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  • Bio-Inspired Design of Vehicles that Operate in Complex Environments

    Creator:
    Jackson, Danielle M.
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    This dissertation focuses on defining underlying mechanisms to enable the bio-inspired design of aerodynamic and/or hydrodynamic vehicles that operate within complex environments. This dissertation introduces four overarching research gaps found in current bio-inspired design research and four corresponding approach questions that guide the framework of the presented research. This research...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Danielle Monique

  • Aircraft wing optimization using B-spline models and panel methods

    Creator:
    Jackson, Danielle Monique
    Abstract:
    This research investigates shape optimization process, using b-spline models and panel methods, to achieve a high lift to drag ratio for an aerodynamic structure. This research is a proof of concept for further research in aerodynamic shape optimization. The coupled process, involving the design and optimization of a random shape,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Danielle Monique Jackson

  • Percent Area Visual Obscuration of F1 Racecar Canopies

    Creator:
    Jennings, Alex
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    Considering human product interactions early and often in the engineering design process may improve product quality, facilitate user safety, reduce time to market, decrease or eliminate the need for costly physical prototypes, and reduce expensive late stage design changes. Currently, F1 race cars do not include a cockpit canopy to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    research. Danielle Jackson assisted with data collection and project collaboration. Brian Johnstone

  • Investigating a Universal Prosthetic Design Process

    Creator:
    Martinez, Maria de los Angeles
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    In current prosthetic practices, the design process heavily relies on the prosthetist’s expertise and the limited methods to quantify design choices. This thesis investigates the lower-limb prosthetic fitting process and the importance of the socket design. Previous research has taken local stiffness of the limb to provide prosthetists with more...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Process by Maria de los Angeles Martinez A THESIS submitted

  • Development and validation of acoustic measurement techniques for void fraction in concentric annular geometries

    Creator:
    Tost, Brian C.
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    This work investigates the acoustic velocity of gas-liquid mixtures in vertical, co-current flow in a concentric annulus. Acoustic velocity shows promise as a detection parameter for the presence and amount of gas in a liquid flow because of its high sensitivity to gas void fraction in a gas-liquid mixture. However,...
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    Dissertation

  • A Computational Framework for Resilience-Informed Design

    Creator:
    Hulse, Daniel E.
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    It is desirable for complex engineered systems to perform missions efficiently and economically, even when these missions' complex, variable, long-term operational profiles make it likely for hazards to arise. It is thus important to design these systems to be resilient so that they will actively prevent and recover from hazards...
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    Dissertation

  • Dynamic modeling of a refrigerant boiler for power applications

    Creator:
    Curry, Thomas Haitsch
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    A dynamic model of a refrigerant boiler has been produced by the use of distributed parameter modeling techniques. A number of elementary cases were studied and were used as an aid in the final model formulation. Modeling using distributed parameters employed the use of mesh equations which were then reorganized...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Stagnation point heat transfer in a relaxing gas

    Creator:
    Wilson, Robert E.
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    Stagnation point heat transfer in a gas undergoing relaxation of its internal energy is examined by solution of the equations of motion using the two temperature approach of Wang Chang and Uhlenbeck. The results are presented in parametric form and show that relaxation effects produce an adiabatic wall temperature above...
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    Dissertation
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    " temperature. The energy equation for the 11 inert11 internal energy mode is (4, p. 505) (2) where E.= E

  • Laminate mixing in microscale fractal-like merging channel networks

    Creator:
    Enfield, Kent E.
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    A two-dimensional model was developed to predict concentration profiles from passive, laminar mixing of concentration layers formed in a fractal-like merging channel network. Both flat and parabolic velocity profiles were used in the model. A physical experiment was used to confirm the results of the model. Concentration profiles were acquired...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kent E. Enfield for the degree of

  • Temperature drop from heating surface to boiler water as a function of concentration of sodium sulfate

    Creator:
    Hunt, Fred Leroy
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    - ing with the problem, has been initiated at Oregon 3tate College under the supervision of R. E