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2. Tailoring Defect Free Fusion Welds Based on Phenomenological Modeling

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

8. Combustion Characteristics and Flame Structure of Nitromethane Liquid Monopropellant

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Open Access
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

9. MODIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BALLISTIC COMPRESSOR TO STUDY IGNITION AND COMBUSTION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES AT ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURES AND HEATING RATES

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Open Access
Author:
Sirignano, Matthew Davis
Title:
MODIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BALLISTIC COMPRESSOR TO STUDY IGNITION AND COMBUSTION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES AT ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURES AND HEATING RATES
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
ballistic compressor
aluminum
particle combustion
File:
Download MS_Thesis_2011.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

15. COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR OF HAN-BASED LIQUID PROPELLANTS

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Open Access
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

16. Formulation and Characterization of Paraffin-based Solid Fuels Containing Novel Additives for Use in Hybrid Rocket Motors

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Open Access
Author:
Larson, Daniel Bruce
Title:
Formulation and Characterization of Paraffin-based Solid Fuels Containing Novel Additives for Use in Hybrid Rocket Motors
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
hybrid
rocket
paraffin
regression rate
LiAlH4
lithium aluminum hydride
RDX
MWNT
multi-walled carbon nanotubes
File:
Download MS_Thesis_Larson.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

17. Processing Energetic Materials with Supercritical Fluid Precipitation Techniques

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Open Access
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

18. Ignition and Combustion of Energetic Particles at Ultra-high Pressures and Heating Rates

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Open Access
Author:
Lee, Garrett Powell
Title:
Ignition and Combustion of Energetic Particles at Ultra-high Pressures and Heating Rates
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
aluminum combustion
nickel coating
ballistic compressor
particle ignition
thermobaric weapon modeling
File:
Download Thesis_-_Final_Version.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura Pauley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

19. Erosion of Carbon-cloth Phenolic Nozzles in Rocket Motors with Aluminized Solid Propellant

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Open Access
Author:
Cortopassi, Andrew Claude
Title:
Erosion of Carbon-cloth Phenolic Nozzles in Rocket Motors with Aluminized Solid Propellant
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
nozzle erosion
carbon-cloth phenolic
real-time X-ray radiograph
File:
Download Cortopassi_Dec_2012.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Deborah Levin, Committee Member

20. Assessment of the Performance of Ablative Insulators under Realistic Solid Rocket Motor Operating Conditions

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Open Access
Author:
Martin, Heath Thomas
Title:
Assessment of the Performance of Ablative Insulators under Realistic Solid Rocket Motor Operating Conditions
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
solid rocket motor
ablation
ablative
heat flux measurement
thermal radiation
radiometer
x-ray radiography
File:
Download Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Deborah Levin, Committee Member

21. Formulation and Characterization of Paraffin-based Solid Fuels Containing Swirl Inducing Grain Geometry And/or Energetic Additives

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Open Access
Author:
Armold, Derrick Michael
Title:
Formulation and Characterization of Paraffin-based Solid Fuels Containing Swirl Inducing Grain Geometry And/or Energetic Additives
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
swirl injection
3-D printing
regression rate
combustion efficiency
port modeling
File:
Download 1-Thesis_4-13-14.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor