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Author:

Colborn, Jennifer

Title:

The relative impact of total and radiative heat flux in a backward-facing step combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine combustion
radiative heat transfer
convective heat transfer
combustion
heat transfer
combustor heat transfer

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Haworth, Major Field Member
David Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Thole, Major Field Member
Xinyu Zhao, Special Member

Author:

Motiei, Parvaneh

Title:

Combustion Behavior Of Hydrochar From Wet Biomass

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrochar
Biomass combustion
Hydrothermalcarbonization
Solid fuel combustion

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Mathews, Outside Unit & Field Member
Samuel Grauer, Major Field Member
Jillian Goldfarb, Special Member
Richard Yetter, Major Field Member

Author:

Kustaborder, Daniel

Title:

Nonlinear Attitude Control of Slender Body Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: A Lyapunov Stability Approach with Gain Selection Analysis

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear Control
Lyapunov Stability
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
Slender Body
PID Control
Attitude Control

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Herschel C Pangborn, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michelle April Kehs Denlinger, Special Signatory

Author:

Lowery, Ian

Title:

Minimum Film Boiling Temperature and Droplet Behavior during Dispersed Flow Film Boiling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Loss of Coolant Accident
Reactor Reflood
Dispersed Flow Film Boiling
Minimum Film Boiling Temperature
Droplet Field

File:

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Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Pawar, Shreeniket Mansingrao

Title:

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE THERAPY: CONTROL STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE TUMOR THERMAL DOSE AND MINIMIZE NON-SPECIFIC EDDY CURRENT HEATING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Nanoparticle Therapy
Proportinal integral derivative controller
Fuzzy logic
Model Predictive Controller
Eddy current heating
Spatially confined heating

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Committee Members:

Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ma'Moun Abdel Abu-Ayyad, Committee Member
Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Ivkov, Committee Member

Author:

Shan, Shuhua

Title:

Morphology Mechanics in Battery Anodes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multifunctional Li-ion battery; Flow-through electrolyte; Zinc dendrite; Ni-Zn battery

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Donghai Wang, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chris Rahn, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Chao-Yang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Smay, Joshua

Title:

Investigation and Optimization of Fluid Charge in Gravity Aided Aluminum-Ammonia Heat Pipes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat pipes
cchp
thermosyphon
startup
fluid charge
optimization
modeling
finite difference
experimental data
aluminum ammonia

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anilchandra Attaluri, Committee Member
Rick Ciocci, Committee Member
Dassou Nagassou, Committee Member

Author:

Van Name, Joshua

Title:

The Effect of Varying Contacting Edge Radii Versus Lifting Capacity of Wire Mesh Slings

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

sling
slings
lifting
plasticity
dynamic simulation
edge radius
edge radii
wire mesh
load bearing capacity
lifting capacity

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Ahm E Rahman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Committee Member
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

Cortez, Alvaro

Title:

Implementation of LABVIEW FPGA to a Manual Analog Machine

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

LabVIEW FPGA

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Committee Members:

Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member
Ahm E Rahman, Committee Member

Author:

Vath, Carson

Title:

Development and Testing of Novel Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing Systems for Embedding Wire Electronics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hybrid Additive
Wire Embedding
additive
Tool design

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Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ilya Kovalenko, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Thompson, Caleb

Title:

Bubble Dynamics and Heat Transfer in Long Inclined Plates in Ambient Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Inclined Boiling
Bubble Dynamics
Heat Transfer
Nucleate Boiling
Two-phase Flow
Pool Boiling

File:

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Committee Members:

Mike Manahan, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Michael P Riley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tayade, Ashrit

Title:

Impact of Ceramic Matrix Composites on the Thermal Performance of Gas Turbine Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Gas Turbines
Ceramic Matrix Composites
Turbine Heat Transfer
Aerodynamics
Thermal Efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen P Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hussain, Saira

Title:

Experimental Study of Ultrasound Transmission Through Rat Skulls

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
Attenuation
Defocusing
Transducers
Rat Skulls

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Committee Members:

Jason Zachary Moore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yun Jing, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Humberto Cortes Correales, Committee Member

Author:

Bachman, Ridge

Title:

Assessing the Impact of Electrode Oxidation on Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Performance Through Experimentation and Modeling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Redox Flow Battery
Density Functional Theory
Energy Storage Density
Carbon Electrodes

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Committee Members:

Isaac Gamwo, Special Member
Donghai Wang, Major Field Member
Serguei Lvov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chris Rahn, Major Field Member
Derek Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Pan, Tan

Title:

Modeling and Design Optimization of Magnetoactive Elastomer Actuator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Smart material
magnetoactive elastomer
design and optimization
Bayesian Network Classifier
advanced material design
genetic algorithms

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Carolyn Seepersad, Special Member
Jared Butler, Major Field Member
Paris Von Lockette, Special Member
Mary Frecker, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mohamed, Mohamed

Title:

Development of An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Model for Gait-Based Classification of Neurodegenerative Disorders (NeuroGaitNet)

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Keywords: Neural Network
Gait Analysis
Neurodegenerative Disorders
Power Spectral Density (PSD)
Data Augmentation
Deep Learning
Huntington's Disease
Clinical Diagnostics
Artificial Intelligence.

File:

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Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anilchandra Attaluri, Committee Member

Author:

Dsa, Jonathan

Title:

Design and evaluation of porosity in 3D bone scaffold models-computational insights

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

porosity
3d scaffold designs
finite element analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anilchandra Attaluri, Committee Member
Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Ahm E Rahman, Committee Member

Author:

Kurian, Mathew

Title:

Dimensionality Reduction of Wing Motion for Roll Stabilization in Hummingbird Flight

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Dimensionality Reduction
Hummingbird flight
Aerodynamics
Principal Component Analysis
Canonical Correlation Analysis

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Huxman, Connor

Title:

Leveraging Mechanical Compliance in the Design of Orthopaedic Fracture Fixation Plates

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fracture fixation
compliant mechanisms
analytical modeling
finite element analysis
orthopaedic implant design
orthopaedic biomechanics
bone healing
bridge plating

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Committee Members:

April Armstrong, Outside Field Member
Gary F Updegrove, Special Member
Gregory Lewis, Outside Unit Member
Jared Butler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ahmad, Aiman

Title:

INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOFREQUENCY HEATING DEVICE TO TREAT INFECTED METAL FRACTURE FIXATION IMPLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Induction Heating of Metal Implants

File:

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Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew R. Garner, Committee Member
Ma'Moun A. Abu Ayyad, Committee Member
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Committee Member