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Start Over Graduate Program Mechanical Engineering Year 2008

21. Combustion and Self-Assembly of Nanoenergetic Materials

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Open Access
Author:
Malchi, Jonathan Yaniv
Title:
Combustion and Self-Assembly of Nanoenergetic Materials
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
thermite
self-assembly
combustion
File:
Download Combustion_and_Self-Assembly_of_Nanoenergetic_Materials.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Grant Alexander Risha, Committee Member
Steven Son, Committee Member
Timothy Foley, Committee Member

22. Startup Characteristics of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells under Subzero Temperatures

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Open Access
Author:
Tajiri, Kazuya
Title:
Startup Characteristics of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells under Subzero Temperatures
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
polymer electrolyte fuel cell
cold start
automotive
File:
Download dissertation_kazuya_tajiri.pdf
Committee Members:
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member

23. Vibration-Based Structural Damage Identification Enhancement via Piezoelectric Circuitry Network and Active Feedback Control

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Open Access
Author:
Jiang, Lijun
Title:
Vibration-Based Structural Damage Identification Enhancement via Piezoelectric Circuitry Network and Active Feedback Control
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Structural Health Monitoring
Structural Damage Detection
Vibration
Smart Structures
Piezoelectric Circuitry
Active Control
File:
Download Thesis-LijunJiang-2007.pdf
Committee Members:
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Heath F Hofmann, Committee Member

26. Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Two Phase Closed thermosyphon Cooling System for New Cold Neutron Source Moderator of Breazeale Research Reactor at Penn State

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Author:
Habte, Melaku
Title:
Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Two Phase Closed thermosyphon Cooling System for New Cold Neutron Source Moderator of Breazeale Research Reactor at Penn State
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Dryout Temperature
Two-phase CFD Modeling
FLUENT
Cold Neutron Source
Moderator Cooling
Nucleate Boiling
CFD
Two-Phase Heat Transfer
Two-Phase Closed Thermosyphon
Cryogenic Temperatrure
Thermodynamics of Thermosyphon
Liquid Neon Cooling
File:
Download MelakuHabteDissertation2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member

27. Scaling, characterization, and application of gram-range explosive charges to blast testing of materials

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Open Access
Author:
Hargather, Michael John
Title:
Scaling, characterization, and application of gram-range explosive charges to blast testing of materials
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
schlieren
shadowgraph
TNT equivalence
laboratory-scale explosives
explosive
material blast testing
File:
Download mjhargather_thesis_final_2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member

29. Characterization of Thermal Radiation from a Plasma Jet and Radiative Pyrolysis of Double-Base Propellants

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Open Access
Author:
Das, Malay Kumar
Title:
Characterization of Thermal Radiation from a Plasma Jet and Radiative Pyrolysis of Double-Base Propellants
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Solid-propellant
Electrothermal-chemical plasma
Plasma ignition
File:
Download thesis_mkd145.pdf
Committee Members:
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
V Yang, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member