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2026 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick May 2026

2026 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for spring 2026. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


2025 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick Dec 2025

2025 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for summer and fall 2025. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


2025 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick May 2025

2025 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for spring 2025. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


Extended-Duration Satellite Testing Via Altitude-Controlled High-Altitude Balloon, Drew Early, Evan Champney, Nikki Allen, Riley Galatis, Lukas Hezel, Joseph Kloess, Andrew Donnell, Sam Whitlock, Kaden Queener Jan 2025

Extended-Duration Satellite Testing Via Altitude-Controlled High-Altitude Balloon, Drew Early, Evan Champney, Nikki Allen, Riley Galatis, Lukas Hezel, Joseph Kloess, Andrew Donnell, Sam Whitlock, Kaden Queener

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

Undergraduate runner-up, 2025 Von Braun Symposium Student Poster Contest


2024 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick Dec 2024

2024 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for summer and fall 2024. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


2023 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick Dec 2023

2023 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for summer and fall 2023. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


2023 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick May 2023

2023 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for spring 2023. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


Comparisons Of Cooling Performance And Flow Characteristics Of A Combustor Liner Plate With Compound Angle And Simple Angle Effusion Holes, Hwabhin Kwon, Phillip M. Ligrani, Sneha R. Vanga, Heesung Park Mar 2023

Comparisons Of Cooling Performance And Flow Characteristics Of A Combustor Liner Plate With Compound Angle And Simple Angle Effusion Holes, Hwabhin Kwon, Phillip M. Ligrani, Sneha R. Vanga, Heesung Park

PRC-Affiliated Research

The present investigation considers a unique compound angle arrangement, never previously considered, with α = 30°, β = ±30°, such that the compound angle of the effusion holes changes from β = +30° to β = −30°, as adjacent rows of effusion holes are encountered. Also provided are data for comparison from a simple angle configuration with α = 30°, β = 0°. Coolant is supplied to both effusion hole arrays using arrays of impingement cooling jets. The results of the numerical simulations are obtained using the ANSYS FLUENT V 21.1 numerical code, with a shear stress transport (SST) k–ω …


Effects Of Pressure Side Film Cooling Hole Placement And Condition On Surface Heat Transfer Characteristics Of A Transonic Turbine Blade Tip, Hallie Collopy, Phillip M. Ligrani, Hongzhou Xu, Michael Fox Dec 2022

Effects Of Pressure Side Film Cooling Hole Placement And Condition On Surface Heat Transfer Characteristics Of A Transonic Turbine Blade Tip, Hallie Collopy, Phillip M. Ligrani, Hongzhou Xu, Michael Fox

PRC-Affiliated Research

The effects of film cooling hole placement location along the upper pressure side of a transonic squealer are considered. The thermal performance of four different film cooling configurations; B1, B2, B3 and B4, are considered using the University of Alabama in Huntsville's SS/TS/WT (supersonic/transonic/wind tunnel) experimental facility and a simulated turbine blade row using a linear cascade. Surface-varying results are provided for both the squealer blade tip surface, and for the upper pressure side of the squealer blade. These results are given for blowing ratios ranging from 0.42 to 3.20 in the form of spatially-resolved and spatially-averaged adiabatic film cooling …


2022 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick Dec 2022

2022 Summer-Fall Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for summer and fall 2022. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


Feasibility Of Low-Enriched Uranium Fueled Nuclear Thermal Propulsion In The Low-Thrust Region Below 16klbf, Samantha B. Rawlins, Dale L. Thomas Sep 2022

Feasibility Of Low-Enriched Uranium Fueled Nuclear Thermal Propulsion In The Low-Thrust Region Below 16klbf, Samantha B. Rawlins, Dale L. Thomas

PRC-Affiliated Research

No abstract provided.


Mitigation Of The Laminar Separation Bubble Using Active Vortex Generators, Hayden Hitt Sep 2022

Mitigation Of The Laminar Separation Bubble Using Active Vortex Generators, Hayden Hitt

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.


Development Of A Trailing Edge Flap Using A Compliant Mechanism, Matthew Maybee Sep 2022

Development Of A Trailing Edge Flap Using A Compliant Mechanism, Matthew Maybee

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.


Creation And Development Of An Obstacle Database For Uas Pathfinding, Cameron Clarke Sep 2022

Creation And Development Of An Obstacle Database For Uas Pathfinding, Cameron Clarke

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.


Flow And Heat Transfer In Swirl Tubes — A Review, Florian Seibold, Phillip M. Ligrani, Bernhard Weigand May 2022

Flow And Heat Transfer In Swirl Tubes — A Review, Florian Seibold, Phillip M. Ligrani, Bernhard Weigand

PRC-Affiliated Research

The development of modern gas turbines for aircraft propulsion and power generation demands ever-increasing efficiency, which can be achieved by rising the turbine inlet temperature. Therefore, turbine components and especially the leading edge of turbine blades are exposed to particular high thermal loads with temperatures that are well above the melting point of the material. As a result, efficient cooling techniques are essential. Swirling flows in cyclone cooling systems are a promising technique for internal turbine blade leading edge cooling since they promise high heat transfer rates in combination with relatively uniform heat transfer distributions. The current paper presents a …


Using An Ultrasonic Technique To Determine Burning Rate Law, Brennan Hatton Haralson May 2022

Using An Ultrasonic Technique To Determine Burning Rate Law, Brennan Hatton Haralson

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Performance Variability In Solid Rocket Motors, Manvith Amara May 2022

Performance Variability In Solid Rocket Motors, Manvith Amara

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


2022 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick May 2022

2022 Spring Graduate Recognition Program, Propulsion Research Center, Robert Frederick

PRC Graduate Recognition

This program includes the graduate recognition program for spring 2022. Includes photographs, upcoming events, recent publications, and student profiles.


Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Fluidic Diode Injector Studies, Allison Brooke Lentz Apr 2022

Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Fluidic Diode Injector Studies, Allison Brooke Lentz

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Honor Capstone Lunar Logistics Study, Owen Bradley Cox Apr 2022

Honor Capstone Lunar Logistics Study, Owen Bradley Cox

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Computational Plasma Modeling For Characterization Of An Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet, Declan George Brick Apr 2022

Computational Plasma Modeling For Characterization Of An Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet, Declan George Brick

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Design And Analysis Of A Pitch Controller For An Unstable Aircraft Using A Linear Quadratic Regulator, Marco Antonio Garcia Apr 2022

Design And Analysis Of A Pitch Controller For An Unstable Aircraft Using A Linear Quadratic Regulator, Marco Antonio Garcia

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Development Of A Bio-Inspired Artificial Butterfly Vehicle, Thomas Payne Clark Apr 2022

Development Of A Bio-Inspired Artificial Butterfly Vehicle, Thomas Payne Clark

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Wildfire Updrafts And Downdrafts Effects Of Aerial Vehicles Flight Mechanics, Connor Flynn Apr 2022

Wildfire Updrafts And Downdrafts Effects Of Aerial Vehicles Flight Mechanics, Connor Flynn

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Experimental Study Of Turbulent Flow Heat Transfer And Pressure Loss Over Surfaces With Dense Micro-Depth Dimples Under Viscous Sublayer, Peng Zhang, Yu Rao, Phillip M. Ligrani Feb 2022

Experimental Study Of Turbulent Flow Heat Transfer And Pressure Loss Over Surfaces With Dense Micro-Depth Dimples Under Viscous Sublayer, Peng Zhang, Yu Rao, Phillip M. Ligrani

PRC-Affiliated Research

Presented are experimentally-measured heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics for dimpled surfaces, placed along one surface of a channel, with different ratios of dimple depth to channel height δ/H, and for Reynolds numbers ranging from 10,000 to 70,000. With the same relative dimple spacing to dimple print diameter, and the same ratio of dimple depth to dimple print diameter of δ/d = 0.20, experimental results for arrays of spherical indentation dimples with micro depths of δ = 0.6 and 1.0 mm (δ/H = 0.03 and 0.05) are compared with thermal characteristics for arrays of larger dimples with δ = 4.0 …


Flow And Heat Transfer Characteristics In A Pre-Swirl Rotor-Stator Cavity, Xiaoyu Yang, Zhong Ren, Jing Ren, Philip M. Ligrani Feb 2022

Flow And Heat Transfer Characteristics In A Pre-Swirl Rotor-Stator Cavity, Xiaoyu Yang, Zhong Ren, Jing Ren, Philip M. Ligrani

PRC-Affiliated Research

The present study investigates flow and heat transfer characteristics in a rotor-stator pre-swirl system. Considered are rotational Reynolds numbers ReФ ranging from 3.4 × 105 to 6.8 × 105, with jet Reynolds numbers Rew of approximately 8.8 × 104 to 3.81 × 105, and associated turbulent flow parameter λT = Cw/ReФ0.8 varying from 0 to 0.4. Experimentally-measured and numerically-predicted results illustrate the combined and separate influences of jet impingement and rotor entrainment, as they affect and govern flow and heat transfer characteristics within the cavity. These results show that the relative strength of the two effects varies with ReФ and …


Flow Structure And Surface Heat Transfer From Numerical Predictions For A Double Wall Effusion Plate With Impingement Jet Array Cooling, Hwabhin Kwon, Phillip M. Ligrani, Sneha Reddy Vanga, Heesung Park Feb 2022

Flow Structure And Surface Heat Transfer From Numerical Predictions For A Double Wall Effusion Plate With Impingement Jet Array Cooling, Hwabhin Kwon, Phillip M. Ligrani, Sneha Reddy Vanga, Heesung Park

PRC-Affiliated Research

To provide additional understanding of double wall cooling arrangements, especially local distributions of flow properties which are responsible for hot-side surface and cold-side surface heat transfer variations, investigated are numerically-simulated distributions of turbulent flow structural characteristics. Also considered are numerically-simulated surface heat transfer characteristics, including comparisons with experimentally-measured distributions. The numerical results are obtained using the ANSYS FLUENT Version 19.1 numerical code, with a k-ω SST turbulence model. The present arrangement includes a full-coverage effusion cooling plate, with coolant initially supplied by an impingement jet array. Considered are the effects of effusion blowing ratio, impingement jet Reynolds number, and streamwise …


Characterization Of Effective Diffusion Within Viscoelastic Fluids With Elastic Instabilities, Valerie Hietsch, Phillip Ligrani, Mengying Su Jan 2022

Characterization Of Effective Diffusion Within Viscoelastic Fluids With Elastic Instabilities, Valerie Hietsch, Phillip Ligrani, Mengying Su

PRC-Affiliated Research

We considered effective diffusion, characterized by magnitudes of effective diffusion coefficients, in order to quantify mass transport due to the onset and development of elastic instabilities. Effective diffusion coefficient magnitudes were determined using different analytic approaches, as they were applied to tracked visualizations of fluorescein dye front variations, as circumferential advection was imposed upon a flow environment produced using a rotating Couette flow arrangement. Effective diffusion coefficient results were provided for a range of flow shear rates, which were produced using different Couette flow rotation speeds and two different flow environment fluid depths. To visualize the flow behavior within the …


Uas Obstacle Database For University Traffic Management System, Casey Calamaio Jan 2022

Uas Obstacle Database For University Traffic Management System, Casey Calamaio

Summer Community of Scholars (RCEU and HCR) Project Proposals

No abstract provided.


Design And Development Of Active Flow Effectors, Konstantinos Kanistras Jan 2022

Design And Development Of Active Flow Effectors, Konstantinos Kanistras

Summer Community of Scholars (RCEU and HCR) Project Proposals

No abstract provided.