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Author:

Robert, Ashish

Title:

Fundamental physics underlying polymer drag reduction from DNS of homogeneous shear and isotropic turbulence with the FENE-P model

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Homogeneous shear turbulence
Polymer drag reduction
DNS

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_of_Ashish_Robert.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Anquan

Title:

Investigation of Turbulence-Radiation Interactions in Turbulent Flames Using a Hybrid Finite Volume/Monte Carlo Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas radiative properties
flame
turbulence-radiation interactions
combustion
thermal radiation
composition PDF
Monte Carlo methods

File:

Download Anquan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Paul E Plassmann, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Ankur

Title:

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flames with Radiation Heat Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Filtered-density function
Photon Monte Carlo
Turbulence-radiation interaction
Large-eddy simulation
Combustion
Thermal radiation
Turbulence-chemistry interaction
Probability density function

File:

Download Ankur_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

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

Author:

Du, Yongle

Title:

Supersonic jet noise prediction and noise source investigation for realistic baseline and chevron nozzles based on hybrid RANS/LES simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Computational aeroacoustics
jet noise
noise sources
LES

File:

Download Dissertation_YongleDu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

HUANG, YING

Title:

Modeling and Simulation of Combustion Dynamics in Lean-Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Gas-Turbine Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Combustion Instabilities
Large Eddy Simulation
Level Set Flamelet Approach
Triple Decomposition Techniques

File:

Download Thesis-YingHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, 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:

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:

Dasgupta, Adhiraj Kishore

Title:

Numerical Simulation of AxiSymmetric Laminar Diffusion Flames with Soot

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

soot
laminar flames
OpenFOAM
diffusion flames
CFD modeling

File:

Download akd144_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
Philip John Morris, Special Member

Author:

McIntyre, Sean Michael

Title:

A multi-scale model for geared transmission aero-thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
conjugate heat transfer
gearbox
multi-scale model

File:

Download SeanMcIntyre-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Jules Washington Lindau V, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Shekhawat, Yajuvendra Singh

Title:

Large-Eddy Simulations of Motored Flow and Combustion in a Homogeneous-Charge Spark-Ignition Engine

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Spark-ignition engines
Cycle-to-cycle variations
Large-eddy simulations
Thickened flame model

File:

Download Yajuvendra_Shekhawat-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Turns, Committee Member
Robert Santoro, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, 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:

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