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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