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Author:: Masters, Sarah Renee
Title:: EFFECT OF PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND REYNOLDS NUMBER ON HEAT TRANSFER IN PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Particle-laden flow
particle concentration
solids loading
Nusselt number
heat transfer
File:: Download Thesis_PSU_MSME_Masters.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael P Manahan Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

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Author:: Makwana, Anandkumar
Title:: Effects of fuel molecular structure on emissions in a jet flame and a model gas turbine combustor
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Soot
Alternative fuels
Fuel molecular structure
Non-premixed flames
Aromatic species
Premixed flames
Aromatic fuels
File:: Download Thesis_Anandkumar_Makwana.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacqueline O’Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline O’Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas A. Litzinger, Committee Member
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Member
Randy L. Vander Wal, Outside Member

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Author:: Chattopadhyay, Pritthi
Title:: Data-Driven Modeling and Pattern Recognition of Dynamical Systems
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: data-driven modeling
time series analysis
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_PritthiChattopadhyay.pdf
Committee Members:: Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member

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Author:: Shan, Yixi
Title:: EFFICIENT THRUST GENERATOIN IN FISH CAUDUAL FINS WITH POLICY SEARCH
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Fish locomotion
Policy Search
Reinforcement Learning
File:: Download Yixi_Shan_Master_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Anne Martin, Committee Member

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Author:: Hudson, Robert Benjamin
Title:: Vibration of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects and Their Composites: Reduced-Order Model and Damping
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: carbon nanotube
defect
vibration
phonon
composite
order reduction
File:: Download Hudson_Robert_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Outside Member

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Author:: Ashraf, Chowdhury Mahbub
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF REAXFF REACTIVE FORCE FIELD SIMULATIONS IN COMBUSTION: FROM KINETICS TO DYNAMICS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Molecular dynamics
ReaxFF
Combustion
Chemical Kinetics
Pyrolysis
Oxidation
File:: Download dissertation_Chowdhury.pdf
Committee Members:: Prof. Adri van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prof. Adri van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof. Richard Yetter, Committee Member
Prof. Jacqueline O'Connor, Committee Member
Prof. Lasse Jensen, Outside Member

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Author:: Jonayat, A S M
Title:: Predicting Stability of Modified Oxide Surfaces with Functional Atomic-Layers for Nano-engineered Catalysts through First Principles Calculations and Statistical Learning
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: catalysis
monolayer metal oxide
mixed metal oxides
DFT
machine learning
compact sensing
feature selection
LASSO
File:: Download Thesis_ASM_JonayatV3.pdf
Committee Members:: Adri C.T. van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adri C.T. van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael J. Janik, Committee Member
Richard Yetter, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Member

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Author:: Culler, Wyatt Robert
Title:: An Experimental Investigation of Fuel Staging In A Model Gas Turbine Combustor
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Flame interaction
Gas turbines
File:: Download Culler-DissertationFINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacqueline O'Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline O'Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tom Litzinger, Committee Member
Yuan Xuan, Committee Member
Michael Krane, Outside Member
Dom Santavicca, Special Member

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Author:: Paul, Chandan
Title:: AN OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCED TURBULENT COMBUSTION AND RADIATION MODELLING IN IC ENGINES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Radiative heat transfer
Compression-ignition engine
Spectral radiation modeling
Turbulence-radiation interaction
Stochastic modeling
Stepwise-gray spectral model
Transported probability density function (tPDF) method
File:: Download cxp484-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel C. Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R. Turns, Committee Member
Philip J. Morris, Outside Member

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Author:: Wang, Jing
Title:: Design and Fabrication of Bio-Inspired Multi-Functional Slippery Surface Coatings with Novel Functionalities
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Bio-inspired Engineering
Surface Science
Robustness
Viscoelastic Solid Repellency
File:: Download Dissertation_-_Jing_Wang.pdf
Committee Members:: Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member

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