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Author:: Goss, Adam
Title:: A Cartesian Immersed Boundary Method Study of Damaged and Undamaged Airfoil Performance
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Performance
Damaged Airfoil
Survivability
Immersed Boundary
Cartesian
Computational Aerodynamics
File:: Download GossMSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Parkhill, Alexander Earl
Title:: Equilibrium Physics in Particulate Flow
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Stokes drag
droplet
particle
Lagrangian tracking
Two-phase flow
equilibrium
tracer
File:: Download Parkhill_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mario F Trujillo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Howard, Anna Kathleen Tyler
Title:: The Aeromechanical Stability of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: full-span
whirl flutter
semi-span
civil tiltrotor
aeromechanical stability
rotorcraft
helicopter
pitch-lag coupling
ground resonance
pitch-flap coupling
air resonance
aeroelastic couplings
stability
tiltrotor
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Borner, Arnaud
Title:: DROPLET VAPORIZATION OF N-HEPTANE IN SUBCRITICAL CONDITIONS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: n-heptane
vaporization
Droplets
molecular dynamics
File:: Download MasterThesis_v3_Arnaud_Borner.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Alexeenko, Alina A.
Title:: MODELING OF MICROSCALE GAS FLOWS USING THE DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: microflow
direct simulation Monte Carlo
rarefied gas flow
finite element analysis
transient heat transfer
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Deborah Levin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

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Author:: Akturk, Ali
Title:: DUCTED FAN INLET/EXIT AND ROTOR TIP FLOW IMPROVEMENTS FOR VERTICAL LIFT SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Ducted fan
Inlet flow distortion
Tip leakage
Tip leakage mitigation
Double ducted fan
Pressure side platform
Fan rotor tip loss
Tip treatment
File:: Download Ali_Akturk-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member

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Author:: Chakrabarty, Anjan
Title:: FLIGHT PATH PLANNING OF UAV BASED ON ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY HARVESTING
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: path planning
UAV
energy harvestation
File:: Download Chakrabarty_MS.pdf
Committee Members:: Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Marques, Alvord
Title:: Controllable elastic couplings of composite multi-layer beams
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: controllable stiffness
extension-twist
bending-twist couplings
polymer glass transition
File:: Download Final_thesis_MSAug4th.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan Gandhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Premi, Amandeep
Title:: QUALIFICATION OF AIRFOIL TRANSITION MEASUREMENTS TAKEN IN THE PENN STATE LOW-SPEED, LOW-TURBULENCE WIND TUNNEL
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: hot film
hot wire
wind-tunnel
transition
freestream spectrum
receptivity
File:: Download Amandeep-Premi_Masters-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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