• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MINIATURE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND ELECTRIC MOTOR FOR UAV PROPULSION 

  Chiclana, Branden (2017)

  This thesis compares the performance of an engine/fuel tank based propulsion system to a motor/battery based propulsion system of equal total mass. The results show that the endurance of the engine/fuel system at the same ...

• Ion Plume Damage in Formation Flight Regimes 

  Young, Jarred Alexander (2017)

  This effort examines the potential for damage from plume impingement from an electric propulsion system within spacecraft missions that utilize a formation flight architecture. Specifically, the potential erosion of a ...

• CAD-based Modeling of Advanced Rotary Wing Structures for Integrated 3-D Aeromechanics Analysis 

  Staruk, William (2017)

  This dissertation describes the first comprehensive use of integrated 3-D aeromechanics modeling, defined as the coupling of 3-D solid finite element method (FEM) structural dynamics with 3-D computational fluid dynamics ...

• Unsteady force production on a flat plate wing by large transverse gusts and plunging maneuvers 

  Perrotta, Gino (2017)

  The transient forces produced by large-amplitude transverse gust encounters and plunge maneuvers were studied experimentally in a water-filled towing tank. Forces were measured as a flat plate wing with an aspect ratio of ...

• Assessment of Turbulence Length Scales in Hybrid RANS-LES Methods 

  Jain, Nishan (2017)

  Separated flows are common in many scenarios of practical interest. Key examples of these scenarios include static stall over fixed wing aircraft and dynamic stall over rotorcraft blades. During rotor operation at high ...

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