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Complex Multidisciplinary System Composition For Aerospace Vehicle Conceptual Design, Alexis R. Gonzalez Aug 2016

Complex Multidisciplinary System Composition For Aerospace Vehicle Conceptual Design, Alexis R. Gonzalez

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Although, there exists a vast amount of work concerning the analysis, design, integration of aerospace vehicle systems, there is no standard for how this data and knowledge should be combined in order to create a synthesis system. Each institution creating a synthesis system has in house vehicle and hardware components they are attempting to model and proprietary methods with which to model them. This leads to the fact that synthesis systems begin as one-off creations meant to answer a specific problem. As the scope of the synthesis system grows to encompass more and more problems, so does its size and …


Experimental Investigation Of Methane Reformer With A Continuous Flow Reactor, Xiao Zhang Aug 2016

Experimental Investigation Of Methane Reformer With A Continuous Flow Reactor, Xiao Zhang

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Over the decades, seeking for an alternative energy source has been more and more significant because of increasing demand with rapid industry expansion. Liquid hydrocarbon from Fischer-Tropsch process is considered as an alternative fuel source because the product is considered as subtle for petroleum-derived. Syngas as feedstock for F-T process plays a crucial role in liquid hydrocarbon production. Among several commercial and experiment technologies, the most common technology for syngas production is natural gas reforming. The product from reforming process has proper carbon monoxide/hydrogen ratio for direct application in F-T synthesis. Meanwhile, combined carbon dioxide into reforming reaction has attracted …


Complex Multidisciplinary Systems Decomposition For Aerospace Vehicle Conceptual Design And Technology Acquisition, Amen Omoragbon Aug 2016

Complex Multidisciplinary Systems Decomposition For Aerospace Vehicle Conceptual Design And Technology Acquisition, Amen Omoragbon

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Although, the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry is a significant contributor to the United States’ economy, national prestige and national security, it experiences significant cost and schedule overruns. This problem is related to the differences between technology acquisition assessments and aerospace vehicle conceptual design. Acquisition assessments evaluate broad sets of alternatives with mostly qualitative techniques, while conceptual design tools evaluate narrow set of alternatives with multidisciplinary tools. In order for these two fields to communicate effectively, a common platform for both concerns is desired. This research is an original contribution to a three-part solution to this problem. It discusses the …


The Effects Of Temperature And Relative Humidity On Exposure Of Legacy And Future Technology Hardware, Under Real Data Center Conditions In An Ansi/Isa Classified G2 Environment, Oluwaseun Michael Awe Aug 2016

The Effects Of Temperature And Relative Humidity On Exposure Of Legacy And Future Technology Hardware, Under Real Data Center Conditions In An Ansi/Isa Classified G2 Environment, Oluwaseun Michael Awe

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It is well established that it is safe to operate information technology (IT) equipment in a G1 classified contaminant severity level when operating within specified ASHRAE recommended and allowable limits in an air-side economizer data center. This is basis for which electronic equipment manufacturers provide warranty for their products. IT equipment manufacturers in the US now requires data centers operators to demonstrate that they meet all the specified conditions consistently before fulfilling warranty equipment failure. This places limitation to where data center utilizing air-side economizer can be located. In order to determine the reliability of electronic hardware in higher severity …


Analysis Of Composite Beams With Airfoil Cross-Sections With I-Section Stiffener Under Tension And Bi-Directional Moments, Peter Louis Leboulluec Aug 2016

Analysis Of Composite Beams With Airfoil Cross-Sections With I-Section Stiffener Under Tension And Bi-Directional Moments, Peter Louis Leboulluec

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Annual wind power generation capacity in the US has increased from 3 gigawatts in 2000 to 61 gigawatts in 2013 and is on track to fulfill 20% of projected U.S. electricity needs (305 gigawatts) by 2030. To enable the increase in electricity generation of wind turbines, longer blades are being designed which require improved engineered blades to handle higher loads. Thus, the wind turbine industry is turning to the use of carbon-epoxy composite materials to take advantage of their low weight yet high strength ratio and improved fatigue resistance. Current analyses to design turbine blades utilize either Finite Element Analysis …


Thermal Energy Storage For Expanded Use Of Data Center Indirect/Direct Evaporative Cooling, Jefferey Luttrell Aug 2016

Thermal Energy Storage For Expanded Use Of Data Center Indirect/Direct Evaporative Cooling, Jefferey Luttrell

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Computer cooling system design evolved over time with goals of increasing efficiency and decreasing cost. Early computers were essentially hand-built and very expensive. Reliable operation required aggressive cooling to maintain acceptable component temperatures and this was achieved with relatively low ventilation air temperatures. With time, the scale of operations increased to the point that operating cost began to strongly influence design decisions. Computer room air conditioners consumed substantial amounts of electrical power, in some situations almost as much power as the computer equipment. One cost saving idea used outside air when the ambient temperature fell below the normal cooling supply …


Understanding The Alchemilla Leaf And Its Hydrophobicity, Atul Mohandas Kootathil Aug 2016

Understanding The Alchemilla Leaf And Its Hydrophobicity, Atul Mohandas Kootathil

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The Alchemilla leaf has been well known and studied frequently for its hydrophobic ability. However, much difficulty has been met in replicating its microstructure for hydrophobic applications. Also, not much experimental data was found on the behavior of leaf’s microstructure. Gathering information from experimental results may provide new understanding of its wetting properties before attempting to mimetic its wetting behavior. In this research, the focus is to detail the observed solid-water-air interaction on Alchemilla leaf by simulating condensation, evaporation and rainfall conditions, which are the common ways that a plant may interact with water drops in nature. Documenting these observations …


Attitude Stabilization Of Spacecraft Using Moving Masses, Juran Hwang Aug 2016

Attitude Stabilization Of Spacecraft Using Moving Masses, Juran Hwang

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This research investigates the ability of stabilizing spacecraft rotational motion by internal mass actuation. The mass actuation mechanism consists of three internal masses placed along the three axes at some offset distance that can move to induce inertial forces and moments and change the inertia matrix and center of mass. A set of nonlinear equations of motion are developed to model the motion, both orbital and rotational dynamics and kinematics, of a spacecraft with mass and inertial variation due to internal mass actuation, under the gravitational field of Earth. The equations inherently include the inertia effect of the mass motion …


Developing And Validating Energy Models For Indirect And Direct Evaporative Cooling Used In Datacenters, Rajesh Kasukurthy Aug 2016

Developing And Validating Energy Models For Indirect And Direct Evaporative Cooling Used In Datacenters, Rajesh Kasukurthy

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In the present day to day life, Internet of things is everything, i.e., we need internet and telecommunication for almost every task of our life and these require data from data centers. These data centers provide various facilities like data processing, storage, and transmission, and maintenance, operations etc., for performing these tasks, a huge amount of power is consumed by the data center, which in turn generates large amount of heat. As these data centers are to be made operational throughout the year, cooling of data centers is of utmost importance. These cooling systems like air conditioners, economizers and evaporative …


Mechanical Property Evaluation Of Magnesium Rich Primer Coating System Over Aa 2024 T-3 Aluminum Alloy By Nano-Inedntation, Hongyi Qu Aug 2016

Mechanical Property Evaluation Of Magnesium Rich Primer Coating System Over Aa 2024 T-3 Aluminum Alloy By Nano-Inedntation, Hongyi Qu

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Aluminum alloy is widely used as a major structural material, such as for wing and fuselage, in aerospace industry. Corrosion is the most insidious form of damage to aluminum alloy, which can cause aircraft structure damage and related safety issue. Coating is generally used in industry to protect metal structure. An alternative to present toxic chromium primer coating system, magnesium rich primer (MgRP) has been developed to protect AA 2024 T-3. Studies have demonstrated the anti-corrosion performance of MgRP. However, the interlayer material heterogeneity can affect the mechanical properties of coating such as modulus, hardness and interfacial behavior. In the …


Active Torque Vectoring For All Wheel Drive Fsae Electric Car, Vikas Tukaram T Pawar Aug 2016

Active Torque Vectoring For All Wheel Drive Fsae Electric Car, Vikas Tukaram T Pawar

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UTA Racing is known for building well-engineered FSAE racecars. This year team is building, its first electric car by using AWD in-wheel motor concept car E-16. All wheel drive electric vehicles has an ability to apply instantaneous torque to all four wheels permit increased car performance. An ‘Active Model Based Torque Vectoring System controller’ is designed to realize this objective. The controller was designed to replicate three electronically controlled LSD's on an all-wheel drive platform with different control strategies. This was achieved based on the principal of distributing total driver requested torque between wheels, equivalent to the percentage of the …


Guidance Navigation And Control Implementation For Unmanned Ground Vehicle Using Ni-Myrio, Ishwarya Srinivasan Aug 2016

Guidance Navigation And Control Implementation For Unmanned Ground Vehicle Using Ni-Myrio, Ishwarya Srinivasan

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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 developed for a skid-steered tracked UGV to go through assigned waypoints based on encoder counts. The UGV has two electric motors driving the tracks on each side and two encoders providing the speeds of the drive wheels. This algorithm was implemented using Matlab/Simulink-based model running on a mini computer, interfacing with the electric motors and encoders through a specialty control board. This current effort is to implement the same GNC …


Fitting B-Splines Curves To Coarse Data Cloud Using Modified Squared Distance Minimization Method, Vinay Vivek Mhala Aug 2016

Fitting B-Splines Curves To Coarse Data Cloud Using Modified Squared Distance Minimization Method, Vinay Vivek Mhala

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Additive manufacturing has made us realize that we can fabricate complex shapes that were difficult to manufacture with subtractive processes. Topology optimizations results have complex shapes and have rough surfaces which are difficult to manufacture even by additive manufacturing. To automate the process of converting rough surfaces into smooth surfaces for the benefit of manufacturability would be very desirable. Computing curve segments to approximate point cloud data that represents rough surfaces and then lofting it to have a smooth surface seems to be a promising methodology to achieve automation. We implement B-spline formulation along with Pottmann’s iterative method based on …


Study Of Crack Propagation Under Thermal Loading On A 3d Tsv Package, Subramanian R. Gowtham Aug 2016

Study Of Crack Propagation Under Thermal Loading On A 3d Tsv Package, Subramanian R. Gowtham

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Today, there is a revolution in going for miniaturization in size of electronic packages. More thinner, lighter and complex packages are in use for almost every electronic device. This initiation was taken to the next level and gives us a whole new ideology called 3D packaging. Currently, 3D packaging is the on-going research in almost all the electronic packaging related industries. 3D package uses Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology that gained momentum in the development and helped packaging system for significant miniaturization and power reduction, which result in increased performance. However, the reliability assessment is needed to evaluate the critical …


Embedding Antenna Shear/Pressure Sensors In Prosthetic Liner Material, Shahanavaz Eilbeigi Aug 2016

Embedding Antenna Shear/Pressure Sensors In Prosthetic Liner Material, Shahanavaz Eilbeigi

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Published surveys indicated that 40-60% of prosthesis users experience discomfort and skin problems. These studies highlighted the needs for enhanced prosthetic performance and fit. It is extremely difficult to address these problems due to two reasons: first, ambulation create varying areas of shear and pressure on the residual limb, but it is not clear which shear/pressure combinations are acceptable and what is the safe stress level for users. In addition, the volume of the residual limb changes throughout the day and activity level. Therefore, there is a strong need to develop a light, thin, flexible, and wirelessly interrogated sensor for …


Total Temperature Measurement At Pulse Detonation Engine Exhaust, Ninad Ramesh Kawle Aug 2016

Total Temperature Measurement At Pulse Detonation Engine Exhaust, Ninad Ramesh Kawle

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Pulse detonation engines (PDEs) are being studied in recent years as a potential means of power production. In PDEs, a supersonically travelling detonation wave traverses through the detonation tube. Total temperature of the exhaust of the PDE is not a well-known parameter. The objective of the research was to calibrate and employ miniature type E thermocouples for exhaust temperature measurement of the PDE. The probe making process along with the calibration techniques for AWG 20, AWG 24 and AWG 50 thermocouples are discussed at length. The time constants for thermocouples were determined. Reactive mixture containing hydrogen and oxygen was used …


Method Of Characteristics Verification Of Inverse Frequency Model Of Turbulent Pipe Flow Transients, Mohammad Saifullah Mohammad Zafar Shaikh Aug 2016

Method Of Characteristics Verification Of Inverse Frequency Model Of Turbulent Pipe Flow Transients, Mohammad Saifullah Mohammad Zafar Shaikh

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Pressure transients in pipes with turbulent flow have classically been simulated using numerical techniques such as the method of characteristics. An alternative method utilizing an inverse frequency algorithm has recently been introduced for smooth pipe and determined to be computationally fast compared to the method of characteristics and in some cases more accurate. In addition, comparisons with experimental water hammer data has verified that the inverse frequency method is accurate out to Reynolds numbers of 15,800. This thesis investigates a comparison or the inverse frequency and method of characteristics methods for Reynolds numbers out to 200,000 for smooth pipes.


A Novel Stress Analysis Method For Laminated Composite Stiffener With Asymmetric Z-Section Under Mechanical And Thermal Loading Conditions, Sidhant Singh Aug 2016

A Novel Stress Analysis Method For Laminated Composite Stiffener With Asymmetric Z-Section Under Mechanical And Thermal Loading Conditions, Sidhant Singh

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Composites structures are being used as load carrying members in latest aircrafts and performance automobiles, the design validation for such structures can be a time consuming and expensive process, if done by testing. Validation of a structure by analysis saves time and money for a design process and validation by analysis can be done by comparing the analytical solution with the finite element analysis of the structure, which requires availability of analytical expressions for every cross-sectional arrangement of the structural members. This research focuses on stress analysis of laminated composite stiffener with asymmetric Z-sections, where closed form analytical expressions are …


Numerical Modeling Of An Alloy Droplet Deposition With Non-Equilibrium Solidification, Vimal Ramanuj May 2016

Numerical Modeling Of An Alloy Droplet Deposition With Non-Equilibrium Solidification, Vimal Ramanuj

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Droplet deposition is a process of extensive relevance to the microfabrication industry. Various bonding and film deposition methods utilize single or multiple droplet impingements on a substrate with subsequent splat formation through simultaneous spreading and solidification. Splat morphology and solidification characteristics play vital roles in determining the final outcome. Experimental methods have limited reach in studying such phenomena owing to the extremely small time and length scales involved. Fundamental understanding of the governing principles of fluid flow, heat transfer and phase change provide effective means of studying such processes through computational techniques. The present study aims at numerically modeling and …


Enhanced Specific Heat Of Molten Salt Nanofluids, Hani Tiznobaik May 2016

Enhanced Specific Heat Of Molten Salt Nanofluids, Hani Tiznobaik

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Concentrated solar power uses general thermodynamic cycles (such as Rankine or Gas turbine cycle) to produce electricity and thus its efficiency primarily relies on the operating temperature of thermal energy storage. Current thermal energy storage medium is organic material such as synthetic oil or fatty acid. However, these materials are not stable at high temperatures due to their thermal decomposition. Using molten salts as thermal energy storage medium is a very attractive option since they are thermally stable at high temperatures (over 600 °C). They also have very lower vapor pressure (for reducing mechanical stress on structure materials), less reactive, …


Data Engineering In Aerospace Systems Design & Forecasting, Eric Haney May 2016

Data Engineering In Aerospace Systems Design & Forecasting, Eric Haney

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Although engineers spend the majority of their time finding, managing, and transforming data, the process of how to handle data remains under-educated & under-researched. The alignment of engineering education & proficiency along an analysis-dominated mindset is ill-conditioned for the growing reliance on data-driven processes and holistic decision-making requirements. Although a majority of driving decisions in the aerospace industry rely heavily on utilizing existing organizational data-stores and built-in knowledge bases to make informed decisions, formalized development & implementation of data within existing engineering processes is seldom addressed. The current research defines a complementary discipline, Data-Engineering, which seeks to capitalize on the …


Exergy Analysis Of A Pulse Detonation Engine Linear Power Generator, Raheem Temitope Bello May 2016

Exergy Analysis Of A Pulse Detonation Engine Linear Power Generator, Raheem Temitope Bello

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The fuel efficiency of a power generator is a key metric for evaluating its performance. The common engineering practice is to determine the thermal efficiency of the system by applying the conservation of energy also known as the first law of thermodynamics. However, for heat engine power generators, and other thermal systems, the thermal efficiency is not sufficient for detailed system performance analysis. Exergy analysis, which applies both the first and second law of thermodynamics, enables the determination of the directionality of thermal processes, and the system’s available work. This more complete thermodynamic analysis approach is applied to a pulse …


Maximizing Use Of Air-Side Economization, Direct And Indirect Evaporative Cooling For Energy Efficient Data Centers, Betsegaw Kebede Gebrehiwot May 2016

Maximizing Use Of Air-Side Economization, Direct And Indirect Evaporative Cooling For Energy Efficient Data Centers, Betsegaw Kebede Gebrehiwot

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Data centers house information technology (IT) equipment such as servers and network switches which are vital for our networked modern society by providing digital data storage, data processing and connectivity. Data centers house few hundreds to tens of thousands of IT equipment that consume few kilowatt-hours to multi-megawatt-hours of electrical energy that gets dissipated as heat. IT equipment need to be properly cooled so that they operate reliably for their expected lifetime. For air cooled IT equipment, manufacturers provide heat sinks, cold plates, fans, et cetera to remove heat from the vicinity of heat dissipating components and data centers need …


Human Robot Interaction With 3d-Printed Whole Body Robotic Skin, Fahad Mirza May 2016

Human Robot Interaction With 3d-Printed Whole Body Robotic Skin, Fahad Mirza

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This thesis presents work of a newly developed pressure sensor for robot skin, from fabrication to application. Robot skin similar to human skin meant to have several sensing capabilities including pressure, temperature etc. As the conventional semiconductor manufacturing process is not adequate for multi-modal sensors, a new process, called Electro-Hydro-Dynamic Printing, has been explored in this work. A calibration technique was implemented along with printing parameter fixation by trial and error. A testing methodology was proposed to test these sensors and several commercial robots were used to conduct pHRI experiments with pressure sensing capability.


Finite Element Based Cross-Sectional Buckling Optimization For A Constant Area, Pinned-Pinned Composite Column, Anirudh Srinivas May 2016

Finite Element Based Cross-Sectional Buckling Optimization For A Constant Area, Pinned-Pinned Composite Column, Anirudh Srinivas

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In archery, dynamic buckling compromises the target accuracy of arrows. For both dynamic and quasi-static buckling, the buckling load depends on the cross-sectional area moment of inertia, which can be increased by modifying the cross-sectional shape of the arrow shaft. Arrows commercially available today are made up of composite materials and have a tubular circular cross-section. In this study an effort has been made to optimize the cross-sectional shape of the composite arrow shaft, using finite element based, quasi-static buckling analysis keeping the length and area of the cross-section constant. The composite column is pinned at both ends and is …


Human Robot Interaction Using Knowledge Base Approach, Utsav Shah May 2016

Human Robot Interaction Using Knowledge Base Approach, Utsav Shah

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This research investigated Human Robot Interaction modalities. The performance of a robotic prosthetic hand (RPH) was used as a test bed robot. A user wearable glove was fitted with sensors to provide tele-control of the RPH. An open hardware control and easily expandable research platform based on LabVIEW software and myRIO control hardware was developed. LabVIEW graphical programming platform provides the tools for the development to customized interfaces for visualization purposes which is desired in research. The research platform was used to calibrate and control the operation of the artificial hand using various modalities such as open loop, glove master-slave …


E-Learning Modules For Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer, Praveen Bharadwaj Jayaram May 2016

E-Learning Modules For Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer, Praveen Bharadwaj Jayaram

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E learning in engineering education is becoming popular at several universities as it allows instructors to create content that the students may view and interact with at his/her own convenience. Web-based simulation and what-if analysis are examples of such educational content and has proved to be extremely beneficial for engineering students. Such pedagogical content promote active learning and encourage students to experiment and be more creative. The main objective of this project is to develop web based learning modules, in the form of analytical simulations, for the Reactor Thermal Hydraulics course offered by the College of Engineering at UT Arlington. …


Experimental And Numerical Study Of Marangoni Convection In A Sandwiched Droplet, Ajinkya Shrikrishna Shetye May 2016

Experimental And Numerical Study Of Marangoni Convection In A Sandwiched Droplet, Ajinkya Shrikrishna Shetye

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This research studies velocity fields resulted from the marangoni effect in a microscale droplet sandwiched in parallel plates. Surface tension becomes the dominant driving force as opposed to body forces as we move from the macroscale to microscale. Surface tension gradient is required to generate marangoni convection. This could be produced by a temperature gradient along the meniscus of the drop. To study this interfacial phenomenon, indium tin oxide micro thin film heater is utilized to create the necessary temperature gradient. Pure marangoni effect is studied by suppressing the evaporation effect on fluid flow by using an ionic liquid (molten …


Computational Analysis Of Blast Induced Damage On Neurons In Brain During Traumatic Brain Injury, Divya Swamy Bandaru May 2016

Computational Analysis Of Blast Induced Damage On Neurons In Brain During Traumatic Brain Injury, Divya Swamy Bandaru

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Concussions are the most common kind of brain injuries, they are also called as mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI). In recent times, mTBIs are perceived as one of the major health problems faced by millions across the world. TBIs occur when there is a sudden acceleration or deceleration force is applied on the human brain that is encapsulated in the skull. When blasts caused by typical IEDs (induced by explosives) in wars propagate through the head, cavitation bubbles are formed in the brain tissue. When these bubbles collapse, they form cavitation-induced shock wave. It has been found that the strains …


Image Processing Of Triple Shock Wave Evolution, Katherine Yarbrough May 2016

Image Processing Of Triple Shock Wave Evolution, Katherine Yarbrough

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Shock diamonds occur in over- or under- expanded supersonic flow. They occur in the unsteady jet of a pulse detonation engine, displaying an array of complex features. Due to the highly transient nature of the flow, it must be captured using high-speed cinematography. A study of image processing of shock reflection in unsteady flow is presented. Using a computer-based environment, a method was developed to process images of shock waves to pinpoint where the shock wave starts. Using mathematical methods, such as Abel transforms, a computer code, written in Matlab, was developed to accurately transform the images to detect density …