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Author:

Metkowski, Leonard P

Title:

Experimental study of wake impingement on a horizontal stabalizer

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamics
Helicopter
Hubs
Empennage
Experimental
Interactional Aerodynamics
Helicopter Hub Drag
Experimental Design
Helicopter Hub Experiments
Horizontal Stabilizer
Helicopter Stabilizer
Experiments on Helicopter Stabilizers
Wake Impingement

File:

Download Metkowski_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Axten, Christopher Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Transitional CFD to Analyze the Performance of a Racing Sailplane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
sailplane
boundary layer transition
aircraft performance
aircraft design

File:

Download Axten_C_Master_Thesis_Draft_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Efficient CFD Approaches for Coaxial Rotor Simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multicopter
Multicopters
Coaxial Rotor
Coaxial Rotors
CFD Simulation
Rotorcraft
Helicopter
STAR-CCM+
RotCFD
Mixing-Plane
Blade-Element
Time-Accurate
Blade-Resolved
Blade-Modeled
Quadcopter

File:

Download Jason_Cornelius_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Major, Desirae

Title:

Design, Analysis, and Testing of Leading-Edge Protection Tapes for Wind Turbine Blades

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Renewable Energy
Wind Turbines
Annual Energy Production
Leading-edge Protection Tape
Wind Turbine Leading-edge Erosion

File:

Download PSU_Masters_Thesis_Final_Desirae_Major.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Santos Thedin, Regis

Title:

An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ship Airwakes
Flight Dynamics
Rotorcraft

File:

Download thedin2019phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Corle, Ethan Lewis

Title:

Time-Domain Aeroelastic Stability Predictions of a Semi-Span Tiltrotor

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
whirl flutter
aeroelastic
stability analysis
rotorcraft
vortex particle method
time-domain stability

File:

Download corle-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Dr. Matthew Floros, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

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

Author:

Farish, David

Title:

Large Eddy Simulations of Scaled Wind-Tunnel Experiments for Ship Airwake Analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Large Eddy Simulations
LES
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Ship Airwake
Aerodynamics
Wind Tunnel Validation

File:

Download davidFarish-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Christoffel, Tyler T

Title:

Simulation of a Helicopter Operating in a Turbulent Airwake with Atmospheric Boundary Layer Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft Simulation
CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Aerospace Engineering
Turbulent Airwake
OpenFOAM
MATLAB
SIMULINK

File:

Download Tyler_Christoffel_ThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau, V, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair