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Author:

Vadvadgi, Aneesh Sridhar

Title:

CALCULATION OF TEMPERATURES IN GAS TURBINE ROTOR-STATOR CAVITIES USING CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Conjugate heat transfer
gas turbine

File:

Download Calculation_of_Temperatures_in_Gas_Turbine_Rotor_Stator_Cavities_Using_Conjugate_Heat_Transfer.pdf

Committee Members:

Savash Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jones, Brian Keith

Title:

Flame Response Mechanisms and their Interaction in a Lean Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

premixed
flame
instabilities
lean
combustion
gas turbine

File:

Download Brian_Jones_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Breneman, Duane L

Title:

Effects of Rust Deposition at the Axial Seal Pin Between Two Blades

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

seal pin
leakage flow
secondary flow
rust particle deposition
gas turbine
rotating orifice

File:

Download Duane_Breneman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dey, Debashis

Title:

AERODYNAMIC TIP DESENSITIZATION IN AXIAL FLOW TURBINES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine
turbomachinery heat transfer
turbomachinery aerodynamics
tip leakage

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savash Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member

Author:

You, Danning

Title:

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION INSTABILITY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
pressure wave
gas turbine
acoustics
liner
stability

File:

Download thesis-revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Kane, Mangesh Ashok

Title:

STUDY OF GAS TURBINE BLADE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER TO DETERMINE BLADE TEMPERATURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conjugate heat transfer
gas turbine

File:

Download Thesis_Mangesh_Kane.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Turgut, Ozhan Hulusi

Title:

NONAXISYMMETRIC ENDWALL CONTOURING AND LEADING EDGE MODIFICATIONS ON TURBINE NOZZLE GUIDE VANES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nonaxisymmetric endwall contouring
secondary flows
gas turbine
leading edge fillets

File:

Download OzhanTurgut-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member

Author:

Lawson, Seth A

Title:

Simulations of Multi-Phase Particle Deposition on Film-Cooled Turbine Sections

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

adiabatic effectiveness
heat transfer
gas turbine
particle deposition

File:

Download Slawson_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Jennings, Timothy John

Title:

FILM-COOLED GAS TURBINE VANE TEMPERATURE CALCULATIONS WITH AN ITERATIVE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER APPROACH USING EMPIRICAL FILM CORRELATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conjugate
gas turbine
film-cooling
heat transfer

File:

Download Timothy_Jennings_-_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kalaskar, Vickey Baliram

Title:

EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF JP-8, JP-900, FISCHER-TROPSCH (FT) AND JP-8/FT BLENDS IN A MODEL GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

jet fuels
coal-based
gas turbine
model combustor

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Peluso, Stephen

Title:

An Experimental Study of Flame Response Mechanisms in a Lean-premixed Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
flame response
flame dynamics
flame transfer function
flame response mechanisms
gas turbine

File:

Download Stephen_Peluso.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member

Author:

Bunce, Nicholas Allen

Title:

Flame transfer function measurements and mechanisms in a single-nozzle combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion
gas turbine
flame response
swirling

File:

Download NicholasBunce-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Kirsch, Kathryn Louise

Title:

Pin Fin Surface Heat Transfer in Arrays of Oblong-shaped Pins

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
gas turbine
internal cooling

File:

Download Kirsch_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Tien, Leland

Title:

CFD Predictions of the National Experimental Turbine

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
gas turbine
LES
RANS
AM
turbomachinery

File:

Download Leland_Tien-Dissertation-Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

David Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Reid Berdanier, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Thole, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jalui, Sagar

Title:

AM-driven design innovation: DfAM constraints in adjoint shape optimization for gas turbine applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
DfAM
gas turbine
L-PBF
fuel-flexibility
fuel injector
adjoint
shape optimization

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Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacqueline O'Connor, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yuan Xuan, Major Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies