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Author:

Guzzetta, Ashley Susan

Title:

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF FUEL ROD CRUD FORMATION ON BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR USING EULERIAN TWO-FLUID CFD

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear
pressurized water reactors
crud model
subcooled boiling
heat transfer
CFD
crud formation

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Guzzetta.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Neely, Gaelyn L

Title:

HEAT TRANSFER AND FRICTION FACTOR AUGMENTATION IN RIB TURBULATED FLOW

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
friction factor
internal flow
ribs

File:

Download Gaelyn_Neely_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kern, Ludwig August

Title:

FLUENT CFD MODELING IN DESIGN OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL DRY STORAGE CASK

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Fluent
fluent modeling
cfd
cfd modeling
fluent model
cfd model
computational fluid dynamics
nuclear
nuclear engineering
dry storage
dry storage cask
spent fuel
spent nuclear fuel
nuclear fuel
rbmk
chernobyl
holtec
thermal
heat transfer
natural convection
convection
natural convective flow
annular
prototype
full-scale
validation
cfd code
navier-stokes
navier-stokes equation

File:

Download Kern_MS_NucE_Thesis_2009_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saurav, Samarth

Title:

HEAT TRANSFER TO SPORES IN AN ABRUPTLY EXPANDING AXISYMMETRIC FLOW FIELD COMPUTED USING CFD

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

abruptly expanding internal flows
computational fluid dynamics
heat transfer

File:

Download Samarth_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Deborah Levin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Deborah Levin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Tong

Title:

DSMC Analysis of Fractal-like Aggregates of Spores in the Semi-rarefied Flow Regime

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

DSMC
heat transfer
fractal

File:

Download Tong_Zhu--MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah A Levin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Zhiyu

Title:

Inverted Annular Film Boiling Model Analysis

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
two-phase heat transfer
inverted annular film boiling
heat transfer
two-phase heat transfer
inverted annular film boiling
heat transfer
two-phase heat transfer
inverted annular film boiling

File:

Download Zhiyu_Li_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kirsch, Kathryn Louise

Title:

Pin Fin Surface Heat Transfer in Arrays of Oblong-shaped Pins

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
gas turbine
internal cooling

File:

Download Kirsch_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gorman, Nicolas Stephen

Title:

Experimental Study of Downward Facing Boiling under IVR-ERVC Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

IVR
ERVC
Boiling
Two-phase
heat transfer
nucleate boiling

File:

Download gorman_masters_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gita Talmage, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nelson, Cameron Stuart

Title:

A Higher-Order Numerical Method for Solid Conductive Heat Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

higher-order
finite volume
numerical
conduction
heat transfer

File:

Download MASTERS_THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

John Michael Cimbala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kumru, Hanife Tugba

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF PARAMETRIC EFFECTS ON THE TRANSITION BOILING REGIME FOR FLOW BOILING IN A ROD BUNDLE UNDER LOSS OF COOLANT CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

minimum film boiling temperature
transition boiling regime
RBHT
spacer grid
heat transfer

File:

Download Hanife_Tugba_Kumru_MSc_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chittlangia, Vedant Rajiv

Title:

Implementation of High FST Turbulent Kinetic Energy Diffusion Model in OpenFOAM Code for Simulation of Heat Transfer over a Gas Turbine Blade

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence
high FST
OpenFOAM
C3X
turbine blade
heat transfer
low reynolds number model
Launder Sharma model
diffusion

File:

Download Chittlangia_Vedant_MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Masters, Sarah Renee

Title:

EFFECT OF PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND REYNOLDS NUMBER ON HEAT TRANSFER IN PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Particle-laden flow
particle concentration
solids loading
Nusselt number
heat transfer

File:

Download Thesis_PSU_MSME_Masters.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael P Manahan Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

Author:

Cory, Trevor

Title:

Dust Feed and Weave Topology Effects in Gas Turbine Cooling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine
deposition
ceramic matrix composite
internal flow
heat transfer
weave surface
dust feed
effusion flow

File:

Download Cory_Thesis_Dec_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vickerson, Zachary

Title:

Impact of Saltation on the Modeling of Heat Transfer for High Reynolds Number Particle-Laden Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multiphase flow
heat transfer
particle transport
computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download Vickerson_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mike Manahan, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Almutairi, Faris

Title:

Design And Numerical Simulation of One-Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling System For Small-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Immersion Cooling
Dielectric Liquid
Cryptocurrency mining
Thermal management
CFD
Computational fluid dynamics
heat transfer
ASIC
ASIC miner

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Committee Members:

Ahm E Rahman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Committee Member
Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member