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Author:

Berger, Tom

Title:

Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Handling Qualities
Flight Control System
Control Laws
Tiltrotor
Compound Helicopter

File:

Download TomBerger-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Mark B. Tischler, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Zhouzhou

Title:

active stabilization of rotorcraft external slung loads in high speed flight using an active cargo hook

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Slung load
High-speed carriage
Active stabilization
Active cargo hook
Wind-tunnel test
System identification
Feedback control
Dynamic simulation

File:

Download AERSP_MS_Thesis_Zhouzhou_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Enciu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hendrick, Christopher

Title:

Applications of Pilot Modelling to Rotorcraft Flight Simulation Development

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pilot Model
Motion Cueing
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Hendrick_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Botre, Mrunali

Title:

Rotorcraft noise prediction system validation and analysis for generating noise abatement procedures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Acoustics
PSU-WOPWOP
Validation

File:

Download Dissertation.pdfDownload Appendices.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jaworski, Thomas

Title:

Development of an Acoustic Prediction System for Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Rotorcraft
Aerospace
BVI
HSI
Noise

File:

Download Thomas_Jaworski_Thesis_2020_Release.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Topper, Evan

Title:

Calibration and Validation of a Rotorcraft Design and Analysis Tool for Electric Powered Multirotor Configurations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
NDARC
Simulation
Validation
eVTOL
Rotorcraft

File:

Download FINAL_AERSP_MS_Thesis_Evan_Topper.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Weitsman, Daniel

Title:

Theoretical and experimental study of the effects of cyclic pitch variations on rotor noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL Noise
eVTOL
Helicopter Noise
Acoustics
Cyclic Pitch
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Weitsman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Brown, Avery

Title:

Experimental Evaluation of Carbon/Epoxy Laminates with Concentrated Carbon Nanotube Interlayers for High Damping

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon Nanotube
Carbon Epoxy
Damping
Rotorcraft

File:

Download MS_Thesis_-_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amir Barakati, Committee Member

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

File:

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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:

Mcthane, Eric

Title:

Performance and Acoustics of Coaxial Counter-Rotating Rotors in Hover and Forward Flight Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotor Acoustics
eVTOL
Rotorcraft
Coaxial Rotors
Phase Control
Rotor Performance
Hover
Forward Flight
UAM
Separation Distance
Counter-Rotating

File:

Download MastersThesis_EricMcthane-12.pdf

Committee Members:

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