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Author:: Mensch, Amy
Title:: Using Conjugate Heat Transfer to Assess the Cooling Performance on a Turbine Endwall
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: gas turbine endwall
conjugate heat transfer
contoured endwall
film cooling
impingement cooling
thermal barrier coating
File:: Download Mensch_Dissertation-4-2.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'connor, Committee Member
Brent A Craven, Special Member

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Author:: Gibson, Jeffrey Reed
Title:: Geometric Effects on Static Turbine Rim Seals
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Rim Seal
Hot Gas Ingress
Cavity
Flow field
Sealing Effectiveness
File:: Download Gibson_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Special Member

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Author:: Schroeder, Robert Paul
Title:: Influence of In-Hole Roughness and High Freestream Turbulence on Film Cooling From a Shaped Hole
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: film cooling
rough wall
gas turbine heat transfer
detached jet
shaped hole
viscous sublayer
File:: Download SchroederDissertFINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Brent Craven, Committee Member
James Heidmann, Special Member

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Author:: Clark, Kenneth Phillip
Title:: Sealing Effectiveness of a Turbine Rim Seal at Engine-Relevant Conditions
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: turbomachinery
turbine
rim seals
hot gas ingestion
experimental
engine relevant
File:: Download Dissertation_Ken_Clark.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member

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Author:: Stimpson, Curtis Kent
Title:: Cooling Performance of Additively Manufactured Microchannels and Film Cooling Holes
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Additive Manufacturing
Convection
Heat Transfer
Microchannel
Roughness
Film Cooling
Laser Powder Bed Fusion
File:: Download StimpsonPhDDissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member

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Author:: Kirsch, Kathryn Louise
Title:: Exploring Microchannel Cooling Designs through the uses of Numerical Optimization and Additive Manufacturing
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: heat transfer
optimization
additive manufacturing
internal cooling
adjoint method
File:: Download Kirsch_Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Reid Adam Berdanier, Special Member

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Author:: Shrager, Adam Cole
Title:: Effect of Effusion Cooling Pattern Near the Dilution Hole for a Double-Walled Combustor Liner
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Combustor
Combustor Liner
Gas Turbine Engine
Effusion Cooling
Dilution Hole
Heat Transfer
Flowfield Visualization
Particle Image Velocimetry
File:: Download Shrager_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

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Author:: Elahi, Syed Samiul
Title:: Heat Transfer Measurement of Junction Flow With Variable Reynolds Number and Freestream Turbulence
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Junction flow
Reynolds number
Turbulence
Unsteady heat flux
Junction flow
Horseshoe vortex
Reynolds number
Freestream turbulence
Heat transfer
File:: Download M.S._Thesis-Syed_Elahi-Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen P Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

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Author:: Haydt, Shane Elliott
Title:: A Detailed Investigation of the Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Related to Injection from a Compound Angled Shaped Film Cooling Hole
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: film cooling
heat transfer
fluid dynamics
gas turbines
turbomachinery
heat transfer augmentation
particle image velocimetry
ir thermography
File:: Download Shane_Haydt_-_Dissertation_v3.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen P Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member

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Author:: Snyder, Jacob
Title:: Improving Turbine Cooling Through Control of Surface Roughness in the Additive Manufacturing Process
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: L-PBF
gas turbines
heat transfer
additive manufacturing
surface roughness
DMLS
SLM
fluid flow
film cooling
process parameters
File:: Download SnyderDissertation_FinalSubmission.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Reid Adam Berdanier, Special Member

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