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Author:

Blumenthal, Brennan Theodore

Title:

Computational Investigation of a Boundary-layer Ingestion Propulsion System for the Common Research Model

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Boundary-layer Ingestion
Propulsion
CFD
USM3D
NPSS
CDISC
Common Research Model
CRM

File:

Download B_Blumenthal_MS_Thesis_V8-ZS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stanko, Jason D

Title:

Automated Design and Evaluation of Airfoils for Rotorcraft Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

parameterization
orthogonal
automation
airfoil performance table
multicollinearity
design
class shape transformation
genetic algorithm
CFD
Legendre Polynomial
CMA-ES
UH60
OVERFLOW
airfoil shape optimization
C81
Augmented Lagrange

File:

Download StankoThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Efficient CFD Approaches for Coaxial Rotor Simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multicopter
Multicopters
Coaxial Rotor
Coaxial Rotors
CFD Simulation
Rotorcraft
Helicopter
STAR-CCM+
RotCFD
Mixing-Plane
Blade-Element
Time-Accurate
Blade-Resolved
Blade-Modeled
Quadcopter

File:

Download Jason_Cornelius_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Farish, David

Title:

Large Eddy Simulations of Scaled Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Ship Airwake Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Large Eddy Simulations
LES
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Ship Airwake
Aerodynamics
Wind Tunnel Validation

File:

Download davidFarish-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Christoffel, Tyler T

Title:

Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK

File:

Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member