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Author:: Brillembourg, Dwight David
Title:: Wind Turbines Under Atmospheric Icing Conditions - Ice Accretion Modeling, Aerodynamics, and Control Strategies for Mitigating Performance Degradation
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: wind turbine
icing
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Stavely, Rebecca Lee
Title:: Design of Contact-aided Compliant Cellular Mechanisms for Use as Passive Variable Thermal Conductivity Structures
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: passive thermal switch
thermal contact resistance
compliant mechanism
thermal conductivity
File:: Download Stavely_Rebecca_Thesis_CORRECTED.pdf
Committee Members:: George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Barron, Heather Marie
Title:: Acoustic Analysis of Compound Helicopters with Trim Variations
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Helicopter
rotorcraft
rotor
craft
acoustic
WOPWOP
PSU-WOPWOP
aerospace
compound
analysis
File:: Download Barron_Thesis_v10.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Krishnamurthi, Jayanth
Title:: Design and Simulation of a Lagged Cable Angle Feedback Control System for Helicopter Slung Loads
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: slung load
control design
dynamic inversion
simulation
File:: Download Jayanth_Krishnamurthi-Masters_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Patil, Varun Nandan
Title:: Study of Shock-Shock Interactions for the HET Facility Double Wedge Configuration using the DSMC Approach
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Hypersonic Flows
Shock-shock interactions
DSMC
File:: Download 1-thesis_varun.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Deborah Ann Levin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Hammond, Peter J
Title:: Characterization and Gas Temperature Measurements of a Waveguide-based Microwave Plasma Torch
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Microwave
plasma
torch
File:: Download PHammond_-_Dissertation__Final_.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Matthew Micci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Dr Deborah A Levin, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member

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Author:: Skidmore, Grant Marston
Title:: The Pulsation of Ventilated Supercavities
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Supercavitation
Pulsation
Cavitation
Oscillation
Resonance
Ventilated Supercavities
Two Phase Flow
File:: Download Skidmore-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Jules Washington Lindau V, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy A Brungart, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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Author:: Hennes, Christopher Conrad
Title:: Computation of Interactional Aerodynamics for Noise Prediction of Heavy Lift Rotorcraft
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Acoustics
Rotorcraft
Computational Fluid Dynamics
File:: Download HennesThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth Steven Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member

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