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Author:

Lewis, Bryan John

Title:

Improving Unsteady Hydroturbine Performance During Off-design Operation by Injecting Water from the Trailing Edge of the Wicket Gates

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydroturbines
momentumless wakes
circulation control
rotor-stator interactions
unsteady fluid interaction

File:

Download 1-Bryan_Lewis_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Michael Cimbala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brent A Craven, Committee Member
Eric G Paterson, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Leonard, Daniel Joseph

Title:

Computation and Analysis of Cavitating Flow in Francis-class Hydraulic Turbines

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multiphase
Cavitation
Hydroturbine
RANS
DES
Performance Breakdown
Francis turbine

File:

Download DanielLeonard_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jules Washington Lindau V, Special Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Brent A Craven, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Abe Hyunchoong

Title:

Fluid-Structure Interaction of Large Amplitude Structure Vibrations and Moderately High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flows

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

FSI
Lock-In
DDES

File:

Download AbeLee_PhD_Dissertation_Final_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen A Hambric, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen A Hambric, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lee Campbell, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Timothy A Brungart, Committee Member
Brent A Craven, Special Member

Author:

Mensch, Amy

Title:

Using Conjugate Heat Transfer to Assess the Cooling Performance on a Turbine Endwall

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine endwall
conjugate heat transfer
contoured endwall
film cooling
impingement cooling
thermal barrier coating

File:

Download Mensch_Dissertation-4-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'connor, Committee Member
Brent A Craven, Special Member