Aerodynamic and thermodynamic fundamentals applicable to turbomachinery; design configurations and types of turbomachinery; turbine, compressor and ancillary equipment kinematics, thermodynamics and performance; selection and operational problems of turbomachinery.
Stress in a continuum; kinematics of fluid motion; rate of strain and vorticity; relation between stress and rate of strain; the Navier-Stokes equations; inviscid flow; stream function, velocity potential and circulation; Kelvin and Helmholtz theorems; two-dimensional incompressible flows; the Kuta-Joukowski theorem; introduction to compressible flows, boundary layers and drag-on bodies.
Fundamental equations of viscous flow; solutions of the Newtonian viscous flow equations; laminar boundary layers; stability of laminar flows; fluid turbulence and approximate solutions.
Pressure wave propagation; one-dimensional flow; isentropic flow, adiabatic flow, diabatic flow, real and ideal flow in nozzles and diffusers; normal shock, Rankine-Hugoniot relation; flow in constant area ducts with friction; flow in ducts with heating and cooling; Fanno, Rayleigh and Busemann lines; generalized one-dimensional continuous flow; unsteady one-dimensional flow; method of characteristics.
Research & Education
Education
Sc.D., Aeronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952
B. S., Mechanical Engineering, U. S. naval Academy, 1946
Experience & Service
Experience
Industrial Experience :
Consultant to industry
Institutional Service
Teaching :
Columbia University, Visiting Lecturer, 1956-58
Curtiss-Wright Research, Chief of Propulsion Division, 1952-58
Consultant to: Curtiss-Wright, Worthington, Stal-Laval (Sweden), General Electric, General Motors, Rolls Royce, Westinghouse, Avco-Lycoming, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Naval Postgraduate School, Garrett Corp.
Professional Service
Professional development Activities :
Reviewer for ASME and AIAA Journals and Conferences and other Journals
Achievements & Professional Societies
Honors & Awards
Listed in: - Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in the East, - Who’s Who in Technology Today, American Men and Women of Science
1992: Senior Research Associateship form the National Research Council
1988: Appointed one of 7 U.S. representatives at a NSF Workshop on Power Plant Dynamics held at the National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, India
1981: Named Distinguished Faculty Member and invited by Academia Sinica to lecture and visit at 7 institutions in the PRC
1980: Organized NASA/AF/NAVY Symposium on Aeroelasticity in Turbine Engines at NASA Lewis
1978: Appointed UNESCO/UNDP Consultant to National Aeronautical Laboratory, India
1971: Appointed a Director of ASME Turbomachinery Institute
1962: Master of Engineering (Honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology.
Professional Societies
American Society of Mechanical Engineering
Fellow American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
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