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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:

Fakhri, Syed Abdul Khader

Title:

A STUDY ON THE ATOMIZATION AND SPRAY CHARACTERISTICS OF GELLED SIMULANTS FORMED BY TWO IMPINGING JETS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

GHP
Hypergolic
Proplellants
Gelled Hypergolic Propellants
Atomization
Spray
Nozzle
Sheet
Simulant
Nozzle Jet

File:

Download Thesis_-_Syed_Fakhri.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jongguen Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Connell Jr., Terrence Lee

Title:

COMBUSTION OF ALUMINUM AND ICE BASED SOLID PROPELLANTS FOR PROPULSION APPLICATIONS AND HIGH TEMPERATURE HYDROGEN GENERATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogen generation
nano particles
combustion

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_21NOV11_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Grant Alexander Risha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Tao

Title:

SHEAR-COAXIAL INJECTION AND MIXING OF CRYOGENIC FLUIDS UNDER SUPERCRITICAL CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

LES
supercritical
jet
turbulence

File:

Download ThesisMaster-Tao_Liu_2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Woodward, William Henry Hunter

Title:

Aluminum Cluster Anion Reactivity: Applications in Energetic Materials and Catalysts

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

cluster deposition
aluminum
clusters
cluster reactivity

File:

Download Woodward_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Castleman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Marshall, William McFarland

Title:

Experimental Studies on Combustion Instabilities in a Multi-Element, Rectangular Rocket Chamber

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
swirl coaxial injectors
multi-element rocket chamber

File:

Download Marshall_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yanxing

Title:

A Numerical Study of Combustion in Meso-Scale Vortex Chambers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

numerical study
combustion
meso-scale
swirling flow

File:

Download YanxingWangThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Zhe

Title:

Study of Iron Carburization in CO-based gas mixtures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

numerical model
Iron carburization

File:

Download zhewangthesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Svingala, Forrest R

Title:

Laboratory-scale Blast Testing Of Polymers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

shock hugoniot
polymers
explosives
shock tube
gas gun
solids
shadowgraph
high-speed video
optical methods

File:

Download Svingala_PhD_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Weismiller, Michael Raymond

Title:

Characterization of Ammonia Borane for Chemical Propulsion Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic materials
Novel propellants
Hydrogen storage
Hybrid rocket
Boron

File:

Download Weismiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Adrianus Van Duin, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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

Author:

Joshi, Kaushik

Title:

Development and application of Reaxff reactive force field for hydrocarbon cracking on an aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
reactive force field
hydrocarbon cracking

File:

Download Kaushik_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Johansson, Reed Halden

Title:

Investigation of Solid Oxidizer and Gaseous Fuel Combustion Performance Using an Elevated Pressure Counterflow Experiment and Reverse Hybrid Rocket Engine

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

reverse
inverse
hybrid
rocket
counterflow
ammonium perchlorate
solid oxidizer

File:

Download Reed_Johansson_Masters_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Grant Alexander Risha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Orawannukul, Poravee

Title:

An experimental study of forced flame response in technically premixed flame in a lean premixed gas turbine combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Forced flame response
technically premixed flames
combustion instabilities
flame transfer function

File:

Download Poravee_Orawannukul.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Sung-yup

Title:

Development Of A Reaxff Reactive Force Field For Titanium Dioxide/ Water Systems And Its Applications To Etching, Nanoparticles With Organic Solvents And Ion Adsorptions On Nanocrystalline Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ReaxFF
Reactive force field
titanium dioxide
nanoparticle

File:

Download Ph_D_Thesis_Sung-Yup_13Mar13.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James David Kubicki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Szedlmayer, Michael Thomas

Title:

An Experimental Study of the Velocity-Forced Flame Response of Lean-Fremixed Multi-Nozzle Can Combustor for Gas Turbines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
natural gas turbine
acoustics
thermodynamics
vortex formation

File:

Download Szedlmayer_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Horatio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Shiqing

Title:

experimental studies on condensed-phase interactions of hypergolic propellants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hypergolic propellant; Monomethylhydrazine; Tetramethylethylened

File:

Download Shiqing_Wangs_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kumbhakarna, Neeraj Ratnakar

Title:

Combustion analysis of RDX propellant and novel high-nitrogen propellant ingredients

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

RDX
TAGzT
combustion model
confined rapid thermolysis
GA
molecular modeling
reaction mechanism

File:

Download neeraj_k.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Prof Adri Van Duin, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member