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Propulsion and Power Generation
Champion: Thole, Karen
 

Concepts
 
Real-Time Data Synthesis to Detect Abnormal Turbine Operations
 
Projects
 
- Development of a Rotating Rig to Study Secondary Flow Leakages and Aerothermal Cooling (URS Corporation)
- Improving Turbine Efficiencies through Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Research in the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) (U.S. Department of Energy)
- Improving Turbine Efficiencies through Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Research in the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) (U.S. Department of Energy)
- Secondary Flow Rotating Rig - Facility Development (Turbine Thermal Management FWP FY14, Task 5.2) (URS Corporation)
 
Publications
 
A new hue capturing technique for the quantitative interpretation of liquid crystal images used in convective heat transfer studies  Journal of Turbomachinery 114 (4), 765-775, 1992
A preconditioned Navier–Stokes method for two-phase flows with application to cavitation prediction  Computers & Fluids 29 (8), 849-875, 2000
Acoustic analogy and alternative theories for jet noise prediction  AIAA journal 40 (4), 671-680, 2002
Aerodynamic loss characteristics of a turbine blade with trailing edge coolant ejection: part 2—external aerodynamics, total pressure losses, and predictions  Journal of turbomachinery 123 (2), 249-257, 2001
Aerodynamic tip desensitization of an axial turbine rotor using tip platform extensions  ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, V001T03A069-V001T03A069, 2001
Applications of semi-implicit Fourier-spectral method to phase field equations  Computer Physics Communications 108 (2), 147-158, 1998
Computational design and experimental evaluation of using a leading edge fillet on a gas turbine vane  ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, V003T01A083-V003T01A083, 2001
Computational predictions of heat transfer and film-cooling for a turbine blade with nonaxisymmetric endwall contouring  Journal of Turbomachinery 133 (4), 041003, 2011
Density ratio effects on reacting bluff-body flow field characteristics  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 706, 219-250, 2012
Differential eigenvalue problems in which the parameter appears nonlinearly  Journal of Computational Physics 55 (3), 437-460, 1984
Disturbance field characteristics of a transversely excited burner  Combustion Science and Technology 183 (5), 427-443, 2011
Forced convection heat transfer enhancement using a self-oscillating impinging planar jet  Journal of Heat Transfer 124 (4), 770-782, 2002
Full-coverage film cooling with short normal injection holes  ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, V003T01A016-V003T01A016, 2001
Gas turbine film cooling  Journal of propulsion and power 22 (2), 249-270, 2006
Heat transfer for a turbine blade with nonaxisymmetric endwall contouring  Journal of Turbomachinery 133 (1), 011019, 2011
High Reynolds number, unsteady, multiphase CFD modeling of cavitating flows  Journal of Fluids Engineering 124 (3), 607-616, 2002
Measurements in subsonic and supersonic free jets using a laser velocimeter  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 93 (01), 1-27, 1979
Multi-phase CFD analysis of natural and ventilated cavitation about submerged bodies  3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, San Francisco 1 (999), 1, 1999
Performance analysis of cavitating flow in centrifugal pumps using multiphase CFD  Journal of Fluids Engineering 124 (2), 377-383, 2002
Phase-field models for microstructure evolution  Annual review of materials research 32 (1), 113-140, 2002
Recirculation zone dynamics of a transversely excited swirl flow and flame  Physics of Fluids (1994-present) 24 (7), 075107, 2012
Simulations of Multiphase Particle Deposition on a Nonaxisymmetric Contoured Endwall With Film-Cooling  Journal of Turbomachinery 135 (3), 031032, 2013
Symbolic time series analysis via wavelet-based partitioning  Signal Processing 86 (11), 3309-3320, 2006
The effect of combustor-turbine interface gap leakage on the endwall heat transfer for a nozzle guide vane  Journal of Turbomachinery 130 (4), 041019, 2008
The effect of the combustor-turbine slot and midpassage gap on vane endwall heat transfer  Journal of Turbomachinery 133 (4), 041002, 2011
The radiation of sound by the instability waves of a compressible plane turbulent shear layer  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 98 (02), 349-381, 1980
Transverse combustion instabilities: Acoustic, fluid mechanic, and flame processes  Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 49, 1-39, 2015
 
Faculty
 
Earth & Mineral Sciences
 
Chen, Long-Qing
Engineering
 
Camci, Cengiz
Kunz, Robert
Lynch, Stephen
Morris, Philip
O'Connor, Jacqueline
Perez-Blanco, Horacio
Ray, Asok
Sinha, Alok
Thole, Karen
Yavuzkurt, Savas
 
 
 
 
Resources
 
Research Centers
 
Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics Group
Institute
 
Institute for Natural Gas Research