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Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Profile and Secondary Aerodynamic Losses in High Pressure Axial Turbines
(2018-07-27)
A series of experimental studies were conducted in order to investigate the generation and growth of A series of experimental studies were conducted in order to investigate the generation
and growth of aerodynamic losses ...
Numerical Investigation of Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Multiple Droplet Train Impingement for Surface Cooling
(2018-06-08)
Spray cooling is a promising and predominant heat transfer mechanism for many industrial applications, including cooling of microelectronic devices. However, there are numerous parameters that influence the physical ...
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Multi-Stage Axial Turbine Performance at Design and Off-Design Conditions
(2013-08-07)
Computational fluid dynamics or CFD isan importanttool thatis used at various stages in the design of highly complex turbomachinery such as compressorand turbine stages that are used in land and air based power generation ...
Computational Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Stability and the Validation and Verification of EPIC
(2018-05-03)
Laminar-to-turbulent transition is a process that is critical in determining the system drag and surface heating of a flight vehicle, and the ability to predict, and possibly control, this process has become an essential ...
Simple Zero Dimensional Quasi-predictive Thermodynamic Simulation for Prediction of NOx for Diesel Combustion
(2017-05-31)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is now a ubiquitous computational tool for engine design and analysis. It is often necessary to provide well-known initial cycle conditions to commence the CFD computations. Such initial ...
Numerical Investigation of Thermal Hydraulic Behavior of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in Compact Heat Exchangers
(2012-02-14)
The present work seeks to investigate the thermal hydraulic (heat transfer and fluid dynamics) behavior of supercritical (Sc) fluids at both the fundamental and applied levels. The thermal hydraulics of these fluids is not ...
Numerical Simulation of Flow Field Inside a Squeeze Film Damper and the Study of the Effect of Cavitation on the Pressure Distribution
(2012-02-14)
Squeeze Film Dampers (SFDs) are employed in high-speed Turbomachinery, particularly aircraft jet engines, to provide external damping. Despite numerous successful applications, it is widely acknowledged that the theoretical ...
Computational Modeling and Optimization of a Novel Shock Tube to Study Blast Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
(2014-08-06)
Over the last decade, soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are being exposed to blasts from powerful explosives with improvised detonation techniques. These blasts put them at high risk of closed head non-impact ...
Numerical Investigation of Temperature Distribution on a High Pressure Gas Turbine Blade
(2014-08-10)
A numerical code is developed to calculate the temperature distributions on the surface of a gas turbine blade. This code is a tool for quick prediction of the temperatures by knowing the boundary conditions and the flow ...
Development of Spatio-Temporal Wavelet Post Processing Techniques for Application to Thermal Hydraulic Experiments and Numerical Simulations
(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 ...