2011 Ph.D. Research Projects

Michael Adams	Eric Doran	Haomiao Huang	Irina Kalashnikova	Sunhwan Lee	Debbie Meduna
Sean Augenstein					Kiran Murthy
Geoffrey Bower					Alexander Naiman
Kevin Carlberg					Young Shin Park
Edmond Chiu					Daniel Sheinfeld
Dong Kyu Choi					John Swigart
Julien Cortial					Michael Vitus
Emily Schwartz Dallara	Ken Franko	Nagesh Janapala	Peter Kimball	Laurent Lessard	Kevin Wang

Graduate	Research Project
Michael Adams	Space Environment Effects on the Gravity Probe B Satellite Control System
Sean Augenstein	Monocular Pose and Shape Estimation of Moving Targets for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking
Geoffrey Bower	Boundary Layer Dynamic Soaring for Autonomous Aircraft: Design and Validation
Kevin Carlberg	Model Reduction of Nonlinear Systems via Optimal Projection and Tenson Approximation with Applications in Fluid and Structural Mechanics
Edmond Chiu	A Conservative Meshless Framework with Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Dong Kyu Choi	Coordinated Execution and Goal Management in a Reactive Cognitive Architecture
Julien Cortial	Time-Parallel Methods for Accelerating the Solution of Structural Dynamics Problems
Emily Schwartz Dallara	Aircraft Design for Reduced Climate Impact
Eric Doran	A Multi-Dminesional Flamelet Model for Ignition in Multi-Feed Combustion Systems
Ken Franko	Linear and Nonlinear Processes in Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition to Turbulence
Haomiao Huang	Control and Modeling in Tightly Integrated Human/Cyber-Physical Systems
Nagesh Janapala	Crash Energy Absorption of Kevlar Fabric Composite Structures
Irina Kalashnikova	The Discontinuous Enrichment Method for Multi-Scale Thransport Problems
Peter Kimball	Iceberg-Relative Navigation for AUVs
Sunhwan Lee	Parallel Stochastic Particle Methods Using Markov Chain Random Walks
Laurent Lessard	Tractability of Complex Control Systems
Debbie Meduna	Terrain Relative Navigation for Sensor-Limited Systems with Application to Underwater Vehicles
Kiran Murthy	A Novel Trajectory Optimization for Close-Range Surveys of Non-Planar Surfaces
Alexander Naiman	Modeling Aircraft Contrails and Emission Plumes for Climate Impacts
Young Shin Park	Design of Airport Surface Movement Using Single-Frequency GPS
Daniel Sheinfeld	Optimal Control for Despin of Underactuated Tumbling Satellites
John Swigart	Optimal Controller Synthesis for Decentralized Systems
Michael Vitus	Stochastic Motion Planning in Uncertain Environments with Application to Aerial Vehicles
Kevin Guanyuan Wang	A Computational Framework Based on an Embedded Boundary Method with Exact Local Riemann Solvers for Highly Nonlinear Multi-Phase Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

Ph.D. Research Projects