Performing Member Contact:

David A. Peters, Chair

Washington University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jolley Hall 305, Box 1185
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
314-935-4337/FAX 314-935-4014
DAP@ME.WUSTL.EDU

• Air foil design, Unsteady flow, Transient analysis, Cascades, Centrifugal compressors

• Analytical/computational work

• Low turbulence wind tunnel, Turbocharger

Washington University

Past experience includes the following:

• The design of prescribed-curvature-distribution airfoils for high-efficiency gas turbine cascades.
• The analysis of unsteady flow fields in axial-turbomachinery stator-rotor interactions (unsteady flows, forces, and heat transfer).
• The prediction of the transient thermodynamic response of turbomachinery components and plants (including axial and centrifugal compressors and turbines, and heat exchangers).
• Experimental measurements of transient flows in centrifugal compressors.
• The design and performance predictions of regenerative gas turbines.

Much of the above work is analytic and computational. Some capabilities in our laboratories include a low turbulence wind tunnel with test section 2 ft. by 2 ft., various lasers, and a turbocharger set up for steady and transient flow measurements.