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  1. Shape effect of thickness of the NREL S815 profile on the performance of the H-rotor Darrieus turbine

    Article • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, January 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  2. Prediction of Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Gas Turbine Blade Leading Edge Using ANN and CFD

    Article • International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines, May 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  3. Film cooling optimization on leading edge gas turbine blade using differential evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  4. Small Organic Rankine Cycle Coupled to Parabolic Trough Solar Concentrator

    Article • Energy Procedia, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  5. Experimental data and numerical predictions of a single-phase flow in a batch square stirred tank reactor with a rotating cylinder agitator

    Article • Heat and Mass Transfer, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  6. Effect of Rotor Diameter on the Thermal Stresses of a Turbine Rotor Model

    Article • International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines, January 2016, De Gruyter

    PhD Laura L Castro, Dr Juan C Garcia

  7. Effect of the Modification of the Start-Up Sequence on the Thermal Stresses for a Microgas Turbine

    Article • International Journal of Rotating Machinery, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  8. Computational fluid dynamics simulation and geometric design of hydraulic turbine draft tube

    Article • Advances in Mechanical Engineering, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  9. Failure probability estimation of steam turbine blades by enhanced Monte Carlo Method

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  10. Improvement of the performance of an absorption heat transformer through a single effect process to obtain freshwater

    Article • Applied Thermal Engineering, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  11. Parametric Study of Showerhead Film Cooling Performance on a Gas Turbine Blade

    Article • November 2014, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  12. Failure analysis of a hydraulic Kaplan turbine shaft

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  13. Failure Analysis to Blades of Steam Turbines at Normal Conditions of Operations and Resonance

    Article • Advanced Materials Research, March 2014, Trans Tech Publications

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  14. The use of artificial neural network (ANN) for modeling the useful life of the failure assessment in blades of steam turbines

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  15. Numerical Simulation of Mixed Convection in a Rotating Cylindrical Cavity: Influence of Prandtl Number

    Article • Advances in Mechanical Engineering, May 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Juan C Garcia, PhD Laura L Castro

  16. Instabilities on Nozzle-Wake Loads due to Axial Clearance and Throat Variations in a First Stage Turbine

    Article • International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  17. Vibration failure in admission pipe of a steam turbine due to flow instability

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  18. Optical characterization of LiBr-H 2 O using MMI in optical fiber

    Article • August 2011, SPIE

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  19. Reliability Assessment and Useful Life of Turbine Blades Using Probabilistic Methods

    Article • January 2011, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  20. Failure analysis of the 350MW steam turbine blade root

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  21. Failure analysis of steam turbine last stage blade tenon and shroud

    Article • Engineering Failure Analysis, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  22. Numerical Analysis of Crack Propagation and Life Estimation of Curtis Stage Blade of a Steam Turbine

    Article • January 2007, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  23. Numerical Analysis of the Blade Forces Caused by Wake/Blade Interaction in the Last Stage of a Steam Turbine

    Article • January 2007, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  24. Evaluation of the Last Stage Blades of 37.5 and 110 MW Geothermal Turbines

    Article • January 2006, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  25. Failure of last-stage turbine blades in a geothermal power plant

    Article • Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  26. Air Flow Turbulent Fluctuations in a Centrifugal Fan

    Article • January 2005, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia

  27. Rotating Effects on Heat Transfer Rate in a Cooling Air Passage of a Gas Turbine Blade

    Article • January 2004, ASME International

    Dr Juan C Garcia