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Author:

Hofstetter, Daniel William

Title:

MANURE PIT-SAFETY VENTILATION DESIGN INFLUENCE ON HYDROGEN SULFIDE GAS CONTAMINATION IN ATTACHED BARNS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

manure pit-safety ventilation
hydrogen sulfide
barn air contamination
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
concentration scaling
transient gas measurement
ventilation simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Virendra M. Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis J. Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen E. Fabian, Committee Member
Harvey B. Manbeck, Committee Member
Justin K. Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Yuncheng

Title:

3D numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around in-stream structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

immersed boundary method
OpenFOAM
CFD
scour modeling
sediment transport
in-stream structure
large woody debris

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Outside Member

Author:

Sircar, Arpan

Title:

CFD Modeling of In-Cylinder Heat Transfer in Piston Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Combustion
Turbulence
Radiation
Boundary Layer
IC Engines

File:

Download Arpan_Sircar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert J Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Santos Thedin, Regis

Title:

An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ship Airwakes
Flight Dynamics
Rotorcraft

File:

Download thedin2019phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nejatishahidein, Negin

Title:

DEPTH FILTERS IN BIOPROCESSING: PERFORMANCE AND SCALE-UP

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
clarification
depth filtration
flow distribution
lenticular stack
scale‐up
cell culture fluid
host cell proteins
protein binding
monoclonal antibodies
flow structure

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Douglas, Darryl Andrew

Title:

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sonic Fatigue in Embedded Jet Exhausts

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

Acoustics
CFD
Turbulence
Jet Noise
Sonic Fatigue
Embedded Exhausts
Supersonic Jets
Aft-Deck
Rectangular Nozzle
Experimental
Computational
Shock Boundary Layer Interaction

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline O'Connor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Greenwood, Major Field Member
Philip Morris, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erdman, Matt D

Title:

Modeling of Oxygen Mass Transfer Coefficients in an Eulerian-Eulerian Framework

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
Bubble Column
kla
Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficient
Short Bubble Column

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Committee Members:

Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Michael Krane, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
John Cimbala, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Fan-Bill Cheung, Major Field Member

Author:

Mekki, Bashir

Title:

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL THERMAL MANAGAMENT SYSTEMS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Topology Optimization
Heat Exchangers
Additive Manufacturing
CFD
Machine Learning
Experimental Testing

File:

Download BashirMekki_Dissertation_RevisedFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vikram Shyam, Special Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member

Author:

Altland, Samuel

Title:

A Distributed Element Roughness Model Based on the Double Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DERM
Surface Roughness
CFD
Roughness Modeling

File:

Download Sam_Altland_Thesis_5.23.22.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies