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Author:

Li, Jian

Title:

IGNITION TRANSIENT IN AN ETHYLENE FUELED SCRAMJET ENGINE WITH AIR THROTTLING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic combustion
Scramjet
CFD
air throttling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Jian_Li_March_27.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Naredi, Prabhat

Title:

COAL COMBUSTION IN O2/CO2 MEDIUM FOR POWER GENERATION: NUMERICAL MODELING OF CHAR BURNOUT, NOX AND CO EMISSIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Char reactivity
thermogravimetric analysis
drop tube reactor
modeling
CFD
oxy-coal combustion
NOx
CO emission
burnout

File:

Download Prabhat_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan W Scaroni, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Medvitz, Richard B

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC METHODOLOGY FOR BLOOD PUMP DESIGN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THROMBUS POTENTIAL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD

File:

Download RichardMedvitz-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Leomard Joel Peltier, Committee Member

Author:

Gott, Kevin Nathaniel

Title:

A Hybrid CFD-DSMC Model Designed to Simulate Rapidly Rarefying Flow Fields and its Application to Physical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Physical Vapor Deposition
CFD
DSMC
Multi-physics Modeling
Vacuum
Coatings

File:

Download KGott_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

McIntyre, Sean Michael

Title:

A multi-scale model for geared transmission aero-thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
conjugate heat transfer
gearbox
multi-scale model

File:

Download SeanMcIntyre-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Jules Washington Lindau V, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

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:

Sircar, Arpan

Title:

CFD Modeling of In-Cylinder Heat Transfer in Piston Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Combustion
Turbulence
Radiation
Boundary Layer
IC Engines

File:

Download Arpan_Sircar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert J Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair