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Author:: Tuttle, Brian Craig
Title:: Nonlinear acoustic streaming in straight and tapered tubes
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: nonlinear acoustics
acoustic streaming
thermoacoustics
computational fluid dynamics
File:: Download BCT_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Victor Ward Sparrow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member
Robert Mitchel Keolian, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

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Author:: Brady, John Feurman
Title:: The effects of geometry and adjacent regenerators on shell-and-tube heat exchangers in oscillating flows
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: thermoacoustics
heat transfer
oscillating flow
acoustics
heat exchangers
File:: Download John_F_Brady_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert Mitchel Keolian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Mitchel Keolian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member

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Author:: Hilt, Matthew Gordon
Title:: A SOLID-STATE HEAT PUMP USING ELECTROCALORIC CERAMIC ELEMENTS
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: thermoacoustics
electrocaloric effect
ceramic processing
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: J D Maynard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J D Maynard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

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Author:: Montgomery, Paul James
Title:: Low-Cost Thermoacoustic Cogenerator for Use in Bio-Mass Burning Cook Stoves
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: thermoacoustics
cook stoves
acoustics
soot
global warming
File:: Download MontgomeryMThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Ali, Randall Azhar
Title:: Self-powered Thermoacoustic Sensor for In-pile Nuclear Reactor Monitoring
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: acoustics
thermoacoustics
nuclear
temperature
sensor
in-pile
self-powered
reactor
telemetry
wireless
sensing
fuel-rod
File:: Download RALI_MS_Thesis_in_Acoustics_Final_Version_2013.pdf
Committee Members:: Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Ernest Poese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Hrisko, Joshua Eric
Title:: Detectability prediction for a thermoacoustic sensor in the breazeale nuclear reactor pool
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: acoustics
thermoacoustics
sensors
breazeale
nuclear
reactor
signal processing
vibration
frequency
detection
radiation
File:: Download Hrisko_Penn_State_Final_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: McKay, Vernecia Sharae
Title:: Numerical Simulation of Conditionally Turbulent Oscillatory Boundary Layers in Thermoacoustic Devices
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: intermittent turbulence
oscillatory flow
thermoacoustics
File:: Download VSMcKay-Dissertation_21Nov2016good.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Kenneth Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Lyle Long, Committee Member
Dr. Victory Sparrow, Committee Member
Dr. Anthony Atchley, Outside Member

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