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Dr. Judy Busby (LinkedIn)
Dr. Busby has over 20 years of experience in design and analysis of turbomachinery components. She received her Ph.D. from Mississippi State with an emphasis on CFD development and application to incompressible, multi-row pumps. She has authored or co-authored multiple papers ranging from turbine deterministic model development to partial emission pump design.
Dr. Busby worked in the naval area (David Taylor Research Center) as a CFD developer for applications to submarine and ship propulsors. Then she spent time at United Technologies working for the Research Center and Pratt & Whitney. While there, she worked on tool development programs for turbine design, automotive cooling fan design and airplane propeller design as well as unsteady analysis of multi-stage axial turbines and axial compressors using CFD. Her primary role was to use CFD to identify performance shortfalls in multi-stage, axial compressor and turbine designs.
While at Barber Nichols, Inc., Dr. Busby was a Program Manager and also served as the firm’s senior CFD analyst and lead aero/hydro designer. Dr. Busby’s design experience includes: axial and centrifugal fan and compressor designs, centrifugal pump and inducer design and axial impulse turbine designs. Dr. Busby has been program manager on a range of applications including subsonic and transonic fans, compressible centrifugal compressor designs and cryogenic pumps.
1. Busby, J., Batton, W, Furst, R., Hosangadi, A., “High Suction Specific Speed LOX Pump: Design, Analysis and Testing”, 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE
Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Hartford CT, June 2008
3. Busby, J., Batton, W., and Hunt, J., “Axial Impulse Turbines For Liquid Rocket Turbopumps”, Joint-Army-Navy-NASA-Airforce (JANNAF) Propulsion
Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2007.
4. Busby, J., Oliphant, K. and Hosangadi, A., “Evaluation Of USET Inducer Suction Performance Using Crunch CFD®”, Joint-Army-Navy-NASA-Airforce
(JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2007.
5. Hosangadi, A., Ahuja, V., Ungewitter, R. and Busby, J., “Numerical Study of a Flat Plate Inducer: Comparison of Performance in Liquid Hydrogen and
Water”, 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Sacramento, CA, July 2006.
6. Busby, J., Oliphant, K. and Hosangadi, A., “Upper Stage Engine Technology (USET) Program: CFD Final Report”, Contract No. FA9300-04-C-0016,
April 2006.
7. Busby, J., Sondak, D., Staubach, B. and Davis, R., “Deterministic Stress Modeling of Hot Gas Segregation in a Turbine,” J. of Turbomachinery, Vol.
122, pp. 62-67, Jan. 2000.
8. Venable, B., Delaney, R., Busby, J., Davis, R., Dorney, D., Dunn, M., Haldeman, C. and Abhari, R., “Influence of Vane-Blade Spacing on Transonic
Turbine Stage Aerodynamics: Part I – Time-Averaged Data and Analysis,” J. of Turbomachinery, Vol. 121, pp. 663-672, Oct. 1999.
9. Busby, J., Davis, R., Dorney, D., Dunn, M., Haldeman, C., Abhari, R., Venable, B., and Delaney, R., “Influence of Vane-Blade Spacing on Transonic
Turbine Stage Aerodynamics: Part II – Time-Resolved Data and Analysis,” J. of Turbomachinery, Vol. 121, pp. 673-682, Oct. 1999.
10. Busby, J., Taylor, L., Jiang, M-Y, and Whitfield, D., “Unsteady 3-D Incompressible Flow Interaction in Multiple Blade-Row Turbomachinery,” 36th
Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, Jan 1998.
11. Busby, J., Sondak, D., Staubach, B., and Davis, R., “Final Report on Deterministic Stress Modeling of Hot Gas Segregation in a Turbine,” LET Contract
NAS3-26618 Task Order 28, April 1998.
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"Dr. Busby first demonstrated her capabilities to us by executing the aerodynamic design of two large fans for a military transport. Both fans exceeded performance requirements, were successfully developed, and are now in production.
Based on that experience, Fairchild Controls engaged Dr. Busby in the study and design of a centrifugal compressor and a radial inflow turbine. Tradeoff discussions, alterations for structural integrity, and assistance with system performance issues were all handled efficiently and communications on all issues proceeded with ease.
Subsequently, Fairchild Controls again engaged Dr. Busby in another multiphase research program related to fan design. This effort has also progressed rapidly and with excellent insight and guidance provided by Br. Busby. A unique, innovative design is currently under development.
In all activities, Dr. Busby has been an interactive team member, met all commitments, and always conscientiously performed per the statement of work provided. She continues to be a very valuable resource for our company."
Paul Dziorny, Fairchild Controls
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