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Author:

Robert, Ashish

Title:

Fundamental physics underlying polymer drag reduction from DNS of homogeneous shear and isotropic turbulence with the FENE-P model

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Homogeneous shear turbulence
Polymer drag reduction
DNS

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_of_Ashish_Robert.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Anquan

Title:

Investigation of Turbulence-Radiation Interactions in Turbulent Flames Using a Hybrid Finite Volume/Monte Carlo Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas radiative properties
flame
turbulence-radiation interactions
combustion
thermal radiation
composition PDF
Monte Carlo methods

File:

Download Anquan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Paul E Plassmann, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Ankur

Title:

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flames with Radiation Heat Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Filtered-density function
Photon Monte Carlo
Turbulence-radiation interaction
Large-eddy simulation
Combustion
Thermal radiation
Turbulence-chemistry interaction
Probability density function

File:

Download Ankur_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Sarofeen, Christian

Title:

IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A NON-CUT CELL IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD FOR USE IN ICING SMIULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Simulation
Computational
IBM
Immersed Boundary Method
CFD
Icing
Rotorcraft

File:

Download ChristianSarofeen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Patterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

HUANG, YING

Title:

Modeling and Simulation of Combustion Dynamics in Lean-Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Gas-Turbine Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Combustion Instabilities
Large Eddy Simulation
Level Set Flamelet Approach
Triple Decomposition Techniques

File:

Download Thesis-YingHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Yadav, Mohan Singh

Title:

Interfacial Area Transport Across Vertical Elbows In Air-water Two-phase Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Interfacial Area Transport
Two-Phase Flows
Experiments
Flow Restrictions

File:

Download 1-Dissertation_Yadav.pdf

Committee Members:

Seungjin Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seungjin Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Xinyu

Title:

Transported Probability Density Function Methods for Coal Combustion: Toward High Temperature Oxy-coal for Direct Power Extraction

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oxy-coal combustion
combustion modeling
probability density function method
spectral photon Monte Carlo
finite-rate chemistry

File:

Download xzz105-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member

Author:

Fulghum, Matthew R

Title:

Turbulence Measurements in High-speed Wind Tunnels Using Focusing Laser Differential Interferometry

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence
optics
interferometry
FLDI
hypersonic
supersonic
wind tunnel

File:

Download Fulghum_dissertation_final_1dec2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member

Author:

Vijayakumar, Ganesh

Title:

Non-steady Dynamics of Atmospheric Turbulence Interaction with Wind Turbine Loadings through Blade-boundary-layer-resolved CFD

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Atmosphere
Wind Turbines
LES
Hybrid URANS-LES
ABL
Atmospheric Boundary Layer

File:

Download Ganesh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gordon Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Paterson, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Marcelo Chamecki, Committee Member

Author:

Dasgupta, Adhiraj Kishore

Title:

Numerical Simulation of AxiSymmetric Laminar Diffusion Flames with Soot

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

soot
laminar flames
OpenFOAM
diffusion flames
CFD modeling

File:

Download akd144_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Special Member