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Author:

Zhang, Liwei

Title:

FLOW DYNAMICS AND SCALAR MIXING OF TRANSVERSE JETS INTO CROSSFLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

large eddy simulation
jet in crossflow
turbulent mixing
jet stability
external excitations
supersonic flow

File:

Download LiweiZhang_PhDthesis_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Shanwu

Title:

VORTICAL FLOW DYNAMICS AND ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF GAS-TURBINE SWIRL-STABILIZED INJECTORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Swirling Flows
injector dynamics
POD
mode competition
large eddy simulation
mode competition
acoustic admittance
acoustic respons
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
vortex breakdown

File:

Download Shanwu_Wang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Haosen

Title:

Numerical and Theoretical Study of Wall-bounded Turbulence

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
wall-bounded turbulence
rough wall turbulent boundary layer
turbulent heat transfer
large eddy simulation
turbulence wall modeling

File:

Download XuThesis10_5.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Major Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair