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Author:

Kim, Byungsoo

Title:

Development of Macrosegregation During Solidification of Binary Metal Alloys

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

solidification
alloy
macrosegregation

File:

Download BK_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dhyshyanthan Sathianathan, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member

Author:

Bonaventura, Clifford S.

Title:

A MODULAR APPROACH TO THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX ROBOT SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robotics
forward dynamics
dynamic simulation
constrained motion

File:

Download Thesis_Bonaventura.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
David J Cannon, Committee Member
Keith W Buffinton, Committee Member

Author:

Heverly II, David E.

Title:

Optimal Actuator Placement and Active Structure Design for Control of Helicopter Airframe Vibrations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
smart structures
active control
helicopter
vibrations
actuator placement
structural design
optimization

File:

Download dehthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Tallman, James Albert

Title:

A Computational Study of Tip Desensitization in Axial Flow Turbines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Tip Treatment
Tip Desensitization
Leakage Vortex
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Turbine
Leakage Flow
Axial Flow Turbine

File:

Download James_Tallman_PhD_Thesis_2002.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
L Joel Peltier, Committee Member
Dr Edward Hall, Committee Member

Author:

Driesch, Patricia L

Title:

Acoustic Control in Enclosures Using Optimally Designed Helmholtz Resonators

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

noise control
tractor cabin
optimization
Helmholtz resonators
acoustic absorbers
passive control

File:

Download THESIS_hyperlinks.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Shanwu

Title:

VORTICAL FLOW DYNAMICS AND ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF GAS-TURBINE SWIRL-STABILIZED INJECTORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Swirling Flows
injector dynamics
POD
mode competition
large eddy simulation
mode competition
acoustic admittance
acoustic respons
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
vortex breakdown

File:

Download Shanwu_Wang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Yi-Ping

Title:

COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR OF HAN-BASED LIQUID PROPELLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

pressure exponents.
burning rate controlling mechanisms
decomposition
autocatalytic
pyrolysis
propellants
hydroxylammonium nitrate
combustion

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member