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Author:: Naredi, Prabhat
Title:: COAL COMBUSTION IN O2/CO2 MEDIUM FOR POWER GENERATION: NUMERICAL MODELING OF CHAR BURNOUT, NOX AND CO EMISSIONS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering
Keywords:: Char reactivity
thermogravimetric analysis
drop tube reactor
modeling
CFD
oxy-coal combustion
NOx
CO emission
burnout
File:: Download Prabhat_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sarma V Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan W Scaroni, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Medvitz, Richard B
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC METHODOLOGY FOR BLOOD PUMP DESIGN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THROMBUS POTENTIAL
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: CFD
File:: Download RichardMedvitz-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Leomard Joel Peltier, Committee Member

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Author:: Liu, Wenpeng
Title:: Methanol, Water and Heat Transport in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells for Portable Power
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: numerical modeling
DMFC
direct methanol fuel cell
CFD
Fluent
File:: Download PhD_WenpengLiu.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Kendra Sharp, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

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Author:: Marr, Conor Matthew
Title:: Conceptualization, Modeling, and Characterization of a Cf Driven Multi-State Lead-lag Bypass Damper
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Damper
Fluidlastic
Hydraulic
CFD
Modeling
Multi-State
Bypass
Passive Damping
Lead-Lag Damper
Ground Resonance
File:: Download CMarrPhDThesis2012FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

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Author:: Nassar, Abdalla Ramadan
Title:: Investigation of laser-sustained plasma and the role of plasma in carbon dioxide laser nitriding of titanium
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Laser-Sustained Plasma
LSP
Optical Discharge
Plasma
Nitriding
Laser Processing
Laser nitriding
Spectroscopy
CFD
File:: Download 1-Nassar_Final_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen M Copley, Special Member
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Vladimir V Semak, Committee Member

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Author:: Gott, Kevin Nathaniel
Title:: A Hybrid CFD-DSMC Model Designed to Simulate Rapidly Rarefying Flow Fields and its Application to Physical Vapor Deposition
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Physical Vapor Deposition
CFD
DSMC
Multi-physics Modeling
Vacuum
Coatings
File:: Download KGott_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

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Author:: Ucar, Dundar
Title:: Modeling and Design of A New Core-Moderator Assembly and Neutron Beam Ports for the Penn State Breazeale Nuclear Reactor (PSBR)
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: PSBR
Breazeale
TRIGA
Neutronic
Thermal
Hydraulics
MCNP
ANSYS
Fluent
Analysis
Design
Cold
Neutron
Beam Port
CFD
File:: Download DundarUcar_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Member
Thomas Fu Yuan Lin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member

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Author:: Han, Guiyuan
Title:: life cycle cost optimization of a building enclosure system with respect to wind pressure loads
Graduate Program:: Architectural Engineering
Keywords:: life cycle cost
building energy consumption
air infiltration rates
CFD
Multizone modeling
survey
sensitivity analysis
File:: Download Guiyuan_Han-9format.pdf
Committee Members:: Jelena Srebric, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
John Messner, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee Member

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Author:: Coder, James George
Title:: Development of a CFD-Compatible Transition Model Based on Linear Stability Theory
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Aerodynamics
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
transition
turbulence
File:: Download JamesGCoder_Dissertation_07272014.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark David Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Member

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Author:: Wouden, Alex Michael
Title:: A Phase-Lag Approach to Incompressible CFD Simulations with Emphasis on the Unsteady Interaction of Hydroturbine Blades
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: hydropower
hydroturbine
CFD
chorochronic
phase-lag
incompressible
openfoam
File:: Download AlexMWouden-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: John Michael Cimbala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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