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Author:

Ostanek, Jason

Title:

Flowfield Interactions in Low Aspect Ratio Pin-fin Arrays

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
turbulence
heat exchangers
pin-fins

File:

Download Ostanek_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

Author:

Christensen, Michelle Kathleen

Title:

Flow Reactor Autoignition Studies of Iso-octane at High Pressures and Low-to-intermediate Temperatures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

autoignition
ignition delay time
iso-octane
flow reactor

File:

Download Michelle_Christensen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member

Author:

Garneau, Christopher John

Title:

Techniques, tools, and representations for solving design problems considering anthropometry

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

anthropometry
design for human variability
ergonomics
universal design

File:

Download dissertation_Garneau.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew B Parkinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
John F Lockett, Iii, Special Member

Author:

Svingala, Forrest R

Title:

Laboratory-scale Blast Testing Of Polymers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

shock hugoniot
polymers
explosives
shock tube
gas gun
solids
shadowgraph
high-speed video
optical methods

File:

Download Svingala_PhD_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Mahdavi, Arash

Title:

Mechanics Of Low-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures: Atomistic, Continuum, And Multi-scale Approaches

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element
Nanomechanics
Carbon Nanotube
Multisclae
Nonlinear
Continuum Mechanics

File:

Download Thesis_Arash_Mahdavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric M Mockensturm, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Special Member

Author:

Weismiller, Michael Raymond

Title:

Characterization of Ammonia Borane for Chemical Propulsion Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic materials
Novel propellants
Hydrogen storage
Hybrid rocket
Boron

File:

Download Weismiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Adrianus Van Duin, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kumar, Sandeep

Title:

Fracture mechanics of nanoscale thin films

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin films
TEM
Fracture
mechanics
nanoscale

File:

Download Thesis_sandeep.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Essel, Jonathan Thomas

Title:

Processing Energetic Materials with Supercritical Fluid Precipitation Techniques

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

energetic materials
supercritical fluids
nanotechnology
RESS process

File:

Download Jonathan_Essel_Final_Thesis__all_color__with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Nayak, Sumanta Kumar

Title:

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANELS FOR BLAST LOAD MITIGATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

honeycomb
homogenization
blast
optimization
sandwich plates
virtual testing

File:

Download Sumanta-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ashok D Belegundu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Nadadur, Gopal

Title:

Anthropometry-based Sustainable Design for Multiple Global Populations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Anthropometry
Global Design
User Populations
Design Strategies
Design for Human Variability
Sustainable Design

File:

Download Dissertation_Gopal_Nadadur.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew B Parkinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Parkinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Jeremy J Michalek, Special Member
Arvind Rangaswamy, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Kaushik

Title:

Development and application of Reaxff reactive force field for hydrocarbon cracking on an aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
reactive force field
hydrocarbon cracking

File:

Download Kaushik_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Peluso, Stephen

Title:

An Experimental Study of Flame Response Mechanisms in a Lean-premixed Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
flame response
flame dynamics
flame transfer function
flame response mechanisms
gas turbine

File:

Download Stephen_Peluso.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member

Author:

Vemulapalli, Pramod Krishna

Title:

Extrema Features for Global-localization and Pattern Matching of Time-series Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

extrema features
subsequence matching
time series features

File:

Download PramodPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Dr Robert T Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Ataei-esfahani, Armin

Title:

Algorithms for Sum-of-Squares-Based Stability Analysis and Control Design of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear systems
randomized algorithms
robust control
uncertain systems
sum of squares method
ellipsoid method

File:

Download Armin_Ataei_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Nandy, Ashis

Title:

Modeling Gas Purge and Three-phase Transients in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

PEM Fuel Cell
Three-phase transients
Cold start
Gas purge
Catalyst layer

File:

Download Ashis_Nandy_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seungjin Kim, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Gou, Jun

Title:

modeling and analysis of lead-acid batteries with hybrid lead and carbon negative electrodes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
lead-acid batteries
carbon electrodes
hybrid electrodes
gassing
current partitioning

File:

Download Jun_Gou_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Xin

Title:

Situation Awareness and Adaptive Decision-Making in Autonomous Systems via Symbolic Learning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

situation awareness
decision making
autonomous system
machine learning
autonomous navigation
sensor fusion

File:

Download Dissertation_XinJin_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Special Member

Author:

Iyer, Venkatesh Ramasubramanian

Title:

Effect of Aromatic Components in Surrogate Fuels on Soot in Co-flow Flames and a Model Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Soot
diffusion flames
surrogate fuels
Threshold Soot Index
smoke point
aromatic compounds.

File:

Download Thesis_Venkatesh_Iyer.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Hedan

Title:

Effects of turbulence-chemistry interactions in direct-injection compression-ignition engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence-chemistry interactions
probability density function
diesel engine
NOx
n-heptane

File:

Download thesis_Hedan_fina.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Bhattacharjee, Subhasish

Title:

Pdf Modeling of High-pressure Turbulent Spray Combustion under Diesel-engine-like Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Turbulence
Combustion
TCI
WSR
PDF

File:

Download Subhasish-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member