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• Aerodynamics of lifting surfaces in propeller slipstreams 

  Chadha, Sparsh Adhir (2016-12-09)

  The high-speed flow in the wake of the propeller also known as propeller wash, or simply propwash, can severely affect the aerodynamic forces on a lifting surface. Steady-state computational results for a symmetric SD8020 ...

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• Dynamic modeling of a robotic spacecraft for NASA’s asteroid redirect robotic mission 

  Saxena, Ayush ASaxena (2016-12-07)

  NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) aims to pick up a boulder from the surface of a large asteroid and transport it to a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon for future exploration by a manned mission. This ...

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• Adjoint-based optimization for hyperbolic balance laws in the presence of discontinuities 

  Fikl, Alexandru (2016-12-06)

  In this thesis, we are interested in optimization in multiphase flows using discrete adjoint-based methods. The main issues we will endeavor to study are the impact on the linearized and adjoint equations of discontinuous ...

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• Piecewise Bézier curve trajectory generation and control for quadrotors 

  Lakshmanan, Arun (2016-12-09)

  Quadrotors have the capability of being immensely useful vehicles to aid humans in labor intensive tasks. The critical challenge of using quadrotors inside homes is the efficient navigation of these vehicles in tight spaces ...

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• Nonlinear attitude control of spacecraft with strain-actuated solar arrays 

  Nakka, Yashwanth Kumar (2016-09-02)

  This thesis presents a mathematical framework for precision attitude control of a spacecraft using the inertial coupling between the spacecraft and solar arrays. The spacecraft with solar arrays is modeled as a one degree ...

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