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Author:

Thrift, Alan Albright

Title:

Cooling of a Turbine Vane Endwall Through Contouring and Flow Injection

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Gas Turbine Cooling
Endwall Contouring
Film Cooling
First Stage Vane

File:

Download Thrift_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Dr Eric Paterson, Committee Member
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Smith, Kandler A.

Title:

Electrochemical Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion
battery
hybrid electric vehicle
model order reduction
diffusion systems
state of charge estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_KandlerSmith2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Deshmukh, Kshitij

Title:

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND RADIATION MONTE CARLO FOR TURBULENCE−RADIATION INTERACTIONS IN COMBUSTION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Spherical Harmonics Method
Turbulence--Radiation Interactions
Combustion systems
Direct Numerical Simulation
Photon Monte Carlo methods

File:

Download Kshitij_Deshmukh_Dissertation_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Robert J Levin, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

KIM, KYU TAE

Title:

Forced Response of Swirl Stabilized Flames in Hydrogen Enriched Gas Turbines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogen
combustion instability
flame transfer function
partially premixed
swirl stabilized

File:

Download KTKim.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Steven Lurie Garrett, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Kyu Taek

Title:

Study of multiphase water transport and removal phenomena from fuel cell during gas purge

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolyte fuel cell
water management
gas purge
evaporation
gas diffusion media
neutron radiography

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clinton Matthew Mench, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew M Mench, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Seungjin Kim, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Lawson, Michael J

Title:

A FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF THE AIRFLOW AND ODORANT TRANSPORT PHENOMENA OF CANINE OLFACTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
flow visualization
canine olfaction

File:

Download dissertation.Michael_Lawson.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Ranjan S.

Title:

Detailed Modeling of Soot Formation and Turbulence--Radiation Interactions in Turbulent Jet Flames

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Combustion
Turbulent Flames
Radiation
Soot Formation
PDF Methods
Turbulence-Radiation Interactions
Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions
Method of Moments

File:

Download Ranjan_Mehta_Dissertation_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Lawson, Seth A

Title:

Simulations of Multi-Phase Particle Deposition on Film-Cooled Turbine Sections

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

adiabatic effectiveness
heat transfer
gas turbine
particle deposition

File:

Download Slawson_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Lapapong, Sittikorn

Title:

Vehicle Rollover Prediction for Banked Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Rollover Prediction
Vehicle Rollover
Vehicle Dynamics
Vehicle
Zero-Moment Point

File:

Download SittikornLapapong_PhDThesis_2010_11_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Sarkar, Soumik

Title:

AUTONOMOUS PERCEPTION AND DECISION MAKING IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Fault diagnosis
Gas turbine engine
Network science

File:

Download soumik_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member