Rolls Royce Corporation, NASA Glenn Research Center, Pratt & Whitney

• Effects of Catalytic and Dry Low Nox Combustor Turbulence on Endwall Heat Transfer Distributions - Submitted for Presentation at the 2003 ASME Turbo Conference in Atlanta, June 2003, Possible Journal Publication
• Measurements and Prediction of the Influence of Catalytic and Dry Low Nox Combustor Turbulence on Vane Surface Heat Transfer
• Effects of Aeroderivative Combustor Turbulence on Endwall Heat Transfer Distributions Acquired in a linear vane Cascade - Submitted for Presentation at the 2002 ASME IGTI Conference and Possible Journal Publication
• Measurement and Prediction of Heat Transfer Distributions on an Aft Loaded Vane Subjected to the Influence of Catalytic and Dry Low Nox Combustor Turbulence - Submitted for Presentation at the 2003 ASME Turbo Conference in Atlanta, June 2003 and Possible Journal Publication

Performing Member Contact:

Dr. Forrest E. Ames

University of North Dakota
POB 8359, ME Department
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8359
701-777-2095/FAX 701-777-4838
forrest_ames@mail.und.nodak.edu

• Gas Turbine External Heat Transfer, Film- Cooling and Aerodynamics, Turbine Component Internal Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer in Fluidized Beds, Manufacture of Ceramic Components

• HT, Turbine Vane HT, Film Cooling and Aerodynamics

• Ambient Cascade Facility, Internal Heat Transfer Facility, Fluidized Bed

University of North Dakota

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at UND has a good experience base in gas turbine and energy conversion related activities. Dr. Nanak Grewal is an expert in the area of fluidized bed heat transfer. Heat transfer in fluidized beds is an important research topic in coal combustion using fluidized beds. Gas turbine systems can use fluidized bed combustion through either direct or indirect firing and fluidized bed combustion systems can also be used in the coal gasification process for subsequent burning in gas turbine systems. Dr. Biswanath Bandyopadhyay research area is the manufacture of ceramic materials. Ceramic materials offer gas turbine systems the potential to reach higher turbine inlet temperatures without the use of large quantities of cooling air.

Dr. Forrest Ames has 14 years of industrial experience in the gas turbine industry. Dr. Ames has performed research in the areas of turbine vane heat transfer, film cooling, and aerodynamics. Over the course of his career at Allison Engine Company in Indianapolis , Dr. Ames performed detailed heat transfer and aerodynamic investigations of advanced vane designs in Allison's Aerothermodynamic Cascade Facility. Dr. Ames has also conducted studies on the influence of combustor turbulence on vane heat transfer in a low speed ambient cascade rig. Dr. Ames has developed a large-scale pin fin array heat transfer facility to investigate heat transfer in engine relevant internal cooling geometries. Additionally, he is nearing the completion of a large-scale ambient cascade facility to study vane and endwall heat transfer and film cooling. The facility has the capability to achieve exit Reynolds numbers in excess of 2,000,000.