Spectral analysis of OH-PLIF snapshots of a bluff body wake

Abstract

I would like to thank Dr. Terrence Meyer for supporting me throughout, especially at moments when I was calling it quits. I would also like to thank Dr. James Michael for agreeing to be my co-major professor and helping to guide my final MS thesis work. In addition, I would like to thank Dr. Rodney Fox for agreeing to be on my POSC committee and directing me towards the dynamic mode decomposition. This work would not be possible if not for the support from staff members of the graduate college. In particular, I would like to thank Samantha Hirschman, Natalie Robinson, and Lisa Elm. I also want to thank Dr. Pranav Shrotriya for agreeing to be on the committee if needed. I would like to thank Sukesh Roy and Andrew Caswell for the bluff body dataset and for technical guidance. And finally, I would like to thank Joel Buehler for taking care of the GPU computer.