Publications

Published papers

  • Nayak, M., Bernard, M., Erenburg, V., Cukurel, B., Lefkowitz, J., “Ammonia combustion in a radial-inflow porous media burner: Effects of varied topological gradation”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 42, 106281, 2026.(pdf)
  • Peteinaris, A., Celik, A., Cukurel, B., Terzis, A., “Experimental Validation of Reynolds-Prandtl Scaling for Confined Gas Jet Impingement Heat Transfer”, ASME- Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2026. (pdf)
  • Yildirim, A., Acarer, S., Cukurel, B., “High-Speed Recessed Conical Hybrid Bearings with Additive Manufacturing–Driven Large Gap Clearances for Integrated Bearing–Rotor Architectures of Gas Turbines: Navier–Stokes Analysis and Symbolic–Regression Correlations”, ASME- Journal of Tribology, Vol. 148, No. 6, 2026. (pdf)
  • Palman, M., Agapovichev, A., Abraham, Y., Erenburg, V., Yildirim, A., Acarer, S., Chatel, A., Loir, V., Verstraete, T., Saracoglu, B., Cukurel, B., “Design for Additive Manufacturing Approach for Support-Free, Pre-Assembled Micro Gas Turbines “, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 148, No. 1, 2026. (pdf)
  • Mendelson, T., Omari, M., Raizner, M., Kleiman, A., Losin, S., Cukurel, B., vanHout, R., “Spatio-Temporal Heat Transfer Characteristics of An Impinging Pulsating Co-Axial Round Jet”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 254, No. 1, 2026. (pdf)
  • Nayak, G.M., Cukurel, B., Lefkowitz, J., “A Study on Combustion Characteristics of Radial Inward Flow Porous Media Burners for Ammonia-Hydrogen Flames” ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 147, No. 12, 2025. (pdf)
  • Celik, A., Mitra, A., Clark, J., Cukurel, B., “Transonic Linear Cascade Demonstration of Acoustic Flow Control on High Work and Lift Turbines”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 47, No. 11, 2025. (pdf)
  • Sow, A., Losin, S., Leizeronok, B., Kleiman, A., Cukurel, B., “Application of Embedded Thermophones Toward Tonal Noise Cancelation in Small-Scale Ducted Fan”, ASME- Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 147, No. 4, 2025. (pdf)
  • Clark, J., Paniagua, G., Cukurel, B., “On the Development of High Lift, High Work Low-Pressure Turbines”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 146, No. 12, 2024. (pdf)
  • Badum, L., Cukurel, B., “Multidisciplinary Design Methodology for Micro-Gas-Turbines—Part II: System Analysis and Optimization”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 146, No.10, 2024. (pdf)
  • Badum, L., Schirrecker, F., Cukurel, B., “Multidisciplinary Design Methodology for Micro-Gas-Turbines—Part I: Reduced Order Component Design and Modeling”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 146, No.10, 2024. (pdf)
  • Agarwal, T., Jacobi, I., Cukurel, B., “Impact of Flow Unsteadiness on Turbine Airfoil Heat Transfer via Streaming”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 146, No.9, 2024. (pdf)
  • Eitan, S., Julius, S., Cukurel, B., “In-Situ Measurement of Thermal Barrier Coating Properties via Induction Phase Radiometry – Methodology Development”, ASME- Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 146, No.4, 2024. (pdf)
  • Celik, A., Mitra, A., Agarwal, T., Clark, J., Jacobi, I., Cukurel, B., “Exploring Physics of Acoustic Flow Control over Airfoils Towards Potential Application to High Work and Lift Turbines”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 146, No.3, 2024. (pdf)
  • Agarwal, T., Cukurel, B., Jacobi, I., “Heat Transfer Modification in an Unsteady Laminar Boundary Layer Subject to Freestream Traveling Waves” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 219, No.2, 2024. (pdf)
  • Badum, L., Prochaska, T., Schwentenwein, M., Cukurel, B., “Ceramic and Metal Additive Manufacturing of Monolithic Rotors from Sialon and Inconel and Comparison of Aerodynamic Performance for 300W Scale Microturbines”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 146, No.2, 2024. (pdf)
  • Acarer, S., Gurbuz, T., Cukurel, B., “Compression Characteristics of Liquid Ring Compressors with Fixed and Freely Rotating Casings”, ASME- Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 146, No.2, 2024. (pdf)
  • Mitra, A., Murugan, S., van Hout, R., Kleiman, A., Raizner, M., Cukurel, B., “Near-field flow characteristics of a free coaxial jet”, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 103, 109186, 2023. (pdf)
  • Leizeronok, B., Losin, S., Kleiman, A., Julius, S., Romm, I., Cukurel, B., “Guidelines for higher efficiency supported thermo-acoustic emitters based on periodically Joule heated metallic films”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 153, pp. 1682, 2023. (pdf)
  • Lange, Y., Kirmizigöl, S. F., Acarer, S., Cukurel, B., “Skin Cooling of Turbine Airfoils by Single Wall Effusion: Part II – CFD Validation and Preliminary Design Optimization on a Micro-Turbine Vane”, ASME- Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 15, No. 5, 2023. (pdf)
  • Lange, Y., Kirmizigöl, S. F., Acarer, S., Cukurel, B., “Skin Cooling of Turbine Airfoils by Single Wall Effusion: Part I – Reduced Order Modeling”, ASME- Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 15, No. 5, 2023. (pdf)
  • Leizeronok, B., Kleiman, A., Julius, S., Manela, A., Cukurel, B., “Experimental demonstration of thermophones in vibro-acoustic noise cancellation scenario for varying gaseous media”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 545, pp. 117431, 2023. (pdf)
  • Palman, M., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Comparative Study of Numerical Approaches to Adaptive Gas Turbine Cycle Analysis”, International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023. (pdf)
  • Celik, A., Linsky, D., Miezner, R., Kleiman, A., Leizeronok, B., Palman, M., Acarer, S., Cukurel, B., “Design Methodology and Concept Demonstration of Preassembled Additively Manufactured Turbomachinery Systems: Case Study of Turbocharger Based Medical Ventilators”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 144, No. 12, 2022. (pdf)
  • Agarwal, T., Cukurel, B., Jacobi, I., “Localized drag modification in a laminar boundary layer subject to free-stream travelling waves via critical and Stokes layer interactions”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 937, A10, 2022. (pdf)
  • Sharf, M., Romm, I., Palman, M., Zelazo, D., Cukurel, B., “Economic Dispatch of a Single Micro Gas Turbine Under CHP Operation with Uncertain Demands”, Applied Energy, Vol. 309, 118391, 2022. (pdf)
  • Romm, I., Cukurel, B., “Band Selection for Mid-Wave Infrared Thermography Through Extended Radiometric Calibration and Heuristic-Based Optimization”, Measurement, Vol. 177, 109242, 2021. (pdf)
  • van Hout, R., Murugan, S., Mitra, A., Cukurel, B., “Coaxial Circular Jets – A Review”, Fluids, Vol. 6, Article 147, 2021. (pdf)
  • Rahbari, I., Cukurel, B., Paniagua, G., “Acoustic Pulsation for Heat Transfer Abatement in Supersonic Channel Flow”, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 33, Issue 3, 2021. (pdf)
  • Agarwal, T., Stratmann, M., Julius, S., Cukurel, B., “Exploring Applicability of Acoustic Heat Transfer Enhancement Across Various Perturbation Elements”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 143, No. 3, 2021. (pdf)
  • Badum, L., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “New Insights from Conceptual Design of an Additive Manufactured 300W Microgas Turbine Toward Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 143, No. 2, 2021. (pdf)
  • Karthick, S. K., Cukurel, B., Jacobi, I., “Confounding Effects of Temperature in Laser-Induced Fluorescence Concentration Measurements with Iodine Vapor”, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2020. (pdf)
  • Sher, E., Moshkovich-Makarenko, I., Moshkovich, Y., Cukurel, B., “Implementation of the Onsager Theorem to Evaluate the Speed of the Deflagration Wave”, Entropy, Vol. 22, No. 9, 2020. (pdf)
  • Gendebien, S., Kleiman, A., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Experimental Investigation of Forced Convection Enhancement by Acoustic Resonance Excitations in Turbulated Heat Exchangers”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 142, No. 2, 2020. (pdf)
  • Agarwal, T., Rahbari, I., Saavedra, J., Paniagua, G., Cukurel, B., “Multifidelity Analysis of Acoustic Streaming in Forced Convection Heat Transfer”, ASME- Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 142, No. 2, 2020. (pdf)
  • Yablochkin, E., Cukurel, B., “Selection of Optimal Multi-Hotwire Probe In Constant Temperature Anemometry (CTA) For Transonic Flows”, Experiments in Fluids, 60, 27, 2019. (pdf)
  • Palman, M., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Mission Analysis and Operational Optimization of Adaptive Cycle Micro-Turbofan Engine in Surveillance and Firefighting Scenarios”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 141, No. 1, 2019. (pdf)
  • Julius, S., Gold, R., Kleiman, A., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Modeling and Experimental Demonstration of Heat Flux Driven Noise Cancellation on Source Boundary”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 434, pp. 442-455, 2018. (pdf)
  • Romm, I., Cukurel, B., “Quantitative Image Fusion in Infrared Radiometry”, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2018. (pdf)
  • Julius, S., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Non-Homogeneous Dual-Phase-Lag Heat Conduction Problem: Analytical Solution and Select Case Studies”, ASME- Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 140, No. 3, 2018. (pdf)
  • Yakirevich, E., Miezner, R., Leizeronok, B., Cukurel, B., “Continuous Closed-Loop Transonic Linear Cascade for Aero-Thermal Performance Studies in Micro-Turbomachinery”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 140, No. 1, 2018. (pdf)
  • Rist, J.F., Dias, M.F., Palman, M., Zelazo, D., Cukurel, B., “Economic Dispatch of a Single Micro-Gas Turbine Under CHP Operation”, Applied Energy, Vol. 200, pp. 1-18, 2017. (pdf)
  • Kadosh, K., Cukurel, B., “Micro-Turbojet to Turbofan Conversion via Continuously Variable Transmission: Thermodynamic Performance Study”, ASME- Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 139, No. 2, 2017. (pdf)
  • Selcan, C., Cukurel, B., Shashank, J., “Heat Transfer Implications of Acoustic Resonances in Turbine Blade Internal Cooling Channels”, ASME- Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 138, No. 5, 2016. (pdf)
  • Selcan, C., Cukurel, B., Shashank, J., “Experimental Facility Development Toward Sound-Excitation Effects on Forced Convection Heat Transfer”, AIAA- Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 308-317, 2016. (pdf)
  • Selcan, C., Cukurel, B., Shashank, J., “Acoustic Resonance Excitation of Turbulent Heat Transfer and Flow Reattachment Downstream of a Fence”, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 2223-2235, October, 2016. (pdf)
  • Romm, I., Lev, M., Cukurel, B., “Empirical Compensation of Reciprocity Failure and Integration Time Nonlinearity in a Mid-Wave Infrared Camera”, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2015. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Selcan, C., Stratmann, M., “Convective Heat Transfer Investigation of Acoustically Excited Flow over an Isolated Rib Obstacle”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 91, pp. 848-860, 2015. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Fenot, M., Arts, T., “Conjugate Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Investigation via Transient Thermography Method”, AIAA- Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2015. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Arts T., “Local Heat Transfer Dependency on Thermal Boundary Condition in Ribbed Cooling Channel Geometries”, ASME- Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 135, No. 10, 2013. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Selcan, C., Arts T., “Film Cooling Extraction Effects on the Aero-Thermal Characteristics of Rib Roughened Cooling Channel Flow”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 135, No. 2, 2013. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Acarer, S., Arts T., “A Novel Perspective to High Speed Cross-Hotwire Calibration Methodology”, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 53, pp. 1073-1085, 2012. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Selcan, C., Arts T., “Color Theory Perception of Steady Wide-band Liquid Crystal Thermometry”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 39, pp. 112-122, 2012. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Arts, T., Selcan, C., “Conjugate Heat Transfer Characterization in Cooling Channels”, Journal of Thermal Science, Vol. 21, No.3, 2012. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Lawless, P.B., Fleeter, S., “Experimental Transonic Centrifugal Compressor Investigation: Loading Effects on Deterministic Diffuser Velocity Fields”, AIAA- Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 27, No.2, 2011. (pdf)
  • Cukurel, B., Lawless, P.B., Fleeter, S., “Particle Image Velocity Investigation of a High Speed Centrifugal Compressor Diffuser: Spanwise and Loading Variations”, ASME- Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 132, No. 2, 2010. (pdf)