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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:

Casadei, Gina Marie

Title:

Dynamic-Mesh Techniques For Unsteady Multiphase Surface-Ship Hydrodynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multiphase
Dynamic-Meshing Techniques
CFD
Turbulence Modeling

File:

Download GinaCasadeiThesisPSU10.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Koncoski, Jeremy J

Title:

A REDUCED ORDER MODEL OF PROPELLER UNSTEADY FORCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

propeller
unsteady force
model
CFD
computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download koncoski_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Kevin

Title:

Computation of Viscous Multiphase Hydrodynamics and Ship Motions During Wave-Slap Events and Wave Excited Roll

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wave breaking
tumblehome
oscillating cylinder
prescribed motion
RANS
CFD
VOF
6DOF
seakeeping
wave impact
wave model
free surface
sponge layer
numerical beach
dissipation zone
box barge
mesh motion
deep water
shallow water
non reflecting boundary condition
openfoam
finite volume method
wave dissipation
impact load scaling

File:

Download KevinSmithMSThesisPSUETDr2.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dhiman, Sushant

Title:

FILM COOLING CALCULATIONS WITH AN ITERATIVE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER APPROACH USING EMPIRICAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT CORRECTIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Conjugate Heat transfer
Film Cooling
Gas Turbine
CFD

File:

Download THESIS_SUSHANT_DHIMAN.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Christian, Cinnamon Maria

Title:

Modeling Laser-generated Cavitation Bubbles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

cavitation
laser-generated bubbles
CFD
multiphase flow

File:

Download Cinnamon_M_Christian-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Maciejewski, Daniel

Title:

Computation of Two-Phase Drag Reduction by Gas Injection

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

microbubble drag reduction
turbulent boundary layer
CFD
multiphase
two-phase
turbulence

File:

Download Maciejewski-Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled Flow-Biochemistry Simulations of Dynamic Systems of Blood Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
CFD
stokes flow
blood cells
6DOF
six degrees-of-freedom
biochemistry

File:

Download BJG_Thesis_MS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent Craven, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tiwari, Ankit

Title:

Design Of A Cooling System For A Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Conjugate Heat Transfer
3-D flow separation
Heat Transfer enhancement
induction motor cooling

File:

Download 2-Ankit_Tiwari_MS_Thesis_Fracking_Drive_Cooling_System_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mohamed, Mohand

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Fluid flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Dimpled Jackets

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Heat transfer
Fluid flow
Dimpled Jacket
CFD
Nusselt Number
Friction Factor

File:

Download Mohand_Mohamed_May2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Program Head/Chair
Richard Christopher Ciocci, Committee Member

Author:

Zafar, Suhaib

Title:

MULT-SCALE MODELLING AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALSYIS OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE (TMD) GROWTH IN AN MOCVD CHAMBER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
2D materials
TMDs
MOCVD
Growth Kinetics

File:

Download MS_thesis_Suhaib.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair