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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

Author:

Lee, Eunwoo

Title:

Approximaion of MAX-2-local Hamiltonian

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Quantum
quantum algorithm
optimization
mean field
quantum computing
approximation
SDP

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Hallgren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonio Blanca Pimentel, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Outside Member
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Jonathan

Title:

Structural-Acoustic Optimization of Shaped Concrete Floors in Buildings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

architectural engineering
structural engineering
building acoustics
optimization
design space exploration
shaped concrete slabs

File:

Download Broyles_-_Structural-Acoustic_Optimization_of_Shaped_Concrete_Floors_in_Buildings.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Micah R Shepherd, Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Member
Ryan Levi Solnosky, Committee Member
Gregory Scott Pavlak, Committee Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ng, Matthew

Title:

Optimization of Central Pattern Generator Parameters in a Simulated Undulatory Fish Robot

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

central pattern generation
reinforcement learning
physical simulator
optimization

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sarkar, Debolina

Title:

Integrated Modeling of Phototrophic Metabolism Leveraging Multi-Omics Datasets

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

flux balance analysis
metabolic engineering
SNPs
poplar
arabidopsis
cyanobacteria
constraints based analysis
optimization

File:

Download Debolina_Sarkar_thesis_040522.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Costas Maranas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sally Mackenzie, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Cormick, Cameron

Title:

Optimization of Acoustic Black Holes for Vibration Reduction

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

acoustics
optimization
vibration
acoustic black hole

File:

Download CAMcCormick_Dissertation-20211017.pdf

Committee Members:

Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Micah Shepherd, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Conlon, Major Field Member
Victor Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cummings, Christine

Title:

Using a Gaussian based model to upcycle seaweed waste into bioplastics with tunable mechanical and material properties

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

bioplastic
gaussian process
regression
optimization
seaweed
mechanical property
water absorption
elastic modulus

File:

Download Bioplastics_Thesis_-_Christine_Cummings.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Lipski, Michael

Title:

Optimization of Combined Transmit and Receive Collaborative Beamforming in Coherent Distributed Arrays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Distributed arrays
collaborative beamforming
coherent arrays
mobile ad hoc networks
optimization
Distributed arrays
collaborative beamforming
coherent arrays
mobile ad hoc networks
optimization
chip scale atomic clocks

File:

Download Lipski_dissertation_final.pdfDownload Dissertation_Final_5-23-23.zip

Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Jenkins, Major Field Member
David Swanson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sastry Kompella, Special Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair