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GAIN SCHEDULING CONTROLLER FOR AIRCRAFT WITH MASS AND INERTIA VARIATION
(2018-06-28)Robustness is one of the main control design requirements for aircraft control.Robustness is sought in the stability and performance of closed loop system against various factors such as disturbance, measurement error, ... -
Gasdynamic Phenomena and Propulsive Performance of Pulse Detonation Engines
(2019-05-10)The pulsed detonation engine (PDE) is an advanced propulsion system that makes use of intermittent detonations to provide thrust. In recent decades, the PDE has been at the center of various propulsion research efforts ... -
Gaseous Corrosion In Hard Disk Drive: A Computational Study
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)HDD is the largest digitally encoded data storage device. HDD is used to store digital data in data centers, computers and laptops. A typical HDD consists of a casing, an actuator arm, actuator axis, head, platters, power ... -
GENERAL METHODS FOR THE THERMAL DESIGN OF DATA CENTERS BASED ON EVAPORATIVE COOLING
(2018-05-22)With the increasing load on the servers, the cost and energy required to cool a data center has been on the rise. This has kept the researchers to explore more efficient and economical cooling technologies for data centers. ... -
General solutions to temperature distribution in orthotropic systems subject to variable heat transfer and biological systems during bioheat transfer
(2016-10-25)Bioheat transfer is the phenomenon of heat transfer in biological systems where the dominant modes of heat transfer are conduction and advection. Other factors such as rate of metabolism that are unique to biological systems ... -
A Generic Methodology For Flight Test And Safety Evaluation At Conceptual Design
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)The current research is dedicated to the application of a simulation suite that emulates flight testing and is applicable to the aircraft conceptual and preliminary design environment. The configuration concept available ... -
A Generic Stability And Control Tool For Flight Vehicle Conceptual Design: Aeromech Software Development
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)During the conceptual design (CD) phase, various solution concepts must, and should, be explored to select the best flight vehicle size and configuration in order to meet the mission requirements. As the aerospace industry ... -
Graph Theoretic Framework Based Cooperative Control And Estimation Of Multiple UAVS For Target Tracking
(Mechanical Engineering, 2012-07-25)Designing the control technique for nonlinear dynamic systems is a significant challenge. Approaches to designing a nonlinear controller are studied and an extensive study on backstepping based technique is performed in ... -
Guidance And Control Of Unmanned Airships For Waypoint Navigation In The Presence Of Wind
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)Airships are a specific class of Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) vehicles. These vehicles achieve lift mainly through buoyancy; the usually ellipsoidal shaped hull contains a lifting gas such as helium, which produces the required ... -
GUIDANCE LAWS FOR n-MOBILE AGENTS TO GRIP A MOVING TARGET
(2021-12-20)In this thesis, we consider the problem of n mobile agents carrying a gripper, with the objective of gripping a moving circular target. The target may move with constant velocity, or even maneuver. We develop guidance laws ... -
GUIDANCE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION FOR UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE USING NI-myRIO
(2016-08-23)This research effort aims at investigating alternative real-time implementation software and hardware for Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) algorithms for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). A GNC algorithm was previously ... -
Guidance Of Receiver Aircraft To Rendezvous With Tanker In The Presence Of Wind
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)This thesis work addresses the problem of aircraft rendezvous in the presence of prevailing wind for automated aerial refueling operations. A modified point-parallel rendezvous procedure is defined. The tanker aircraft ... -
HAPTIC INTERFACE OPTIMIZATION FOR VIRTUAL ANASTOMOSIS SURGERY TRAINING
(2021-08-16)Virtual anastomosis surgery study allows surgeons to perform or practice suturing in virtual reality using a commercial haptic device. The haptic device can generate force feedback so that the user can feel the real touch ... -
HARVESTING OF WATER FROM FOG USING SPONGES
(2016-05-19)Supervising Professor: Cheng Luo A sponge has porous structures. It is capable of both storing and transmitting water. In this work, we explored the possibility of applying three different types of sponges to collect ... -
Heat Removal Analysis Using NTU Microscopic Theory And Experimental Fluid Testing Of Radaitors, Pumps And Fans For The Thermal Management System Of Formula SAE Electric Racecar
(Mechanical Engineering, 2015)Formula SAE at UT Arlington has always been building well engineered race cars, further being one of the top teams in The United States. However, an electric race car being first in the fleet, cooling of electric motors ... -
Heat Transfer Analysis Of A Pulse Detonation Engine
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-03-03)A thermal analysis of the effect of sensible heat release on the walls of the detonation chamber for stoichiometric mixtures of hydrogen/air, octane/air and octane/oxygen was presented. The detonation tube was assumed to ... -
Heat Transfer Enhancement In A Rectangular Channel Using Vortex Generator In A Laminar Flow
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)Enhancement of heat transfer through various means has been an intense area of research for many years. There are numerous applications where high performance heat exchange is desired. The cooling of electronics, such as ... -
Heat Transfer In Triangular Ducts With Axial Conduction,containing Porous Medium
(Mechanical Engineering, 2012-04-11)The objective of this study is to find a numerical solution for the velocity and temperature field in a duct of triangular cross-section area. A fully saturated porous medium is considered to be present in the duct. The ... -
HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS AND ENHANCEMENT FOR MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN POLYMER EXTRUSION BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
(2020-05-06)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a burgeoning method for manufacturing over the subtractive manufacturing methodologies. Among the various method of polymer additive manufacturing the fused deposition modeling (FDM) also ... -
High Enthalpy Characterization Of The UTA Hypersonic Shock Tunnel
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-03-10)In hypersonic wind tunnel testing, matching the flow enthalpy conditions for the hypersonic air-breathing corridor is of great importance in order to assure the validity of experimental results. The flow enthalpy of the ...