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Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

Download Decerio_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Gan, Ze Feng

Title:

Time-Varying Rotor Noise Computations and Analysis of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
rotorcraft simulation
broadband noise prediction
urban air mobility
UAM
electric VTOL aircraft
variable RPM
PSU-WOPWOP

File:

Download Gan2021Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Messinger, Steve

Title:

Modeling, Adaptive Control, and Flight Testing of a Lighter-than-Air Vehicle Validated Using System Identification

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Model Reference Adaptive Control
System Identification
Adaptive Control
Lighter-than-Air Vehicle
Vehicle Design
Sparse System Identification
Flight Testing
Modeling
Simulation
Control
Aerospace

File:

Download Messinger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Michael Andrew Yukish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon W Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Topper, Evan

Title:

Calibration and Validation of a Rotorcraft Design and Analysis Tool for Electric Powered Multirotor Configurations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
NDARC
Simulation
Validation
eVTOL
Rotorcraft

File:

Download FINAL_AERSP_MS_Thesis_Evan_Topper.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Jadeja, Shivrajsinh

Title:

Effects of Icing Parameters on Impact Ice Adhesion Strength

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ice adhesion strength
freezing fraction
impact ice

File:

Download Effects_of_Icing_Parameters_on_Impact_Ice_Adhesion_Strength.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Nigay, Natalia

Title:

Vacuum Chamber Experiments of Beamed Microwave Energy Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

beamed-energy propulsion
electric propulsion
advanced propulsion concept
vacuum chamber experiments
propulsion
spacecraft

File:

Download BMEP_MSThesis_Nigay_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Ramdass, Kriston

Title:

Investigation of a Microwave Surface-Wave Plasma for Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

surface wave
plasma
thruster
MET
propulsion

File:

Download Kriston_Ramdass_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Roessler, Arya

Title:

Resin Film Infusion Process for Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

carbon fiber reinforced plastics
OOA
out-of-autoclave
B-staging
epoxy
short beam shear
ILSS
DSC
carbon fiber
composites

File:

Download Roessler_MS_Thesis_May_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Xin Ning, Committee Member

Author:

Weitsman, Daniel

Title:

Theoretical and experimental study of the effects of cyclic pitch variations on rotor noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL Noise
eVTOL
Helicopter Noise
Acoustics
Cyclic Pitch
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Weitsman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Osikowicz, Nathaniel

Title:

Shape Control of Tendon-Actuated Tensegrity Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

tensegrity
control theory
space structure
tensegrity structure
robotics
soft robotics

File:

Download exp-triplex-1.mp4Download exp-triplex-2.mp4Download osikowicz-MS-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member