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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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