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Author:

Shin, Bong Gun

Title:

PREDICTION OF SAND PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES AND SAND EROSION DAMAGE ON HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Aerodynamics
Particle Trajectory
Sand Erosion
Helicopter rotor blade

File:

Download Dissertation_BongGun_Aerospace_Engineering_May_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis K Mclaughlin, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member

Author:

Hook, Ryan Franklin

Title:

Aerodynamic Experiments of a Dual Ducted Fan Vehicle in Hover and Edgewise Flight

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Aerodynamics
Experimental
Ducted Fan / Rotor / Propeller
Shrouded Fan / Rotor / Propeller
Dual Duct
Tandem
Wind Tunnel

File:

Download Hook_Ryan_MS_Thesis_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Dennis Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Halwick, Jason Michael

Title:

Implementation of Blade Element Theory in CFD Analysis of Edgewise Ducted Fan Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Ducted Fan
CFD
Blade Element Theory
Aerodynamics

File:

Download JHalwick_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mclaughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau V, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dowler, Joshua Lyle

Title:

A Solution-based Stall Delay Model for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Wind Turbine
Aerodynamics
Stall Delay
Rotational Augmentation

File:

Download JLD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhatnagar, Unmukt Rajeev

Title:

FORMULA 1 RACE CAR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT BY OPTIMIZATION OF THE AERODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FRONT AND REAR WINGS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Formula 1
Aerodynamics
Optimization
Lift Coefficient
Drag Coefficient
Lap Simulation
Genetic Algorithms

File:

Download 1-Masters_Thesis_for_Aerospace-_Unmukt_Bhatngar.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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

Author:

Grasser, Nicholas Jared

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THE MXS-R WINGLETS AND AIRFOILS TO IMPROVE AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE IN THE RED BULL AIR RACES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aircraft Design
Aerodynamics
Airplane Simulation
Winglets
Airfoils
Red Bull
Air Racing
MXS-R
Airplane Performance
Airplane Design

File:

Download Grasser_-_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Chung, Hojae

Title:

VORTICITY DYNAMICS IN THE LEADING EDGE VORTEX ON REVOLVING WINGS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamics
Insect flight
Insect
LEV
leading edge vortex
Revolving wing
Revolving motion
Rossby number
Rossby
Planetary vorticity
Vorticity equation
Vorticity

File:

Download HojaeChung-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Harkins, Joseph

Title:

Automatic Controller Synthesis for a Reconfigurable UAV

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Modular Aircraft
UAV
Controls
Aerodynamics

File:

Download JosephHarkins-Thesis-Draft-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Reich, David B

Title:

Experimental Investigation of A Helicopter Rotor Hub Flow

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter
Rotorcraft
Aerodynamics
Rotor Hub
Hub Drag
Rotor Hub Drag
Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
Rotorcraft Aeromechanics
Unsteady Aerodynamics

File:

Download Reich-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Outside Member

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:

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:

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

File:

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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:

Kandias, Constantinos

Title:

Experimental Scaling of Hovering Rotorcraft Aerodynamics in Hyperbaric Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Experimental
Aerospace
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Aerodynamics

File:

Download kandias-thesis-ms.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member