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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Characterizing Climb and Propeller Performance for a Fixed pitch, Single-Engine, Electric Aircraft, Austin Lawrence Andwan

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Propellant Optimization for a Pulsed Solid Propellant Thruster System for Small Satellites, Timothy Aaron Blackman

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Stress-Based Topology Optimization of Pi Preform-Bonded Composite Laminate Structure, Iwan Broodryk

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Unified Model of Lightning & Electrostatic Discharges Across the Solar System, Annelisa Blackwell Esparza

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Accelerated Aging of Adhesively Bonded Composite Joints for use in Material Screening and Selection During Development: A Review and Case Study, Marie Danielle Flanigan

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Residual Strength Estimation of Degraded Bonded Joints based on Non-Destructive Evaluations, Guilherme Garcia Momm

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Comparison of Stability and Control Characteristics of the Pipistrel Virus SW and Pipistrel Velis Electro, Sean Gregory Gunther

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The Development of a New All-in-one Allsky Camera and Radiometer System, Ashley Suzanne Hughes

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Carbon Fiber Interleaved Polyester Laminate Strength Testing with Correlation in Finite Element Simulations, Hieu Le Huynh

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Investigating the O’Connell Effect in Kepler Eclipsing Binaries, Matthew Frederick Knote

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Flight Test of a Floatplane Modification to the C-130J Aircraft, Daniel Jacob Kulp

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Developmental Evaluation of the B-1B Aircraft, Jonathon Malycke

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Analysis of Proposed Active Radiation Shielding Design Concept for Spacecraft, Claire Mechmann

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Construction and Testing of Large-Area GEM Detectors for the Forward Muon Endcap Upgrade of the CMS Experiment and Vector-Portal Search for Dark Matter Particles with Dimuon Pairs at √s = 13 TeV, Mehdi Rahmani

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Numerical Study of the Effects of Injector Geometry on the Performance of Rotating Detonation Engines, Xavier Roy

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Extreme-Contrast Ratio Imaging of Bright Star Fields using Charge-Injection Devices, Sailee Mangesh Sawant

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Infrared Search for N-Butane and Trans-2-Butene in Titan’s Atmosphere, Brendan Steffens

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Piper PA-28-181 Archer III Tail #931EC Flight Test Stability, Control and Performance, Steven Allan Sutton

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Stability and Control Flight Testing of the Dassault Falcon 10/100, Andres Mauricio Alarcon Vega

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Crashworthiness of Metallic Tubes Under Off-Axial Loading, Victor Manuel Bautista Katsalukha

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Numerical Validation of a Cryogenic Thermo-Fluid Mixing Model, Sean William Bowman

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Design, Assembly, and Testing of a Small 3D-printed Thick-GEM, Jerry Lamar Collins II

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Exploration of Simplified Vehicle Operations for Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Through a Garmin Autopilot on a Piper Warrior, William Stefan Dietrich

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Experimental Study of Progressive Crushing Behaviour in Pultruded E-Glass Tubes Using Crown Triggers and A New Perforated Trigger, Chirag Mohan Dodani

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Flight Test Evaluation of Elevator Stick Force Gradients on General Aviation Aircraft, Isaac Lee Faust

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Extraction of Pendulum Model Parameters from Steady-state Slosh Data with Adaptive Gradient Descending Optimization Method for Spacecraft Propellant Tanks, Tengjie Gao

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Scaling Laws for Fixed-Wing Single-Engine Electric Propulsion Systems, Fnu Hem Lata

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Helicopter Flight Energy Modeling and Scaling for Urban Air Mobility Applications, Nolan Gene Hopkins

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Feasibility Analysis and Performance Study of a Pulsed Solid Propellant Integrated Propulsion System for Small Satellites, Tahir Kanchwala

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Autonomous Feature Detection for Capture Path Planning for Rendezvous and Docking with Non-Cooperative Spacecraft, Trupti Mahendrakar

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Scaling Flight Test Data Between a Scaled Aircraft and a Cessna 172 for Use in Trajectory Energy Model Validation, Cody William Nettleton

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Reduced Sample Minimum Strength Estimates for Novel Material Systems: Effects on Confidence and Structural Risk, Andrew Carl Ollikainen

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Intermittency Scaling Laws in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Theory, Simulations and Observations, Juan Carlos Palacios Caicedo

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ARION 33: A Prospective Mission to Near-Earth Asteroids, Alita Regi

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Performance Profile Testing of the Dassault Falcon 10/100, Thomas Henry Bolek Roman

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Design and Evaluation of a Variable Camber Morphing Wing with Compliant Flex Core and Retractable Wing Skin, Ferruccio Rossi

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A Numerical Study of Jovian Moist Convection with a new Convective Adjustment Scheme, and Implications for Jupiter’s Water Abundance, Ramanakumar Sankar

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Measurement of the top quark mass using leptonic observables in tt events produced in pp collisions at sqrt s = 13 TeV with the CMS Experiment at the LHC, Mark Douglas Saunders

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Timing Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei, Evan Arnold Smith

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Hydrogen/Diesel Co-Combustion in Compression Ignition Engines Through Hydrogen Ingestion and Direct Hydrogen Injection, Helge Hening von Helldorff-Garn

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Testing and Performance Analysis of a New Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) System for Hurricane Monitoring, Jianing Wang

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Characterization and Modeling of Upward Lightning at the Gaisberg Tower, Naomi Watanabe

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Analytical Airflow Solution of a Helicopter Engine Bay and Novel Bay Cooling Cowling Design, Daniel Evan Yastishock

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Flight Path Control During Hypersonic Atmospheric Entry Using Active Magnetic Arrays, Matthew Tyler Austin

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Beacon Aided Robotics for Martian Cave Mapping, Ryan Joseph Capozzi

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J-85 Model Development For Performance Optimization, Austin Childers

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Flight Testing of the Piper J4A Cub Coupe, Kenneth Burton Connick

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Existence of Ballistic Capture Transfer Trajectories from Trans-Lunar Injection to Lunar Polar Orbit for all Lunar Phases at Time of Departure, Anthony Lawrence Genova

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Robinson R44 Performance Characteristics, Jon Carroll Holzman

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General Electric J85 Engine Flame Holder Tooling, Jacob Portugal

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Test and Evaluation of an Artec Leo 3D Scanner, Chelsea Alexis Reichard

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Flight Tests of Trajectory Energy Management Systems Using a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicle, Emils Senkans

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Use of Garmin Autopilot Envelope Protection System for Simplified Vehicle Operations in General Aviation, Stephen Sullivan

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Measuring Pilot Control Force in General Aviation: Strain gauges and Load Cell, Benjamin David Wyma

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Application of Neural Networks for Solving One Dimensional Inverse Heat Conduction Problems with Surface Ablation, Jian Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Weak Turbulence Closures in Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics, Augustus Antanas Azelis

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Study of a Crew Transfer Vehicle Using Aerocapture for Cycler Based Exploration of Mars, Larissa Balestrero Machado

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Point Cloud Based Relative Navigation for Small Satellite Rendezvous, Branden William Blackwell

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Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Spectroscopic Studies of Gigantic Jets and Lightning Leaders, Levi Boggs

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Deep Space Radiation Shelter through Magnetic Shielding, Lauren Elizabeth Eastberg Persons

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Advanced Astroinformatics for Variable Star Classification, Kyle Burton Johnston

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A Compositional Analysis of Artificial and Terrestrial Analog Martian Regolith Simulants, Beverly Watson Kemmerer

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Investigating the Effects of Altitude and Flap Setting on the Specific Excess Power of a PA-28-161 Piper Warrior, Tjimon Meric Louisy

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Linear Theory of Alfvén Wave Reflections at a Density Discontinuity, Shane Marcus

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Earth – Mars Cycler Vehicle Conceptual Design, Bhumika Patel

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Dynamics Considerations Dedicated to Study Bodies in High-Altitude Free Fall, Michelle Carolina Rodriguez

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A First-Principle Power and Energy Model for eVTOL Vehicles, Max Skuhersky

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Comparing Specific Excess Power of General Aviation Aircraft, Yohan Forbes Auguste

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Self-Assembly of Protein Fibrils in Microgravity, Dylan Bell

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Automated Software for the Detection of Bolide Events, Elena Botella

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Control Laws for Autonomous Landing on Pitching Decks, Kendrick Buchala

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Aerodynamic Model of the Piper Warrior II Based on Flight Test Data, Nicholas Casciola

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Development of Adaptable Human-Machine Interface for Teleoperation Over Time Delay, May Nyein Chan

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Numerical Analysis of a Compact Helical Counterflow Heat Exchanger, Manikandan Chidambaram

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Dynamics of Spacecraft Orbital Refueling, Casey Clark

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X-rays from Magnetic B-type Stars, Corinne Fletcher

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Development of a Static Aeroelastic Database Using NASTRAN SOL 144 for Aircraft Flight Loads Analysis from Conceptual Design Through Flight Test, Ryan M. Haughey

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Direct Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flow through Porous Packs over a wide Range of Reynolds Numbers, Antoine Michael Diego Jost

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CubeSat Docking and Resource Sharing Mechanism, Shingo Kunito

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Evaluation of Augmented Reality Glasses for Use in Flight Test Courses, Leonardo Macena Silveira

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Control Development for Autonomous Landing of Quadcopter on Moving Platform, Rakhayai Mangsatabam

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Effect of Film Cooling Hole Size on a Turbine Rotor Blade, Klint Martis

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Quantitative Measurement Techniques for Vibration and Buffet, Edward Thomas Meyer

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Numerical and Analytical Modelling for Droplet Evaporation Resulting in Convective Flow Cooling Verified by Experimentation, Adwaith Ravichandran

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Measurement of the cross section of top quark pairs in association with a photon in lepton+jets events at √s =13 TeV, Titas Roy

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Free Response and Trim Force Requirements for Aircraft Configuration Changes, Marvin Toepfer

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Modeling and Control of a 6-DOF Multi-rotorcraft: Air-Ball, Jerry Ja Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Single Waypoint ZEM/ZEV Based Closed-Loop Controller Design for Rendezvous with a Rotating Target, Armando Alvarez Rolins

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Development of Large-Area GEM Detectors for the Forward Muon Endcap Upgrade of the CMS Experiment and Search for SM Higgs Boson Decay in the H → τ+τ− → μ+μ−¯νμνμ¯ντντ Channel at √ s = 13 TeV, Vallary Shashikant Bhopatkar

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System Study of an On-Orbit Additive Manufacturing CubeSat, Juliette Isabelle Bido

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Testing the Wind-Shock Paradigm for B-Type Star X-Ray Production with θ Carinae, Trisha F. Doyle

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Flight Testing Angle-of-Attack Warning Combinations on Part 23 Aircraft, Jennifer Grey Geehan

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Effect of the Wake Structure on Drag Coefficient for a Thin Flexible Wire, Harika Gurram

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Takeoff and Landing Distance Measurement: An Evaluation of Laser Altimetry for the Collection of Absolute Aircraft Altitude, Christopher John Kennedy

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The Effects of Thunderstorm Static and Quasi-Static Electric Fields on the Lower Ionosphere, Mohammad Ahmad Salem

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Design of a Compact Helical Counterflow Heat Exchanger, Aravindakshan Thirumalai Ananthanpillai

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Sensitivity of Facial Organs of Pythons as Deduced by Radiation Heat Transfer Analysis Under Varying Environmental Conditions, Rama Wairagkar

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Holistic Methodology for Stochastic Space Mission Utility Analysis, Ja'Mar Alexander Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Flight Test Investigation on the Effects of Aircraft Flap Configuration Change on Longitudinal Trim, Tiziano Bernard

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A Maximum Entropy Approach to Identifying Important Statistical Moments to Best-Represent Spray Distribution Data, Cheng Chen