Cengiz Camci Professor of Aerospace Engineering Ph.D., Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics/Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1985 Room Address: 223 Hammond Mailing Address: C-Camci@psu.edu Phone Number: 814-865-9871 Fax: 865-7092

Cengiz Camci conducts research in areas related to fluid mechanics, heat transfer and the improvement of gas turbine performance/reliability. Current research efforts include tip clearance aerodynamics in axial flow turbines, development of digital image processing schemes for heat transfer, unsteady fluid dynamics measurements, short duration and continuous heat transfer testing in hot/warm cascades and turbines, implementation of liquid crystals in convective heat transfer research, heat transfer augmentation by oscillating jets, vortex tube heat transfer, solid state diode lasers in Doppler velocimetry, particle image velocimetry and computational methods.

Professor Camci received the Best Paper of the Year Award from the "Heat Transfer Division" of the ASME in 1993, was recognized as adviser of the graduate student who received the National Engineering Award from the ASME "Fluids Engineering Division" in 1992, received the Case-NASA Aerosapce Research and Development Fellowship (1990). C.Camci recently received the 1999 Best Paper Award from the "Education Committee of ASME the International Gas Turbine Institute". C.Camci actively participates in the activities of the K-14 "Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Technical Committee" of the ASME.

Research Interests:
heat transfer in air breathing propulsion and power systems, analytical and experimental fluid mechanics, turbine aerodynamics, cooling schemes for gas turbines, finite element method for viscous flow and heat transfer

Selected Publications:
Camci, C., K. Kim, S. A. Hippensteele, and P. Poinsatte. 1993. Evaluation of a Hue Capturing Based Transieent Liquid Crystal Method for High Resolution Mapping of Convective Heat Transfer on Curved Surfaces. Journal of Heat Transfer Vol. 115(2).

Wiedner, B. W., and C. Camci. 1993. Accurate Determination of Local Heat Flux on Steady State Heat Transfer Surfaces with Arbitrarily Specified External and Internal Boundaries. ASME HTD Vol 242 pp 21-31.

Camci, C., K. Kim, and S. A. Hippensteele. 1992. A New Hue Capturing Technique for the Quantitative Interpretation of Liquid Crystal Images Used in Convective Heat Transfer Studies. Journal of Turbomachinery Vol. 114(4) pp. 765-775.

Camci, C., and T. Arts. 1991. Effect of Incidence on Wall Heating Rates and Aerodynamics on a Film Cooled Transonic Turbine Blade. Journal of Turbomachinery Vol. 113(3) pp 493-501.

Camci, C., and T. Arts. 1990. An Experimental Convective Heat Transfer Investigation Around a Film Cooled Gas Turbine Blade. Journal of Turbomachinery Vol. 112(3) pp 497-503.

Research Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Rexair Inc., Caterpillar/ Solar Turbines Inc., Department of Energy, DOE/CSIES/AGTSR.