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Start Over Graduate Program Aerospace Engineering Committee Member Amy Ruth Pritchett

11. Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage

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Author:
Ranka, Amrat Arvind
Title:
Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Turbines
axial gas turbine
casing grooves
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Tip-Leakage losses
Tip-mitigation studies
Turbomachinery
AFTRF
leakage Vortex
Horseshoe Vortex
File:
Download Final_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

13. OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

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Open Access
Author:
Patel, Khushboo
Title:
OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Multiple precision landings
Optimal trajectories
File:
Download Patel_Khushboo_MS_thesis_August_2019.pdf
Committee Members:
David Bradley Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

14. SIMULATION OF SUPERSONIC JET NOISE REDUCTION USING FLUID INSERTS FOR LOW BYPASS RATIO TURBOFANS

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Author:
Prasad, Chitrarth
Title:
SIMULATION OF SUPERSONIC JET NOISE REDUCTION USING FLUID INSERTS FOR LOW BYPASS RATIO TURBOFANS
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
supersonic
noise reduction
Large eddy simulation
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
Doak's Momentum Potential Theory
File:
Download Simulation_of_supersonic_jet_noise_Prasad_dissertation_PSU.pdf
Committee Members:
Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

16. OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE

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Open Access
Author:
Mirzaei, Mehrdad
Title:
OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Optimal Control
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
Optimal Feedback Control
Trajectory Optimization
Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle
Sparse Collocation Method
Convex Optimization
File:
Download Mehrdad_Mirzaei_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

17. Shape Change and Structural Performance of Cable-Actuated Cylindrical Tensegrities

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Author:
Roffman, Kaila
Title:
Shape Change and Structural Performance of Cable-Actuated Cylindrical Tensegrities
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Tensegrity
triplex
deployable booms
triplex boom
cable actuated
shape change
shape changing tensegrity
File:
Download Roffman_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

18. An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations

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Open Access
Author:
Santos Thedin, Regis
Title:
An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ship Airwakes
Flight Dynamics
Rotorcraft
File:
Download thedin2019phdthesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

19. Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft

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Open Access
Author:
Berger, Tom
Title:
Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Rotorcraft
Handling Qualities
Flight Control System
Control Laws
Tiltrotor
Compound Helicopter
File:
Download TomBerger-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Mark B. Tischler, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

20. Design, Modeling and Testing of an Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for Wind Turbines

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Open Access
Author:
Getz, David
Title:
Design, Modeling and Testing of an Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for Wind Turbines
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
electrothermal
deicing
antiicing
ice protection system
wind turbines
thermodynamics
icing
File:
Download Getz_thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member