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My biggest token of gratitude goes to Dr. William Engblom for his patience, willingness, guidance and support as my advisor throughout the research process. Without him, this would not have been possible. I also want to thank my committee members, Dr. Perrell and Dr. Narayanaswami, for their continued support and participation, as well as timely advice and suggestions, when required. I would also like to thank Dr. Reda Mankbadi for his words of encouragement when things weren't going the way I expected them to. No academic achievement is accomplished without the help and support of one's fellow peers. I thank them all for assisting me in any way they could. Last, but never least, to my parents and my sister, I thank you for putting up with prolonged communication absences, and for providing emotional and mental support from over nine thousand miles away.

The following text (in Italics) and image will replace Figure 17 (b) and one associated paragraph ("Turbulent kinetic energy (k) along the intake and diffuser walls…re-circulation zone at the diffuser exit and combustor entrance acts as a flameholder."):Maximum turbulent viscosity ratio (μt /μ) of the airflow entering the internal flowpath (i.e., at x=1.0/SF) is plotted versus scale factor in Figure 17 (b). The flow possessed weaker levels of turbulence viscosity as geometric size decreases (i.e., as SF increases).

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