Address:
Department of Aerospace EngineeringMiddle East Technical University
06800 Ankara Turkiye
Dr. Harika S. Kahveci received her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010. She earned her Bachelors degree in Aeronautical
Engineering from METU in Ankara, Turkey, in 2002, and her Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State University in 2004. Dr. Kahveci's professional and
academic background provides her with both experimental and computational expertise in her field. Her masters studies at Penn State focused on helicopter rotor flow visualization
with Stereoscopic PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) measurements at the Turbomachinery Aero-Heat Transfer Laboratory,
where she worked with Prof. Cengiz Camci. While at
Penn State, she received the UTSR (University Turbine System Research) Gas Turbine Industrial Fellowship Award and spent a summer on the use
of laser applications for flow visualization of fuel nozzle spray atomizers at Parker Hannifin Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Kahveci's GE career started
at GE Energy in 2004 in the Gas Turbine Acoustics & Aero Design Team in Greenville, South Carolina. She supported hot gas path aero design of high-pressure turbine and compressor
blades for gas turbine engines. In 2006, she attended the GE Aviation University Strategic Alliance Program and worked at the short-duration rotating rig facility of the
Gas Turbine Lab with
Prof. Mike Dunn at The Ohio State University towards her Ph.D, focusing on the vane heat transfer of a GE Aviation engine full-scale high-pressure transonic turbine. After completing
her Ph.D studies, Dr. Kahveci joined the Heat Transfer, Cooling & Sealing Design Team at GE Power & Water in Greenville in 2010, and worked on high-pressure turbine blade cooling and thermal design
of gas turbine engines. In December 2012, she moved to Istanbul transferring to the Thermal Systems Design Team at GE Aviation, and worked in the area of thermal management and
rotor heat transfer of aircraft and aero-derivative engines. In June 2015, Dr. Kahveci received the 2013
Gas Turbine Award which is the prestigious ASME gas turbine industry
award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature. She was a Senior Engineer at GE until September 2015. After 11 years of service, Dr. Kahveci left the company for
the faculty position at METU, and joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering in October 2015.
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2010
• Spring, 2023 Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to Aircraft Performance
• June 2020 - Present Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Senior Member, 2021-present
• EI Certificate by The State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors of the State of Ohio, Columbus, OH, USA, 2008
• Inventors: Jones, M. A., Smith, A. E., and Kahveci, H. S., "Airfoil and Method for Manufacturing an Airfoil", General Electric Company,
US20140064983A1, DE102013109149A1, CH706847A2, JP6334113B2 (issued, May 2018)
• Kahveci, H. S., "Investigation of a Rotor Blade With Tip Cooling Subject to a Nonuniform Temperature Profile", J. Turbomachinery, Vol.143(7):071002,
doi:10.1115/1.4050332, 2021
• Akin, A., and Kahveci, H. S., "Effect of Turbulence Modeling for the Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotorcraft Avionics Bay", Aerospace
Science and Technology, Vol.95, doi:10.1016/j.ast.2019.105453, 2019
• Tuncel, T., and Kahveci, H. S., "Effects of Pin Fin Shape and Size on Turbine Blade Trailing Edge Flow and Heat Transfer", J. of Thermal Science
and Technology, Vol.39, 2, pp.191-207, ISSN: 1300-3615, 2019
• Sakaoglu, S., and Kahveci, H. S., "Effect of Cavity Depth on Thermal Performance of a Cooled Blade Tip Under Rotation", International J. of Heat
and Mass Transfer, Vol.143, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118561, 2019
• Akin, A., and Kahveci, H. S., "Use of Artificial Neural Network in Rotorcraft Cooling System", J. of Aeronautics and Space Technologies, Vol.12,
No. 2, pp.157-170, ISSN: 1304-0448, 2019
• Akin, A., and Kahveci, H. S., "An Optimization Study for Rotorcraft Avionics Bay Cooling", Aerospace Science
and Technology, Vol.90, pp.1-11, doi:10.1016/j.ast.2019.04.029, 2019
• Kahveci, H. S., and Kirtley, K. R., "Uncertainty Analysis of Heat Transfer Predictions Using Statistically-Modeled Data From a Cooled 1-1/2 Stage
High-Pressure Transonic Turbine", J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 136(6), 61020, doi:10.1115/1.4025764, 2014
• Kahveci, H. S., Haldeman, C. W., Mathison, R. M., and Dunn, M. G., "Heat Transfer for the Film-Cooled Vane of a 1-1/2 Stage High-Pressure Transonic
Turbine- Part I: Experimental Configuration and Data Review with Inlet Temperature Profile Effects", J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 135(2), 21027, doi:10.1115/1.4006775, 2013
• Kahveci, H. S., Haldeman, C. W., Mathison, R. M., and Dunn, M. G., "Heat Transfer for the Film-Cooled Vane of a 1-1/2 Stage High-Pressure Transonic
Turbine- Part II: Effect of Cooling Variation on Vane Airfoil and Inner Endwall", J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 135(2), 21028, doi:10.1115/1.4006776, 2013
• Andrew, P. L., and Kahveci, H. S., "Validation of MISES 2D Boundary Layer Code for High-Pressure Turbine Aerodynamic Design", J. Turbomachinery,
Vol. 131(3), 31013, doi:10.1115/1.2988165, 2009
• Gulmez, S., and Kahveci, H. S., "Numerical Simulation of Spray Characteristics of Doublet Injectors",
AIAC-2021-142, 11th Ankara International Aerospace Conference (AIAC),
Ankara, Turkey, September 8-10, 2021
• Kahveci, H. S., "Investigation of a Rotor Blade With Tip Cooling Subject to Nonuniform Temperature Profile",
doi:10.1115/GT2020-15529, Volume 7B:Heat Transfer,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2020, Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition,
Virtual, Online, September 21-25, 2020 - presented by Kahveci
• Kahveci, H. S., "Gas Turbine Blade Cooling Technology, Advances, and Challenges",
AIAC-2019-105, 10th Ankara International Aerospace Conference (AIAC),
Ankara, Turkey, September 18-20, 2019 - presented by Kahveci
• Sakaoglu, S., and Kahveci, H. S., "Effect of Turbine Blade Tip Cooling Configuration on Tip Leakage Flow and Heat Transfer",
doi:10.1115/GT2019-90130, Volume 5A:Heat Transfer,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019, Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition,
Phoenix, AZ, June 17-21, 2019 - presented by Kahveci
• Kahveci, H. S., and Kirtley, K. R., "Comparison of Temperature Profile and Heat Transfer Predictions With Statistically-Modeled Data From a Cooled 1-1/2
Stage High- Pressure Transonic Turbine",
doi:10.1115/GT2013-94242, Volume 3C:Heat Transfer,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2013, Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, June 3-7, 2013 -
presented by Kahveci
• Kahveci, H.S., Haldeman, C.W., Mathison, R.M., and Dunn, M.G., "Heat Transfer for the Film-Cooled Vane of a 1-1/2 Stage High-Pressure Transonic Turbine-
Part I: Experimental Configuration and Data Review with Inlet Temperature Profile Effects",
doi:10.1115/GT2011-46570, Volume 5:Heat Transfer, Parts A and B,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2011, Turbine Technical Conference
and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, June 6-10, 2011 - presented by Kahveci
• Kahveci, H.S., Haldeman, C.W., Mathison, R.M., and Dunn, M.G., "Heat Transfer for the Film-Cooled Vane of a 1-1/2 Stage High-Pressure Transonic Turbine-
Part II: Effect of Cooling Variation on Vane Airfoil and Inner Endwall",
doi:10.1115/GT2011-46573, Volume 5:Heat Transfer, Parts A and B,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2011, Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition,
Vancouver, Canada, June 6-10, 2011 - presented by Kahveci
• Andrew, P. L., and Kahveci, H. S., "Validation of MISES 2-D Boundary Layer Code For High Pressure Turbine Aerodynamic Design",
doi:10.1115/GT2007-28123, Volume 6,
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2007, Power for Land, Sea, and Air, Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2007
• Kahveci, H. S., and Camci, C., "Flow Around Helicopter Blade Tip Sections Using a 2D Particle Image Velocimeter, Part I", Volume 1 of 2,
The Eleventh International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC-11), Honolulu, HI, February 26-March 2, 2006
• Kahveci, H. S., and Camci, C., "Flow Around Helicopter Blade Tip Sections Using a (3D) Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimeter, Part II", Volume 1 of 2,
The Eleventh International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC-11), Honolulu, HI, February 26-March 2, 2006
• Kahveci, H. S., "Application of Fluorescence and Mie-Scattering Techniques for Spray Dropsizing",
University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Peer Review Workshop, South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies (SCIES),
Clemson University, October 2003
• Senem Gulmez, (MSc.) "An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Spray Atomization in Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines",
September 2021
• Sergen Sakaoglu, (MSc.) "The Influence of Cooling Configuration and Tip Geometry on Gas Turbine Blade Tip Leakage Flow and Heat Transfer",
September 2019
• Altug Akin, (MSc.) "Computational Investigation of Rotorcraft Avionics Bay Cooling System",
September 2019
• Tugba Tuncel, (MSc.) "Aerothermodynamics of Turbine Blade Trailing Edge Cooling",
September 2018
• Kahveci, H. S., (Project Leader) "The Effect of Cooling Configuration on Blade Tip Aerodynamics", METU BAP-1 Project No: BAP-08-11-2017-011, Feb, 2019
• Kahveci, H. S., "The Influence of Film Cooling and Inlet Temperature Profile on Heat Transfer for the Vane Row of a 1-1/2 Stage Transonic High-Pressure
Turbine", Ph.D Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2010
• Kahveci, H. S., "Implementation of a Stereoscopic PIV in Rotating Machinery Including Helicopter Rotor Flows", Master of Science Thesis, Penn State, 2004
• Kahveci, H. S., "Application of Fluorescence and Mie-Scattering Techniques for Spray Dropsizing", Project Report to UTSR Industrial Fellowship Program,
South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies (SCIES), 2003
MSc. Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University, 2004
BSc. Aeronautical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2002
Research
AEPL - Aerospace Engineering Propulsion Laboratory
Teaching
• Fall, 2022 Space Propulsion, Thermodynamics
• Spring, 2022 Thermodynamics, Aircraft Engine Design
• Fall, 2021 Heat Transfer
• Spring, 2021 Aircraft Engine Design, Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling
• Fall, 2020 Propulsion Systems 2
• Spring, 2020 Heat Transfer, Aircraft Engine Design
• Fall, 2019 Propulsion Systems 2
• Spring, 2019 Heat Transfer, Aircraft Engine Design
• Fall, 2018 Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling, Propulsion Systems 2
• Spring, 2018 Fluid Mechanics, Aircraft Engine Design
• Fall, 2017 Heat Transfer, Propulsion Systems 2
• Spring, 2017 Fluid Mechanics
• Fall, 2016 Propulsion Systems 2
• Spring, 2016 Propulsion Systems 1
Employment
• Oct 2015 - June 2020 Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University
• Dec 2014 - Sep 2015 Senior Engineer, Thermal Systems Design, GE Aviation
• Apr 2014 - Dec 2014 Team Leader, Thermal Management and Fuel Manifold Thermal Design, GE Aviation
• Feb 2014 - Mar 2014 Advanced Lead Engineer, Thermal Systems Design, GE Aviation
• Dec 2012 - Jan 2014 Lead Engineer, Thermal Systems Design, GE Aviation
• Jun 2010 - Dec 2012 Design Engineer, Heat Transfer, Cooling & Sealing Design, GE Power & Water
• Sep 2006 - May 2010 Graduate Research Associate & GE Energy Employee, The Ohio State University/GE Aviation
• Oct 2004 - Sep 2006 Design Engineer, Gas Turbine Acoustics & Aero Design, GE Energy
Accelerated Career Development Path (ACDP) Rotational Program
• May 2003 - Aug 2003 UTSR Fellow, Parker Hannifin Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division
• Oct 2002 - Aug 2004 Research Assistant, Penn State University
• Aug 2001 - Sep 2001 Summer Engineering Intern, Roketsan Missiles, Inc.
• Aug 2000 - Sep 2000 Summer Engineering Intern, Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI)
Honors & Awards
• METU Academic Performance Award, 2021
• 2013 ASME Gas Turbine Award, 2015
• Eleven General Electric Company awards, 2005-2014
• ASME IGTI Turbo Expo Best Technical Paper Award, 2014
• Critical Difference for Women (CDW) Scholarship, OSU, 2008-2009
• OSU Graduate Research Associate, 2006-2010
• The 27th Annual National Dean's List, 2004
• UTSR Gas Turbine Industrial Fellowship Award at Parker Hannifin Co., 2003
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2003
• Penn State University Research Assistantship, 2002-2004
Affiliations
• International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Heat Transfer Committee member
(K-14 Gas Turbine Committee in ASME Heat Transfer Division), 2015-present
• International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Heat Transfer Committee
Best Paper Award Subcommittee member, 2019
• METU Department of Aerospace Engineering, Advisor to Chair, 2018-2021
• METU Engineering Faculty Executive Board member, 2017-2020
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) member, 2003-present
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society member, 2003-present
Certifications
• GE Six Sigma Green Belt for DMAIC & DFSS, Greenville, SC, USA, 2005
Patents
Journal Articles
Conference Proceedings
Poster Presentations
Supervised Theses
Projects at METU
Dissertation/Thesis/Report