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(2018-12-14)This study aims to address the problem of attitude control of spacecraft in presence of thrust uncertainty, which leads to stochastic accelerations. Spacecraft equipped with electric propulsion and other low thrust mechanisms, ...
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(2012-02-06)Large, complex systems are prone to the phenomenon of livelocks. Once a system enters a livelocked-state, there is at least one activity of the modeled system that cannot be executed from all subsequent states of the ...
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(2019-04-24)Experiments were performed on a slotted natural laminar flow airfoil, the S414. The slotted natural laminar flow airfoil concept was developed to satisfy design constraints of high maximum lift and low profile drag. A ...
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(2011-10-24)Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) derived from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) have not yet demonstrated the high tensile strength and Young’s modulus of their microscale counterparts. This is due to the current lack of understanding of ...
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(1999)The objective of this thesis is to develop a design method together with a design philosophy that allows the design of "subscale" or "hybrid" airfoils that simulate fullscale ice accretions. These subscale or hybrid airfoils ...
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(2004)Five examples, showing both lifting and non-lifting bodies, are presented. The final two examples demonstrate how the method can be applied to the design of geometries consisting of several components. The method was able ...
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(1999)In this thesis, the hybrid approach has been applied to the development of inverse methods for the design of (1) multi-element airfoils for multipoint velocity and boundary-layer prescriptions and (2) airfoils to obtain ...
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(2000)To examine mechanisms for the production of large-amplitude, steady disturbances at elevated Reynolds number, the effective porosity of the medium is reconsidered. Experimental results and detailed microscale flow simulations ...
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(2014-05-30)This study explores the Systems Engineering involved in creating an environmentally green system for transporting cargo using aircraft. The study looked at using hydrogen and the resulting infrastructure to allow the ...
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(2017-04-25)Future large-scale Mars surface exploration missions require landed masses beyond the capability of current entry, descent, and landing technology. High-mass missions will likely use supersonic retropropulsion to increase ...
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(2003)Vortex structures observed in the shear layer were presumed to be the cause of large-scale pressure fluctuations upstream of reattachment at small angles of attack. Pressure spectra near reattachment exhibited wide bandwidth ...
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(2007)Previous iced airfoil investigations have demonstrated somewhat reduced aerodynamic penalties resulting from a three-dimensional ice simulation, compared to those of a two-dimensional ice simulation of a representative ...
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(2013-05-24)The goal of this thesis is to identify potential Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) that are viable candidates for human exploration. The computational method incorporated to help identify these targets is the particle swarm ...
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(1998)The results of this study demonstrate that boron particle lifetimes at elevated pressures are sufficiently short to make these particles suitable for additives to propellants and that smaller 1-10 $\mu$m sized particles, ...
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(2018-04-27)This thesis proposes an integrated simulation tool to evaluate the impact of future in-space additive manufacturing (ISAM) and recycling technologies on the responsiveness of an on-orbit servicing (OOS) infrastructure to ...
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(1995)Improved collocation methods for the solution of a set of ordinary differential equations are developed and used to solve minimum-time, Earth-moon orbit transfers. These collocation methods are based on a family of modified ...
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(2005)An improved collocation method is developed for a class of problems that is intractable, or nearly so, by conventional collocation. These are problems in which there are two distinct timescales of the system states, that ...
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(2015-07-15)In this thesis, we present a model-based observer for inertial navigation of quadrotors and other multirotor aircraft. We include in our model a Coriolis term that has been neglected in prior work. Doing so allows us to ...
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(2018-04-27)The University of Illinois has developed the IlliniSat-2 CubeSat bus, a generic scalable and modular design, utilizing commercially available off the shelf (COTS) parts. The Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) ...
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(1988)A new solution procedure was developed to solve the Euler equations for steady, compressible, rotational, inviscid flows. The approach is aimed to achieve real inviscid solutions in Euler calculations by eliminating the ...
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