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Thong Q. Dang - Professor, Department of Mechanical / Aerospace / Manufacturing Engineering.

Education: Ph.D., Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.

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Throughout my years teaching at SU, I have found interest in various research areas in Applied Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). I am actively working on the following problems: 3D turbomachine blade design using my Inverse_Method and Optimization techniques, industrial fan aerodynamics, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and heat transfer, among others.

My research collaborations and support from grants/contracts include:

My students and I have participated in challenging and interesting research projects. We have built a fan testing wind tunnel and assembled enough computing power to study complex, unsteady, three-dimensional turbomachinery geometries.

We are currently using the following software:
  • Gridgen - Commercial software used for grid generation and pre-processing for CFD.
  • Fluent - Commercial CFD package used for complex geometry.
  • ADPAC - NASA's Advanced Ducted Propfan Analysis Code used for multistage transonic compressor simulations.
  • ANSYS - Commercial Structural Finite Element package with heat transfer capabilities.
  • SSTAGE - Single blade row version of NASA GRC's APNASA
  • INV3D - 3-D Compressible Viscous Inverse Design Code

We use a number of CFD codes developed in house, including a fully viscous, 3-dimensional compressible Inverse Design code currently being used for transonic axial compressor blade design. To learn more about the capabilities and some background of the Inverse Design technique, go to the Inverse_Design web page. Other codes include incompressible three-dimensional analysis and through-flow inverse codes currently being used to investigate fan/obstruction flow interactions.

Details of the research I am currently involved in and papers I have written can be found in the links above, along with other information.

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