16 March 2015
After three years of work I defended my PhD thesis. The activity consisted in the development of a CFD-based thermal methodology for the calculation of metal temperature in gas turbine combustors.
The tool consisted of coupling a RANS simulation of the chamber to determine the convective heat loads, a radiative solver to calculate the radiative heat loads and a conduction solver to estimate the metal temperature distribution.
The work was carried out in CFX, but paved the way to further developments carried out in the following years, such as the implementation in Fluent and the additional step forward to account for transient phenomena in both fluid and solid domains.
Some of the PhD candidates -and friends-who defended their thesis
Lorenzo Mazzei PhD 