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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:

Metkowski, Leonard P

Title:

Aerodynamic Design and Analysis for a Strut-Braced Transport Aircraft Utilizing Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoils

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Aircraft Design
Slotted Natural Laminar Flow Airfoil
Transonic Truss Braced Wing
Winglet Design
Aerodynamic Design of Transport Aircraft
Truss Braced Wing

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Committee Members:

Mark Maughmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Miller, Major Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Major Field Member
Robert Campbell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Surendran, Vidullan

Title:

The Role of Surface Cues in Human Intent Recognition

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

HRI
surface cues
human intent recognition
computer vision
human robot interaction
human computer interface
gesture recognition

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Committee Members:

Alan Wagner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Susan Simkins, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Biswas, Saptarshi

Title:

An Investigation of Plasma Dynamics within Microwave Electrothermal Thruster Cavities

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electric Propulsion
Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
Low Earth Orbit
Satellite Constellation
MET
Microwaves

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Committee Members:

Robert Melton, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit Member
Sean Knecht, Outside Field Member
Sven Bilén, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Special Member

Author:

Schneeberger, Grant M

Title:

Ice Adhesion Strength Mitigation via Low Surface Roughness Erosion Resistant Coatings

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ice adhesion
ice protective coatings
ice protection
aircraft icing
anti-ice coating
rotorcraft icing
helicopter icing
erosion resistant coatings
icing

File:

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Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wolfe, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Doshi, Mitansh Sharad

Title:

Studying, Tailoring, and Harnessing Structural Instability for Advanced Thin-Walled and Architected Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

buckling
instability
aerospace
mechanical
thin-walled
composites
machine-learning
FEA
CAD
flexible structures
spherical shells
cylindrical shells
metamaterials
architected structures
soft structures

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Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Major Field Member
Charles Bakis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xin Ning, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lewis, Jeffrey Arthur

Title:

Robust Adaptive Control for Control Reversal

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

adaptive control
control reversal
dynamic inversion
large attitude upset
robust adaptive control
inverse gain switching control
IGSC
rotation vector
swashplate actuator
PSU-GUST
fault tolerant control
large attitude errors
fault tolerant autonomy
adaptive control architectures
pseudocontrol hedge
fast adaptation
model reference adaptive control
attitude parameterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Lagoa, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Feron, Special Member
Eric Johnson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Joseph Horn, Major Field Member

Author:

Jain, Amit

Title:

Stochastic Reachability Analysis And Optimal Feedback Control Using Sparse-Collocation Method

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Reachability Analysis
Hamilton Jacobi (HJ) equation
Conjugate Unscented Transformation
sparse collocation method
Uncertainty Propagation
Optimal Feedback Control

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Herschel Pangborn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Puneet Singla, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Johnson, Major Field Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Major Field Member

Author:

Bottai, Auriane

Title:

Development of an unsteady aero-elastic framework for the study of a slotted, natural laminar flow airfoil

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slotted
Natural-Laminar Flow
Unsteady flow
aeroelasticity
Component Mode Synthesis
strut-braced wing
flutter
aerodynamic stability
modal analysis
singularity-based method
potential flow
oscillating airfoil
linear-varying strength vortex
high-aspect-ratio wing
Theodorsen theory

File:

Download DissertationAurianeBottai_11102023.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Major Field Member
Ali Memari, Outside Unit Member
Robert Campbell, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Michael Jonson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair