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Author:

Hall, Zachary Joseph

Title:

A probabilistic framework to locate and track maneuvering satellites

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Maneuvering Target Tracking
Lost Target Tracking
Reachability Set Computation
Numerical Integration

File:

Download ZachHall-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Melton, Major Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Puneet Singla, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kirk Johnson, Special Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yan, Sihong

Title:

PHYSICS-BASED SHAPE EVOLUTION, TRAJECTORY AND SURFACE MASS AND ENERGY MODEL OF MIXED-PHASE ICING

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Aircraft Icing
Multiphase Flow
Wind Tunnel Experiment
Melting Process of Ice Crystals

File:

Download PHYSICS-BASED_SHAPE_EVOLUTION__TRAJECTORY_AND_SURFACE_MASS_AND_ENERGY_MODEL_OF_MIXED-PHASE_ICING_V2.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Palacios, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Major Field Member
Michael Kinzel, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lin, Charis I

Title:

Sintering and Solid-State Joining of Nickel-based Superalloys using Field-Assisted Sintering Technology

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

nickel
field-assisted sintering
spark plasma sintering
solid state joining
microstructure
mechanical properties
diffusion bonding
superalloy
powder metallurgy

File:

Download Lin-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jogender Singh, Special Member

Author:

Yenigelen, Evren

Title:

Numerical Analysis of Rocket Launch Acoustics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

jet noise
rocket launch
aeroacoustics
computational fluid dynamics
ffowcs williams and hawkings analogy
noise reduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Outside Field Member
Kenneth Brentner, Major & Minor Field Member
Philip Morris, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Outside Unit Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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:

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

File:

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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

File:

Download SaptarshiBiswas_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download GrantSchneeberger-Dissertation.pdf

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