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Author:

Smith, Kevin

Title:

Computation of Viscous Multiphase Hydrodynamics and Ship Motions During Wave-Slap Events and Wave Excited Roll

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wave breaking
tumblehome
oscillating cylinder
prescribed motion
RANS
CFD
VOF
6DOF
seakeeping
wave impact
wave model
free surface
sponge layer
numerical beach
dissipation zone
box barge
mesh motion
deep water
shallow water
non reflecting boundary condition
openfoam
finite volume method
wave dissipation
impact load scaling

File:

Download KevinSmithMSThesisPSUETDr2.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nandan, Rituraj

Title:

Computational modeling of heat transfer and visco-plastic flow in Friction Stir Welding

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

torque
reliability
differential algorithm
viscoplastic flow
friction coeffiecient
finite volume method
parametric study
friction stir welding
aluminum alloys
heat generation
heat transfer
variable slip

File:

Download Rituraj-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Chanyoung

Title:

A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF BONE FORMATION IN THE CRANIAL VAULT USING A REACTION-DIFFUSION-STRAIN MODEL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational morphogenesis
finite volume method
skull growth
developmental biology
mechanobiology
intramembranous ossification

File:

Download Thesis_Chanyoung_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Reuben H Kraft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member
Jing Du, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Outside Member

Author:

Topcuoglu, Ilker

Title:

Fully Implicit Schemes for Low Mach Number Flows

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
navier-stokes
thermally driven flows
confined flows
fully implicit solution of navier-stokes equations
newton linearization of navier-stokes equations
block algebraic multigrid
fully coupled solution of navier-stokes equations
momentum continuity energy coupling
block coupled solution of navier-stokes
finite volume method

File:

Download itopcuoglu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
David M Williams, Outside Member
Michael Kinzel, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair