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Author:

Goss, Adam

Title:

A Cartesian Immersed Boundary Method Study of Damaged and Undamaged Airfoil Performance

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Performance
Damaged Airfoil
Survivability
Immersed Boundary
Cartesian
Computational Aerodynamics

File:

Download GossMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Borner, Arnaud

Title:

DROPLET VAPORIZATION OF N-HEPTANE IN SUBCRITICAL CONDITIONS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

n-heptane
vaporization
Droplets
molecular dynamics

File:

Download MasterThesis_v3_Arnaud_Borner.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shavalikul, Akamol

Title:

A TIME ACCURATE PREDICTION OF THE VISCOUS FLOW IN A TURBINE STAGE INCLUDING A ROTOR IN MOTION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
time accurate prediction
turbine flow simulation
tip leakage

File:

Download Akamol_thesis1.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Savash Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member

Author:

Geiger, Brian Raymond

Title:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Planning with Direct Methods

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

direct collocation
uav
path planning
trajectory optimization
neural network
flight test

File:

Download BrianGeiger-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Atli Veltin, Bilim

Title:

EFFECT OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS ON THE IN-PLANE CRUSHING BEHAVIOR OF HONEYCOMBS AND HONEYCOMBS WITH FACESHEETS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

honeycomb crushing
energy absorption
cellular honeycombs

File:

Download Thesis_Bilim.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan S Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Duling, Christopher Thomas

Title:

FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS ON PRIMARY HELICOPTER CONTROL USING TRAILING EDGE FLAPS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

trailing edge flaps
swashplateless rotors

File:

Download Duling_MS_Aero_SP09.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tiwari, Chandrashekhar

Title:

INNOVATIVE ENERGY ABSORBING AND LOAD LIMITING DEVICES BASED ON COMPOSITE TUBES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

composite tubes
energy absorption
load limiting
extension-twist
stitch ripping
foam crushing

File:

Download Chandrashekhar_Tiwari_MS_Thesis_AUG09.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Paunescu, Cristian

Title:

Investigation of electromagnetic acceleration of nonionized gases

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

polar propulsion
Abraham effect

File:

Download Cristian_Paunescu_Thesis_42009.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jordan, Daniel

Title:

Application of Trade Space Visualization to Discrete and Continuous Complex Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

differential evolution
visual steering
dynamical systems
constant acceleration
constant thrust
continuous thrust
trade space
human-in-the-loop optimization

File:

Download Daniel_D_Jordan_Masters_Thesis_-_Application_of_Trade_Space_Visualization_to_Discrete_and_Continuous_Complex_Dynamical_Systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr David B Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr David B Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leonard, Daniel Joseph

Title:

AEROACOUSTICS OF CONFINED JET-WALL INTERACTIONS WITH APPLICATION TO UNVOICED SPEECH SOUNDS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

unvoiced
turbulent jet
vortex
speech
acoustics
aeroacoustics
sound
source spectrum

File:

Download Daniel_Leonard_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H Krane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael H Krane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Semperlotti, Fabio

Title:

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION VIA NONLINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURAL INTENSITY METHODS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Structural Surface Intensity
Structural Intensity
model free
baseline free
damage localization
HHRS
subharmonics
superharmonics
higher order harmonics
Nonlinear Structural Surface Intensity
Nonlinear Structural Intensity

File:

Download THESIS_FS_finalrev_3_combined.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

Author:

Murray, Gabriel Jon

Title:

Two Novel Uses of Cellular Structures

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

bistable system
Cellular Structures
damping

File:

Download Gabriel_Murray_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan Gandhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stergiou, Jonathan Chris

Title:

Numerical Simulations of Two-Dimensional Laminar Flow Over Bluff Bodies Using the Immersed Boundary Method with Cartesian Grids

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

fluid
computational
cylinder
immersed boundary
cfd
dynamics
bluff body

File:

Download JonathanStergiou_DissertationMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sue Ellen Haupt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Blum, Jacob

Title:

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN 8-GHz MICROWAVE ELECTROTHERMAL THRUSTER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

MET
microwave electrothermal thruster
electric propulsion
aerospace engineering

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Jacob_Blum.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zentichko, Jacob S

Title:

Acoustics of Ducted Rotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Ducted
Rotors
CFD
FLUENT
PSUWOPWOP
FSC
ESM
Fast Scattering Code
Fwocs
Williams
Hawkings

File:

Download Thesis_Jacob_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Paik, Jinho

Title:

The Aeroelastic Stability Improvements of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors By Active and Passive Approaches

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

design optimization
whirl flutter
soft-inplane rotor
tiltrotor aircraft
feedback control

File:

Download Jinho-Paik-Dissertation-Aug09.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Olympio, Kingnidé Raymond

Title:

Compliant Load-Bearing Skins and Structures for Morphing Aircraft Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

multiobjective optimization
topology optimization
morphing skin
honeycomb
hybrid multiobjective genetic algorithm

File:

Download Olympio-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Fabrizio Scarpa, Committee Member

Author:

Myers, Leighton Montgomery

Title:

Aerodynamic Experiments on a Ducted Fan in Hover and Edgewise Flight

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Experimental Aerodynamics
Ducted Fan

File:

Download LMM_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lopes, Leonard Vincent

Title:

A NEW APPROACH TO COMPLETE AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR NOISE PREDICTION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Aerospace
Airframe
Landing Gear
Noise
Prediction
Scheme

File:

Download Lopes_Dissertation_v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

Author:

Ferringer, Matthew Phillip

Title:

General Framework for the Reconfiguration of Satellite Constellations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

satellite constellation design
multi-objective optimization
evolutionary algorithms
decision support
high performance computing
satellite constellation reconfiguration
high-dimensional visualization

File:

Download Ferringer_Dissertation_Final_03-26-2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr David B Spencer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Spencer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Thomas Starchville Jr, Committee Member