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Author:

Gorny, Lee James

Title:

SOUND ATTENUATIONS OF AXIAL FAN BLADE TONES USING FLOW-DRIVEN TUNABLE RESONATOR ARRAYS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Rotor Stator
Dipole Source
Flow Driven Source
Axial
Resonators
Fan Noise
Interaction Noise

File:

Download Gorny_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Koopmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dean Capone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
John Brian Fahnline, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Lijun

Title:

Vibration-Based Structural Damage Identification Enhancement via Piezoelectric Circuitry Network and Active Feedback Control

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Structural Health Monitoring
Structural Damage Detection
Vibration
Smart Structures
Piezoelectric Circuitry
Active Control

File:

Download Thesis-LijunJiang-2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Heath F Hofmann, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Leng

Title:

MODELING COLD START OF POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel cell
model
subzero
cold start

File:

Download Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Liangyu

Title:

DETAILED CHEMISTRY, SOOT, AND RADIATION CALCULATIONS IN TURBULENT REACTING FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oxygen-enriched combustion
thermal radiation
soot modeling
detailed chemistry
turbulent combustion

File:

Download thesis_liangyu.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zhang, Liwei

Title:

FLOW DYNAMICS AND SCALAR MIXING OF TRANSVERSE JETS INTO CROSSFLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

large eddy simulation
jet in crossflow
turbulent mixing
jet stability
external excitations
supersonic flow

File:

Download LiweiZhang_PhDthesis_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Kane, Mangesh Ashok

Title:

STUDY OF GAS TURBINE BLADE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER TO DETERMINE BLADE TEMPERATURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conjugate heat transfer
gas turbine

File:

Download Thesis_Mangesh_Kane.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yukish, Michael

Title:

Algorithms to Identify Pareto Points in Multi-Dimensional Data Sets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pareto frontier
efficient frontier
dominance
nondominance
multi-objective
design optimization

File:

Download yukish_PhD_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Hatzell, Marta Catherine

Title:

QUANTIFICATION OF TEMPERATURE DRIVEN FLOW IN A POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL USING HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Water Managment
Temperature Driven Flow
PEM Fuel Cell

File:

Download Marta_Hatzell_MS_Thesis_1222010.pdf

Committee Members:

Clinton Matthew Mench, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew M Mench, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Petersheim, Michael D

Title:

Scaling of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain Components for Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Buckingham Pi Theorem
hybrid electric vehicles
hardware-in-the-loop

File:

Download ThesisMaster5.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sirignano, Matthew Davis

Title:

MODIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BALLISTIC COMPRESSOR TO STUDY IGNITION AND COMBUSTION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES AT ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURES AND HEATING RATES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ballistic compressor
aluminum
particle combustion

File:

Download MS_Thesis_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor