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Author:

Morgan, Nicholas

Title:

A New Method of Determining Roughness Height For Low-Reynolds-Number Flows

Area of Honors:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

airfoil
fixed transition
forced transition
low Reynolds
S407
E387
transition
Braslow
LSLT Wind Tunnel
Wind Tunnel
Low-Speed

File:

Download A_NEW_METHOD_OF_DETERMINING_ROUGHNESS_HEIGHT_FOR_LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER_FLOWS.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Supervisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Honors Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Faculty Reader

Author:

Gonzalez, Anthony Nicholas

Title:

Integrating Wake Rake (Development and Profile Drag Analysis)

Area of Honors:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Integrating Wake Rake
Profile Drag Analysis
Airplane Performance
3D Printing
Froude (1874)
Betz (1925)
Jones (1936)
Profile vs. Induced Drag
Wind Tunnel Testing & Computational Analysis
Silverstein and Katzoff

File:

Download Thesis_AG.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Supervisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hixon, Sean K

Title:

Uncertainty Characterization of Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination Algorithms Using the Conjugate Unscented Transform

Area of Honors:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CUT
IOD
Initial Orbit Determination
Uncertainty Characterization
MEO
Molniya
Sun-synchronous
Gauss-Gibbs
Conjugate Unscented Transformation

File:

Download Hixon_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Supervisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Rich, Sean Daniel

Title:

Parallelized Particle Swarm Optimization for Minimum-Time Satellite Orientation Maneuvers

Area of Honors:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Particle Swarm Optimization
Aerospace
Parallel Computing

File:

Download thesis-final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Supervisor
Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Honors Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Faculty Reader