Gas Turbine Lab: Personnel

1. Rashid Mattar, SU23: Comparison of Bird and UAV Ingestions Into a Fan Assembly Model    
2. Jacob Veney, SP23: Investigation of the BAA Method’s Applications for Vibration Energy Harvesting
3. Chris Keener, SP21: Design and Dynamic Characterization of the OSU Rotor 67 Blisk for Future Damping and Mistuning Studies at Design Speed
4. Richard Celestina, SP21: "Development of New Single and High-Density Heat Flux Gauges for Unsteady Heat Transfer Measurements in a Rotating Transonic Turbine"
5. Aditya Kulkarni, SP20:
6. Louie Altamirano, SP20: "Friction Response Approximation Method for Nonlinear Systems".
7. Tianyi Hu, AU18: "Modeling & Analysis of Bladed Disk with Cracks and Mistuning".
8. Chris Cosher, SP16: "Detailed Analysis of Previous Data Relevant to Foreign Particle Ingestion by Gas Turbine Engines and Application to Modern Engines", Pratt & Whitney
9. Hannah Lawson (now Pier), SP15: "Development of an Infrared Thermography Technique for Measuring Heat Transfer to a Flat Plate in a Blowdown Facility", employed by Pratt & Whitney
10. Alexander Habib, SP14: "A Wireless Acquisition and Control System for a High Measurement-Density, Rotating Internal Heat Transfer Experiment", employed by General Electric Oil & Gas
11. Jeremy Nickol, SP13: "Heat Transfer Measurements and Comparisons for a Film Cooled Flat Plate with Realistic Hole Pattern in a Medium Duration Blowdown Facility", PhD student at Gas Turbine Laboratory
12. Mitchell Parsons, SU11: "Prediction of Transient Cooling Behavior For Blowdown Operation", employed by Rolls-Royce
13. Shanon Davis, SU11: "Heat-Flux Measurements for a Realistic Cooling Hole Pattern and Different Flow Conditions", employed by US Air Force
14. Mark Wishart, AU10: “Steady and Harmonic Predictions for a Single-Stage Fully Cooled Turbine”, employed by ERIN
15. Matt Hodak, AU10: "Quantification of Fourth Generation Kapton Heat Flux Gauge Calibration Performance", employed by Belcan
16. Michael Boehler, AU10: “Transient Aerothermodynamics of Flow Initialization for a Flat Plate Film Cooling Experiment in a Medium Duration Blowdown Wind Tunnel Facility”, employed by Rolls-Royce
17. Sam Kheniser, SU10: “Film Cooling Experiments in a Medium Duration Blowdown Facility”
18. Steve Myers, WI09: “A Comparison of Advanced Analytical Methods for Heat Transfer Prediction on a High-Pressure Turbine Blade Surface”, employed by General Electric Aviation
19. Jeremey Ferguson, WI08: “A Moving Load Finite Element Method-Based Approach to Determining Blade Contact Forces During a Blade-on-Casing Incursion in a Gas Turbine Engine”, employed by GE Aviation
20. Mike Wehri, SP08:“Development of an Experimental Facility to Examine the Phenomena of Turbofan Blade Tip/Casing Rubs at Engine Speed”
21. Eric Crosh, SU08: “Time-Accurate Predictions for the Aerodynamics of a 1 and ½ Stage HP Transonic Turbine”, employed by General Electric Aviation
22. Steve Molter, AU06: “Heat Transfer in the Blade Row and Tip Region of a Modern Transonic High-Pressure Turbine with and without Forward Cavity Purge”, employed by GE Aviation
23. Kelsey Edwards, SU06: “Finite Element Analysis for Implementation of a Fan Stage”, employed by Lockheed Martin
24. Jared Garza, SU06: “Tip Rub Induced Blade Vibrations: Experimental and Computational Results”, employed by GE Aviation
25. Suzanne Southworth, SU06: “Comparisons of Steady and Time-Accurate Predictions with Experiment for the Aerodynamics of a Fully Cooled Single-Stage High-Pressure Turbine”, employed by Honeywell Engines
26. Gamaliel Young, SU06: “Development of a General Predictive Model for Blade Tip/Shroud Interference: Interactive Forces”, employed by GE Aviation
27. Jacob Harral, 2005: "Integration of a Cooling System with an Experimental Rig for Film Effectiveness Measurements Using a Full-Stage High-Pressure Turbine", employed by Rolls-Royce, Indianapolis
28. Brian Cohen, 2005: "Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Unsteady Heat Transfer Data Reduction Algorithms", employed by Boeing
29. Kevin Turner, 2005: "Development of a Numerical Model for Predicting Tip Rub-Induced Dynamics of an Axial Flow Compressor Blade", employed by GE Aviation
30. Brian Green, 2004: "Time-Averaged and Time-Accurate Aerodynamics for the Recessed Tip Cavity of a High-Pressure Turbine Blade and the Outer Stationary Shroud: Comparison of Computational and Experimental Results", employed by GE Aviation
31. Randall Mathison, 2004: "The Measurement and Analysis of an Air Film Damping System", employed by The Ohio State University
32. Scott Murphy, 2004: "Control of the 'Heat Island' Effect on the Measurements of Pyrex Thin Film Button Gauges Through Gauge Design", employed by USAF at Wright-Patterson
33. Matthew Krumanaker, 2002: "Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for a Modern Stage and One-Half Turbine", employed by GE Aviation
34. Mark Kearney, 2002, employed by GE Aviation
35. Jason Kielb, 2000: "Experimental and Numerical Study of Blade Forced Response in a Full-Scale Rotating Turbine", employed by Rolls-Royce, Indianapolis
36. Ryan Jeffers, 1999: "Experimental Study of Turbine Blade Resonant Response and Damping Through the Use of Piezoelectric Actuators", employed by Pratt & Whitney
37. Tony Giang, 1999: "Effects of Unsteady Cooling Flow on Heat Transfer to a Film-Cooled Flat Plate", employed by GE Aviation
38. Michelle McMillan, 1999: "An Investigation of the Propagations of Unsteady Pressure and Heat Flux Disturbances along the Blade Surface in a Transonic Turbine", employed by Boeing, St. Louis
39. David Zilles, 1999: "The Effect of Non-Isothermal Wall Boundary Temperature on Convective Heat Flux Over a Flat Plate"
40. Ahmed Shafik, received M.S.

Valeria Pinto - Visiting Scholar from 2022-2023 conducting research on contact mistuning in bladed disks.

Yiliu Weng  - Visiting Scholar from 2017-2018 conducting research working on Harmonic Balance methods and other nonlinear modeling approaches.