The Turbomachinery Lab Seminar Series offers a weekly, Tuesday afternoon session of technical presentations on topics covering the breadth of TL-related research each semester.
The Seminar Series was created with the purpose to showcase ongoing and related TL research and will occasionally feature external presenters. They are intended to be an academic gathering of TL faculty, students, staff, and any other interested attendees. Seminars will consist of 2, 25-min presentations for students and postdocs, or one, 50-min presentation per seminar for faculty or external speakers. Light refreshments will be available at the end of each seminar. Topics will come from the breadth of research currently ongoing at TL and related areas.
TL is excited to make available the opportunity for students to present to an academic crowd; cross-fertilization of research topics and ideas within TL and related organizations; a gathering of researchers at all levels in a collegiate environment; and to learn some new things and meet new people with common interests; etc.
Time: Tuesdays at 4 P.M.
Location: Turbo Lab Classroom, TL room 163
Duration (Spring 2024): February 6th – April 30th
The monthly schedule is located below.
Spring 2024 SCHEDULE
Note: Graduate students can receive MEEN 681 Seminar credit for seminars marked with *
February 6th –
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Raquel Juárez
“Changes in the Composition of Aircraft Lubricants Undergoing Thermal Breakdown”
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Christian Landry
“Development of a State-of-the-Art Experiment for Studying Battery Thermal Runaway Hazards”
February 13th* –
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Dr. Olivier Mathieu – Research Associate Professor, J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
“Combustion chemistry from Lithium-ion battery electrolytes and their potential fire suppressants”
February 20th –
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Roarke Bradley
“Dynamic Characterization of a Low Drag Power Loss Tilting Pad Journal Bearing”
“Heat Release Rate Studies in Ammonia Flames”
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Adi Hardaya
“Heat Release Rate Studies in Ammonia Flames”
February 27th* –
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Claire Grégoire
“Study of Ammonium Perchlorate Gas Phase Combustion Through the Lens of the Chemical Kinetics Community”
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Russell Gandy “Turbomachinery Predictive Vibration Parametric Studies”
March 5th –
- No Seminar – Heavy thesis week
March 12th –
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No Seminar – Spring Break
March 19th –
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Dr. Lori J. Groven – Associate Professor, Karen M. Swindler Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
“Using Mechanochemistry and Additive Manufacturing to Achieve Synergistic Effects from Energetic Materials”
March 26th* –
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Dr. Atmadeep Bhattacharya – Academy of Finland, Aalto University
“Occurrence of super-equilibrium during combustion”
April 2nd –
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Roarke Bradley
“Dynamic Characterization of a Low Drag Power Loss Tilting Pad Journal Bearing”
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Zachary Negrette
“An Experimental Investigation of Ethylene-Air Flames”
April 9th – (Start time will be 4:30)
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Dr. Fabrizio Bisetti –Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
“Towards a comprehensive theory of plasma assisted ignition of hydrocarbon/air mixtures by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges”
April 16th –
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Gavin Lukasik
“Particle Diagnostics for High-Rate Impacts and Energetics Reactions”
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Ciprian Comsa
“CFD simulations on labyrinth seals”
April 23rd –
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Dr. Timothy Ombrello – Research Aerospace Engineer, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB
“Characterization of Nanosecond-Pulsed High-Frequency Discharges, With Application for Scramjet Cavity Ignition”
April 30th –
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Bryce Miller
“Deformation of Layered Metal Composites with a Dynamic Bulge Test”
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Ming-Feng Yeh
“Film Cooling Performance Comparison of Blade Tips with a Trailing-Edge, Pressure-Side Cutback or a Suction-Side Squealer in a Transonic Linear Cascade”
Seminar Format
Each seminar will consist of an hour long presentation. For student-driven presentations, two students will be given 25 minutes to discuss their research. All of the presentations are offered in a hybrid format, both in person at the Turbo Lab Classroom and over zoom. The Spring 2022 Turbomachinery Laboratory Seminar Series was coordinated by Dr. Eric Petersen.
Contact Debbie Maggs at [email protected] for further questions regarding the series.