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Author:

Axten, Christopher Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Transitional CFD to Analyze the Performance of a Racing Sailplane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
sailplane
boundary layer transition
aircraft performance
aircraft design

File:

Download Axten_C_Master_Thesis_Draft_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Sadagopan, Aravinth

Title:

A design strategy for a 6:1 supersonic mixed-flow compressor stage and its viscous flow-based performance analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

mixed-flow compressor
mean-line design
turbomachinery
computational fluid dynamics
shock stability
aerospace propulsion
Bezier curves
NASA Rotor 37
Supersonic Diffuser
6:1
pressure-ratio
blade optimization

File:

Download MS_thesis_Aravinth_Sadagopan_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, 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:

Douglass, Rebekah

Title:

Effects of Strain Rate Variation on the Shear Adhesion Strength of Impact Ice

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

strain rate
adhesion
icing

File:

Download DOUGLASS_FINAL_THESIS_4-1-19.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Major, Desirae

Title:

Design, Analysis, and Testing of Leading-Edge Protection Tapes for Wind Turbine Blades

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Renewable Energy
Wind Turbines
Annual Energy Production
Leading-edge Protection Tape
Wind Turbine Leading-edge Erosion

File:

Download PSU_Masters_Thesis_Final_Desirae_Major.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Spencer, Mychal

Title:

Tailorable Manufacturing of Polymer Nanocomposites using Oscillating Magnetic Fields

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocomposites
Nanoparticles
Magnetic assembly
Oscillating field
Polymer-matrix composites

File:

Download MSpencer_Dissertation_PSU-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Nino, Michael

Title:

Time-optimal, constrained, satellite reorientation maneuver using inverse dynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Reorientation
Rigidbody Satellite
Satellite
Optimal Reorientation
PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Quaternion
Euler Angle
Optimal Control
Time Optimal Control
Michael Nino
Mike Nino
Melton
Dr. Melton
Robert G. Melton
Aerospace Engineering

File:

Download Mike_Nino_Updated_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Jain, Amit

Title:

A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH FOR CALCULATING REACHABILITY SET OF HYPERSONIC REENTRY

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Reachability sets
Hypersonic reentry
Conjugate Unscented Transform (CUT)

File:

Download AmitJain_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gueho, Damien

Title:

Learning Capabilities of Neural Network and Keplerian Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence
Neural Network
capabilities
Learn
two-body problem
residual neural network
feed-forward neural network
dynamic system
dynamical system
approximation
prediction
recurrent model
data set

File:

Download Gueho_Damien-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Auman, Kerstyn

Title:

Non-Catalytic Microwave Ignition of Green Hydrazine Replacements

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

AF-M315E
hydrazine
green
microwave
ignition
catalyst
EPU
plasma
power
torch

File:

Download Thesis_KA_Masters_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Michael Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Amy Pritchett, Committee Member
Dr. Sven Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Ranka, Amrat Arvind

Title:

Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Turbines
axial gas turbine
casing grooves
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Tip-Leakage losses
Tip-mitigation studies
Turbomachinery
AFTRF
leakage Vortex
Horseshoe Vortex

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ciliberto, David

Title:

Extended Kalman Filtering in Burdet Coordinates for Orbit Determination

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Kalman Filtering
Estimation
Orbit Determination
Space Situational Awareness
Regularization

File:

Download DavidCiliberto-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Contri, Jeffrey

Title:

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Non-ionized Dipole Gases for Electromagnetic Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
simulation
water
electric propulsion
electromagnetic propulsion
Abraham effect
island hopping

File:

Download MS_Thesis_moldyn_-_Draft_5.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Michael Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Amy Pritchett, Committee Member
Dr. Sven Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Khushboo

Title:

OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Multiple precision landings
Optimal trajectories

File:

Download Patel_Khushboo_MS_thesis_August_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Forry, Carter Michael

Title:

MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A HYBRID IMPULSIVE-PNEUMATIC DE-ICING SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

De-icing
icing
impulsive
pneumatic

File:

Download CarterForry-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Conte, Davide

Title:

Semi-Analytical Solutions for Proximity Operations in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Astrodynamics
Moon
Mars
Phobos
Proximity Operations
Relative Motion
Semi-Analytical

File:

Download DavideConte-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley Spencer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Outside Member

Author:

Saetti, Umberto

Title:

Rotorcraft Flight Control Design with Alleviation of Unsteady Rotor Loads

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft
flight controls
flight dynamics and control
flight dynamics
simulation
aerospace
aircraft
rotorcraft control
aircraft control
load alleviation
automatica flight control system
AFCS
control systems

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_rev6.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Stephanie Stockar, Outside Member
J.V.R. Prasad, Outside Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Special Member

Author:

Bird, John Joseph

Title:

Atmospherically Aware Aircraft Guidance Using In Situ Observations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
drone
atmospherically aware
autonomy
reinforcement learning
flight planning
soaring

File:

Download bird_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member

Author:

Prasad, Chitrarth

Title:

SIMULATION OF SUPERSONIC JET NOISE REDUCTION USING FLUID INSERTS FOR LOW BYPASS RATIO TURBOFANS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic
noise reduction
Large eddy simulation
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
Doak's Momentum Potential Theory

File:

Download Simulation_of_supersonic_jet_noise_Prasad_dissertation_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Azhar, Mohammad

Title:

Low Thrust Transfers between Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon system

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Low thrust
halo orbits
Earth-Moon System
transfers

File:

Download Mohammad_azhar_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair