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Author:

Ribic, Brandon David

Title:

MODELING OF PLASMA AND THERMO-FLUID TRANSPORT IN HYBRID WELDING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

fluid flow
heat transfer
surface active elements
numerical modeling
laser-arc hybrid welding
plasma properties
keyhole mode welding

File:

Download THESIS_RIBIC_B.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Tarasankar Deb Roy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Todd Palmer, Committee Member

Author:

Brady, John Feurman

Title:

The effects of geometry and adjacent regenerators on shell-and-tube heat exchangers in oscillating flows

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

thermoacoustics
heat transfer
oscillating flow
acoustics
heat exchangers

File:

Download John_F_Brady_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Mitchel Keolian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Mitchel Keolian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member

Author:

Meholic, Michael James

Title:

The Development of a Non-Equilibrium Dispersed Flow Film Boiling Heat Transfer Modeling Package

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

mechanistic modeling
DFFB
heat transfer
film boiling
dispersed flow
post-CHF
COBRA-TF

File:

Download Meholic_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

Author:

Nandan, Rituraj

Title:

Computational modeling of heat transfer and visco-plastic flow in Friction Stir Welding

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

torque
reliability
differential algorithm
viscoplastic flow
friction coeffiecient
finite volume method
parametric study
friction stir welding
aluminum alloys
heat generation
heat transfer
variable slip

File:

Download Rituraj-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member

Author:

Lawson, Seth A

Title:

Simulations of Multi-Phase Particle Deposition on Film-Cooled Turbine Sections

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

adiabatic effectiveness
heat transfer
gas turbine
particle deposition

File:

Download Slawson_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Probing Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow and Microstructural Evolution during Fusion Welding of Alloys

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

fusion welding
phase transformation
fluid flow
heat transfer
diffusion
free surface

File:

Download thesis_weizhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
John W Elmer, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Member

Author:

Ostanek, Jason

Title:

Flowfield Interactions in Low Aspect Ratio Pin-fin Arrays

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
turbulence
heat exchangers
pin-fins

File:

Download Ostanek_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Eric Paterson, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

Author:

Clifford, Ivor David

Title:

A hybrid coarse and fine mesh solution method for prismatic high temperature gas-cooled reactor thermal-fluid analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

prismatic HTGR
thermal-fluids
heat transfer
homogenization
multiscale
coarse mesh CFD
reduced order model

File:

Download Phd_Thesis_-_IClifford.pdf

Committee Members:

Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Hrvoje Jasak, Special Member
Richard Martineau, Special Member
Onno Ubbink, Special Member

Author:

Neykov, Boyan S

Title:

Development and validation of advanced CFD models for detailed predictions of void distribution in a BWR bundle

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
two phase flow
heat transfer
boiling

File:

Download Ph_D_thesis_Boyan_Neykov.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Cimbala, Committee Member
John Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Committee Member
Emilian Popov, Committee Member

Author:

Kirsch, Kathryn Louise

Title:

Exploring Microchannel Cooling Designs through the uses of Numerical Optimization and Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
optimization
additive manufacturing
internal cooling
adjoint method

File:

Download Kirsch_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Reid Adam Berdanier, Special Member