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Author:: Puri, Puneesh
Title:: Multi Scale Modeling of Ignition and Combustion of Micro and Nano Aluminum Particles
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Ignition and Combustion
Energetic Materials
Nano Scales
Aluminum
Modeling
Molecular Dynamics
File:: Download PhD_Thesis-Puneesh_Puri.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Dr Steve Son, Committee Member

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Author:: Naredi, Prabhat
Title:: COAL COMBUSTION IN O2/CO2 MEDIUM FOR POWER GENERATION: NUMERICAL MODELING OF CHAR BURNOUT, NOX AND CO EMISSIONS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering
Keywords:: Char reactivity
thermogravimetric analysis
drop tube reactor
modeling
CFD
oxy-coal combustion
NOx
CO emission
burnout
File:: Download Prabhat_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sarma V Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan W Scaroni, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Medvitz, Richard B
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC METHODOLOGY FOR BLOOD PUMP DESIGN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THROMBUS POTENTIAL
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: CFD
File:: Download RichardMedvitz-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Leomard Joel Peltier, Committee Member

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Author:: Mehta, Ranjan S.
Title:: Detailed Modeling of Soot Formation and Turbulence--Radiation Interactions in Turbulent Jet Flames
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Combustion
Turbulent Flames
Radiation
Soot Formation
PDF Methods
Turbulence-Radiation Interactions
Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions
Method of Moments
File:: Download Ranjan_Mehta_Dissertation_2008.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

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Author:: Houim, Ryan William
Title:: Modeling the Influence of Shock Waves on the Combustion of Aluminum Droplets
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Chemically reacting flow
Low-dissipation method
Multi-component flow
Level set method
Vaporization
Shock waves
Cavitation
File:: Download RWH_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member

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Author:: Acharya, Ragini
Title:: MODELING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF INTERIOR BALLISTIC PROCESSES IN A 120mm MORTAR SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Granular bed combustion
Two-phase flows
Riemann solvers
Modeling
Numerical simulation
Interior ballistics
Compressible flows
File:: Download Thesis16Apr09.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

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Author:: Basu, Suman
Title:: CHANNEL TWO-PHASE FLOW AND PHASE CHANGE IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Channel Flow
Phase Change
Two-Phase flow
PEFC
File:: Download thesis_suman_new.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

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Author:: He, Suhao
Title:: MODELING OF FROST HEAVE DURING FREEZING IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: degradation
Stefan problem
porous media flow
polymer electrolyte fuel cells
unfrozen water flow
frost heave modeling
MEMS
sensor
temperature measurement
File:: Download SuhaoHE_PHD_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew M Mench, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member

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Author:: Miller, Steven Arthur Eric
Title:: The Prediction of Broadband Shock-Associated Noise Using Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solutions
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Jet
Noise
Supersonic
Fluid Dynamics
Shock
Broadband
File:: Download SAEMiller-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Shanwu
Title:: VORTICAL FLOW DYNAMICS AND ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF GAS-TURBINE SWIRL-STABILIZED INJECTORS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Swirling Flows
injector dynamics
POD
mode competition
large eddy simulation
mode competition
acoustic admittance
acoustic respons
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
vortex breakdown
File:: Download Shanwu_Wang_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

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