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Author:: Sircar, Arpan
Title:: CFD Modeling of In-Cylinder Heat Transfer in Piston Engines
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: CFD
Combustion
Turbulence
Radiation
Boundary Layer
IC Engines
File:: Download Arpan_Sircar_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert J Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Monaco, Christopher D
Title:: Ego-Motion Estimation Using Doppler and Spatial Data in SONAR, RADAR, or Camera Images
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: ego-motion estimation
doppler
sonar
radar
camera
autonomous
automotive
underwater
motion estimation
localization
perception
odometry
dead-reckoning
vehicle
spatial
doppler velocity log
navigation
File:: Download Monaco_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Outside Member
Russell Charles Burkhardt, Outside Member
Kurt A Hacker, Special Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Ghalyan, Najah
Title:: Sequential Machine Learning for Decision-Making in Mechanical Systems
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: symbolic dynamics
Hidden Markov Models
ergodicity
measure-preserving transformations
image classification
fatigue damage
thermoacoustic instabilities
probabilistic finite state automata
time series
bag-of-words
support vector machines
generating partition
quantization
lossy source coding
sliding block source coding
clustering
dynamic programming
Viterbi algorithm
anomaly detection
change point detection
transient change detection
quickest change detection
data-driven modeling
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Najah_Ghalyan.pdf
Committee Members:: Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Nabil, Mahdi
Title:: Computational Investigation of High-Flux Heating of Supercritical Fluids in Microscale Geometries
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Supercritical fluid
Carbon dioxide
Microchannels
Heat exchanger
Large eddy simulation
Mixed convection
Supercritical Fluid
Carbon Dioxide
Micro-pin-fins
Heat Exchanger
Large Eddy Simulation
Mixed Convection
File:: Download PhDDissertation_MNabil.pdf
Committee Members:: Alexander S Rattner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander S Rattner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Bhattacharjee, Debapriya
Title:: Periodic Cross-Flow Trajectory Optimization for an Experimentally-Parameterized Model of a Tethered Energy Harvester
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: periodic optimal control
airborne wind energy systems
buoyant air turbine
optimization
File:: Download Debapriya_Bhattacharjee_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Hosam Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Rocca Bejar, Daniela
Title:: Heating Response Study of Aluminum Nanoparticles with Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: reaxff
Energetic materials
Molecular dynamics
Nanoparticle combustion
File:: Download DRB_MS_thesis_2020.pdf
Committee Members:: Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

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Author:: Mohamed, Mohand
Title:: Numerical Simulation of Fluid flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Dimpled Jackets
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Heat transfer
Fluid flow
Dimpled Jacket
CFD
Nusselt Number
Friction Factor
File:: Download Mohand_Mohamed_May2020.pdf
Committee Members:: Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Program Head/Chair
Richard Christopher Ciocci, Committee Member

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Author:: Patidar, Lalit
Title:: Thermal decomposition and combustion of RDX and HMX: Thermolysis experiments and molecular modeling
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Energetic Materials
Thermal Decomposition
Combustion
Quantum mechanics
File:: Download Dissertation_LalitPatidar_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Shabnam, Sharmin
Title:: ReaxFF reactive force field investigations in combustion and nascent soot formation
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: ReaxFF
Combustion
Soot Formation
Pyrolysis and Oxidation
Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Inert Dilution
Nickel
Fuel Mixtures
File:: Download Dissertation_Sharmin_MAY2020.pdf
Committee Members:: Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Rezwan, Aashique Alam
Title:: Multi-scale simulation of advanced reactor fuel and cladding concepts
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: multi-scale simulation
MOOSE
BISON
phase-field
fracture
composite cladding
light water reactor
nuclear fuel performance
anisotropic thermal expansion
alpha-uranium
mesoscale modeling
irradiation growth
File:: Download Dissertation_Rezwan_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Reuben H Kraft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Jing Du, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Outside Member
Michael R Tonks, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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