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Start Over Degree MS Committee Member Amy Ruth Pritchett

11. Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage

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Open Access
Author:
Ranka, Amrat Arvind
Title:
Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Turbines
axial gas turbine
casing grooves
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Tip-Leakage losses
Tip-mitigation studies
Turbomachinery
AFTRF
leakage Vortex
Horseshoe Vortex
File:
Download Final_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

13. OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

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Open Access
Author:
Patel, Khushboo
Title:
OPTIMAL LANDING TRAJECTORIES ON THE MOON USING LAMBERT TARGETING AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Multiple precision landings
Optimal trajectories
File:
Download Patel_Khushboo_MS_thesis_August_2019.pdf
Committee Members:
David Bradley Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

15. OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE

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Open Access
Author:
Mirzaei, Mehrdad
Title:
OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Optimal Control
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
Optimal Feedback Control
Trajectory Optimization
Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle
Sparse Collocation Method
Convex Optimization
File:
Download Mehrdad_Mirzaei_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

16. Shape Change and Structural Performance of Cable-Actuated Cylindrical Tensegrities

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Open Access
Author:
Roffman, Kaila
Title:
Shape Change and Structural Performance of Cable-Actuated Cylindrical Tensegrities
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Tensegrity
triplex
deployable booms
triplex boom
cable actuated
shape change
shape changing tensegrity
File:
Download Roffman_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

17. Design, Modeling and Testing of an Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for Wind Turbines

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Open Access
Author:
Getz, David
Title:
Design, Modeling and Testing of an Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System for Wind Turbines
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
electrothermal
deicing
antiicing
ice protection system
wind turbines
thermodynamics
icing
File:
Download Getz_thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member

18. A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods

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Open Access
Author:
Palazzo, Thomas
Title:
A Levy flight based approach to solving optimal control problems with indirect methods
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Optimal Control
Heuristic Optimization
Levy flights
Metaheuristics
Trajectory optimization
Aerospace Engineering
File:
Download Palazzo-MS-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

19. Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval

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Open Access
Author:
Volpe, Marc
Title:
Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor
File:
Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

20. Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval

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Open Access
Author:
Shenoy, Ashish
Title:
Maximizing Propellant Consumption To Prepare An Impaired Satellite For Retrieval
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Satellite
Retrieval
Impaired Satellite
Propellant Consumption
Orbital Elements
Gauss Variational Equations
GVE
File:
Download Ashish-Shenoy-Thesis-2019_Final_Form_Fixed.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member