PhD Theses

2012

JENNY, Philipp
Title of thesis: Interaction Mechanisms between Rim Seal Purge Flow and Profiled End Walls in a Low-Pressure Turbine
Dissertation no.: 20429

KOÇER, Gülru
Title of thesis: Full-Scale Wind Turbine Flow Field Measurements Using an
Instrumented Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle
Dissertation no.: 20660

ROLLINGER, Bob
Title of thesis: Droplet Target for Laser-produced Plasma Light Sources
Dissertation no.: 20804

ZEMP, Armin
Title of thesis: Experimental Investigation and Validation of High Cycle Fatigue Design Systems for Centrifugal Compressors
Dissertation no.: 20670

2011

Barmpalias Konstantinos
Title of thesis: Steam Turbine Aerodynamics and Geometry Optimization for Effective Reduction of Leakage Flow Interactions
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 19904

2010

Lenherr, Christian
Title of thesis: High Temperature Fast Response Aerodynamic Probe
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 19367 

2009

Aga, Vipluv
Title of thesis: Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Flow Structure on Compound Angled Film Cooling Performance
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 18714

Kammerer, Albert
Title of thesis: Experimental Research into Resonant Vibration of Centrifugal Compressor Blades,
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 18587

Schüpbach, Peter
Title of thesis: Influence of Rim Seal Purge Flow on the Performance of an End Wall Profiled Axial Turbine
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 18458

2008

Mansour, Michel
Title of thesis: A 48kHz Bandwidth, 1.8mm Diameter Entropy Probe for Aerothermal Loss Measurements in Turbomachinery Flows
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 18087

Mischo, Bob
Title of thesis: Axial Turbine Rotor Aero-thermal Blade Tip Performance Improvement through Flow Control
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 17813

2007

Brunner, Matthias H.
Title of thesis: In-Situ Measurement of Blade Heat Transfer Coefficients and Gas Recovery Temperature
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 17381

Behr, Thomas
Title of thesis: Control of Rotor Tip Leakage and Secondary Flow by Casing Air Injection in Unshrouded Axial Turbines
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 17283

Mokulys, Thomas
Title of thesis: On the Development and Application of Accurate Numerical Models for the Computation of Steady and Unsteady Flowfields in Turbomachinery
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 17152

Porreca, Luca
Title of thesis: Aerothermal Optimization of Partially Shoruded Axial Tubines
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 17138

2006

Schleer, Matthias
Title of thesis: Flow Structure and Stability of a Turbocharger Centrifugal Compressor
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 16605

2005

Bernsdorf, Stefan
Title of thesis: Experimental Investigation of Film Cooling Flow Structure
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 16355

Burdet, André
Title of thesis: A Computationally Efficient Feature-Based Jet Model for Prediction of Film-Cooling Flows
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 16163

2003

Pfau, Axel
Title of thesis: Loss Mechanisms in Labyrinth Seals of Shrouded Axial Turbines
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 15226

Schlienger, Joël
Title of thesis: Evolution of Unsteady Secondary Flows in a Multistage Shrouded Axial Turbine
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 15230

2001

Kühnel, Janpeter
Title of thesis: Analysis of complex gas turbine based power plants considering flexible layouts for part load optimization
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 14557

Treiber, Martin
Title of thesis: Flow Physics and Vortex Evolution in Annular Turbine Cascades
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 14213

2000

Köppel, Pascal
Title of thesis: Instationäre Strömung in Turbomaschinen: Analyse zeitabhängiger Sondenmessungen
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 13500

Gizzi, William
Title of thesis: Dynamische Korrekturen für schnelle Strömungssonden in hochfrequent fluktuierenden Strömungen
Dissertation no.: ETH No. 13482