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Author:: Moore, Jeffrey David
Title:: Flame-spreading phenomena in a head-end fin-slot segment of a subscale motor simulating the space shuttle boosters
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: flame-spreading
fin-slot motor
head-end segment
RSRM
File:: Download Jeff_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

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Author:: Boyer, J Eric
Title:: Combustion Characteristics and Flame Structure of Nitromethane Liquid Monopropellant
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: monopropellant
liquid propellant
nitromethane
combustion
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member

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Author:: Poremba, John Edward
Title:: HYDRODYNAMICS AND MANEUVERING SIMULATIONS OF A NON-BODY-OF-REVOLUTION SUBMARINE
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: unsteady RANS
over set meshing
File:: Download JEP_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Culp, Jonathan
Title:: NON-INTRUSIVE DRIVER DROWSINESS MONITORING VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: RPROP training
driving simulation
artificial neural networks
driver drowsiness
Radial Basis Networks
File:: Download jon_THESIS2.pdf
Committee Members:: Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Koncoski, Jeremy J
Title:: A REDUCED ORDER MODEL OF PROPELLER UNSTEADY FORCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: propeller
unsteady force
model
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
File:: Download koncoski_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Ostanek, Jason
Title:: ESTABLISHING A METHODOLOGY FOR RESOLVING CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER FROM COMPLEX GEOMETRIES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: rib turbulators
internal cooling
gas turbine heat transfer
ribbed channels
File:: Download Ostanek_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Slade, Jeffrey Lawrence
Title:: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW OFF-ROAD RIGID RING MODEL FOR TRUCK TIRES USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Rigid ring model off-road truck tire finite elemen
File:: Download Jeff_Slade_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Moustafa El Gindy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin L Koudela, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Sabourin, Justin Leo
Title:: High Temperature Heterogeneous Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms of Tungsten Oxidation
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: rocket nozzles
thermogravimetry
kinetics
oxidation
tungsten
metal oxidation
graphite
File:: Download Written_Dissertation_-_Justin_Sabourin.pdf
Committee Members:: Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Grant Alexander Risha, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member

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Author:: Haldaman, Jillian
Title:: Study of Reconfigurability and Reconfigurable Products for Use in Design
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: reconfigurable systems
reconfigurability
Designing for Human Variability
Transformers
File:: Download Haldaman_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Locke, Justin M
Title:: HIGH SPEED DIAGNOSTICS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF OXYGEN / HYDROGEN ROCKET INJECTOR FLOWFIELDS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: liquid propulsion
TDLAS
absorption spectroscopy
rocket engine testing
hydrogen oxygen combustion
high pressure systems
File:: Download Dissertation_Locke_2011.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert John Santoro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member

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