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Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Mcthane, Eric

Title:

Performance and Acoustics of Coaxial Counter-Rotating Rotors in Hover and Forward Flight Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotor Acoustics
eVTOL
Rotorcraft
Coaxial Rotors
Phase Control
Rotor Performance
Hover
Forward Flight
UAM
Separation Distance
Counter-Rotating

File:

Download MastersThesis_EricMcthane-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member

Author:

Jue, Andrew

Title:

Simulation of Advanced Rotorcraft Concepts using Free Wake Aerodynamic Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

DEPSim
eVTOL
Lift+Cruise
Rotorcraft
Flight dynamics
Dynamic simulation

File:

Download Thesis_AndrewJue_Final.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:

Lay, Kenjiro

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Evaluation of a Centrifugally-Tuned Passive Balancer

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Passive Balancing
Balancer
Rotor
Rotorcraft
Structural Dynamics
Dynamics
Vibration
Vibration Suppression

File:

Download MSThesis_KenjiroLay.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Kandias, Constantinos

Title:

Experimental Scaling of Hovering Rotorcraft Aerodynamics in Hyperbaric Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Experimental
Aerospace
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Aerodynamics

File:

Download kandias-thesis-ms.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member