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Author:

Clark, Kenneth Phillip

Title:

Sealing Effectiveness of a Turbine Rim Seal at Engine-Relevant Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbomachinery
turbine
rim seals
hot gas ingestion
experimental
engine relevant

File:

Download Dissertation_Ken_Clark.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member

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:

Sadagopan, Aravinth

Title:

A design strategy for a 6:1 supersonic mixed-flow compressor stage and its viscous flow-based performance analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

mixed-flow compressor
mean-line design
turbomachinery
computational fluid dynamics
shock stability
aerospace propulsion
Bezier curves
NASA Rotor 37
Supersonic Diffuser
6:1
pressure-ratio
blade optimization

File:

Download MS_thesis_Aravinth_Sadagopan_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Monge-Concepcion, Ivan

Title:

The Effect of Vane Trailing Edge Flow on Inter-Stage Turbine Sealing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbomachinery
turbine
rim seals
hot gas ingestion
experimental
vane trailing edge flow
engine relevant

File:

Download Monge-Concepcion_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Thole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Douglas Wolfe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Reid Berdanier, Major Field Member

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