Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Characterizing Climb and Propeller Performance for a Fixed pitch, Single-Engine, Electric Aircraft, Austin Lawrence Andwan
Propellant Optimization for a Pulsed Solid Propellant Thruster System for Small Satellites, Timothy Aaron Blackman
Stress-Based Topology Optimization of Pi Preform-Bonded Composite Laminate Structure, Iwan Broodryk
Unified Model of Lightning & Electrostatic Discharges Across the Solar System, Annelisa Blackwell Esparza
Accelerated Aging of Adhesively Bonded Composite Joints for use in Material Screening and Selection During Development: A Review and Case Study, Marie Danielle Flanigan
Residual Strength Estimation of Degraded Bonded Joints based on Non-Destructive Evaluations, Guilherme Garcia Momm
Comparison of Stability and Control Characteristics of the Pipistrel Virus SW and Pipistrel Velis Electro, Sean Gregory Gunther
The Development of a New All-in-one Allsky Camera and Radiometer System, Ashley Suzanne Hughes
Carbon Fiber Interleaved Polyester Laminate Strength Testing with Correlation in Finite Element Simulations, Hieu Le Huynh
Investigating the O’Connell Effect in Kepler Eclipsing Binaries, Matthew Frederick Knote
Flight Test of a Floatplane Modification to the C-130J Aircraft, Daniel Jacob Kulp
Developmental Evaluation of the B-1B Aircraft, Jonathon Malycke
Analysis of Proposed Active Radiation Shielding Design Concept for Spacecraft, Claire Mechmann
Numerical Study of the Effects of Injector Geometry on the Performance of Rotating Detonation Engines, Xavier Roy
Extreme-Contrast Ratio Imaging of Bright Star Fields using Charge-Injection Devices, Sailee Mangesh Sawant
Infrared Search for N-Butane and Trans-2-Butene in Titan’s Atmosphere, Brendan Steffens
Piper PA-28-181 Archer III Tail #931EC Flight Test Stability, Control and Performance, Steven Allan Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Stability and Control Flight Testing of the Dassault Falcon 10/100, Andres Mauricio Alarcon Vega
Crashworthiness of Metallic Tubes Under Off-Axial Loading, Victor Manuel Bautista Katsalukha
Numerical Validation of a Cryogenic Thermo-Fluid Mixing Model, Sean William Bowman
Design, Assembly, and Testing of a Small 3D-printed Thick-GEM, Jerry Lamar Collins II
Exploration of Simplified Vehicle Operations for Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Through a Garmin Autopilot on a Piper Warrior, William Stefan Dietrich
Experimental Study of Progressive Crushing Behaviour in Pultruded E-Glass Tubes Using Crown Triggers and A New Perforated Trigger, Chirag Mohan Dodani
Flight Test Evaluation of Elevator Stick Force Gradients on General Aviation Aircraft, Isaac Lee Faust
Scaling Laws for Fixed-Wing Single-Engine Electric Propulsion Systems, Fnu Hem Lata
Helicopter Flight Energy Modeling and Scaling for Urban Air Mobility Applications, Nolan Gene Hopkins
Feasibility Analysis and Performance Study of a Pulsed Solid Propellant Integrated Propulsion System for Small Satellites, Tahir Kanchwala
Autonomous Feature Detection for Capture Path Planning for Rendezvous and Docking with Non-Cooperative Spacecraft, Trupti Mahendrakar
Scaling Flight Test Data Between a Scaled Aircraft and a Cessna 172 for Use in Trajectory Energy Model Validation, Cody William Nettleton
Reduced Sample Minimum Strength Estimates for Novel Material Systems: Effects on Confidence and Structural Risk, Andrew Carl Ollikainen
Intermittency Scaling Laws in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Theory, Simulations and Observations, Juan Carlos Palacios Caicedo
ARION 33: A Prospective Mission to Near-Earth Asteroids, Alita Regi
Performance Profile Testing of the Dassault Falcon 10/100, Thomas Henry Bolek Roman
Design and Evaluation of a Variable Camber Morphing Wing with Compliant Flex Core and Retractable Wing Skin, Ferruccio Rossi
A Numerical Study of Jovian Moist Convection with a new Convective Adjustment Scheme, and Implications for Jupiter’s Water Abundance, Ramanakumar Sankar
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
Timing Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei, Evan Arnold Smith
Hydrogen/Diesel Co-Combustion in Compression Ignition Engines Through Hydrogen Ingestion and Direct Hydrogen Injection, Helge Hening von Helldorff-Garn
Testing and Performance Analysis of a New Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) System for Hurricane Monitoring, Jianing Wang
Characterization and Modeling of Upward Lightning at the Gaisberg Tower, Naomi Watanabe
Analytical Airflow Solution of a Helicopter Engine Bay and Novel Bay Cooling Cowling Design, Daniel Evan Yastishock
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Flight Path Control During Hypersonic Atmospheric Entry Using Active Magnetic Arrays, Matthew Tyler Austin
Beacon Aided Robotics for Martian Cave Mapping, Ryan Joseph Capozzi
J-85 Model Development For Performance Optimization, Austin Childers
Flight Testing of the Piper J4A Cub Coupe, Kenneth Burton Connick
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
A Quantitative Analysis of the Robinson R44 Performance Characteristics, Jon Carroll Holzman
General Electric J85 Engine Flame Holder Tooling, Jacob Portugal
Test and Evaluation of an Artec Leo 3D Scanner, Chelsea Alexis Reichard
Flight Tests of Trajectory Energy Management Systems Using a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicle, Emils Senkans
Use of Garmin Autopilot Envelope Protection System for Simplified Vehicle Operations in General Aviation, Stephen Sullivan
Measuring Pilot Control Force in General Aviation: Strain gauges and Load Cell, Benjamin David Wyma
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Weak Turbulence Closures in Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics, Augustus Antanas Azelis
Study of a Crew Transfer Vehicle Using Aerocapture for Cycler Based Exploration of Mars, Larissa Balestrero Machado
Point Cloud Based Relative Navigation for Small Satellite Rendezvous, Branden William Blackwell
Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Spectroscopic Studies of Gigantic Jets and Lightning Leaders, Levi Boggs
Deep Space Radiation Shelter through Magnetic Shielding, Lauren Elizabeth Eastberg Persons
Advanced Astroinformatics for Variable Star Classification, Kyle Burton Johnston
A Compositional Analysis of Artificial and Terrestrial Analog Martian Regolith Simulants, Beverly Watson Kemmerer
Investigating the Effects of Altitude and Flap Setting on the Specific Excess Power of a PA-28-161 Piper Warrior, Tjimon Meric Louisy
Linear Theory of Alfvén Wave Reflections at a Density Discontinuity, Shane Marcus
Earth – Mars Cycler Vehicle Conceptual Design, Bhumika Patel
Dynamics Considerations Dedicated to Study Bodies in High-Altitude Free Fall, Michelle Carolina Rodriguez
A First-Principle Power and Energy Model for eVTOL Vehicles, Max Skuhersky
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Comparing Specific Excess Power of General Aviation Aircraft, Yohan Forbes Auguste
Self-Assembly of Protein Fibrils in Microgravity, Dylan Bell
Automated Software for the Detection of Bolide Events, Elena Botella
Control Laws for Autonomous Landing on Pitching Decks, Kendrick Buchala
Aerodynamic Model of the Piper Warrior II Based on Flight Test Data, Nicholas Casciola
Development of Adaptable Human-Machine Interface for Teleoperation Over Time Delay, May Nyein Chan
Numerical Analysis of a Compact Helical Counterflow Heat Exchanger, Manikandan Chidambaram
Dynamics of Spacecraft Orbital Refueling, Casey Clark
X-rays from Magnetic B-type Stars, Corinne Fletcher
Development of a Static Aeroelastic Database Using NASTRAN SOL 144 for Aircraft Flight Loads Analysis from Conceptual Design Through Flight Test, Ryan M. Haughey
Direct Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flow through Porous Packs over a wide Range of Reynolds Numbers, Antoine Michael Diego Jost
CubeSat Docking and Resource Sharing Mechanism, Shingo Kunito
Evaluation of Augmented Reality Glasses for Use in Flight Test Courses, Leonardo Macena Silveira
Control Development for Autonomous Landing of Quadcopter on Moving Platform, Rakhayai Mangsatabam
Effect of Film Cooling Hole Size on a Turbine Rotor Blade, Klint Martis
Quantitative Measurement Techniques for Vibration and Buffet, Edward Thomas Meyer
Numerical and Analytical Modelling for Droplet Evaporation Resulting in Convective Flow Cooling Verified by Experimentation, Adwaith Ravichandran
Free Response and Trim Force Requirements for Aircraft Configuration Changes, Marvin Toepfer
Modeling and Control of a 6-DOF Multi-rotorcraft: Air-Ball, Jerry Ja Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Single Waypoint ZEM/ZEV Based Closed-Loop Controller Design for Rendezvous with a Rotating Target, Armando Alvarez Rolins
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
System Study of an On-Orbit Additive Manufacturing CubeSat, Juliette Isabelle Bido
Testing the Wind-Shock Paradigm for B-Type Star X-Ray Production with θ Carinae, Trisha F. Doyle
Flight Testing Angle-of-Attack Warning Combinations on Part 23 Aircraft, Jennifer Grey Geehan
Effect of the Wake Structure on Drag Coefficient for a Thin Flexible Wire, Harika Gurram
Takeoff and Landing Distance Measurement: An Evaluation of Laser Altimetry for the Collection of Absolute Aircraft Altitude, Christopher John Kennedy
The Effects of Thunderstorm Static and Quasi-Static Electric Fields on the Lower Ionosphere, Mohammad Ahmad Salem
Design of a Compact Helical Counterflow Heat Exchanger, Aravindakshan Thirumalai Ananthanpillai
Sensitivity of Facial Organs of Pythons as Deduced by Radiation Heat Transfer Analysis Under Varying Environmental Conditions, Rama Wairagkar
Holistic Methodology for Stochastic Space Mission Utility Analysis, Ja'Mar Alexander Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Flight Test Investigation on the Effects of Aircraft Flap Configuration Change on Longitudinal Trim, Tiziano Bernard