Frederick F. Simon

• A research program for improving heat transfer prediction for the laminar to turbulent transition region of turbine vanes/blades
• Comparison under a simulated sun of two black-nickel-coated flat-plate solar collectors
• Flat-plate solar-collector performance evaluation with a solar simulator as a basis for collector selection and performance prediction
• Jet model for slot film cooling with effect of free-stream and coolant turbulence
• Modeling of the heat transfer in bypass transitional boundary-layer flows
• Outdoor flat-plate collector performance prediction from solar simulator test data
• Solar collector performance prediction from solar simulator tests
• Status of the NASA-Lewis flat-plate collector tests with a solar simulator
• The use of transition region characteristics to improve the numerical simulation of heat transfer in bypass transitional flows