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Author:

Brownell, Matthew

Title:

A Time-Varying Subspace Method for Shape Estimation of a Flexible Spacecraft Membrane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

subspace
spacecraft
flexible
solar
solar power
ERA
reduced-order modeling
analytical modeling
dynamics
structures
space structure
large

File:

Download Brownell_MastersThesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Andrew Sinclair, Special Signatory

Author:

Baker, Logan

Title:

Thermal Design and Analysis of the BlackCAT CubeSat

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

BlackCAT CubeSat
CubeSat
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Design
Astronomical CubeSat

File:

Download BAKER_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilén, Committee Member
Abe Falcone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hur, Keon Wong

Title:

Studies on the acoustic far-field distance of urban air mobility aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
UAM
sUAS
eVTOL
Aeroacoustic
Far-field
OpenVSP
VSP2WOPWOP
CHARM
PSU-WOPWOP
Noise prediction

File:

Download Hur_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

Author:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Beyer, Jessica

Title:

Individual Blade Pitch Control (IBC) for Vibration Reduction of Lift-offset Coaxial Rotor Vehicles with Auxiliary Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

individual blade pitch control
compound rotor vehicle
rotorcraft
vibration reduction
XH-59
lift-offset coaxial rotor

File:

Download Thesis_Beyer_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Sato, Masahiro

Title:

autonomous approach to a moving ship's mast via motion prediction

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
motion prediction
image processing
AR model
Burg's Method
System Design
Target Detection
SCONE
IARC
D435
model predictive control
MPC

File:

Download Autonomous_Approach_to_a_Moving_Ships_Mast_via_Motion_Prediction_Masahiro_Sato.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric N. Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chidekel, Philip

Title:

The Performance of a Competition Sailplane with Variable-Toe Winglets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

sailplane
winglets
variable geometry

File:

Download phil_thesis_FINAL_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James George Coder, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Karli, Geoffrey

Title:

Development and Testing of a Full Scale eVTOL Rotor Test Stand

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL
icing
rotorcraft
helicopter
wind tunnel
experimental
AERTS

File:

Download Karli_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jiwoo

Title:

Modal Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data via Multivariate Gaussian Process Regression

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Modal analysis
Gaussian process
System identification
Correlation

File:

Download Jiwoo_Song_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vanlandingham, Aaron

Title:

Environmental and Economic Impact of Transport Aircraft Using Sustainable Aviation Fuel or Liquid-Hydrogen as Alternative Fuels

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

aircraft design
alternative fuels
sustainability
hydrogen
sustainable aviation fuel
optimization
geometric programming
design for sustainabilitiy
transport aircraft
environmental impact of aviation

File:

Download VanLandingham-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Ashwin Renganathan, Committee Member