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Faculty - Kivanc Ekici

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Kivanc Ekici
Assistant Professor

315 Perkins Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2030
Office: (865)974-6009
Fax: (865)974-7663
Email: ekici@utk.edu
Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~Professional Activities ~ Selected Publications

TEACHING


  • Propulsion

EDUCATION


  • Ph.D., 2001, Purdue University, Aeronautics and Astronautics,
  • M.S., 1997, M.E.T.U., Aerospace Engineering
  • B.S., 1994, M.E.T.U., Aerospace Engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)

    • Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics
    • Turbomachinery
    • Fluid-Structure Interactions
    • Gas Turbine Propulsion
    • Clean and Renewable Energy
    • Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
    • Aerodynamic Design
    • Parallel and High Performance Computation


    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)

    2008 - Present Assistant Proessor, Department Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville
    2001 - 2008 Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC
    1997 - 2001 Research/Teaching Assistant, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
    1994 - 1997 Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, M.E.T.U., Ankara, TURKEY

    PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)

    • Senior Member, AIAA
    • ASME IGTI Structures and Dynamics Committee, Member
    • Sigma Xi, Member
    • Sigma Gamma Tau, Member

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)

    Ekici K., Hall, K.C., "Nonlinear Frequency-Domain Analysis of Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery with Multiple Excitation Frequencies'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp. 1912--1920, August 2008.

    Ekici K., Hall, K.C., Dowell, E.H., "Computationally Fast Harmonic Balance Methods for Unsteady Aerodynamic Predictions of Helicopter Rotors'', Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 227, No. 12, pp. 6206--6225, June 1, 2008.

    Ekici K., Hall, K.C., "Nonlinear Analysis of Unsteady Flows in Multistage Turbomachines
    Using Harmonic Balance'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1047--1057, May 2007.

    Ekici K., Hall, K.C., "Fast Estimation of Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery at Multiple Interblade Phase Angles'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 2136--2142, Sep. 2006.

    Hall, K.C., Ekici K., "Multistage Coupling for Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 624--632, Mar. 2005.                                                                            
                                                                                                                                           
    Ekici K., Lyrintzis, A.S., "A Parallel Newton-Krylov Method for Navier-Stokes Rotorcraft Codes'', International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 225--230, May 2003.
                                                                                                                
    Ekici K., Lyrintzis, A.S., "Parallelization of Rotorcraft Aerodynamics Navier-Stokes Codes'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 887--896, May 2002.                                                                            

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