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Author:

Robert, Ashish

Title:

Fundamental physics underlying polymer drag reduction from DNS of homogeneous shear and isotropic turbulence with the FENE-P model

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Homogeneous shear turbulence
Polymer drag reduction
DNS

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_of_Ashish_Robert.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, 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:

You, Danning

Title:

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION INSTABILITY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
pressure wave
gas turbine
acoustics
liner
stability

File:

Download thesis-revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Fuhua

Title:

Thrust Chamber Dynamics and Propulsive Performance of Airbreathing Pulse Detonation Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

propulsive performance
pulse detonation engine
supersonic inlet
multicycle
multitube
CE/SE method

File:

Download PhDThesis_Ma.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Kudva, Gautam Narendra

Title:

A Study of Laser and Pressure-Driven Response Measurements for Solid Propellants at Low Pressure

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

laser-driven
response measurements
solid propellants
pressure-driven

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Huo, Hongfa

Title:

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUID FLOW AND COMBUSTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Turbulent combustion
Supercritical combustion
swirl coaxial injector
LOX/Methane combustion
Supercritical mixing
shear coaxial injector

File:

Download Hongfa_Huo_PhD_dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lee, Hyung Ju

Title:

COMBUSTION INSTABILITY MECHANISMS IN A LEAN PREMIXED GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
gas turbine combustor
lean premixed
turbulent combustion
flame-vortex interactions
equivalence ratio flucutaitons

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Hyung_Ju_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, 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:

Sabourin, Justin Leo

Title:

High Temperature Heterogeneous Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms of Tungsten Oxidation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

rocket nozzles
thermogravimetry
kinetics
oxidation
tungsten
metal oxidation
graphite

File:

Download Written_Dissertation_-_Justin_Sabourin.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Grant Alexander Risha, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jian

Title:

IGNITION TRANSIENT IN AN ETHYLENE FUELED SCRAMJET ENGINE WITH AIR THROTTLING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic combustion
Scramjet
CFD
air throttling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Jian_Li_March_27.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Zhong, Jiaqiang

Title:

The Modeling of Homogeneous Condensation in Free-expanding Plumes with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

free-expanding plume
condensation
DSMC

File:

Download Zhong-Jiaqiang-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah A Levin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member

Author:

Malchi, Jonathan Yaniv

Title:

Combustion and Self-Assembly of Nanoenergetic Materials

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

thermite
self-assembly
combustion

File:

Download Combustion_and_Self-Assembly_of_Nanoenergetic_Materials.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Grant Alexander Risha, Committee Member
Steven Son, Committee Member
Timothy Foley, Committee Member

Author:

KIM, KYU TAE

Title:

Forced Response of Swirl Stabilized Flames in Hydrogen Enriched Gas Turbines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogen
combustion instability
flame transfer function
partially premixed
swirl stabilized

File:

Download KTKim.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Steven Lurie Garrett, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Liwei

Title:

FLOW DYNAMICS AND SCALAR MIXING OF TRANSVERSE JETS INTO CROSSFLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

large eddy simulation
jet in crossflow
turbulent mixing
jet stability
external excitations
supersonic flow

File:

Download LiweiZhang_PhDthesis_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Casiano, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Extensions to the Time Lag Models for Practical Application to Rocket Engine Stability Design

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

concentrated combustion
helium injection
time lag models
combustion stability
throttling
damping

File:

Download CasianoDissertationFinaleTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Tomas E Nesman, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Ming-hsun

Title:

Development and Experimental Analyses of Meso and Micro Scale Combustion Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

microcombustion
micropropulsion
microfluidic
flame propagation

File:

Download etD-18Apr07.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Kendra Sharp, Committee Member

Author:

Zong, Nan

Title:

Modeling and Simulation of Cryogenic Fluid Injection and Mixing Dynamics under Supercritical Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

General Fluid Thermodynamics
Supercritical Jet
Mixing Layer
Preconditioning Method

File:

Download Thesis_Final_EDIT.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, 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:

Khare, Prashant

Title:

DECOMPOSITION AND IGNITION OF HAN-BASED MONOPROPELLANTS BY ELECTROLYSIS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

HAN
Constant-pressure homogeneous reactor
Electrolytic Ignition

File:

Download Prashant_Khare_Spring_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Vigor Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vigor Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shehadeh, Ra'fat

Title:

Study of Ejector Geometry on Thrust Augmentation for Pulse Detonation Engine Ejector Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

PDE
Pulse Detonation Engine
Ejector

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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