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Author:

Kumar, Amit

Title:

Tailoring Defect Free Fusion Welds Based on Phenomenological Modeling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Gas Metal Arc fillet welding
Heat transfer and fluid flow
Optimization
Neural network
Humping defects
Reliability of calculations

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Member
John W Elmer, Committee Member

Author:

Evans, Brian

Title:

Nozzle Erosion Characterization and Minimization for High-Pressure Rocket Motor Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon/Carbon Composites
Erosion Mitigation
Solid Propellant
Nozzle Erosion
Graphite
Rocket Motor Simulator

File:

Download BE_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Chu-Fang

Title:

Novel Generative Semisupervised Learning Based on Fine-Grained Component-Conditional Class Labeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nearest neighbor classification
mixture models
inductive inference
generative models
semisupervised learning
Expectation- Maximization algorithm

File:

Download CFL-DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Christopher Collins, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Member

Author:

Moore, Jeffrey David

Title:

Flame-spreading phenomena in a head-end fin-slot segment of a subscale motor simulating the space shuttle boosters

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

flame-spreading
fin-slot motor
head-end segment
RSRM

File:

Download Jeff_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Boyer, J Eric

Title:

Combustion Characteristics and Flame Structure of Nitromethane Liquid Monopropellant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

monopropellant
liquid propellant
nitromethane
combustion

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member

Author:

Thakre, Piyush K

Title:

CHEMICAL EROSION OF GRAPHITE AND REFRACTORY METAL NOZZLES AND ITS MITIGATION IN SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

refractory metal nozzles
solid-propellant rocket motors
erosion mitigation
graphite/carbon-carbon nozzles
nozzle erosion

File:

Download PhD-Thesis-Final__Piyush_Thakre_.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Houim, Ryan William

Title:

Modeling the Influence of Shock Waves on the Combustion of Aluminum Droplets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Chemically reacting flow
Low-dissipation method
Multi-component flow
Level set method
Vaporization
Shock waves
Cavitation

File:

Download RWH_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member

Author:

Acharya, Ragini

Title:

MODELING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF INTERIOR BALLISTIC PROCESSES IN A 120mm MORTAR SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Granular bed combustion
Two-phase flows
Riemann solvers
Modeling
Numerical simulation
Interior ballistics
Compressible flows

File:

Download Thesis16Apr09.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Yi-Ping

Title:

COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR OF HAN-BASED LIQUID PROPELLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

pressure exponents.
burning rate controlling mechanisms
decomposition
autocatalytic
pyrolysis
propellants
hydroxylammonium nitrate
combustion

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member

Author:

Essel, Jonathan Thomas

Title:

Processing Energetic Materials with Supercritical Fluid Precipitation Techniques

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

energetic materials
supercritical fluids
nanotechnology
RESS process

File:

Download Jonathan_Essel_Final_Thesis__all_color__with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member