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Author:

Novoselac, Atila

Title:

Combined Airflow and Energy Simulation Program for Building Mechanical System Design

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

thermal comfort
IAQ
building analysis
CFD
energy simulation
convection corelation

File:

Download Atila_Novoselac_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jelena Srebric, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stanley Allan Mumma, Committee Member
William P Bahnfleth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

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:

Davidovic, Danko

Title:

Improvements in Numerical Modeling of Airflows Around Multiple Buildings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

wind tunnel experiment
turbulence modeling
CFD

File:

Download DD-Thesis-PhD-Appendices-Vita-Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Jelena Srebric, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Stanley Allan Mumma, Committee Member
Bohumil Kasal, Committee Member

Author:

Titov, Evgeny Vladimirovich

Title:

APPLICATION OF THE DSMC METHOD TO HIGH DENSITY MICRO-FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

DSMC
Continuum flow
Rarefied gas
CFD

File:

Download titov_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah A Levin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Yoursry Y Azmy, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jian

Title:

IGNITION TRANSIENT IN AN ETHYLENE FUELED SCRAMJET ENGINE WITH AIR THROTTLING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic combustion
Scramjet
CFD
air throttling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Jian_Li_March_27.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Santillo, Michael

Title:

Microfluidic systems for high-throughput single-cell assays

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Microfluidics
lab-on-a-chip
confocal
fluorescence
cell assay
bioanalytical chemistry
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
PDMS

File:

Download mf_santillo_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Ewing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Ewing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Habte, Melaku

Title:

Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Two Phase Closed thermosyphon Cooling System for New Cold Neutron Source Moderator of Breazeale Research Reactor at Penn State

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Dryout Temperature
Two-phase CFD Modeling
FLUENT
Cold Neutron Source
Moderator Cooling
Nucleate Boiling
CFD
Two-Phase Heat Transfer
Two-Phase Closed Thermosyphon
Cryogenic Temperatrure
Thermodynamics of Thermosyphon
Liquid Neon Cooling

File:

Download MelakuHabteDissertation2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member

Author:

Hill, Matthew John

Title:

A Computational Investigation of Gear Windage

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
gear windage

File:

Download mjhill-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lyle Norman Long, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Surendra B Rao, Committee Member

Author:

Avramova, Maria Nikolova

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE SPACER GRID MODEL UTILIZING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS WITHIN A SUBCHANNEL ANALYSIS TOOL

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Thermal-hydraulics
sub-channel analysis
CFD
F-COBRA-TF
spacer grids

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_MariaAvramova_Fall2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lauewnce E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Markus Glueck, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

Author:

Sezer-Uzol, Nilay

Title:

UNSTEADY FLOW SIMULATIONS AROUND COMPLEX GEOMETRIES USING STATIONARY OR ROTATING UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

unsteady flow
ship airwake
wind turbine
large eddy simulation
LES
unstructured
computational fluid dynamics
CFD

File:

Download NilayPhDThesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lyle Norman Long, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Yousry Azmy, Committee Member

Author:

Naredi, Prabhat

Title:

COAL COMBUSTION IN O2/CO2 MEDIUM FOR POWER GENERATION: NUMERICAL MODELING OF CHAR BURNOUT, NOX AND CO EMISSIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Char reactivity
thermogravimetric analysis
drop tube reactor
modeling
CFD
oxy-coal combustion
NOx
CO emission
burnout

File:

Download Prabhat_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan W Scaroni, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Medvitz, Richard B

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC METHODOLOGY FOR BLOOD PUMP DESIGN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THROMBUS POTENTIAL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD

File:

Download RichardMedvitz-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Leomard Joel Peltier, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Wenpeng

Title:

Methanol, Water and Heat Transport in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells for Portable Power

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

numerical modeling
DMFC
direct methanol fuel cell
CFD
Fluent

File:

Download PhD_WenpengLiu.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Kendra Sharp, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Marr, Conor Matthew

Title:

Conceptualization, Modeling, and Characterization of a Cf Driven Multi-State Lead-lag Bypass Damper

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Damper
Fluidlastic
Hydraulic
CFD
Modeling
Multi-State
Bypass
Passive Damping
Lead-Lag Damper
Ground Resonance

File:

Download CMarrPhDThesis2012FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

Author:

Nassar, Abdalla Ramadan

Title:

Investigation of laser-sustained plasma and the role of plasma in carbon dioxide laser nitriding of titanium

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Laser-Sustained Plasma
LSP
Optical Discharge
Plasma
Nitriding
Laser Processing
Laser nitriding
Spectroscopy
CFD

File:

Download 1-Nassar_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen M Copley, Special Member
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Vladimir V Semak, Committee Member

Author:

Gott, Kevin Nathaniel

Title:

A Hybrid CFD-DSMC Model Designed to Simulate Rapidly Rarefying Flow Fields and its Application to Physical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Physical Vapor Deposition
CFD
DSMC
Multi-physics Modeling
Vacuum
Coatings

File:

Download KGott_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Ucar, Dundar

Title:

Modeling and Design of A New Core-Moderator Assembly and Neutron Beam Ports for the Penn State Breazeale Nuclear Reactor (PSBR)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

PSBR
Breazeale
TRIGA
Neutronic
Thermal
Hydraulics
MCNP
ANSYS
Fluent
Analysis
Design
Cold
Neutron
Beam Port
CFD

File:

Download DundarUcar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Member
Thomas Fu Yuan Lin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member

Author:

Han, Guiyuan

Title:

life cycle cost optimization of a building enclosure system with respect to wind pressure loads

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

life cycle cost
building energy consumption
air infiltration rates
CFD
Multizone modeling
survey
sensitivity analysis

File:

Download Guiyuan_Han-9format.pdf

Committee Members:

Jelena Srebric, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
John Messner, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee 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:

Wouden, Alex Michael

Title:

A Phase-Lag Approach to Incompressible CFD Simulations with Emphasis on the Unsteady Interaction of Hydroturbine Blades

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydropower
hydroturbine
CFD
chorochronic
phase-lag
incompressible
openfoam

File:

Download AlexMWouden-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Michael Cimbala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leonard, Daniel Joseph

Title:

Computation and Analysis of Cavitating Flow in Francis-class Hydraulic Turbines

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multiphase
Cavitation
Hydroturbine
RANS
DES
Performance Breakdown
Francis turbine

File:

Download DanielLeonard_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jules Washington Lindau V, Special Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Brent A Craven, Committee Member

Author:

Lurie, Michael Brian

Title:

The Prediction of Unsteady Aerodynamic Loading in High Aspect Ratio Wall Bounded Jets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerospace
Vibrations
CFD
Computational
Acoustics
Experiment
Turbulence
Free Jet
Wall Jet
Nozzle

File:

Download Lurie-Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Stephen A Hambric, Special Member

Author:

Jha, Pankaj Kumar

Title:

Characterization of Wake Turbulence in a Wind Turbine Array Submerged in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
aerodynamics
fluid dynamics
wind farm
turbine
atmospheric boundary layer. turbulence
actuator line
actuator curve

File:

Download PankajJha_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Member

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:

Skidmore, Grant Marston

Title:

The mitigation of pulsation in ventilated supercavities

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Supercavitation
Cavitation
Pulsation
Ventilated Supercavities
Multiphase Flow
CFD
Noise
Acoustics

File:

Download 1-Skidmore-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jules Washington Lindau V, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau V, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy A Brungart, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Member
Toan Nguyen, Committee Member

Author:

Neykov, Boyan S

Title:

Development and validation of advanced CFD models for detailed predictions of void distribution in a BWR bundle

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
two phase flow
heat transfer
boiling

File:

Download Ph_D_thesis_Boyan_Neykov.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Cimbala, Committee Member
John Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Committee Member
Emilian Popov, Committee Member

Author:

Paul, Brent Steven

Title:

Aeroacoustic computation of tones generated from low Mach number cavity flows, using a preconditioned method

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
computational aeroacoustics
CFD
CAA
cavity
cavity tone
Helmholtz
vortex shedding
Strouhal

File:

Download BrentPaul-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip J. Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip J. Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor W. Sparrow, Committee Member
Lyle N. Long, Committee Member
Laura L. Pauley, Outside Member

Author:

Nandi, Tarak Nath

Title:

EFFECTS OF BLADE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION AND DAYTIME ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE ON WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYZED WITH BLADE-RESOLVED SIMULATION AND FIELD DATA

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid Mechanics
CFD
turbulence
transition
atmospheric boundary layer
actuator line method
RANS
LES
Wind Energy

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Dissertation_forSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Outside Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Special Member

Author:

Oruc, Ilker

Title:

Towards Real-Time Pilot-in-the-Loop Simulation of Rotorcraft with Fully-Coupled CFD Solutions of Rotor / Terrain Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
simulation
pilot-in-the-loop
rotorcraft
terrain
ship airwake
dynamic interface
DI
helicopter/ship
coupled
fully-coupled
fully coupled
ground effect
CFD
aerodynamics
flight control
flight dynamics
ship landing
ship approach
computational
fluid
dynamics
real-time
manned
sloped
partial ground
acceleration
helicopter simulation
high-performance-computing
flight simulator
MPI
helicopter dynamics
SFS2
MPMD
actuator disk
ADM
ALM
simple frigate ship
non-linear
NLDI
UH-60
flight performance
one-way coupled
two-way coupled
recirculation
coupled simulation
coupling interface
IGE
OGE
hover
GENHEL
GENHEL-PSU
Navier-Stokes
Gaussian

File:

Download IlkerOruc-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Outside Member

Author:

Oliveira Vieira, Bernardo A

Title:

Consideration of Unsteady Aerodynamics and Boundary-Layer Transition in Rotorcraft Airfoil Design

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Airfoil Design
Boundary-Layer Transition
Unsteady Aerodynamics
Dynamic Stall
Helicopter Aerodynamics
Transonic Flow
Compressible Flow
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD

File:

Download Bernardo_Vieira_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark D. Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Michael P. Kinzel, Special Member

Author:

Hofstetter, Daniel William

Title:

MANURE PIT-SAFETY VENTILATION DESIGN INFLUENCE ON HYDROGEN SULFIDE GAS CONTAMINATION IN ATTACHED BARNS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

manure pit-safety ventilation
hydrogen sulfide
barn air contamination
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
concentration scaling
transient gas measurement
ventilation simulation

File:

Download Hofstetter_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra M. Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis J. Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen E. Fabian, Committee Member
Harvey B. Manbeck, Committee Member
Justin K. Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Yuncheng

Title:

3D numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around in-stream structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

immersed boundary method
OpenFOAM
CFD
scour modeling
sediment transport
in-stream structure
large woody debris

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Outside Member

Author:

Sircar, Arpan

Title:

CFD Modeling of In-Cylinder Heat Transfer in Piston Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Combustion
Turbulence
Radiation
Boundary Layer
IC Engines

File:

Download Arpan_Sircar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert J Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

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:

Nejatishahidein, Negin

Title:

DEPTH FILTERS IN BIOPROCESSING: PERFORMANCE AND SCALE-UP

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
clarification
depth filtration
flow distribution
lenticular stack
scale‐up
cell culture fluid
host cell proteins
protein binding
monoclonal antibodies
flow structure

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Douglas, Darryl Andrew

Title:

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sonic Fatigue in Embedded Jet Exhausts

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

Acoustics
CFD
Turbulence
Jet Noise
Sonic Fatigue
Embedded Exhausts
Supersonic Jets
Aft-Deck
Rectangular Nozzle
Experimental
Computational
Shock Boundary Layer Interaction

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline O'Connor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Greenwood, Major Field Member
Philip Morris, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erdman, Matt D

Title:

Modeling of Oxygen Mass Transfer Coefficients in an Eulerian-Eulerian Framework

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
Bubble Column
kla
Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficient
Short Bubble Column

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Committee Members:

Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Michael Krane, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
John Cimbala, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Fan-Bill Cheung, Major Field Member

Author:

Mekki, Bashir

Title:

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL THERMAL MANAGAMENT SYSTEMS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Topology Optimization
Heat Exchangers
Additive Manufacturing
CFD
Machine Learning
Experimental Testing

File:

Download BashirMekki_Dissertation_RevisedFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vikram Shyam, Special Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member

Author:

Altland, Samuel

Title:

A Distributed Element Roughness Model Based on the Double Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DERM
Surface Roughness
CFD
Roughness Modeling

File:

Download Sam_Altland_Thesis_5.23.22.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhang, Yiming

Title:

ANALYSIS OF ORIFICE METERING AND PERFORATION EROSION FOR SHALE GAS WELLS VIA COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
EROSION
PERFORATION EROSION
GAS METERING
ORIFICE METER

File:

Download Zhang_Yiming_PHD_Dissertation_Final_Updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies