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Author:: Sun, Jun
Title:: MODELING AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF WELDING DISTORTIONS AND RESIDUAL STRESSES IN LARGE AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Finite Element Analysis
Parallel Computing
FETI-DP
Domain Decomposition
Distributed Computing
Partial Cholesky Re-factorization
File:: Download Thesis_JunSun.pdf
Committee Members:: Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member

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Author:: Wu, Juntao
Title:: Soot Abatement Using Oxygenated Additives
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: soot
oxygenated additive
File:: Download dissertation_juntaowu.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Litzinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

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Author:: Hill, Jeffrey Ray
Title:: High Precision Surface Control of Flexible Space Reflectors
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Gossamer
control
En Masse Elimination
modeling
File:: Download Hill_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Kon Well Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

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Author:: Stine, Jason S.
Title:: Analyzing Highway Median Safety Through Vehicle Dynamics Simulations
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Vehicle dynamics
Median safety
Vehicle rollover
Cross-median collisions
File:: Download Stine_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Bares, Jonathan
Title:: COMPUTATION OF NATURAL FREQUENCIES AND MODE SHAPES OF A PERIODIC STRUCTURE VIA PERTURBATION ANALYSIS AND POLYNOMIAL CHAOS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: COMPUTATION NATURAL FREQUENCIES MODE SHAPES
File:: Download Master_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Jaishree, Jaishree
Title:: LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION METHODS FOR TURBULENT REACTING FLOWS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Nonpremixed turbulent flames; Probability density
File:: Download Jaishree-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member

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Author:: Yang, Jun
Title:: Development of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques for External Cooling of an Advanced Reactor Vessel
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: CHF
two-phase flow
microporous coating
boiling heat transfer enhancement techniques
downward facing boiling
nucleate boiling
File:: Download JunYangDST.pdf
Committee Members:: Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Dhushy Sathianathan, Committee Member
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhou, Jing
Title:: Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation
File:: Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member

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Author:: DeGraw, Jason W.
Title:: Computational Study of Particle Deposition, Resuspension, and Transport
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: immersed boundary method
resuspension
particle deposition
human walking
File:: Download jasondegraw2008.pdf
Committee Members:: John Michael Cimbala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Member

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Author:: Cheong, Jongpil
Title:: DESIGN, FABRICATION, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A PIEZOELECTRIC FLEXTENSIONAL MICROACTUATOR
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Buckling
PZT
beam
flextensional
microactuator
File:: Download Ph.D._Thesis_Jongpil_Cheong_ME.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member

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