
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kamat, Amar

Title:

APPLICATION OF REAXFF BASED REACTIVE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TO SIMULATE LASER INDUCED INCANDESCENCE OF SOOT AND CHAR OXIDATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

laser induced incandescence
soot
reaxff
molecular dynamics
accommodation coefficients

File:

Download Kamat_Thesis_Feb7.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Adri Van Duin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gupta, Ankur

Title:

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flames with Radiation Heat Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Filtered-density function
Photon Monte Carlo
Turbulence-radiation interaction
Large-eddy simulation
Combustion
Thermal radiation
Turbulence-chemistry interaction
Probability density function

File:

Download Ankur_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Sarofeen, Christian

Title:

IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A NON-CUT CELL IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD FOR USE IN ICING SMIULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Simulation
Computational
IBM
Immersed Boundary Method
CFD
Icing
Rotorcraft

File:

Download ChristianSarofeen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Patterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Breneman, Duane L

Title:

Effects of Rust Deposition at the Axial Seal Pin Between Two Blades

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

seal pin
leakage flow
secondary flow
rust particle deposition
gas turbine
rotating orifice

File:

Download Duane_Breneman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Dheeraj Sharan

Title:

DETECTION, ESTIMATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FATIGUE DAMAGE IN POLYCRYSTALLINE-ALLOY STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Deformation
Ultrasonic NonDestructive Evaluation
Structural Health Monitoring
Condition Monitoring
Remaining Life Estimation
Pattern Recognition
Fatigue Damage Diagnosis

File:

Download DheerajSharanSingh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Shalabh Gupta, Committee Member

Author:

Huo, Hongfa

Title:

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUID FLOW AND COMBUSTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Turbulent combustion
Supercritical combustion
swirl coaxial injector
LOX/Methane combustion
Supercritical mixing
shear coaxial injector

File:

Download Hongfa_Huo_PhD_dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Hill, Jeffrey Ray

Title:

High Precision Surface Control of Flexible Space Reflectors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Gossamer
control
En Masse Elimination
modeling

File:

Download Hill_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Kon Well Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Jaishree, Jaishree

Title:

LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION METHODS FOR TURBULENT REACTING FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonpremixed turbulent flames; Probability density

File:

Download Jaishree-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Jing

Title:

Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation

File:

Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member