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Author:

Marotta, Taylor Ries

Title:

ENHANCEMENTS AND INVESTIGATION OF CAPABILITIES TO THE LANDING GEAR MODEL AND ACOUSTIC PREDICTION SOFTWARE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Boeing
airframe noise
LGMAP
landing gear
acoustics
aerospace
trailing edge
aeroacoustics
aircraft
airframe noise
noise
nosie prediction
prediction
Gulfstream

File:

Download TRM_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ozawa, Takashi

Title:

IMPROVED CHEMISTRY MODELS FOR DSMC SIMULATIONS OF IONIZED RAREFIED HYPERSONIC FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

MD
QCT
Stardust
Ionization
Rarefied gas
DSMC
Hypersonic flows

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah A Levin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Paliath, Umesh

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Jet Noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Large eddy simulation
Detached eddy simulation
Jet noise

File:

Download paliath.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Padala, V Santhosh

Title:

Noise generation mechanisms in short ducted rotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerodynamic noise
ducted rotors
unsteady loading response
strut wake
CFD

File:

Download SANTHOSH_MSTHESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Saxena, Swati

Title:

The Prediction of Noise and Installation Effects of High-subsonic Dual-stream Jets in Flight

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
subsonic jet noise
dual-stream jets
forward flight
installation effects
turbulence modeling
DES

File:

Download Swati-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Goldman, Benjamin A

Title:

Modifications to Psu-wopwop For Enhanced Noise Prediction Capabilities

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Benjamin
Goldman
FW-H
PSU-WOPWOP

File:

Download Goldman_Ben-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Malovrh, Brendon

Title:

Non-harmonic Root-pitch Individual-blade Control for the Reduction of Blade-vortex Interaction Noise in Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Blade-Vortex Interaction
BVI
noise
acoustic
helicopter

File:

Download MalovrhDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Kevin James Noonan, Special Member

Author:

Maniaci, David Charles

Title:

Wind Turbine Design Using A Free-wake Vortex Method With Winglet Application

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Wind turbine
winglet
free-wake
vortex method
rotor aerodynamics
blade design

File:

Download psu-thesis-Dmaniaci-18m_FIN_4-5-13_DateChange.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barnes Warnock Mccormick Jr., Committee Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Sue Ellen Haupt, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Barron, Heather Marie

Title:

Acoustic Analysis of Compound Helicopters with Trim Variations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter
rotorcraft
rotor
craft
acoustic
WOPWOP
PSU-WOPWOP
aerospace
compound
analysis

File:

Download Barron_Thesis_v10.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, Christine Meredyth

Title:

Computational Modeling of Rotor Blade Performance Degradation Due to Ice Accretion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

icing
CFD
turbulence modeling
mesh generation

File:

Download 1-CBrown_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hennes, Christopher Conrad

Title:

Computation of Interactional Aerodynamics for Noise Prediction of Heavy Lift Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Rotorcraft
Computational Fluid Dynamics

File:

Download HennesThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member

Author:

Ozdemir, Gurbuz Taha

Title:

In-flight Performance Optimization for Rotorcraft with Redundant Controls

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Redundant Controls
Optimization
Compound Helicopter
Flight Dynamics and Control
Performance

File:

Download Ozdemir_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Special Member

Author:

Coder, James George

Title:

Development of a CFD-Compatible Transition Model Based on Linear Stability Theory

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamics
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
transition
turbulence

File:

Download JamesGCoder_Dissertation_07272014.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Member

Author:

Jain, Abhishek

Title:

Trailing Edge Noise Prediction Using the Non-Linear Disturbance Equations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CAA
CFD
Trailing Edge
Turbulence
Synthetic Eddy Method
Inflow Boundary Conditions

File:

Download Thesis_AJ_final1.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Powers, Russell

Title:

Experimental Investigation of the Noise Reduction of Supersonic Exhaust Jets with Fluidic Inserts

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Jet Noise
Supersonic
Aeroacoustics
Noise Reduction

File:

Download RWP_Dissertation_v12-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Korkut, Burak

Title:

Development Of A Scalable Gas-dynamics Solver With Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical Simulation
High Performance Computing
Gas Dynamics
Adaptive Mesh Refinement

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Deborah A Levin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Deborah Levin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yaowei

Title:

Tools for Development and Analysis of Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft noise abatement procedure.

File:

Download Y_Li_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Corle, Ethan Lewis

Title:

Optimization of Active Flap Deployment for Efficient In-plane Rotor Noise Reduction

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

active flap
rotor noise
aeroacoustics
genetic algorithm
helicopter quieting

File:

Download Corle_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McIntyre, Sean Michael

Title:

A multi-scale model for geared transmission aero-thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
conjugate heat transfer
gearbox
multi-scale model

File:

Download SeanMcIntyre-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Jules Washington Lindau V, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Han, Yiqiang

Title:

Aerodynamics and Thermal Physics of Helicopter Ice Accretion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aircraft Icing
Ice Accretion Modelling
Helicopter
Aerodynamics
Heat Transfer
Surface Roughness
Performance Degradation

File:

Download Han_-_PhD_Dissertation_-_Feb_23_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Palacios, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member