# overview
Our research at TPFL covers a wide range of topics dealing with all aspects of aero-thermodynamic design and development of turbomachinery, particularly turbine components. This includes steady and unsteady aerodynamics, heat transfer, film cooling, and design and off-design performance of power and thrust generation gas turbines.

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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Technical University of Darmstadt - (Darmstadt, Germany)

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Technical University of Darmstadt - (Darmstadt, Germany)

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Technical University of Darmstadt - (Darmstadt, Germany)

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Differential Balances in Fluid Mechanics

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Aerodynamic and Performance Studies of a Three-Stage High Pressure Research Turbine With 3-D - Blades, Design Point and Off-Design Experimental Investigations

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Experimental Investigation of Film-Cooling Effectiveness of a Highly Loaded Turbine Blade Under Steady and Periodic Unsteady Flow Conditions

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Intermittent behavior of the separated boundary layer along the suction surface of a low pressure turbine blade under periodic unsteady flow conditions

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Turbomachinery Flow Physics and Dynamic Performance

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Film-cooling effectiveness on a rotating turbine platform using pressure sensitive paint technique

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Five-hole pressure probe analysis technique

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Experimental Study of the Effect of Periodic Unsteady Wake Flow on Boundary Layer Development, Separation, and Re-Attachment Along the Surface of a Low Pressure Turbine Blade

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Optimization of Trailing Edge Ejection Mixing Losses: A Theoretical and Experimental Study

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Development of periodic unsteady turbulent wakes in a curved channel at zero streamwise pressure gradient

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Advances in Nonlinear Dynamic Engine Simulation With an Example: Dynamic Performance Behavior of a Gas Turbine With One Reheat Turbine Stage and Two Combustion Chambers

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EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF AERODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF A THREE-STAGE HP-TURBINE AT DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS

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Shock-loss model for transonic and supersonic axial compressors with curved blades

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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DIGITAL VISUALIZATION OF THE BEHAVIOR OF PERIODIC UNSTEADY BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION ALONG A CURVED PLATE AT ZERO LONGITUDINAL PRESSURE GRADIENT

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A NEW PHYSICS BASED UNSTEADY TRANSITION MODEL USING THE UNIVERSAL INTERMITTENCY FUNCTION

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Fluid Mechanics for Engineers: A Graduate Textbook

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Nonlinear Dynamic Simulation of Turbomachinery Components and Systems

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Film cooling effectiveness on the leading edge region of a rotating turbine blade with two rows of film cooling holes using pressure sensitive paint

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Dynamic simulation of a wave-rotor-topped turboshaft engine

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Development of two-dimensional wakes within curved channels: Theoretical framework and experimental investigation

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Intermittency based unsteady boundary layer transition modeling, implementation into Navier-Stokes equations

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Numerical Simulation of Film Cooling on Rotating Blade Tips within a High-Pressure Turbine

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Modeling of Recuperators, Combustion Chambers, Afterburners

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Prediction of film cooling and heat transfer on a rotating blade platform with stator-rotor purge and discrete film-hole flows in a 1-1/2 turbine stage

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Effect of Unsteady Wake Passing Frequency on Boundary Layer Transition, Experimental Investigation and Wavelet Analysis

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Simulation of Gas Turbine Engines, Design Off-Design and Dynamic Performance

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The ultra-high efficiency gas turbine engine, uhegt, part III: Dynamic behavior of the system in variable performance conditions

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Introduction, Gas Turbines, Applications, Types

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Effects of Periodic Unsteady Wake Flow and Pressure Gradient on Boundary Layer Transition Along the Concave Surface of a Curved Plate

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Modeling Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition on a Curved Plate Under Periodic Unsteady Flow Conditions: Aerodynamic and Heat Transfer Investigations

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A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of the Turbine Blade Tip Film Cooling Effectiveness under Rotation Condition

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On the Physics of the Flow Separation Along a Low Pressure Turbine Blade Under Unsteady Flow Conditions

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Experimental and numerical investigations of aerodynamic behavior of a three-stage high-pressure turbine at different operation conditions

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Effects of periodic unsteady wake flow and pressure gradient on boundary layer transition along the concave surface of a curved plate

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STABILITY BEHAVIOR OF VORTEX FLOWS IN ANNULAR CHANNELS

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Film cooling effectiveness on the leading edge of a rotating film-cooled blade using pressure sensitive paint

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Turbine and Compressor Cascade Flow Forces

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Film Cooling Effectiveness on the Leading Edge of a Rotating Turbine Blade

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Theoretical and experimental study of development of two-dimensional steady and unsteady wakes within curved channels

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Combined effects of turbulence intensity and periodic unsteady wake flow condition on boundary layer separation and re-attachment along the suction surface of a low pressure turbine blade

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The Ultrahigh Efficiency Gas Turbine Engine With Stator Internal Combustion

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Tensor Operations in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate Systems

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Numerical And Experimental Investigation of Aerodynamics On Flow Around A Highly Loaded Low-Pressure Turbine Blade with Flow Separation Under Steady And Periodic Unsteady Inlet Flow Condition

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A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of the Turbine Blade Tip Film Cooling Effectiveness Under Rotation Condition

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Effect of rotation on leading edge region film cooling of a gas turbine blade with three rows of film cooling holes

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Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer for Engineers and Scientists

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Advances in Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition Research, Part II: Experimental Verification

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Experimental study on the effect of unsteadiness on boundary layer development on a linear turbine cascade

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On the Development of Two-Dimensional Wakes within Curved Channels: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

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Periodic Unsteady Flow Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer: Studies on a Curved Surface, Combined Part I and II

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Advances in Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition Research, Part I: Theory and Modeling

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AN EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF FLOW INCIDENCE ANGLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A STATOR BLADE CASCADE OF A HIGH PRESSURE STEAM TURBINE

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Effect of Reynolds number and periodic unsteady wake flow condition on boundary layer development, separation, and re-attachment along the suction surface of a low pressure turbine blade

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Comment on "Shock-loss model for transonic and supersonic axial compressors with curved blades" - Reply by the author to N. A. Cumpsty and C. Freeman

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DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY GAS TURBINE ENGINE, UHEGT, WITH STATOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION

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Film-cooling effectiveness on a rotating blade platform

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Turbine blade cooling simulation in the gas turbine engine simulation code getran

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Active control of compressor instability and surge by stator blades adjustment

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Generic Modeling of Turbomachinery Components and Systems

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Numerical Simulation of the Transitional and Unsteady Flow through a Low Pressure Turbine

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Advances in nonlinear dynamic engine simulation with an example: dynamic performance behavior of a gas turbine with one reheat turbine stage and two combustion chambers

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Development of Periodic Unsteady Turbulent Wakes in a Curved Channel at Zero Streamwise Pressure Gradient

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Prediction of turbine blade heat transfer and aerodynamics using a new unsteady boundary layer transition model

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Modeling the Compressor Component, Design and Off-Design

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VELOCITY AND TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN HAMEL SPIRAL FLOW

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Combined numerical and experimental investigations of heat transfer of a highly loaded low-pressure turbine blade under periodic inlet flow condition

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Special Topic: Reducing the Secondary Flow Losses By Endwall Contouring

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Modeling Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition on a Curved Plate Under Periodic Unsteady Flow Conditions: Aerodynamic and Heat Transfer Investigations

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Experimental Study of the Unsteady Boundary Layer Behavior on a Turbine Cascade

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Gas Turbine Design, Components and System Design Integration, Second Revised and Enhanced Edition

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Influence of curvature and pressure gradient on turbulent wake development in curved channels

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Optimum trailing edge ejection for cooled gas turbine blades

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Endwall Contouring Using Continuous Diffusion: A Breakthrough Method and its Application to a Three-Stage High Pressure Turbine

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Turbomachinery Flow Physics and Dynamic Performance

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NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF SINGLE-SPOOL AND MULTISPOOL CORE ENGINES .2. SIMULATION, CODE VALIDATION

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Theoretical and experimental study of development of two-dimensional steady and unsteady wakes within curved channels

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Losses In Turbine and Compressor Cascades

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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE MULTISTAGE ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY GAS TURBINE ENGINE, UHEGT

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Investigating the Cause of Computational Fluid Dynamics Deficiencies in Accurately Predicting the Efficiency and Performance of High Pressure Turbines: A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study

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THE INFLUENCE OF CURVATURE AND PRESSURE-GRADIENT ON THE FLOW TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION

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Fluid Mechanics for Engineers A Graduate Textbook Introduction

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Effect of non-axisymmetric contouring on performance and film cooling of a rotating turbine endwall subjected to the secondary air purge: A combined numerical and experimental study

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The ultra-high efficiency gas turbine engine, UHEGT, part I: Design and numerical analysis of the multistage system

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Advances in Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition Research, Part I: Theory and Modeling

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Gas Turbine Design, Components and System Design Integration

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Reply by the Author to N. A. Cumpsty and C. Freeman

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF SINGLE-SPOOL AND MULTISPOOL CORE ENGINES .1. COMPUTATIONAL METHOD

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Advanced Compressor Loss Correlations, Part II: Experimental Verifications

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Dynamic simulation of a wave rotor topped turboshaft engine

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Experimental study of the effect of periodic unsteady wake flow on boundary layer development, separation, and reattachment along the surface of a low pressure turbine blade

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Experimental Investigation of the Clocking Effect in a 1.5-Stage Axial TurbinePart II: Unsteady Results and Boundary Layer Behavior

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Aerodynamic and Performance Behavior of a Three-Stage High Efficiency Turbine at Design and Off-Design Operating Points

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Optimization of trailing edge ejection mixing losses: A theoretical and experimental study

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Advanced Compressor Loss Correlations, Part I: Theoretical Aspects

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Optimization of trailing edge ejection mixing losses: A theoretical and experimental study

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Development of Two-Dimensional Turbulent Wakes in a Curved Channel at Positive Streamwise Pressure Gradient

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Development of Two-Dimensional Wakes Within Curved Channels: Theoretical Framework and Experimental Investigation

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Advances in endwall contouring using continuous diffusion method and its application to a three-stage high pressure turbine

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Modeling of Inlet, Exhaust, and Pipe Systems

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Experimental Investigation of the Clocking Effect in a 1.5-Stage Axial TurbinePart I: Time-Averaged Results

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Development of a two-dimensional turbulent wake in a curved channel with a positive streamwise pressure gradient

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Scales of Turbulence During Boundary Layer Transition Under Steady and Unsteady Flow Conditions

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Film-Cooling Effectiveness on a Rotating Blade Platform

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Turbine Aerodynamic Design and Off-Design Performance

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A New Method for the Prediction of Compressor Performance Maps Using One-Dimensional Row-by-Row Analysis

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Vector and Tensor Analysis, Applications to Fluid Mechanics

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Effect of turbulence intensity and periodic unsteady wake flow condition on boundary layer development, separation, and re-attachment over the separation bubble along the suction surface of a low pressure turbine blade

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A Comparative Numerical Study of Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer on Transitional Flow Around a Highly Loaded Turbine Blade with Flow Separation Using RANS, URANS and LES

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A Numerical Study on Reducing the Stator Blade Surface Temperature in the Ultra-High Efficiency Gas Turbine Engine by Indexing Fuel Injectors and Using Film Cooling

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Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Purge Flow on Aerodynamic Performance and Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Rotating Turbine with Non-Axisymmetric Endwall Contouring

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AERODYNAMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A TWO STAGE AXIAL TURBINE AT DESIGN AND OFF-DESIGN CONDITIONS

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Development of two-dimensional wakes within curved channels, theoretical framework and experimental investigation

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On the physics of flow separation along a low pressure turbine blade under unsteady flow conditions

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Effect of unsteady wake passing frequency on boundary layer transition, experimental investigation, and wavelet analysis

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Unsteady Wake Effects on Boundary Layer Transition and Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Turbine Blade

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Film-Cooling Effectiveness on a Rotating Turbine Platform Using Pressure Sensitive Paint Technique

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Thermo-Fluid Essentials for Gas Turbine Design

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Tensor Analysis for Engineers and Physicists - With Application to Continuum Mechanics, Turbulence, and Einsteins Special and General Theory of Relativity

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On the Reliability of RANS and URANS Numerical Results for High-Pressure Turbine Simulations: A Benchmark Experimental and Numerical Study on Performance and Interstage Flow Behavior of High-Pressure Turbines at Design and Off-Design Conditions Using Two Different Turbine Designs

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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Film Cooling Effectiveness of a Highly Loaded Turbine Blade Under Steady and Unsteady Wake Flow Condition

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Impact of Turbine Blade Stagger Angle Adjustment On the Efficiency and Performance of Gas Turbines During Off-Design and Dynamic Operation

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The ultra-high efficiency gas turbine engine, UHEGT, Part II: A numerical study on reducing the stator blade surface temperature by indexing fuel injectors and using film cooling

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Effect of turbulence intensity and periodic unsteady wake flow condition on boundary layer development, separation, and reattachment along the suction surface of a low-pressure turbine blade

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UHEGT, THE ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH STATOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION

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Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Purge Flow on Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Rotating Turbine With Nonaxisymmetric End Wall Contouring

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Experimental Investigation of Film Cooling Effectiveness of a Highly Loaded Turbine Blade Under Steady and Periodic Unsteady Flow Conditions

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Distribution of Speed and Temperature in Hamel's Spiral Flow.

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A NUMERICAL STUDY ON REDUCING THE STATOR BLADE SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN THE ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY GAS TURBINE ENGINE BY INDEXING FUEL INJECTORS AND USING FILM COOLING

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On the physics of heat transfer and aerodynamic behavior of separated flow along a highly loaded low pressure turbine blade under periodic unsteady wake flow and varying of turbulence intensity

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Advances in Unsteady Boundary Layer Transition Research, Part II: Experimental Verification

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Unsteady Wake Effects on Boundary Layer Transition and Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Turbine Blade

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Effect of Unsteady Wake Passing Frequency on Boundary Layer Transition, Experimental Investigation and Wavelet Analysis

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Development of two-dimensional turbulent wakes in a curved channel at positive streamwise pressure gradient

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GETRAN: a generic, modularly structured computer code for simulation of dynamic behavior of aero- and power generation gas turbine engines

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A Comparative Aerodynamic and Performance Study of a Three-Stage High Pressure Turbine With 3-D Bowed Blades and Cylindrical Blades

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Turbomachinery flow physics and dynamic performance

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APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF NAVIER-STOKES DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION FOR BIDIMENSIONAL STEADY LAMINAR-FLOW OF CONSTANT VISCOSITY IN CONVEX AND CONCAVE DIFFUSERS AND NOZZLES

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Modeling unsteady boundary layer transition on a curved plate under periodic unsteady flow conditions: Aerodynamic and heat transfer investigations

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Recent advances in unsteady boundary layer transition research

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ENDWALL CONTOURING USING CONTINIOUS DIFFUSION, A BREAKTHROUGH METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO A THREE-STAGE HIGH PRESSURE TURBINE

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Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Purge Flow on Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Rotating Turbine with Non-Axisymmetric Endwall Contouring

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Active Aerodynamic Control of Multi-Stage Axial Compressor Instability and Surge by Dynamically Adjusting the Stator Blades

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GETRAN - A GENERIC, MODULARLY STRUCTURED COMPUTER CODE FOR SIMULATION OF DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF AERO AND POWER-GENERATION GAS-TURBINE ENGINES

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Effect of Reynolds number and periodic unsteady wake flow condition on boundary layer development, separation, and intermittency behavior along the suction surface of a low pressure turbine blade

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Experimental Study of the Unsteady Boundary Layer Behavior on a Turbine Cascade

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Aerodynamic and Performance Behavior of a Three-Stage High Efficiency Turbine at Design and Off-Design Operating Points

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Gas Turbine Design, Preliminary Considerations

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INVESTIGATION OF AERODYNAMICS AND HEAT TRANSFER OF A HIGHLY LOADED TURBINE BLADE USING THE UNIVERSAL INTERMITTENCY FUNCTION

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A Combined Numerical and Experimental Study of the Effect of Non-Axisymmetric Contouring on Performance and Film Cooling Behavior of a Rotating Turbine Endwall

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THE INFLUENCE OF TRAILING-EDGE EJECTION ON THE MIXING LOSSES BEHIND A COOLED BLADE

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Improving the Efficiency of Gas Turbines During Off-Design Operation by Adjusting the Turbine and Compressor Blade Stagger Angles

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A New Method for the Prediction of Compressor Performance Maps Using One-Dimensional Row-by-Row Analysis

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The effect of periodic unsteady flow on aerodynamics and heat transfer on a curved surface

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Effects of flow incidence on the aerodynamic performance of a two dimensional steam turbine stator blade cascade

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Endwall Contouring Using Continuous Diffusion: A New Method and its Application to a Three-Stage High Pressure Turbine

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A computational method for dynamic simulation of aero- and stationary gas turbine engines

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SIMPLE APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE PERFORMANCE OF TURBINES

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Texas A&M University; Mechanical Engineering; 3123 TAMU

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Lu, Kun (2014-12). Numerical Investigations of Flow and Film Cooling with Endwall Contouring and Blade Tip Ejection under Rotating Turbine Conditions. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Widyanto, Erie (2015-12). Design of Multi-Stage Compressor Using Streamline Curvature Method. Master's Thesis.

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Jagannathan, Shriram (2010-12). Characterizing the Separation and Reattachment of Suction Surface Boundary Layer in Low Pressure Turbine Using Massively Parallel Large Eddy Simulations. Master's Thesis.

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Suryanarayanan, Arun (2009-05). Film Cooling, Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Measurements in a Three Stage Research Gas Turbine. Doctoral Dissertation.