| An experimental study of turbine vane heat transfer with leading edge and downstream film cooling NV Nirmalan, LD Hylton | 99 | 1990 |
| Experimental and numerical study of heat transfer in a gas turbine combustor liner JC Bailey, J Intile, TF Fric, AK Tolpadi, NV Nirmalan, RS Bunker J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power 125 (4), 994-1002, 2003 | 84 | 2003 |
| An experimental study of turbine vane heat transfer with water–air cooling NV Nirmalan, JA Weaver, LD Hylton | 67 | 1998 |
| Method and system for planning repair of an engine S Akkaram, RS Bourgeois, JK Aragones, ME Graham, NV Nirmalan, ... US Patent App. 11/840,409, 2009 | 53 | 2009 |
| Method and apparatus for non-destructive thermal inspection RS Bunker, NV Nirmalan, LA Schick US Patent 6,804,622, 2004 | 53 | 2004 |
| The measurement of full-surface internal heat transfer coefficients for turbine airfoils using a nondestructive thermal inertia technique NV Nirmalan, RS Bunker, CR Hedlund J. Turbomach. 125 (1), 83-89, 2003 | 50 | 2003 |
| Method for determining heat transfer performance of an internally cooled structure NV Nirmalan, JF Rhodes US Patent 6,422,743, 2002 | 38 | 2002 |
| Continuous infrared thermography monitoring and life management system for heat recovery steam generators AK Pandey, NV Nirmalan, M Venugopal, DL Rogers, JB Laflen, ... US Patent 9,509,923, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Experimental investigation of aerodynamic losses of different shapes of a shrouded blade tip section NV Nirmalan, JC Bailey Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 47268, 785-792, 2005 | 30 | 2005 |
| Multicolor techniques for identification and filtering of burst signals in jet engine pyrometers J Estevadeordal, G Wang, N Nirmalan, A Wang, SP Harper, JD Rigney Journal of Turbomachinery 136 (3), 031004, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| Experimental and numerical study of heat transfer in a gas turbine combustor liner JC Bailey, J Intile, TF Fric, AK Tolpadi, NV Nirmalan, RS Bunker Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 36088, 187-197, 2002 | 27 | 2002 |
| System and method for rotary machine online monitoring G Wang, JC Bailey, NV Nirmalan, LJ Summerville, JP DeLancey US Patent 8,431,917, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| System and method for thermal inspection of objects JR Allen, NV Nirmalan, M Sakami US Patent App. 12/120,617, 2009 | 25 | 2009 |
| Method and apparatus for measuring local heat transfer distribution on a surface LAA El-Gabry, SJ Brzozowski, NV Nirmalan US Patent 6,585,408, 2003 | 25 | 2003 |
| Method for quantifying film hole flow rates for film-cooled parts RS Bunker, NV Nirmalan US Patent 6,732,582, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Thermal inspection system and method RS Bunker, NV Nirmalan US Patent 7,909,507, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Method, system and apparatus for cooling high power density devices M Bowman, M Arik, C Balan, W Bessler, R Bunker, C Byrd, W Gerstler, ... US Patent App. 10/065,985, 2004 | 20 | 2004 |
| System and method for mapping a two-dimensional image onto a three-dimensional model S George, NV Nirmalan, A Rammohan, R Chandrasekharan, M Sakami US Patent App. 12/771,929, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer effectiveness and pressure distribution of a shrouded blade tip section NV Nirmalan, JC Bailey, ME Braaten Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 41685, 317-328, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |
| Multi-color pyrometry techniques for characterization of spall in heavy duty gas turbine engines J Estevadeordal, N Nirmalan, G Wang, L Summerville 42nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, 3781, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
