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Author:

Nandi, Tarak Nath

Title:

EFFECTS OF BLADE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION AND DAYTIME ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE ON WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYZED WITH BLADE-RESOLVED SIMULATION AND FIELD DATA

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid Mechanics
CFD
turbulence
transition
atmospheric boundary layer
actuator line method
RANS
LES
Wind Energy

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Dissertation_forSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Outside Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, 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