ORAL PRESENTATION TOPICS


 

 

Topic

Section A

Section B

Section C

Section D

Section E

Section F

Section G

1

Borissov, Stoian

Bradley, Timothy

Agudo, Jan

Carson, Cameron

Agrawal, Subodh

Carnahan, Kyle

Ayala, Carlos

2

Bradley, August

Hadley, Nathan

Dressel, Louis

Davis, Jonathan

Avera, Michael

Forbes, Alexander

Kelley, Patrick

3

Gregory, Michael

Meng, Richard

Hatteberg, Heidi

Davis, Kyle

Hern, Addison

Hu, Haiyun

McGowan, Ryan

4

Hoyos, Diego

Molargik, Jason

Karlapudi, Akash

Howell, Alexander

Hodgson, Michael

Klagstad, Spencer

Siu, Trevor

5

Johnson, Sara

Patel, Priyam

Kjorlaug, Clark

Phillips, Hugh

Kantor, Michael

McDowell, Aaron

Smith, Patrick

1

Makinson, Brandon

Purcell, Michael

Balla, Marius

Ramsey, Joshua

Carney, Allison

Nakano, Natsuki

Soriano, Josemari

2

Prasadh, Nishant

Sickafoose, Andrew

Lee, Kyeong Hoon

Rehl, Anthony

 

Luecke, Jonathon

 

Strassburger, Collin

3

Sanyal, Partha

Sun, Daniel

McDonald, Michael

Seidell, Michael

Patel, Anant

 

 

4

Simms, Daniel

Welch, Cavanaugh

Miller, Matthew

Shah, Shaan

Smith, Travis

 

 

5

Yawn, Kyle

Zuniga, Eric

Slone, Eric

Wheeler, David

Stephens, Kassandra

 

 

 
 

 

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1.     Golfstream Aviation is designing a supersonic business jet. The company's engineers have chosen to employ a two-dimensional engine inlet design that uses a mixed oblique-normal shock diffuser. The engineers are concerned with the stability of the diffuser's performance to small changes in ambient and flight conditions. They have asked your company to design an experiment to characterize the stability of their inlet design.

 

 

 

 

 

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2.     Unmanned Flight Operations, a defense contractor, is working on an unmanned, saucer shaped vehicle intended to fly at just above the ground at 50-100 mph. The propulsion for this vehicle includes a downdraft fan to produce lift. Thus, there will be a ground effect associated with the lift produced by the fan. The flight control system for the vehicle is being designed based on results of CFD calculations of the flow pattern below the vehicle. For good reason, the company is worried about the accuracy of those calculations, especially in high-speed forward flight over uneven ground. Your company has been asked to propose an experiment to provide data for validation of the CFD results.

 

 

 

 

 

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3.     Nogold is a small biotech company working on a new "instant" blood testing system to check for performance based enhancing drugs based on MEMS technology. In this system, all the fluid flow, measurement and diagnostic devices, and electronics are built into the same microscale device. One problem they are having is turning the flow around sharp corners. When the blood properties are measured after the turn, they are different than the properties before the turn. Typically, the flow channels are rectangular (~2 mm x 200 um) and formed inside a silicon wafer, with average fluid velocities of a few cm/s. Your company has been asked to propose an experiment that will determine the evolution of this flowfield (including whatever flow properties you deem important) as it progress through the flow turn to determine the cause of the problem.

 

 

 

 

 

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4.     You work for a small aerospace company that specializes in experimental aerodynamics. Your company has been approached by Bull's Eye, a manufacturer of high-end arrows (as in bows and arrows). They have developed some innovations that include special aerodynamic shapes for the arrowhead, the arrow's shaft and the fletchings (vanes). The new designs have already been shown to extend the arrow's range, and increase its stability in crosswinds, but the company is unsure why. Your company has been asked to design a set of experiments to measure the aerodynamic forces on the arrows under a range of realistic conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

5 

Burdell & Sons, a leading sports equipment manufacturer has contacted you to test their new line of golf balls and compare them to the competition. They want you to experimentally measure the forces on the golf balls under various AND KNOWN conditions that might occur in actual play. They plan to use the data in a golf simulation video game they have developed to promote their superior (?) equipment.