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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

Author:

Chittlangia, Vedant Rajiv

Title:

Implementation of High FST Turbulent Kinetic Energy Diffusion Model in OpenFOAM Code for Simulation of Heat Transfer over a Gas Turbine Blade

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence
high FST
OpenFOAM
C3X
turbine blade
heat transfer
low reynolds number model
Launder Sharma model
diffusion

File:

Download Chittlangia_Vedant_MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Masters, Sarah Renee

Title:

EFFECT OF PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND REYNOLDS NUMBER ON HEAT TRANSFER IN PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Particle-laden flow
particle concentration
solids loading
Nusselt number
heat transfer

File:

Download Thesis_PSU_MSME_Masters.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael P Manahan Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

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

Author:

Adhikari, Sanjay

Title:

A Study on Heat Transfer in Dropwise Condensation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
dropwise condensation
high heat flux
experiment
surface temperature measurements
simulation
contact angle hysteresis
drop

File:

Download AdhikariSanjay_Dissertation_Submit3.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander S Rattner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander S Rattner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stupski, Stanley David

Title:

Insect Thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Thermal Biology
Insects
metabolism
heat transfer
biophysical ecology

File:

Download Stupski_dissertation_final_final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Outside Member
Timothy J Jegla, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cory, Trevor

Title:

Dust Feed and Weave Topology Effects in Gas Turbine Cooling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine
deposition
ceramic matrix composite
internal flow
heat transfer
weave surface
dust feed
effusion flow

File:

Download Cory_Thesis_Dec_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vickerson, Zachary

Title:

Impact of Saltation on the Modeling of Heat Transfer for High Reynolds Number Particle-Laden Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multiphase flow
heat transfer
particle transport
computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download Vickerson_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mike Manahan, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Knapp, Gerald

Title:

Mechanistic modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow during fusion-based additive manufacturing of structural alloys

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

numerical modeling
heat transfer
mass transfer
additive manufacturing
alloys

File:

Download Dissertation_Knapp_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jingjing Li, Outside Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Tarasankar Debroy, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor