Robert Murphy Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Singapore, Singapore

New equipment sales covering Singapore, Vietnam, Korea and Japan.

San Diego, California, United States

PAE in Oil and Gas Organization supporting North America.

Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

Morgantown, Wv

• Visited local high schools to encourage students to pursue opportunities in science and engineering.• Conducted tours of labs, classrooms and study areas with parents, students and educators who visit CEMR.• Attended college/recruiting fairs.• Assisted with high school visitation days.

Morgantown, Wv

Research Areas: Thermal fluid sciences, convective heat transfer, particle deposition, experimental methods, film cooling, novel film-cooling geometries, multiphase flow, wind turbine viability assessment• Performed experiments to study the effects of particulate deposition on heat transfer of first stage turbine vanes in an IGCC engine.• Procured a high-pressure particle seeder to be used in injecting coal fly ash into a high-pressure combustion rig and created a LABview interface to control the seeder during initial atmospheric tests.• Developed a method of baking, drying and sieving fly ash to match particle size distribution in literature and performed Stokes and lumped mass analyses to determine if fly ash particle behavior matched actual engine conditions and reached thermal equilibrium. • Designed two different test article geometries using Reynolds similarity to match the flow conditions of an actual engine on the pressure side of a first stage vane using the cooling hole diameter as the length scale. • Analyzed surface roughness changes due to deposition using a laser confocal microscope and then formed three dimensional surface plots.• Assisted advisor on writing proposals to secure funding in the areas of novel film-cooling schemes, aero-thermal combustion rig development at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the development of a wind turbine research facility at WVU and aircraft engine emissions modeling. • Composed two conference papers on the results of thesis work. • Co-authored a conference paper on wind power assessment as a course for undergraduate students.

Greater San Diego Area

• Performed three dimensional thermal analysis using ANSYS Thermal Workbench to examine the effects of rotation on the endwall region of a three-pass internal cooling scheme.• Assisted in preliminary design work for a new test section using non-dimensional scaling.• Created components using Pro-E for the new test section.• Calculated required heater power for new test section using energy balance.

Morgantown, Wv

• Redesigned injection port to add particle seeding capabilities to high-pressure combustion rig. • Designed, procured, and constructed laser enclosure area to house the LDV system.• Performed alignment on laser to be used in LDV system.• Assisted technicians in installation of pressure and temperature sensors.• Assisted NETL engineers in the design and layout of a high-pressure particle seeding system.• Provided support for team examining issues in surface temperature calculations by investigating the possibility of switching internal window materials and by documenting process using Planck’s law to calculate surface temperature by using two different intensities.• Ran shakedown tests to troubleshoot problems with the operation of the high-pressure seeder.• Documented and submitted work in final summary to mentor.

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders, Graduate Research and Programs Committee, Assistant Student Recruiter for Benjamin M..

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders

B.S., Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders