Browsing by Author "Annamalai, Kalyan"
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Maroni Veiga, Adrian Gaston (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Vortical structures are regarded as the dominant organized patterns in wall turbulence. They play a key role in physical phenomena of practical importance such as energy and momentum transport, combustion, mixing, and noise ...
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Li, Jue (2017-12-12)Fuel properties impact the combustion and emissions behavior of diesel engines through their influence on the physical process associated with fuel injection, entrainment and fuel-air mixing, as well as by changes to the ...
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Khan, Abdul (2012-10-19)In this study, the phenomenon of two-phase flow was investigated in a square channel. The experiment was performed with stagnant liquid conditions. The gas and liquid dynamics of the bubbly flow were observed in two regions ...
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Wei, Hongchan 1982- (2012-11-02)Two topics from nuclear engineering field are included in this dissertation. One study is the air-ingress phenomenon during a loss of coolant accident (LOCA) scenario, and the other is a 5-by-5 bundle assembly problem under ...
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Savant, Gautam Sandesh (2012-07-16)In recent years, the development and use of biofuels have received considerable attention due to the high demand for environmentally acceptable (green) fuels. Most of the recent studies have looked at the processes of ...
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Fan, Ge-Yi (2014-07-17)Due to the fast growth of biodiesel production capacity, the amount of glycerol has increased rapidly. Furthermore, the supply of glycerol has exceeded the demand needs in the market. In addition, there is a great demand ...
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Tompkins, Brandon T (2015-08-12)The first stage of ignition in saturated hydrocarbon fuels (in diesel combustion) is characterized as low temperature heat release (LTHR) or cool flame combustion. LTHR takes place as a series of isomerization reactions ...
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Rotavera, Brandon (2011-02-22)Stemming from a continuing demand for fuel surrogates, composed of only a few species, combustion of high-molecular-weight hydrocarbons (>C5) is of scientific interest due to their abundance in petroleum-based fuels, which ...
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Spear, Aubrey Alvin (2015-08-05)Government regulations on emission standards and constantly fluctuating fuel availability and prices have led to the need of more readily usable and available models for power generating combustors. A common, versatile, ...
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Lawrence, Benjamin Daniel (2009-05-15)Dairy biomass (DB) is evaluated as a possible co-firing fuel with coal. Cofiring of DB offers a technique of utilizing dairy manure for power/steam generation, reducing greenhouse gas concerns, and increasing financial ...
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Lei, Yafeng (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The push toward the miniaturization of electromechanical devices and the resulting need for micro-power generation (milliwatts to watts) with low-weight, long-life devices has led to the recent development of the field of ...
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Singh, Navdeep (2011-02-22)Miniaturization of electronic devices for enhancing their performance is associated with higher heat fluxes and cooling requirements. Surface modifi cation by texturing or coating is the most cost-effective approach to ...
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Nakamura, Tetsu (2010-07-14)The Transient Inlet Concept (TIC) involves transient aerodynamics and wave interactions with the objective of producing turbulence, compression and flow in ducted engines at low subsonic speeds. This concept relies on the ...
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Alawneh, Luay Mohammad Deeb (2022-07-25)Micro reactors are gaining substantial interest worldwide due to their capabilities to deliver power to remote and decentralized areas, also their long fuel cycles which makes them more attractive compared to other energy ...
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Anderson, Nolan Alan (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) system behavior should be predicted during normal operating conditions and during transient conditions. To predict the VHTR system behavior there is an urgent need for development, ...
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Alsmadi, Eman Haitham Mohammad (2020-05-20)This thesis summarizes an intensive computational study to a proton accelerator-driven thorium-fueled molten salt reactor, including sensitivity analysis, parametric studies, and design & optimization for selected components ...
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Gomez, Patsky O. (2010-01-16)The low NOx burner (LNB) is the most cost effective technology used in coal-fired power plants to reduce NOx. Conventional (unstaged) burners use primary air for transporting particles and swirling secondary air to create ...
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Krejci, Michael (2012-07-16)Synthetic gas, syngas, is a popular alternative fuel for the gas turbine industry, but the composition of syngas can contain different types and amounts of contaminants, such as carbon dioxide, methane, moisture, and ...
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Arora, Ojasvin Sanjay (2023-08-02)Elevated temperatures and corrosive environments, typical of molten salt reactor’s operating conditions, may pose challenges to the functionality of instrumentation, sensors and key com-ponents of the cycle. Experimental ...
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Salpeter, Nathaniel (2012-07-16)This work focuses on both high fidelity experimental and numerical thermal hydraulic studies and advanced frequency decomposition methods. The major contribution of this work is a proposed method for spatio-temporal ...