Research Interests

Gas Turbines, Turbomachinery, Wind Energy, Wind Engineering, Active Flow Control, Turbulence.

Projects

Current Projects

METU Center for Wind Energy, Funding Agency: DPT

Investigation of Wind Effects on Suspension Bridges, Funding Agency: METU and TUBITAK (with Asst. Prof. Kurc of Civil Engineering).

Past Projects

Active Tip Vortex/Leakage Control Using Unsteady Tip Injection, Funding Agency: TUBITAK, Project PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Development of a LED based PIV system, Funding Agency: METU,  Project PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Small UAV propulsion system development and testing, Funding Agency: METU, Project PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Wind effects on high-rise buildings, Funding Agency: METU, Project PI: Asst. Prof. Kurc, Project Co-PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Ceramic turbine blade development for small turbojet engines, Funding Agency: METU, Project PI: Asst. Prof. Dericioglu, Project Co-PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Investigation of high speed viscous jet atomization using Interferometric Particle Imaging technique, Funding Agency: TUBITAK, Project PI: Prof. Ozgen, Project Co-PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Bio-fuel applications in gas turbines, Funding Agency: TUBITAK, Project PI: Prof. Akmandor. Project Co-PI: Asst. Prof. Uzol.

Students

Current Students

Bayram Mercan (PhD)

Experimental investigation of active tip leakage control in LPT blades

Nuri Erkin Ocer (PhD)

Development of a LED based PIV system

Omer Emre Orhan (PhD)

Direct Calculation of Entropy Generation by Solving Reynolds-Averaged Entropy Transport Equation

Bora Yazıcı (PhD)

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Droplet Sizes in a Swirling Isothermal Flow

Halil Kaya (MS)

Viscous Flow Simulations Using Vortex Particle Methods

Ozcan Yirtici (MS)

Detached Eddy Simulations of turbulent flows

Ugur Karban (MS)

Three-Dimensional Flow Solutions for Noise & Performance Estimation of Wind Turbines by Using FMBEM and IBL Theory

Ersan Turan (MS)

Supersonic Inlet Optimization with Boundary Layer Bleed

Eda Dogan (MS)

Experimental Investigation of Boundary Layer Control using Fluidic Oscillator based Pulsed Vortex-Generator-Jets in LPT blades

Yaroslav Novikov (MS)

Aerothermal Modeling and Simulation of Helicopter Turboshaft Engines

Senem Haser (MS)

Anas Abdelrahim (MS)

Past Students

Bayram Mercan (MS) (now a PhD student at METU)

Yashar Ostovan (MS) (now at Turbotek)

Iman Ashtiani (MS) (now a PhD student at University of Melbourne)

Can Dedekarginoglu (MS) (now at TAI)

Ece Sagol (MS) (now a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

Oznur Yemenici (MS) (now at TAI)

Nuri Erkin Ocer (MS) (now a PhD student at METU)

Mert Cevik (MS) (now a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

Gursu Tasar (MS) (co-advised with Prof. Ozgen. Now a PhD student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Gulru Kocer (MS) (now a PhD student at ETH-Zurich)