During hypersonic trajectory through a planetary atmosphere a high heat flux environment is generated due to the friction between gas particles and the vehicle. To protect it from the excessive heat energy that is transferred ...

A series of numerical simulations have been made of compressible two-phase flows containing inert particles. An existing conservative, monotonic compressible flow solver with an unstructured, adaptive mesh was used as the ...

In this thesis, we have used Molecular Dynamics (MD) to study the role of van der Waals and Coulomb interactions on two fundamental processes, namely, gas-surface interactions and electrospray propulsion, respectively. For ...

A plasma-assisted hydrogen diffusion flame, denoted as a coaxial AC DBD burner, was designed and analyzed for comparisons with simulations and to better understand the coupling of the plasma and reacting flow. Emission, ...

We investigate the effect of coupling an essentially nonlinear and dissipative attachment to a linearly-sprung circular cylinder undergoing rectilinear vortex-induced vibration (VIV) normal to the mean flow. The attachment ...

This dissertation for the first time analyzed the turbulence effect on the simplified Jones' equation with measurements using a Pitot probe, and found that this method includes a portion of the turbulence effect into account ...

This thesis addresses some of the fundamental issues/aspects as well as practical significance of impact response in granular media. In the first part of the study, we investigate numerically the effect of randomness in ...

Sonic boom attenuation is a considerable design challenge to enable civilian aircraft to operate at supersonic flight conditions. One technology proposed by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation for the production of low-noise ...