Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Effect of Wing Shape and Ground Proximity on Unsteady Fluid Dynamics During the Perching Maneuver., Dibya Raj Adhikari
Shock Tube Investigation of Fuel Reaction Kinetics in Extreme Combustion Environment, Farhan Arafin
The Effects of Microgravity on the Development of Osteoporosis, Jackson Asiatico
Statistical Analysis of Detonation Stability, Joshua Berson
Design Considerations and Imaging Setup for Liquid Fuel Droplet Detonation Wave Experiments, Nicolas Berube
Investigation of Endothelial Mechanics on Primary Cell Functions: Endothelium Permeability and Wound Healing, Sean Beverung
An Evaluation of Thermocouple Reconstruction Techniques, Derek Brauneis
The Comparison of Water Droplet Breakup in a Shock or Detonation Medium, Sydney Briggs
Gait Strategies While Walking with Discrete Perturbations on a Self-Paced Treadmill, Cesar Castano
The Development of Computational Models for Melting-Solidification Applications Using the Volume-Of-Fluid Method, Brendon Cavainolo
Flow Independent Fuel Injection for More Consistent Liquid Combustion Using Pintile Injectors, Charles Clark
Determination of Damage Initiation Mechanisms in Aerospace Alloys Due to Stress Corrosion Cracking via In-Situ Microscale Characterization Techniques, Remelisa Esteves
Recurrent Neural Network Modeling of a Developed Multi-Nozzle, Piezoelectric-Based, Spray Cooling Testbed, Andrew Fordon
Heat Release And Flame Scale Effects On Turbulence Dynamics In Confined Premixed Flows, Max Fortin
Experimental Analysis on Effects of Inclination and Direction on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Heat Transfer for Internal Pipe Flow, Emmanuel Gabriel-Ohanu
Detonability of a Rotating Detonation Combustor Seeded with Carbon/Hydrocarbon Particles at Fringe Operating Conditions, Matthew Hopwood
Advanced Laser Absorption Spectroscopy For Temperature And Species Measurements In Nitromethane Detonation Afterburn, Nishan Khanal
Development and Testing of an Experimental Apparatus for Evaluation of Aerogel Based Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage, Yakym Khlyapov
Influence of Flow and Stratum Characteristics on Fouling Behavior of Flexible Fiber Patches, Milos Krsmanovic
Characterizing Air Plasma Sprayed Aluminum Oxide Coatings for the Protection of Structures in Lunar Environments, Perla Latorre Suarez
Processing and Characterization of Tissue-Equivalent Hydrogels and Highly Conductive Nanocomposites, Xiangpeng Li
A High-Pressure Shock Tube Study of Hydrogen and Ammonia Addition to Natural Gas for Reduced Carbon Emissions in Power Generation Gas Turbines, Michael Pierro
A Study of the Influence of Heat Flux on Aerodynamics in Hypersonic Flow, Kristina Pionessa
Optimizing Biomechanical models: Estimation of Muscle Tendon Parameters and Ankle Foot Orthosis Stiffness, Sepehr Ramezani
Analytical Model For Cryo-Compressed Adsorption Of Hydrogen In A Porous Material Of Silica Aerogel, Adil Riahi
The Performance of a Liquid-Fueled High Pressure Igniter for Scramjets, Gerardo Rodriguez
Understanding the Mechanisms by which Cable Sway Produces Motion Artifact in Mobile Electroencephalography, David Rojas
Trajectory Design Optimization Using Coupled Radial Basis Functions (CRBFs), Kyler Roy
A Study of the Performance of Wind Turbines Fitted with Sprayed Liquid Flaps, Alexander Spitzer
Mean Pressure Gradient Effects on the Performance of Ramjet Cavity Stabilized Flames, Mason Thornton
Flow Induced Vibration in Corrugated Metal Flexhoses, Patrick Tran
Probing Endothelial Cell Mechanics Under Disturbed Fluid Flow, Jingwen Wu
Multi-material 3D Printing with Hybrid Direct Ink Writing-volumetric Additive Manufacturing (DIW-VAM) System, Jose Zapata
Rotorcraft Lander Fixed to a Descending Capsule Backshell, Corey Zucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Heat Transfer Characterization of Carbon Dioxide in Micro Impinging Jet(s) Near Critical Conditions, Stephen Adeoye
Aerodynamic Characterization of An Elliptical Fairing In the Wake of a Bluff Body, Luis Amaya
Autoignition Delay Time Measurements and Chemical Kinetic Modeling of Hydrogen/Ammonia/Natural Gas Mixtures, Jessica Baker
Decentralized Digital Fabrication of Flexible Micro/Nano Devices Using a Laserjet Printer, Arshya Bamshad
Robotic Mechanisms for Surgery: Applications in Orthopedics and Prostate Biopsy, Pradipta Biswas
Characteristics of Rotating Detonation Engines for Propulsion and Power Generation, Robert Burke
Simulation of a Comprehensive Heat Recovery Steam Generator, Jose Chalarca Castro
Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Renoa Choudhury
Quantitative Metallurgy of Anisotropic Nickel-Base Superalloys Under Tensile and Fatigue Loading, Dominic DeVito
Non-invasive Detection of Elevated Intracranial Pressure Using Spontaneous Tympanic Membrane Pulsation, Rajkumar Dhar
The Breakup of RP-2 Liquid Fuel Droplets in a Detonation Field, Daniel Dyson
Lithium-ion Battery Prognosis with Variational Hybrid Physics-informed Neural Networks, Renato Giorgiani do Nascimento
Broadband Investigation of the Pyrolysis of Propane using a MIR Optical Parametric Oscillator, Robert Greene
Design and Mechanical Characterization of Functionally Graded Sandwich Beams Fabricated via Additive Manufacturing, Timothy Grondin
Shock Tube and Gas Dynamic Design Considerations and Implementation for Extended Test Times, Jacklyn Higgs
Flame-Generated Turbulence for Flame Acceleration and Detonation Transition, Rachel Hytovick
Computational Modeling of Respiratory Airflow in Human Distal Airways Using Hybrid Lung Model, Adnan Islam
The Fluid Dynamics of a Spanwise-Morphing Wing: An Experimental and Analytical Study, Kamlesh Joshi
A Unified Tool For Adaptive Collocation Techniques Applied to Solving Optimal Control Problems, Bethany Kelly
Extreme-Pressure Ignition Studies of Methane and Natural Gas with CO2 with Applications in Rockets and Gas Turbines, Cory Kinney
Influence of Nonlinear Multiaxial Matrix Viscoelasticity on Piezoresistivity of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites, Wolfgang Klimm
An MRI-Guided, Registration-Free Needle Guide for Prostate Biopsy and Study of Needle-Template Interaction, Pankaj Pramod Kulkarni
A Study of Microgravity on Fluid Transport Through Porous Structures in Microfluidic Devices, Sylvain Le Henaff
Energy Based Diagnostics of CFD: Revealing New Insights to Complex Aerodynamics, George Loubimov
On Liquid Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines Characterization and Performance, Vidhan Malik
Quantification of the Aerodynamic Drivers of a Deployable Propeller, David Malyszek
Numerical Study of Flow of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Inside Microchannels with Heat Transfer, Uday Manda
Design and Analysis of a Foldable Propeller Blade, Annan Mashin
Prediction and Validation of Residual Stresses in Additively Manufactured Metal Parts, Jose Mayi Rivas
A Study of Autorotation: Samara Seed Pods and Tethered Autogyros, Jonathan McConnell
Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling of Thermo-Responsive Hydrogels with Improved Mechanical Strength and Swelling Kinetics, Marilu Ortiz Nieves
Time-dependent Yielding and Residual Strain Accumulation of Polymer Membranes, Veli Bugra Ozdemir
Sensitivity of Combustion Liner Contour to Sand Ingestion Clogging, Nelson Padilla
Thermofluidic Characterization of Carbon Dioxide Near Critical Conditions at Microscale, Anatoly Parahovnik
Exploration of Shock-Droplet Ignition and Combustion, John Patten
Modeling and Simulation of a Power Plant Boiler Including the Dynamics of Swell and Shrink, Richard Perman
A Flexible 3D Architecture for Cooling Future Generation Devices, Khan Mohammad Rabbi
Modeling and Experimentation of Buckling of Composite Deployable Booms under Bending, Christopher D. Rehberg
Experimental and Computational Heat Transfer Study of sCO2 Single Jet Impingement, John Richardson
Effects of Work Sharing of Upper and Lower Limbs (WULL) During Ambulatory Movements, Gabriel B. Rios Carbonell
Vibrations of Rotationally Periodic Structures: A Metric for Mistuning Characterization and Vibration Localization, Andres Rodriguez
Experimental Studies on Detonation Initiation and Stabilization in Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows, Daniel Rosato
A New Tessellation Algorithm for Interacting Particles on 2D Manifolds: From Locating Defects to Unfolding Structures, Shah Wasif Sazzad
Interactions of Aerosol Droplets with Ventilated Airflows in the Context of Airborne Pathogen Transmission, Steven Schroeder
Shape Parameter & Nodal Distribution Insensitive Radial Basis Functions for Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems, Ahmed Elsadek Ahmed Elshafee Seleit
Data-Driven Diagnostics and Prognostics for Complex Systems: Methods and Applications, Junchuan Shi
Development of Robotic Medical Devices: Applications in Tele-palpation, Training, and in Orthognathic Surgery, Sakura Sikander
Processing and Characterization of Ultra High Temperature and High Conductive Composites, Haonan Song
Adaptive Analytic Continuation for the State Transition Tensors of the Two-body Problem, Tahsinul Haque Tasif
Investigation of Two-Line and Four-Line Chemiluminescence for Equivalence Ratio Mapping of Elevated Pressure Combustion, Michael Tonarely
A Shock Tube and Diagnostics for Surface Effects at Elevated Pressures with Applications to Methane/Ammonia Ignition, Justin Urso
Generative Adversarial Networks for Extrapolation of Corrosion in Automobile Images, Andre Von Zuben
Studying the Electrostatic Effects on the Dynamics of Charged Lunar Dust via Discrete Element Method, Hao Wang
Crystal Viscoplastic Modeling of Single crystal and Directionally solidified Nickel-base Superalloys, Navindra Wijeyeratne
Data-driven Modeling of Mechanical Behaviors of Additively Manufactured Materials, Ziyang Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Power Sharing Control of Microgrids Using Multi-Agent Systems Methodology, Farzad Aalipour Hafshejani
Damping and Ejection of Sloshing Liquid Drops from Elastic Substrates, MD Erfanul Alam
Exergoeconomic Analysis and Optimization of Novel Cogeneration Systems for Freshwater Production, Power and Cooling, Sattam Alharbi
The Mechanics and Multiphysics of Biomimetic Discrete Exoskeleton Substrates, Hessein Ali