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Author:

You, Danning

Title:

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION INSTABILITY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
pressure wave
gas turbine
acoustics
liner
stability

File:

Download thesis-revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Juntao

Title:

Soot Abatement Using Oxygenated Additives

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

soot
oxygenated additive

File:

Download dissertation_juntaowu.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Jie

Title:

DESIGN AND MODELING OF A MOTION AMPLIFIER USING AN AXIALLY-DRIVEN BUCKLING BEAM

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

active material actuator
motion amplifier
buckling beam
elastica theory

File:

Download Jie_Jiang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jinseop

Title:

Modeling and Optimization of Welding Residual Stress

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Plasticity
Finite element
Sensitivity
Optimization
Modeling
Residual stress

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member

Author:

Loverich, Jacob Joseph

Title:

Development of a new high specific power piezoelectric actuator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
actuator
active material
feed screw
motion accumulation

File:

Download Loverich.thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Bhatia, Krishan Kumar

Title:

STUDY OF A METHANOL REFORMING POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel cell
hybrid vehicle
reforming
CO poisoning

File:

Download Krishan_Kumar_Bhatia_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Liangyu

Title:

DETAILED CHEMISTRY, SOOT, AND RADIATION CALCULATIONS IN TURBULENT REACTING FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oxygen-enriched combustion
thermal radiation
soot modeling
detailed chemistry
turbulent combustion

File:

Download thesis_liangyu.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Yukish, Michael

Title:

Algorithms to Identify Pareto Points in Multi-Dimensional Data Sets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pareto frontier
efficient frontier
dominance
nondominance
multi-objective
design optimization

File:

Download yukish_PhD_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Chuang, Po-Ya Abel

Title:

An Improved Steady-State Model of Loop Heat Pipes Based on Experimental and Theoretical Analyses

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

loop heat pipe
heat pipe
capillary pumped loop
two-phase heat transfer
two-phase fluid flow
heat tranfer
thermal management

File:

Download Thesis_Po_Ya_Chuang.pdf

Committee Members:

John Michael Cimbala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Webb, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Triem T Hoang, Committee Member

Author:

ZHANG, Yongzhe

Title:

HYBRID PARTICLE/FINITE-VOLUME PDF METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL TIME-DEPENDENT FLOWS IN COMPLEX GEOMETRIES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

particle methods
hybrid PDF methods
turbulent combustion modeling
HCCI engine
consistency algorithms
finite-volume methods

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Paul E Plassmann, Committee Member