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Author:

Craven, Brent Alan

Title:

A FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF THE ANATOMY, AERODYNAMICS, AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA OF CANINE OLFACTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

olfaction
canine
nasal airway
biofluids
biomimcry
artificial nose

File:

Download Craven_PhDDissertation_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Member
Kendra V Sharp, Committee Member
Savash Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

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

Author:

Madalis, Matthew

Title:

The Internal Aerodynamics of Truck-Cargo Containers for Trace-Explosive Sampling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

sampling
Trace-explosive
detection

File:

Download mjmthesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bigger, Rory

Title:

Chemical Vapor Plume Detection Using the Schlieren Optical Method

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vapor detection
standard method
quantitative schlieren
homeland security
schlieren
plume buoyancy

File:

Download thesis_main_rpb.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor