Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, UT
Research
Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity
Turbomachinery
Fluid-Structure Interactions in Nuclear Reactors
Flapping Flight
Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
Aerodynamic Design
Lattice-Boltzmann Methods
Parallel and High Performance Computation
Publications
Srivastava, R., Panovsky. J., Kielb, R., Virgin, L., Ekici, K., “Non-Linear Flutter in Fan Stator Vanes with Time Dependent Fixity”, Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 134, No. 2, 021009, Mar. 2012.
Ekici K., Hall, K. C., “Harmonic Balance Analysis of Limit Cycle Oscillations in Turbomachinery”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 1478-1487, Jul. 2011.
Ekici K., Hall, K.C., Kielb, R.E., “Harmonic Balance Analysis of Blade Row Interactions in a Transonic Compressor”, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 335-343, Mar.-Apr., 2010.
Ekici K., Kielb, R.E., Hall, K.C., “Aerodynamic Asymmetry Analysis of Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery”, Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 132, No. 1, Jan. 2010.
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.