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Computational simulation of an unmanned air vehicle impacting water
Computational fluid dynamic modeling of acoustic liquid manipulation
Meshless Euler solver using radial basis functions for solving inviscid compressible flows
A technique for shape optimization of ducted fans
Nondestructive evaluation of a carbon fiber wing spar using air-coupled ultrasound
Numerical investigation of effect of buoyancy on the wake of a heated cylinder in contra flow
Improvements to an analytical multiple-shooting approach for optimal burn-coast-burn ascent guidance
Sensitivity of thermal properties of pavement materials using mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide
Tornado-induced wind loads on a low-rise building
Experimental investigations on biologically inspired airfoils for MAV applications
Nondestructive detection and characterization of damages in honeycomb composite structures
Devising a more robust automated detection method using audio frequency spectra
A computational study of quasi-2D flows at low Reynolds numbers
Computational studies on the effect of water impact on an Unmanned Air Vehicle
Experimental simulation of atmospheric boundary layers and extreme gust events
Computational and wind tunnel studies of shelterbelts for reduction of wind flow and wind-induced loads on low-rise buildings
Aerodynamic mitigation of extreme wind loading on low-rise buildings
Experimental investigation of biomimetic wing configurations for Micro Air Vehicle applications
Stress analysis of wood-framed low-rise buildings under wind loads due to tornados
Computational simulation of separated flow in a three-dimensional diffuser using u2 - f and zeta - f models
Numerical simulation of straight line flow with sparse roughness and tornado-like flow on smooth floor
Numerical simulation of three dimensional vortex-dominated flows
Metamodeling for the quantitative assessment of conceptual designs in an immersive virtual reality environment
Heat transfer enhancement in thermoelectric power generation
Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in microchannels: A computational study
Thermal analysis of a fireplace using ANSYS
Development of unsteady algorithms for pressure-based unstructured solver for two-dimensional incompressible flows
An experimental study of the vortex structures in the wake of a piezoelectric flapping plate for Nano Air Vehicle applications
Steady rolling contact and resistance of a cylinder on a viscoelastic foundation by an integral equation algorithm
Relating crack heating to vibration for vibrothermography
Experimental investigation of bio inspired flapping wings for MAV and NAV applications
Experimental improvements on a Tornado-Type Wind Turbine (TTWT) system
Configurational effect on dust cloud formation and brownout
Using an autothrottle to compare techniques for saving fuel on a regional jet aircraft
Graphics hardware acceleration for rotorcraft simulations
Interaction of a translating tornado with a low-rise building
Modeling of pulse-echo inspections of multi-layer panels containing delaminations
Investigation of ply waviness in wind turbine blades: Experimental and numerical analysis
Experimental study of low Reynolds number flow control devices: Dynamic burst control plate and dynamic roughness
Flaw detection in multi-layer, multi-material composites by resonance imaging: Utilizing Air-coupled Ultrasonics and Finite Element Modeling
Transducer characterization for Vibrothermography
Validation of a simple go/no-go damage detection system for personal ceramic body armor using pressure sensitive film
Development, validation and verification of the Momentum Source Model for discrete rotor blades
Experimental and analytical trajectories of simplified debris models in tornado winds
An experimental investigation on the spray flow exhausted from a co-swirling air-blast nozzle
Development of an explicit pressure-based unstructured solver for three-dimensional incompressible flows with graphics hardware acceleration
Grid and solution adaptation via direct optimization methods
Study of microburst-induced wind flow and its effects on cube-shaped buildings using numerical and experimental simulations of an impinging jet
Thin water films driven by air through surface roughness
Numerical investigation of roughness effects in aircraft icing calculations
Skip entry trajectory planning and guidance
An adaptive quadrature-free implementation of the high-order spectral volume method on unstructured grids
Experimental investigations on micro-scale thermal fluid phenomena by using advance flow diagnostic techniques
High order spectral volume and spectral difference methods on unstructured grids
Stability of stagnation and attachment line icing
In-flight trajectory planning and guidance for autonomous parafoils
Estimation of grid-induced errors in computational fluid dynamics solutions using a discrete error transport equation
The mechanics of defect detection in vibrothermography
Experimental investigations on complex vortex flows using advanced flow diagnostic techniques
Dynamic modeling and ascent flight control of Ares-I Crew Launch Vehicle
Numerical modeling of free surface and rapid solidification for simulation and analysis of melt spinning
Autonomous optimal deorbit guidance
Focusing aberration corrections for ultrasonic inspections of disk forgings when using a surface compensating mirror and segmented annular phased array
A fast ascent trajectory optimization method for hypersonic air-breathing vehicles
Experimental study of inhomogeneous deformation in bulk metallic glass and their composite during wedge-like cylindrical indentation
Differential formulation of discontinuous Galerkin and related methods for compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations
Development of the spectral difference method and application in the numerical investigation of the separated and transitional flows over a low-Reynolds number airfoil
Turbulent flow separation in three-dimensional asymmetric diffusers
Time-domain parameter identification of aeroelastic loads by forced-vibration method for response of flexible structures subject to transient wind
Autocalibrating vision guided navigation of unmanned air vehicles via tactical monocular cameras in GPS denied environments
Quadrature-based moment methods: High-order realizable schemes and multi-physics applications
Numerical and experimental investigations on unsteady aerodynamics of flapping wings