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Start Over Graduate Program Mechanical Engineering Year 2015 Committee Member Savas Yavuzkurt

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

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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

2. Two New, Comprehensive Models of Dissipation Rates for Capillary-Gravity Waves, with an Emphasis on Ocean Swell

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Author:
Rajan, Girish Kumar
Title:
Two New, Comprehensive Models of Dissipation Rates for Capillary-Gravity Waves, with an Emphasis on Ocean Swell
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Dissipation/Decay
Capillary-Gravity
Surfactant
Marangoni/Elastic Waves
Resonance
Barotropic/Baroclinic Modes
Ocean Swell
File:
Download Rajan_Dissertation_Mech_Engr.pdf
Committee Members:
Diane Marie Henderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Joseph Brannick, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Harvey Segur, Special Member

3. Simulation, Analysis, and Mitigation of Vortex Rope Formation in the Draft Tube of Hydraulic Turbines

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Author:
Foroutan, Hosein
Title:
Simulation, Analysis, and Mitigation of Vortex Rope Formation in the Draft Tube of Hydraulic Turbines
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Vortex Rope
Draft Tube
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Turbulence Modeling
Hydaulic Turbine
Hydropower
Renewable Energy
File:
Download HoseinForoutan-PhDThesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Savas Yavuzkurt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Eric Paterson, Special Member

4. Spacer Grid Induced Heat Transfer Enhancement In A Rod Bundle Under Reflood Conditions

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Open Access
Author:
Riley, Michael Patrick
Title:
Spacer Grid Induced Heat Transfer Enhancement In A Rod Bundle Under Reflood Conditions
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Reflood
Dispersed Flow Film Boiling
Spacer Grid
Heat Transfer Enhancement
Two-Phase Flow
Loss of Coolant Accident
File:
Download Michael_Rileys_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Stephen Bajorek, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

6. Influence of In-Hole Roughness and High Freestream Turbulence on Film Cooling From a Shaped Hole

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Author:
Schroeder, Robert Paul
Title:
Influence of In-Hole Roughness and High Freestream Turbulence on Film Cooling From a Shaped Hole
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
film cooling
rough wall
gas turbine heat transfer
detached jet
shaped hole
viscous sublayer
File:
Download SchroederDissertFINAL.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
Brent Craven, Committee Member
James Heidmann, Special Member

7. Theoretical and experimental study of inverted annular film boiling and regime transition during reflood transients

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Author:
Mohanta, Lokanath
Title:
Theoretical and experimental study of inverted annular film boiling and regime transition during reflood transients
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Two-phase heat transfer
Subcooled flow film boiling
Regime Transition
Rod bundle
Spacer Grid
Stability of Co-axial jets
File:
Download Lokanath_PhD_Dissertation_Expt_Theory_IAFB_Regime_Transition.pdf
Committee Members:
Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Timothy Francis Miller, Committee Member
Stephen M Bajorek, Special Member