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Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

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:

Messinger, Steve

Title:

Modeling, Adaptive Control, and Flight Testing of a Lighter-than-Air Vehicle Validated Using System Identification

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Model Reference Adaptive Control
System Identification
Adaptive Control
Lighter-than-Air Vehicle
Vehicle Design
Sparse System Identification
Flight Testing
Modeling
Simulation
Control
Aerospace

File:

Download Messinger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Topper, Evan

Title:

Calibration and Validation of a Rotorcraft Design and Analysis Tool for Electric Powered Multirotor Configurations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
NDARC
Simulation
Validation
eVTOL
Rotorcraft

File:

Download FINAL_AERSP_MS_Thesis_Evan_Topper.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Jadeja, Shivrajsinh

Title:

Effects of Icing Parameters on Impact Ice Adhesion Strength

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ice adhesion strength
freezing fraction
impact ice

File:

Download Effects_of_Icing_Parameters_on_Impact_Ice_Adhesion_Strength.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Nigay, Natalia

Title:

Vacuum Chamber Experiments of Beamed Microwave Energy Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

beamed-energy propulsion
electric propulsion
advanced propulsion concept
vacuum chamber experiments
propulsion
spacecraft

File:

Download BMEP_MSThesis_Nigay_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Ramdass, Kriston

Title:

Investigation of a Microwave Surface-Wave Plasma for Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

surface wave
plasma
thruster
MET
propulsion

File:

Download Kriston_Ramdass_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Roessler, Arya

Title:

Resin Film Infusion Process for Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

carbon fiber reinforced plastics
OOA
out-of-autoclave
B-staging
epoxy
short beam shear
ILSS
DSC
carbon fiber
composites

File:

Download Roessler_MS_Thesis_May_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Xin Ning, 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:

Osikowicz, Nathaniel

Title:

Shape Control of Tendon-Actuated Tensegrity Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

tensegrity
control theory
space structure
tensegrity structure
robotics
soft robotics

File:

Download exp-triplex-1.mp4Download exp-triplex-2.mp4Download osikowicz-MS-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Connell, Ryan

Title:

Acoustic Analysis of an Ultra-Efficient Commercial Transport Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
Noise
SNLF
Commercial Aircraft
ANOPP

File:

Download R.McConnell_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Pannebaker, Jeremy

Title:

Development of Empirically-Driven Axisymmetric Turbulence Models Using a Symmetry-Based Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

symmetry scaling
turbulence
axisymmetric turbulence
Lie theory
PIV
symmetries

File:

Download JPannebaker_Master_s_Thesis_2022__Grad_School_Edits_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David K Hall, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Zachary P Berger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Murray, Special Signatory

Author:

Oyama, Kohei

Title:

COMSOL simulation of CNT assembly in an epoxy matrix under static magnetic fields for polymer nanocomposite applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
Composites
Epoxy
FEM
COMSOL
MATLAB
Magnetic field
Nickel

File:

Download KoheiOyama_msthesis_sp22.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Nicholson, Duncan

Title:

Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ship
Deck
Landing
UAV
UAS
Fiducial
Control
Estimation
Precision Landing
shipboard
sUAS

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Duncan_Nicholson.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Gilga, Michael

Title:

Optimal Solar-Sail Trajectories Using Sun-Diving

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Solar Sail
Astrodynamics
Orbital Mechanics
Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Optimization
Transfer Orbits
Sun-Diving

File:

Download Gilga_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, 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:

Johnson, Samuel

Title:

A Computational Study of Flow Over a 6:1 Prolate Spheroid at Incidence

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD
RANS
LES
Prolate Spheroid

File:

Download SamThesis_10_31.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas S Chyczewski, Jr., Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

Author:

Jue, Andrew

Title:

Simulation of Advanced Rotorcraft Concepts using Free Wake Aerodynamic Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

DEPSim
eVTOL
Lift+Cruise
Rotorcraft
Flight dynamics
Dynamic simulation

File:

Download Thesis_AndrewJue_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Mangette, Mackenzie

Title:

Exploration of Direct Transfer Opportunities and Loitering Strategies for Lunar Surface Access

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Dynamical System Theory
Cislunar Travel
Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem
Loitering Strategies
Trajectory Optimization

File:

Download Mangette_MastersThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roshan Thomas Eapen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzalez, Bianca

Title:

Human-Intuitable Collision Avoidance for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Collision Avoidance
Urban Air Mobility
Potential Fields
Drones
Path Planning
Velocity-based Potential Field Approach

File:

Download Bianca_Gonzalez_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Lay, Kenjiro

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Evaluation of a Centrifugally-Tuned Passive Balancer

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Passive Balancing
Balancer
Rotor
Rotorcraft
Structural Dynamics
Dynamics
Vibration
Vibration Suppression

File:

Download MSThesis_KenjiroLay.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Cope, Erin

Title:

Semi-Analytic Approach to Rapid Orbit Determination for the Perturbed Two-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

orbit determination
general perturbation theory
NORAD Elements
Astrodynamics
Conjugate unscented transform
statistical linearization
nonlinear least squares

File:

Download Cope_PSU_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, 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:

Sheeran, Brett

Title:

Robot Guided Emergency Evacuation from a Simulated Space Station

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Evacuation robot
virtual reality
international space station
human robot interaction
active shooter
evacuation
fire
presence
cybershoes
emergy

File:

Download Brett_Sheeran_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Zarader, Chloe

Title:

Preparation of Polyetheretherketone-Nickel Composite Particles Using Ball Milling for Cold Sprayed Coatings on Fiber Reinforced Plastics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

composite particles
ball milling
cold spray
erosion coating
plasma treatment

File:

Download Zarader-CompositeColdSpray.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Melo Cruz, Arthur

Title:

Value Alignment in Ethical Dilemmas Through Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Ethical Dilemma
Robot Ethics
Machine Ethics
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

File:

Download Melo_Cruz_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feng, Vincent

Title:

Spectroscopy of Chamber Plasma and Plume of a 2.4-GHz Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

MET
Electric Propulsion
Spectroscopy

File:

Download Vincent_Feng_Master_Thesis_Final_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Stueck, Clifford

Title:

Effective Use of an Analytical Approximation for the Relative Motion of Spacecraft on Hyperbolic Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Hyperbolic Orbits
Relative Motion
Lagrange Expansion
Analytical Model

File:

Download Clifford_Stueck_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daning Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Sean

Title:

Fabrication and Characterization of a Large-array Surface-mount Hot-film

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Hot-film
Array
PIV
Surface-mounted
Large-scale
Fabrication
Anemometry
Characterization

File:

Download Sean_Wang_Master_s_Thesis_V2.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Tamy Guimarães, Committee Member

Author:

Gosin, Samuel

Title:

Computational Analysis of Boundary-Layer Instabilities on a Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoil

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Stationary Crossflow
SNLF Airfoils
ILES
RANS
Discrete Roughness Elements
LPSE
Boundary-Layer Transition
Wind-Tunnel Testing

File:

Download Samuel_Gosin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James George Coder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Stephans, Tyler

Title:

Material Management and Progress Detection for Construction on Earth and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

mars
construction
automated construction
robot
simulation
material selection
progress monitoring
material management
robotics
computer vision

File:

Download StephansTyler_msThesis2023_MaterialManagemantAndProgressDetectionForConstructionOnEarthAndBeyond.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Rob Leicht, 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:

Purzak, Jake

Title:

Structural Design of a Rigid Coaxial Rotor System for Wind Tunnel Testing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

rotorcraft
coaxial
structural design
structural analysis
dragonfly
rotor design
rigid rotor
coaxial test system
wind tunnel test system

File:

Download PurzakJake_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Villa, Amber

Title:

Computational Modeling of Monitoring within Human-Autonomy Teams with Novel Delegations of Authority and Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

human-autonomy teams
computational modelling
Work Models that Compute
Advanced Air Mobility
Authority/Responsibility

File:

Download A._Villa_Revised_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, 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:

Perumalla, Aniruddha

Title:

Optimal Waypoint Guidance for Collision Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
collision avoidance
autonomy
aircraft
aviation

File:

Download AP_masters_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, 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:

Brownell, Matthew

Title:

A Time-Varying Subspace Method for Shape Estimation of a Flexible Spacecraft Membrane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

subspace
spacecraft
flexible
solar
solar power
ERA
reduced-order modeling
analytical modeling
dynamics
structures
space structure
large

File:

Download Brownell_MastersThesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Andrew Sinclair, Special Signatory

Author:

Baker, Logan

Title:

Thermal Design and Analysis of the BlackCAT CubeSat

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

BlackCAT CubeSat
CubeSat
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Design
Astronomical CubeSat

File:

Download BAKER_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilén, Committee Member
Abe Falcone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Beyer, Jessica

Title:

Individual Blade Pitch Control (IBC) for Vibration Reduction of Lift-offset Coaxial Rotor Vehicles with Auxiliary Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

individual blade pitch control
compound rotor vehicle
rotorcraft
vibration reduction
XH-59
lift-offset coaxial rotor

File:

Download Thesis_Beyer_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Sato, Masahiro

Title:

autonomous approach to a moving ship's mast via motion prediction

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
motion prediction
image processing
AR model
Burg's Method
System Design
Target Detection
SCONE
IARC
D435
model predictive control
MPC

File:

Download Autonomous_Approach_to_a_Moving_Ships_Mast_via_Motion_Prediction_Masahiro_Sato.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric N. Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor