Numerical modeling of gas and plasma-surface interactions is critical to understanding the complex kinetic processes that dominate the extreme environments of planetary entry and in-space propulsion. However, simulations ...

Phase-locked stereoscopic PIV measurements were conducted to understand the interaction of inclined fluidic oscillator jets with a crossflow across a range of different blowing ratios. The fluidic oscillators used in the ...

In this work, the tensile behavior of an additively manufactured (AM) alloy, titanium 6Al-4V, or Ti-6Al-4V (by wt. 90% titanium, 6% aluminum, 4% vanadium), is examined on multiple length scales using two-dimensional (2-D) ...

The second dynamic fracture problem addressed in this thesis is concerned with the issue of intersonic crack propagation, a topic of great interest in the fracture mechanics and geophysics community with the recent first ...

This research compares the performance of three filters when applied to the problem of orbit determination using actual satellite data obtained from ground based radars. The states estimated are the osculating classical ...

Multielement airfoil configurations have shown promise in improving the aerodynamic and structural characteristics of the inboard section of megawatt-scale wind turbine blades by increasing the lift coefficients and ...

Simulation of chemical lasers such as the chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) is of timely interest due to the recent acceleration of the airborne laser military research program and ongoing commercial development programs. ...

This thesis presents the theory and implementation of a parallel software package for transferring data between non-matching planar interfaces. The method used for transferring data is based on the common refinement technique ...