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Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Efficient CFD Approaches for Coaxial Rotor Simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multicopter
Multicopters
Coaxial Rotor
Coaxial Rotors
CFD Simulation
Rotorcraft
Helicopter
STAR-CCM+
RotCFD
Mixing-Plane
Blade-Element
Time-Accurate
Blade-Resolved
Blade-Modeled
Quadcopter

File:

Download Jason_Cornelius_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

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

Author:

Farish, David

Title:

Large Eddy Simulations of Scaled Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Ship Airwake Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Large Eddy Simulations
LES
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Ship Airwake
Aerodynamics
Wind Tunnel Validation

File:

Download davidFarish-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Christoffel, Tyler T

Title:

Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK

File:

Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair