About
Dr. Samir Salamah is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and did postgraduate work at Stanford University. His M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering is from the University of California, Berkely, and his B.S. in Thermo-mechanical Engineering and Energy Conversion is from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
During his 40-year career with General Electric, he developed and applied technology while working in five different industries, in addition to serving multiple GE businesses while at the Global Research Center. Entering the company via the prestigious Edison Engineering Program at GE Nuclear, he reached the climax of the Technology Career Path at GE by becoming a Chief Consulting Engineer in the Renewables business. In between, he enjoyed the thrill of designing and testing thermal and electrical components for a space nuclear power system under a NASA, DOE and DOD contract, enhanced the performance of gas turbines and generators, shaped the early design stages of the most advanced commercial aircraft engine, pioneered the thermal architecture of a history-making hybrid engine demonstrator for aviation, and concluded with creating and leading the thermal management and generator technologies for wind turbines.
Dr. Salamah owns over thirty patents and has published multiple articles in the fields of thermal management and energy conversion. He is passionate about mentoring and training by leveraging a strong grasp of fundamental physics and physics-based thinking in advanced technical challenges.
Recognition
- Technical Excellence Award for thermo-hydraulic work on the SP-100 space nuclear program.
- General Manager awards
- Dushman award for major impact on a GE business product with the introduction of passive cooling to IGBT-based control system
- New Product Introduction (NPI) Team Performance award for development of cooling system in the most efficient gas turbine
- Featured in the Winter 2012 issue of the SHPE magazine
- Best Instructor in the Advanced Course in Engineering at GE
- Customer Impact Quality Award for improving wind turbine hub thermal environment
- Awarded the Estrella award by the Hispanic Forum in recognition of a career of technical achievements and contributions to GE enterprise
Publications
Numerical Comparisons of Heat Transfer from a Single Jet Emanating from a Slot Nozzle Impinging on an Isothermal Plate
C. Tibabisco, S. Vargas-Díaz, S. Salamah
ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Heat Transfer Enhancement in Narrow Diverging Channels
J. Lamont, S. Ekkad, C. Kaminski, S. Ramesh, A. Tolpadi, S. Salamah
Journal of Turbomachinery 135(4) · June 2012
Effects of Rotating Stall on an Axial Fan Design
K. Wilt, D. Story, H. Scarton, A. Hunter, S. Salamah, S. Ramtahal
ASME 2011 Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition
Generator Fan Test Facility to Quantify Axial Flow Fan Aerodynamic Performance
A. Hunter, K. Wilt, H. Scarton, S. Salamah, D. Story
ASME 2010 Power Conference
Modeling of Turbulent Heat Transfer from an Array of Submerged Jets Impinging on a Solid Surface
S. A. Salamah, and D. A. Kaminski
Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Volume 48, 2005
A Numerical Study of the Heat Transfer due to an Array of Submerged Jets Impinging on a Moving Surface—Laminar Flow
S. A. Salamah, and D. A. Kaminski
6th ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conf., TED-AJ03-395, March 2003
Aeroacoustic Prediction Codes
P. Gliebe, R. Mani, H. Shin, B. Mitchell, G. Ashford, S. Salamah, and S. Connell
NASA/CR-2000-210244
SP‐100 Heat Source Heat Exchanger Design
N. Shepard, R. Biddiscombe, T. S. Chan, N. A. Deane, T. Fallas, A. S. Kirpich, R. Murata, S. Salamah, and J. D. Stephen
SPACE NUCLEAR POWER AND PROPULSION: Eleventh Symposium
20‐kWe Space Reactor Power System Using Brayton Cycle Conversion
N. Shepard, R. Biddiscombe, T. S. Chan, N. A. Deane, T. Fallas, A. S. Kirpich, R. Murata, S. Salamah, and J. D. Stephen
Proc. 11th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems
SP100 Thermoelectric Electromagnetic Pump Performance Model
S. Salamah, D. Miller, U. Sinha
AIP Conference Proceedings 301, 553 (1994)
‘‘HYTEC’’—A thermally regenerative fuel cell
P. Roy, S. A. Salamah, J. Maldonado, and R. S. Narkiewicz
AIP Conference Proceedings 271, 913 (1993)
Experimental verification of the SP100 TEM pump analytical models
S. A. Salamah, D. D. Miller, U. N. Sinha, and R. S. Narkiewicz
AIP Conference Proceedings 271, 689 (1993)
HYTEC a high efficiency thermally regenerative fuel cell for space applications
D. Rodgers, P. Roy, S. Salamah
AIP Conference Proceedings 246, 1310 (1992)
HYTEC, high efficiency thermally regenerative power conversion for SEI missions
S. Salamah, D. Rodgers, R. Narkiewicz, P. Roy
AIM-91-3524
SP‐100 scaleup to 40 MWe. AIP Conference Proceedings. 217. 1072-1081. 10.1063/1.40067.
D. Newkirk, S. Salamah, S. Stewart, P. Pluta
Eighth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque, NM, AIP Conference Proceedings, No. 217
SP-100 multimegawatt scaleup to meet electric propulsion mission requirements
D. Newkirk, S. Salamah, S. Stewart, P. Pluta
Proceedings of the 24th intersociety energy conversion engineering conference. Volume 2
Thermoelectric electro-magnetic pump design for the SP-100 reference flight system
F.M. Zarghami, J.C. Atwell, S.A. Salamah, U.N. Sinha
Proceedings of the 26th intersociety energy conversion engineering conference
SP-100 nuclear subsystem design
J.D. Stephen, I.I. Falusi, H. Choe, S.A. Salamah, K.L. Lee, T.C. Osborne
Proceedings of the 23rd intersociety energy conversion engineering conference
SP-100 reactor/HYTEC - A high efficiency static conversion power system
Salamah, S.A.; Rodgers, D.N.; Hoover, D.G.; Roy, P.
Proceedings of the 26th intersociety energy conversion engineering conference
Aspects of modeling fission product scrubbing in suppression pools
F. Moody, H. Townsend, S. Salamah
ANS meeting on fission-product behavior and source term research.
Pressure relaxation in a shocked bubbly mixture
S. Salamah
ASME PVP Conference, June 1987
Patents
US12297813B2
Multisiphon passive cooling system with liquid bridge
A heat exchanger thermally connected to a heat-generating component, a distribution manifold, a condensing unit above the heat exchanger and a conduit thermally connected to the heat exchanger
US11796217B2
Louvers, and wind turbines comprising such louvers
Louvers for enabling an air passage between the outside and inside while minimizing rain ingress and minimizing noise production
US10954922B2
System and method for cooling a tower of a wind turbine
A system for cooling a tower of a wind turbine with a cooling fluid inlet in a tower wall, a filtration assembly, and a cooling fluid outlet
US10855144B2
Electrical winding topologies and methods of making the same
Electrical winding topology for thermal management system, has windings which are operatively coupled to core, in which each has evaporator section and condenser section, and portion of windings has heat pipes
Dynamic active and reactive power capability for wind farms
Method for dynamically controlling real and reactive power capability of wind farm, involves communicating generator capability curve to farm-level controller of wind farm, and controlling wind farm based on generator capability curve
Ceramic matrix composite component cooling
Ceramic matrix component airfoil for gas turbine engine, has trailing edge portion defined adjacent trailing edge at aft end, where pocket is extended within trailing edge portion and heat pipe is received in pocket
Segmented fan assembly
Fan assembly component for segmented fan assembly of dynamoelectric machine e.g. generator, has axially outer shroud segment which is physically connected to a set of fan blades that axially extends from face of axially inner shroud segment
Cooling of stator core flange
Dynamoelectric machine i.e. electric generator, has heat transport tubes arranged around one of two stator flanges at end of stator core arrangement to redistribute heat from flanges, where flanges maintain compressive load on arrangement
Dynamoelectric machine coil spacerblock having flow deflecting channel in coil facing surface thereof
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine e.g. turbo-generator, has spaceblock that includes channel arranged in coil facing surface of spaceblock for intercepting and redirecting circulating coolant flow to cavity
Dynamoelectric machine coil spaceblock having flow deflecting structure in coil facing surface thereof
Gas-cooled dynamo-electric machine e.g. turbo-generator, has space block with flow deflector structure on cavity facing surface of space block to intercept and redirect circulating coolant flow in cavity towards central region of one cavity
Generator coil cooling baffles
Dynamoelectric machine i.e. generator, for generating electricity, has set of subslots, and baffle arranged on set of subslots for directing coolant into set of ducts
Dynamoelectric machine coil spacerblock having flow deflecting channel in coil facing surface thereof
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine e.g. turbo-generator, has spaceblock that includes channel arranged in coil facing surface of spaceblock for intercepting and redirecting circulating coolant flow to cavity
Generator having a cooling flow bifurcation member and method for controlling a cooling flow
Generator, has current branching element with surface changing current with speed, and flowing into channel into another current with another speed, where latter current is guided along external surface of end section or along flange
Method and apparatus for cooling generators
Baffle for guiding cooling fluids in e.g. reverse flow generator, has inclined surfaces for directing specific portions of cooling fluid to flow towards flange, end stator, and angled surface of flange, respectively
Methods and apparatus for cooling generators
Baffle for guiding cooling fluid, has inclined surface to direct portion of cooling fluid flow, where baffle controls amount of flow of cooling fluid through outside space block of power generator
Streamlined body wedge blocks and method for enhanced cooling of generator rotor
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine e.g. large turbo-generator, has body wedge block with leading edge apex having aerodynamic contour with gradually increasing width from leading end edge to sidewall portions
Cooling system for an electrical machine with center rotor cooling dusts
Core cooling ventilation system for rotary electric machine e.g. generator, makes cooling medium, received from inlet ducts of stator, flow inwardly along inlet ducts of rotor and outwardly along outlet ducts of rotor into air gap
Methods and apparatus for cooling wind turbine generators
Wind turbine generator, has heat pipe assembly with heat pipes having evaporator and condenser sections, where evaporator section absorbs heat from stator and stator windings and dissipates through condenser section
Paddled rotor spaceblocks
Gas-cooled dynamoelectric machine e.g. large turbo-generator has spaceblocks in the endwindings with attached paddles in the form of C-channels to deflect the gas flow into an axial direction
Molten hydride fuel cell | Molten hydride fuel cell
Fuel cell assembly has fuel cell(s) comprising anode, cathode, electrolyte, fuel gas inlet, oxidizing gas inlet and exhaust port
Wake reduction structure for enhancing cavity flow in generator rotor endwindings
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine such as turbo-generator includes spaceblock having side wall portions engaging adjacent end windings of rotor and downstream wall with non-planar contour
Re-entrant spaceblock configuration for enhancing cavity flow in rotor endwinding of electric power generator
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine such as large turbo generator has space block between adjacent end windings of rotor, whose lower wall has re-entrant contour to enhance coolant flow
Cooling system for a gas turbine
Cooling system for turbine rotor, has circumferentially spaced manifold segments arranged on rim of rotor, which comprises recess and rib, so that spacer with recess and rib is connected to segment
Spaceblock scoops for enhanced rotor cavity heat transfer
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine such as turbo generator, provides scoop structure adjacent to radial inner end of cavity facing surface of space block, for intercepting and redirecting coolant flow into cavity
Spaceblock deflector for increased electric generator endwinding cooling
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine e.g. large turbo generators, intercepts and redirects circulating coolant flow in respective cavities towards central region of cavity by providing deflector on cavity facing space block
Generator endwinding cooling enhancement
Gas cooled dynamo electric machine e.g. turbo generator has rotor provided with end turn whose surface facing cavity defined by space block, has non-planar surface profile
Gas cooled endwindings for dynamoelectric machine rotor and endwinding cool method
Gas cooled dynamo-electric machine such as large turbo generator, defines outlet opening in mid-section of spaceblock, to emit cooling gas towards central region of cavity
Flow-through spaceblocks with deflectors and method for increased electric generator endwinding cooling
Gas cooled dynamoelectric machine has spaceblocks with passage extending between adjacent cavities
Rotating diffuser for pressure recovery in a steam cooling circuit of a gas turbine
Steam cooling circuit for use in a gas turbine that may be used in a combined cycle system, has a rotating diffuser in the spent cooling steam return passage for pressure recovery
Hydrogen thermal electrochemical converter
Hydrogen@ thermal electrochemical converter uses nuclear power heat to dissociate metal hydride which reforms in cell and operates over wide temp. range
COOLING DUCTS IN AN ELECTRO-DYNAMIC MACHINE
Generator stator core assembly, has radially extending spacer blocks and adjacent axially spaced laminations defining cooling duct, where outermost lamination includes recesses such that flow of coolant through duct flows over recesses
DYNAMOELECTRIC MACHINE FLANGE
Flange of dynamoelectric machine, has base section that is provided with radially facing inner surface, radially facing outer surface and slot extending axially through portion of base section