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Author:

Hyatt, Lance

Title:

Intelligence in Soft Mechanical Material Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Intelligent Materials
Mechanical Metamaterials
Mechanical Computing
Soft Mechanical Materials

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Major Field Member
Yun Jing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lundburg, Evan

Title:

Heat Transfer Augmentation in the Entry Region of Circular Channels

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Pin Fin
Fin
Turbulator
Entry Region
Circular Channel
Pipe
Inlet
Flow-field
Boundary layer development
Distortion
Inlet distortion
Thermal Performance
Total pressure loss
Infrared thermography
Heat transfer augmentation

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tamy Guimaraes, Major Field Member
Karen Thole, Major Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
M Eric Lyall, Special Member

Author:

Mathur, Jayant

Title:

The role of immersive virtual reality in developing design and process intuition for additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
virtual reality
immersive user experiences
design for additive manufacturing
engineering education
digital simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Siefert, Jacob

Title:

Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Graphs of Functions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Verification
Control
Set-Theoretic Methods
Reachability Analysis
Estimation
Hybrid Zonotopes

File:

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Committee Members:

Herschel Pangborn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Outside Unit Member
Brandon Hencey, Special Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Corbett, Thomas

Title:

Exploration of Internal Cooling Schemes Enabled Through Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Fluid Dynamics
Internal Cooling
Gas Turbines

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Thole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member

Author:

Bentley, Christopher

Title:

Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures with Multiphysics Integrations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deployable Structures
Reconfigurable Structures
Deployment Routines
Origami-inspired Structures
Origami-inspired Acoustic Arrays
Self-Adaptive Reconfigurable Structures

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michael Roan, Major Field Member
Amanda Hanford, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member

Author:

Ren, Yong

Title:

Model Learning and Predictive Control of Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Machine Learning
Optimal Control
Finite Difference Method
Melt-Pool Geometry
Temperature Evolution

File:

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Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Major Field Member
Qian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Miller, Edward

Title:

Development of Versatile Mixed Finite Element Methods for the Non-Isothermal Incompressible and Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Finite Element Methods
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Compressible Flow
Incompressible Flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Kunz, Major Field Member
James Coder, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
David Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Menon, Nandana

Title:

Composition-process-structure linkages in metal additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metal additive manufacturing
Laser-Directed Energy Deposition
Melt pool modeling
Composition-process-structure linkages
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amrita Basak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Chris Rahn, Major Field Member
Sudeepta Mondal, Special Member