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Author:

Gan, Ze Feng

Title:

Time-Varying Rotor Noise Computations and Analysis of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
rotorcraft simulation
broadband noise prediction
urban air mobility
UAM
electric VTOL aircraft
variable RPM
PSU-WOPWOP

File:

Download Gan2021Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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

Author:

Kandias, Constantinos

Title:

Experimental Scaling of Hovering Rotorcraft Aerodynamics in Hyperbaric Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Experimental
Aerospace
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Aerodynamics

File:

Download kandias-thesis-ms.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Konzel, Nicholas

Title:

Ground Based Measurements and Acoustic Characterization of Small Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
UAV
Data Collection
Noise Characterization
Multirotor

File:

Download MastersThesis_Konzel_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Rachaprolu, Joel Sundar

Title:

Development of a Source Separation Process for Multirotor Aeroacoustic Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Aeroacoustics
Vold-Kalman Filter
De-Dopplerization
Acoustic Hemisphere
UAS and UAM Noise
Noise Source Separation

File:

Download rachaprolu_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Owsley, Isaiah

Title:

The Effects of Foil Geometry and Inflow Turbulence Characteristics on Unsteady Hydrodynamic Forcing Function

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Turbulence Ingestion
real foil effects
camber effects
thickness effects
angle-of-attack effects

File:

Download Isaiah_Owsley-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margalit Zipora Goldschmidt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Nangle, Joseph

Title:

Experimental test rig for hover and forward flight icing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

icing
eVTOL
Helicopter Icing
Preformance
Helicopter Performance
Performance Change
Empirical Model
Tilt-rotor icing

File:

Download Nangle_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Weist, Lauren

Title:

Helicopter Noise Modeling With Varying Fidelity Prediction Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
rotorcraft
noise prediction systems
helicopter noise

File:

Download LWeist_MastersThesis_07182022.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Hur, Keon Wong

Title:

Studies on the acoustic far-field distance of urban air mobility aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
UAM
sUAS
eVTOL
Aeroacoustic
Far-field
OpenVSP
VSP2WOPWOP
CHARM
PSU-WOPWOP
Noise prediction

File:

Download Hur_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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