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Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Gan, Ze Feng

Title:

Time-Varying Rotor Noise Computations and Analysis of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
rotorcraft simulation
broadband noise prediction
urban air mobility
UAM
electric VTOL aircraft
variable RPM
PSU-WOPWOP

File:

Download Gan2021Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Messinger, Steve

Title:

Modeling, Adaptive Control, and Flight Testing of a Lighter-than-Air Vehicle Validated Using System Identification

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Model Reference Adaptive Control
System Identification
Adaptive Control
Lighter-than-Air Vehicle
Vehicle Design
Sparse System Identification
Flight Testing
Modeling
Simulation
Control
Aerospace

File:

Download Messinger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Topper, Evan

Title:

Calibration and Validation of a Rotorcraft Design and Analysis Tool for Electric Powered Multirotor Configurations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
NDARC
Simulation
Validation
eVTOL
Rotorcraft

File:

Download FINAL_AERSP_MS_Thesis_Evan_Topper.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Jadeja, Shivrajsinh

Title:

Effects of Icing Parameters on Impact Ice Adhesion Strength

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ice adhesion strength
freezing fraction
impact ice

File:

Download Effects_of_Icing_Parameters_on_Impact_Ice_Adhesion_Strength.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Nigay, Natalia

Title:

Vacuum Chamber Experiments of Beamed Microwave Energy Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

beamed-energy propulsion
electric propulsion
advanced propulsion concept
vacuum chamber experiments
propulsion
spacecraft

File:

Download BMEP_MSThesis_Nigay_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Ramdass, Kriston

Title:

Investigation of a Microwave Surface-Wave Plasma for Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

surface wave
plasma
thruster
MET
propulsion

File:

Download Kriston_Ramdass_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Roessler, Arya

Title:

Resin Film Infusion Process for Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

carbon fiber reinforced plastics
OOA
out-of-autoclave
B-staging
epoxy
short beam shear
ILSS
DSC
carbon fiber
composites

File:

Download Roessler_MS_Thesis_May_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Xin Ning, Committee Member

Author:

Weitsman, Daniel

Title:

Theoretical and experimental study of the effects of cyclic pitch variations on rotor noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL Noise
eVTOL
Helicopter Noise
Acoustics
Cyclic Pitch
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Weitsman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Osikowicz, Nathaniel

Title:

Shape Control of Tendon-Actuated Tensegrity Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

tensegrity
control theory
space structure
tensegrity structure
robotics
soft robotics

File:

Download exp-triplex-1.mp4Download exp-triplex-2.mp4Download osikowicz-MS-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Connell, Ryan

Title:

Acoustic Analysis of an Ultra-Efficient Commercial Transport Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
Noise
SNLF
Commercial Aircraft
ANOPP

File:

Download R.McConnell_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Pannebaker, Jeremy

Title:

Development of Empirically-Driven Axisymmetric Turbulence Models Using a Symmetry-Based Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

symmetry scaling
turbulence
axisymmetric turbulence
Lie theory
PIV
symmetries

File:

Download JPannebaker_Master_s_Thesis_2022__Grad_School_Edits_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David K Hall, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Zachary P Berger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Murray, Special Signatory

Author:

Oyama, Kohei

Title:

COMSOL simulation of CNT assembly in an epoxy matrix under static magnetic fields for polymer nanocomposite applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
Composites
Epoxy
FEM
COMSOL
MATLAB
Magnetic field
Nickel

File:

Download KoheiOyama_msthesis_sp22.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Nicholson, Duncan

Title:

Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ship
Deck
Landing
UAV
UAS
Fiducial
Control
Estimation
Precision Landing
shipboard
sUAS

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Duncan_Nicholson.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Gilga, Michael

Title:

Optimal Solar-Sail Trajectories Using Sun-Diving

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Solar Sail
Astrodynamics
Orbital Mechanics
Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Optimization
Transfer Orbits
Sun-Diving

File:

Download Gilga_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member

Author:

Mcthane, Eric

Title:

Performance and Acoustics of Coaxial Counter-Rotating Rotors in Hover and Forward Flight Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotor Acoustics
eVTOL
Rotorcraft
Coaxial Rotors
Phase Control
Rotor Performance
Hover
Forward Flight
UAM
Separation Distance
Counter-Rotating

File:

Download MastersThesis_EricMcthane-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Samuel

Title:

A Computational Study of Flow Over a 6:1 Prolate Spheroid at Incidence

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD
RANS
LES
Prolate Spheroid

File:

Download SamThesis_10_31.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas S Chyczewski, Jr., Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

Author:

Jue, Andrew

Title:

Simulation of Advanced Rotorcraft Concepts using Free Wake Aerodynamic Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

DEPSim
eVTOL
Lift+Cruise
Rotorcraft
Flight dynamics
Dynamic simulation

File:

Download Thesis_AndrewJue_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Mangette, Mackenzie

Title:

Exploration of Direct Transfer Opportunities and Loitering Strategies for Lunar Surface Access

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Dynamical System Theory
Cislunar Travel
Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem
Loitering Strategies
Trajectory Optimization

File:

Download Mangette_MastersThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roshan Thomas Eapen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member