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Alejandra Uranga

Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 31-268
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

E-mail:  auranga@mit.edu

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Publications


Selected publications

  • A. Uranga, P.-O. Persson, M. Drela, and J. Peraire,
    "Preliminary Investigation Into the Effects of Cross-Flow on Low Reynolds Number Transition",
    20th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA-2011-3558, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30, 2011.

  • A. Uranga, P.-O. Persson, M. Drela, and J. Peraire,
    "Implicit Large Eddy Simulation of transition to turbulence at low Reynolds numbers using a Discontinuous Galerkin method",
    International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 86, 2011

  • A. Uranga, P.-O. Persson, M. Drela, and J. Peraire,
    "Implicit Large Eddy Simulation of transitional flows over airfoils and wings",
    19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA-2009-4131, San Antonio, Texas, June 22-25, 2009.

  • A. Uranga, D. Kirk, H. Gutierrez, R. Meinke, and K. Barker,
    "Rocket performance analysis using electrodynamic launch assist",
    43th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, AIAA-2005-1449, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 10-13, 2005.

  • F. Péneau, H.C. Boisson, A. Kondjoyan, and A. Uranga,
    "Bypass transition of a boundary layer subjected to free-stream turbulence",
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Boundary and Interior Layers Computational and Asymptotic Methods, Toulouse, France, July 5-9, 2004.


Theses

  • Investigation of Transition to Turbulence at Low Reynolds Numbers Using Implicit Large Eddy Simulations with a Discontinuous Galerkin Method
    PhD thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Sept. 2010 (degree date: Feb. 2011)
    Supervisors: Jaime Peraire and Mark Drela

  • Assessment of Turbulence Modeling for Compressible Flow Around Stationary and Oscillating Cylinders
    Master's thesis, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada, Aug. 2006
    Supervisors: Ned Djilali and Afzal Suleman



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