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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

5. Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

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Open Access
Author:
Vargas Venegas, Carlos
Title:
Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis
File:
Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf
Committee Members:
Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

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

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Open Access
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

7. Second Moment Closure Modeling of Stratified Shear Layers and Wakes

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Open Access
Author:
Jain, Naman
Title:
Second Moment Closure Modeling of Stratified Shear Layers and Wakes
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Turbulence Modeling
Second Moment Closure Modeling
RANS
DNS
Stratified Flow
Shear Layers
Mixing Layers
Wake
Anisotropic Turbulence Dissipation Rate
Turbulence Dissipation Modeling
File:
Download Jain_Naman_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Laura Pauley, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Krane, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

8. Computational Analysis of Boundary-Layer Instabilities on a Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoil

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Open Access
Author:
Gosin, Samuel
Title:
Computational Analysis of Boundary-Layer Instabilities on a Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoil
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Stationary Crossflow
SNLF Airfoils
ILES
RANS
Discrete Roughness Elements
LPSE
Boundary-Layer Transition
Wind-Tunnel Testing
File:
Download Samuel_Gosin_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
James George Coder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member