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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
30
Citations
3935
World Ranking
3382
National Ranking
1140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Phil Ligrani is affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within engineering and materials science, with a focus on fluid dynamics, rheology, and heat transfer.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Their work also extends into several subfields, such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering

Phil Ligrani's research topics cover several technical areas, including:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory

The scientist has contributed articles to several publication venues, among them:

  • Fluids
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Recent papers by Phil Ligrani include:

  • Effects of coolant supply arrangement on double wall cooling: Hot-side effusion performance and cold-side Nusselt numbers at different initial blowing ratios, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Relative Influences of Inertia and Polymeric Viscoelastic Effects on Nusselt Numbers within Rotating Couette Flows, 2023, Fluids
  • Characterization of Effective Diffusion within Viscoelastic Fluids with Elastic Instabilities, 2022, Fluids
  • Rarefaction slip phenomena within a viscous disk pump with molecular mean free path sized surface roughness elements, 2025, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Frequent coauthors working alongside Phil Ligrani include:

  • Valerie Hietsch
  • Mengying Su
  • Austin Click
  • D. A. Ritchie
  • Federico Liberatore

Among accolades, Phil Ligrani was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Comparison of Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques

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  • Heat transfer in a dimpled channel: combined influences of aspect ratio, temperature ratio, Reynolds number, and flow structure

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  • Flow structure due to dimple depressions on a channel surface

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  • Heat Transfer Augmentation Technologies for Internal Cooling of Turbine Components of Gas Turbine Engines

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  • Overtip Shock Wave Structure and Its Impact on Turbine Blade Tip Heat Transfer

    Q. Zhang;D. O. O’Dowd;L. He;A. P. S. Wheeler

  • Transonic Turbine Blade Tip Aerothermal Performance With Different Tip Gaps—Part I: Tip Heat Transfer

    Q. Zhang;D. O. O’Dowd;L. He;M. L. G. Oldfield

  • Numerical Simulation of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer Inside a Microchannel With One Dimpled Surface

    X. J. Wei;Y. K. Joshi;P. M. Ligrani

  • Analysis and Experiments on Three-Dimensional, Irregular Surface Roughness

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  • Spatially-resolved heat transfer and flow structure in a rectangular channel with pin fins

    S.Y. Won;G.I. Mahmood;P.M. Ligrani

  • Comparisons of flow structure above dimpled surfaces with different dimple depths in a channel

    Se Youl Won;Qiang Zhang;Phillip M. Ligrani

  • Effects of Mach number and Reynolds number on jet array impingement heat transfer

    Matt Goodro;Jongmyung Park;Phil Ligrani;Phil Ligrani;Mike Fox

  • Effects of hole spacing on spatially-resolved jet array impingement heat transfer

    Matt Goodro;Jongmyung Park;Phil Ligrani;Mike Fox

  • Local Swirl Chamber Heat Transfer and Flow Structure at Different Reynolds Numbers

    C. R. Hedlund;P. M. Ligrani

  • Nusselt Numbers and Flow Structure on and Above a Shallow Dimpled Surface Within a Channel Including Effects of Inlet Turbulence Intensity Level

    P. M. Ligrani;N. K. Burgess;S. Y. Won

  • Miniature five-hole pressure probe for measurement of three mean velocity components in low-speed flows

    P M Ligrani;B A Singer;L R Baun

  • Comparison of Heat Transfer Measurement Techniques on a Transonic Turbine Blade Tip

    D. O. O’Dowd;Q. Zhang;L. He;P. M. Ligrani

  • NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS OF FLOW STRUCTURE AND LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER RATIOS ALONG AND ABOVE DIMPLED SURFACES WITH DIFFERENT DIMPLE DEPTHS IN A CHANNEL

    Se Youl Won;P. M. Ligrani

  • Effects of Dean vortex pairs on surface heat transfer in curved channel flow

    P.M. Ligrani;S. Choi;A.R. Schallert;P. Skogerboe

  • Flow phenomena in swirl chambers

    P. M. Ligrani;C. R. Hedlund;B. T. Babinchak;R. Thambu

  • Heat Transfer, Adiabatic Effectiveness, and Injectant Distributions Downstream of a Single Row and Two Staggered Rows of Compound Angle Film-Cooling Holes

    P. M. Ligrani;S. Ciriello;D. T. Bishop

  • Separate Effects of Mach Number and Reynolds Number on Jet Array Impingement Heat Transfer

    Jongmyung Park;Matt Goodro;Phil Ligrani;Mike Fox

  • Cross-flow effects on impingement array heat transfer with varying jet-to-target plate distance and hole spacing

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  • Aero-Thermal Performance of a Winglet at Engine Representative Mach and Reynolds Numbers

    D. O. O’Dowd;Q. Zhang;L. He;M. L. G. Oldfield

  • Heat Transfer and Flow Phenomena in a Swirl Chamber Simulating Turbine Blade Internal Cooling

    C. R. Hedlund;P. M. Ligrani;H.-K. Moon;B. Glezer

  • Single-disk and double-disk viscous micropumps

    Danny Blanchard;Phil Ligrani;Bruce Gale

  • Crossflows from jet array impingement cooling: Hole spacing, target plate distance, Reynolds number effects

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  • Spatial resolution and downwash velocity corrections for multiple-hole pressure probes in complex flows

    P. M. Ligrani;B. A. Singer;L. R. Baun

  • Spatially Resolved Surface Heat Transfer for Parallel Rib Turbulators With 45 Deg Orientations Including Test Surface Conduction Analysis

    S. Y. Won;N. K. Burgess;S. Peddicord;P. M. Ligrani

  • Miniature Single-Disk Viscous Pump (Single-DVP), Performance Characterization

    Danny Blanchard;Phil Ligrani;Bruce Gale

  • Heat transfer in a swirl chamber at different temperature ratios and Reynolds numbers

    C.R. Hedlund;P.M. Ligrani;B. Glezer;H.-K. Moon

  • Full-Coverage Film Cooling: Film Effectiveness and Heat Transfer Coefficients for Dense and Sparse Hole Arrays at Different Blowing Ratios

    Phil Ligrani;Matt Goodro;Mike Fox;Hee-Koo Moon

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Calvin Giddings
J. Calvin Giddings University of Utah
Marcus N. Myers
Marcus N. Myers University of Utah

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