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Author:

Wittenstein, Jason Paul

Title:

Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Aerosol Particle Drag Mixing in Turbulent Flow

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Particle Mixing
Aluminum
Aerosol
Turbulent

File:

Download Jason_Wittenstein_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph John Cor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nandy, Ashis

Title:

Modeling Gas Purge and Three-phase Transients in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

PEM Fuel Cell
Three-phase transients
Cold start
Gas purge
Catalyst layer

File:

Download Ashis_Nandy_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seungjin Kim, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Iyer, Venkatesh Ramasubramanian

Title:

Effect of Aromatic Components in Surrogate Fuels on Soot in Co-flow Flames and a Model Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Soot
diffusion flames
surrogate fuels
Threshold Soot Index
smoke point
aromatic compounds.

File:

Download Thesis_Venkatesh_Iyer.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Hedan

Title:

Effects of turbulence-chemistry interactions in direct-injection compression-ignition engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence-chemistry interactions
probability density function
diesel engine
NOx
n-heptane

File:

Download thesis_Hedan_fina.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Bhattacharjee, Subhasish

Title:

Pdf Modeling of High-pressure Turbulent Spray Combustion under Diesel-engine-like Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Turbulence
Combustion
TCI
WSR
PDF

File:

Download Subhasish-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Gott, Kevin Nathaniel

Title:

A Hybrid CFD-DSMC Model Designed to Simulate Rapidly Rarefying Flow Fields and its Application to Physical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Physical Vapor Deposition
CFD
DSMC
Multi-physics Modeling
Vacuum
Coatings

File:

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Committee Members:

Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Prabhakar, Bhaskar

Title:

Examination of Egr Cooler Fouling and Engine Efficiency Improvement in Compression Ignition Engines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

EGR Cooler Fouling
High Efficiency Combustion
Dual Fuel Combustion
Clean Diesel Technology

File:

Download Bhaskar_Prabhakar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Special Member

Author:

Bunce, Nicholas Allen

Title:

Flame transfer function measurements and mechanisms in a single-nozzle combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion
gas turbine
flame response
swirling

File:

Download NicholasBunce-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Kirsch, Kathryn Louise

Title:

Pin Fin Surface Heat Transfer in Arrays of Oblong-shaped Pins

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
gas turbine
internal cooling

File:

Download Kirsch_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Feldick, Andrew Mark

Title:

Coupled Nonequilibrium Flow, Energy And Radiation Transport For Hypersonic Planetary Entry

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Radiation
Hypersonic Flow
Hypersonic
RTE
Monte Carlo

File:

Download AndrewFeldick-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Levin, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Roy, Somesh Prasad

Title:

Aerosol-dynamics-based soot modeling of flames

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

soot modeling
discrete sectional model
method of moments
aerosol dynamics
laminar flame
direct numerical simulation

File:

Download spr177-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Xinyu

Title:

Transported Probability Density Function Methods for Coal Combustion: Toward High Temperature Oxy-coal for Direct Power Extraction

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oxy-coal combustion
combustion modeling
probability density function method
spectral photon Monte Carlo
finite-rate chemistry

File:

Download xzz105-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member

Author:

Ji, Yan

Title:

Low-temperature Operation of Li-ion Batteries for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium
battery
electrochemistry
modeling
low temperature
electric vehicles

File:

Download YanJi_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Special Member

Author:

Barrientos, Eduardo Jose

Title:

Impact of Oxygenated Fuels on Sooting Tendency and Soot Oxidative Reactivity with Application to Biofuels

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Oxygenated Fuels
Sooting Tendency
Soot Oxidative Reactivity
Smoke Point
Diffusion Flames
PM emissions

File:

Download Barrientos_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Raj Mohan, Vivek Raja

Title:

Development and application of a transported probability density function model for advanced compression-ignition engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

PDF model
compression-ignition engines
engine modeling
soot modeling
gasoline engine
heavy-duty engines
CFD modeling

File:

Download VivekRajaRajMohan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Hui

Title:

Improving The Reliability And Power-efficiency characteristics Of Emerging Many-core multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Chip Multiprocessors
reliability
power efficiency
program scalability
NoC design

File:

Download HuiZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Sikarwar, Nidhi

Title:

The Development of Three-dimensional Adjoint Method for Flow Control with Blowing in Convergent-Divergent Nozzle Flows

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Adjoint method
noise reduction
active flow control
adjoint boundary conditions
optimization
computational fluid dynamics.

File:

Download Thesis_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Committee Member

Author:

Kalaskar, Vickey Baliram

Title:

Ignition Behavior of Gasolines and Surrogate Fuels in Low Temperature Combustion Strategies

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Autoignition
Combustion
Compression ignition
Negative valve overlap
Ignition behavior
LTC
HCCI
PPC

File:

Download Kalaskar_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
James Szybist, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Yefu

Title:

effects of fuel molecular structures on pollutants in co-flow laminar flames

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel
molecular structure
co-flow laminar flame
soot
aromatic species
LII
LIF
laser diagnostics

File:

Download EFFECTS_OF_FUEL_MOLECULAR_STRUCTURES_ON_POLLUTANTS_IN_CO-FLOW_LAMINAR_FLAMES.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member

Author:

Sarkar, Soumalya

Title:

Hierarchical Symbolic Perception in Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic Dynamics
Data Driven
Hierarchical approach
Multi-scale analysis
Combustion Instability
Fault detection

File:

Download Dissertation_Soumalya_Sarkar_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member