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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:

Guzzetta, Ashley Susan

Title:

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF FUEL ROD CRUD FORMATION ON BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR USING EULERIAN TWO-FLUID CFD

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear
pressurized water reactors
crud model
subcooled boiling
heat transfer
CFD
crud formation

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Guzzetta.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vadvadgi, Aneesh Sridhar

Title:

CALCULATION OF TEMPERATURES IN GAS TURBINE ROTOR-STATOR CAVITIES USING CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Conjugate heat transfer
gas turbine

File:

Download Calculation_of_Temperatures_in_Gas_Turbine_Rotor_Stator_Cavities_Using_Conjugate_Heat_Transfer.pdf

Committee Members:

Savash Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Sarofeen, Christian

Title:

IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A NON-CUT CELL IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD FOR USE IN ICING SMIULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Simulation
Computational
IBM
Immersed Boundary Method
CFD
Icing
Rotorcraft

File:

Download ChristianSarofeen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Patterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Peña, Christopher

Title:

Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of AxWJ-2 Propulsor Cavitation Breakdown

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Cavitation
CFD

File:

Download PenaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jules Washington Lindau V, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jules Washington Lindau V, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Long, George Douglas

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF FLOW OVER THE SURFACE OF A FORMED THROMBUS IN A BACKWARD-FACING STEP

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Thrombosis
embolization
backward-facing step
sudden expansion
CFD
simulation
clot

File:

Download GeorgeDLongJrThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Casadei, Gina Marie

Title:

Dynamic-Mesh Techniques For Unsteady Multiphase Surface-Ship Hydrodynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multiphase
Dynamic-Meshing Techniques
CFD
Turbulence Modeling

File:

Download GinaCasadeiThesisPSU10.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walters, Geoffrey Strohm

Title:

An Investigation of Geometric Scaling of Mean and Turbulent Flows in Cylindrical Stirred Tank Reactors

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Mean Velocity
Nonbaffled
Mixing Tank
PIV
Stirred Tank Reactor
Scaling
Rushton Turbine
RMS Velocity Fluctuations
Reynolds Stresses
Mean Flows
Turbulent Flows
CFD

File:

Download GSW_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David N Hill, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Coder, James George

Title:

CFD INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY ROTORCRAFT AIRFOIL AERODYNAMICS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

gurney flap
mite
airfoil
unsteady
aerodynamics
blade
rotor
helicopter
rotorcraft
CFD
aerospace engineering
grid
overset
RANS
DES

File:

Download CoderThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Koncoski, Jeremy J

Title:

A REDUCED ORDER MODEL OF PROPELLER UNSTEADY FORCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

propeller
unsteady force
model
CFD
computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download koncoski_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zentichko, Jacob S

Title:

Acoustics of Ducted Rotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Acoustics
Ducted
Rotors
CFD
FLUENT
PSUWOPWOP
FSC
ESM
Fast Scattering Code
Fwocs
Williams
Hawkings

File:

Download Thesis_Jacob_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

Smith, Kevin

Title:

Computation of Viscous Multiphase Hydrodynamics and Ship Motions During Wave-Slap Events and Wave Excited Roll

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wave breaking
tumblehome
oscillating cylinder
prescribed motion
RANS
CFD
VOF
6DOF
seakeeping
wave impact
wave model
free surface
sponge layer
numerical beach
dissipation zone
box barge
mesh motion
deep water
shallow water
non reflecting boundary condition
openfoam
finite volume method
wave dissipation
impact load scaling

File:

Download KevinSmithMSThesisPSUETDr2.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Heidarinejad, Mohammad

Title:

USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) TO STUDY UPPER-ROOM UVGI LAMP DISINFECTION EFFECTIVENESS IN THE PATIENTS’ ROOMS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

UR-UVGI lamp
Patient room
CFD

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Jelena Srebric, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jelena Srebric, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Dhiman, Sushant

Title:

FILM COOLING CALCULATIONS WITH AN ITERATIVE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER APPROACH USING EMPIRICAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT CORRECTIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Conjugate Heat transfer
Film Cooling
Gas Turbine
CFD

File:

Download THESIS_SUSHANT_DHIMAN.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

Christian, Cinnamon Maria

Title:

Modeling Laser-generated Cavitation Bubbles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

cavitation
laser-generated bubbles
CFD
multiphase flow

File:

Download Cinnamon_M_Christian-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Maciejewski, Daniel

Title:

Computation of Two-Phase Drag Reduction by Gas Injection

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

microbubble drag reduction
turbulent boundary layer
CFD
multiphase
two-phase
turbulence

File:

Download Maciejewski-Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Miller, 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:

Dogan, Gulkiz

Title:

Modeling Of Human Respiratory Flow

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
pulsatile flow
pipe flow
CFD solver
human respiratory flow
lung geometry
nphase
medical image

File:

Download MSThesis_Gulkiz_Dogan.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Shanks, Matthew Ferrell

Title:

Cavitation Modeling on the Automotive Torque Converter using Computational Fluid Dynamics with a Mixing Plane Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Cavitation
Torque Converter
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Mixing Plane

File:

Download MattShanks-Thesis-Jul22-NoRedGreen.pdf

Committee Members:

Jules Washington Lindau V, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled Flow-Biochemistry Simulations of Dynamic Systems of Blood Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
CFD
stokes flow
blood cells
6DOF
six degrees-of-freedom
biochemistry

File:

Download BJG_Thesis_MS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent Craven, 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:

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:

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:

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:

Blumenthal, Brennan Theodore

Title:

Computational Investigation of a Boundary-layer Ingestion Propulsion System for the Common Research Model

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Boundary-layer Ingestion
Propulsion
CFD
USM3D
NPSS
CDISC
Common Research Model
CRM

File:

Download B_Blumenthal_MS_Thesis_V8-ZS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tiwari, Ankit

Title:

Design Of A Cooling System For A Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Conjugate Heat Transfer
3-D flow separation
Heat Transfer enhancement
induction motor cooling

File:

Download 2-Ankit_Tiwari_MS_Thesis_Fracking_Drive_Cooling_System_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Donnelly, Michael J

Title:

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF AN INTAKE PORT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
optimization
induction system

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_mjd_07-13-16.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Kyle Watson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Holler, David Michael

Title:

Verification of Laminar and Transitional Flow Simulations in Porous Media with Nek5000

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

verification
laminar flow
transitional flow
porous media
incompressible
Nek5000
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
open source

File:

Download David_Holler_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Lampenfield, Jacob John

Title:

Simulations of the flow generated by fluidic inserts in a converging diverging nozzle

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
computational fluid dynamics
converging
diverging
nozzle
aeroacoustics
noise reduction

File:

Download Lampenfield_MS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ananthanarayanan, Sagar Sangameswaran

Title:

CFD analysis of ozone reaction with human surface: influence of indoor air flow conditions and surface reactivity

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Ozone
CFD
Ventilation
Indoor Air Quality

File:

Download Sagar_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan W Stewart, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, 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:

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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:

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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:

Kessler, Joshua C

Title:

Fluid Dynamic Study of the FDA Benchmark Model under Pulsatile Flow

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Laser Doppler Velocimetry
LDV
FDA Benchmark Nozzle Model
FDA Critical Path Initiative
Hemolysis
Sudden Expansion
Conical Diffuser
Turbulence

File:

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Committee Members:

Keefe Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Stanko, Jason D

Title:

Automated Design and Evaluation of Airfoils for Rotorcraft Applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

parameterization
orthogonal
automation
airfoil performance table
multicollinearity
design
class shape transformation
genetic algorithm
CFD
Legendre Polynomial
CMA-ES
UH60
OVERFLOW
airfoil shape optimization
C81
Augmented Lagrange

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Pei, Gen

Title:

CFD ANALYSIS OF DISPERSION OF CO2 IN OCCUPIED SPACE: EFFECT OF SENSOR POSITION

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
IAQ
Sensor position
CO2-based DCV

File:

Download Final_Gen_Pei_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William P Bahnfleth, Committee Member
Gregory Scott Pavlak, Committee Member

Author:

Doshi, Mitansh Sharad

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTION OF A LARGE-SCALE HP TURBINE FLOW AGAINST MEASURED AERODYNAMIC DATA

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Turbine
CFD
Validation
NGV
Rotor
AFTRF
Turbulence model
K-Omega
Efficiency

File:

Download Thesis__MitanshDoshi_FA2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

Ranka, Amrat Arvind

Title:

Conceptual development of casing Patterns to reduce the aerodynamic losses in an axial turbine stage

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Turbines
axial gas turbine
casing grooves
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Tip-Leakage losses
Tip-mitigation studies
Turbomachinery
AFTRF
leakage Vortex
Horseshoe Vortex

File:

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Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gendrue, Nathan

Title:

METHANE DISTRIBUTION AND VENTILATION OPTIMIZATION FOR A SCALED LONGWALL MINE WITH BLEEDER

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Longwall Mining
Ventilation Effectiveness
Ventilation System Optimization
Methane Gas
CFD
Scaled Model

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Gendrue.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee 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:

Mohamed, Mohand

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Fluid flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Dimpled Jackets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Heat transfer
Fluid flow
Dimpled Jacket
CFD
Nusselt Number
Friction Factor

File:

Download Mohand_Mohamed_May2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Program Head/Chair
Richard Christopher Ciocci, 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:

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

Author:

Zafar, Suhaib

Title:

MULT-SCALE MODELLING AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALSYIS OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE (TMD) GROWTH IN AN MOCVD CHAMBER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
2D materials
TMDs
MOCVD
Growth Kinetics

File:

Download MS_thesis_Suhaib.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Werkheiser, Nathan

Title:

Backpropagation Analysis of Swirling Isothermal Dump Combustor Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Neural Networks
Backpropagation
fluid flow
CFD
Swirling Flow
Activation Functions

File:

Download Thesis_Werkheiser_2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anilchandra Attaluri, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

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:

Johnson, Samuel

Title:

A Computational Study of Flow Over a 6:1 Prolate Spheroid at Incidence

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CFD
RANS
LES
Prolate Spheroid

File:

Download SamThesis_10_31.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas S Chyczewski, Jr., Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

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:

Almutairi, Faris

Title:

Design And Numerical Simulation of One-Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling System For Small-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Immersion Cooling
Dielectric Liquid
Cryptocurrency mining
Thermal management
CFD
Computational fluid dynamics
heat transfer
ASIC
ASIC miner

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Committee Members:

Ahm E Rahman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Committee Member
Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Siddharth

Title:

RADON CALIBRATION CHAMBER DESIGN FEATURES AND POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Radon
Radon Calibration Chamber
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marek Flaska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saya Lee, Committee Member
Federico Scurti, Committee 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:

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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:

Wolff, Justin

Title:

Development of Experimental Methodology to Determine the Heat Transfer of Additively Manufactured Airfoil Channels in a High-Speed Linear Cascade Rig

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design (MS)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Gas Turbine Engine
Internal Cooling
Additive Manufacturing
Linear Cascade
Turbine Blade
Airfoil
Friction Factor
CFD

File:

Download 2022_Thesis_Wolff.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison Beese, Program Head/Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reid A Berdanier, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

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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

Author:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member