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Spring/Summer 2004 Seminars

SPRING/SUMMER 2004 SEMINARS

Each semester, the Department of Mechanical Engineering holds research seminars which are open to all faculty and students. The department invites speakers from the department as well as outside on research topics of interest to the faculty and students. These seminars are held on Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00 pm, in room SL 165, unless otherwise stated. In the following, you will find the schedule for this semester's seminars along with the speaker and abstract information. Please check this page regularly for updated information. For more information, contact Dr. Sivakumar S. Krishnan at sskris@iupui.edu. Schedules of previous semesters may be accessed from the News and Events main page.

1) January 22, 2004, "Internship Presentations." Click here for more information.

2) February 5, 2004, "Internship Presentations." Click here for more information.

3) February 19, 2004, "Flame Extinction and Reignition in Turbulent Reacting Flows and How We're Modeling it," Dr. CHONG CHA, Combustion Specialist, Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN. NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE. This seminar will be in ET 137. Click here for ABSTRACT.

4) February 27, 2004, "Development of a Hybrid Electromagnetic-Electrohydraulic Brake-By-Wire System," Dr. SOHEL ANWAR, Staff Controls Engineer, Visteon Corporation, Dearborn, MI. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Friday at 1:00 PM. Click here for ABSTRACT.

5) March 1, 2004, "Active and Adaptive-Passive Control of Acoustic Impedance with Application to Thermoacoustic Cooling," Dr. YAOYU LI, Ph.D. Candidate, Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME. This seminar will be on a Monday at 10:15 AM. Click here for ABSTRACT.

6) March 4, 2004, "Visualization of CFD and Finite Element Results in Virtual Environments," Dr. TAMER WASFY, President and Founder, Advanced Science and Automation Corp., Smithfield, VA. Click here for ABSTRACT.

7) March 9, 2004, "Microrobotics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology for Biological Studies," Dr. YU SUN, Research Scientist, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, SWITZERLAND. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Tuesday. Click here for ABSTRACT.

8) March 11, 2004, "Nozzle Flow Characteristics at Ultra-High Pressures," Dr. CHARLES MERKLE, Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN. NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE. This seminar will be in ET 137. Click here for ABSTRACT.

9) March 12, 2004, "Design and Analysis of a Compliant Grasper for Handling Live Objects," Dr. XUECHENG YIN, This seminar will be on Friday between 1 and 2 PM in SL 223. Click here for ABSTRACT.

10) March 15, 2004, "Automated Health Monitoring of an Integrated Aerospace Vehicle," Dr. ANINDYA  GOSHAL, Senior Research Scientist, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT.

11) March 24, 2004, "Tire/Road Friction Estimation, Emergency Braking Control and Traffic Flow Stability for Automated Vehicles ," Dr. JINGANG YI, Systems Engineer, CMP/Cleaning Technology, Lam Corporation, CA. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Wednesday. Click here for ABSTRACT.

12) March 31, 2004, "Computational Strategies for Problems Involving Iterative Domain Changes ," Dr. GANESH SUBBARAYAN, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Wednesday. Click here for ABSTRACT.

13) April 21, 2004,  "Parallel Computations of Solid-Fluid Interactions Using ALE and Relative Coordinate Formulations," XIAOYIN HE, Master's Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI. (Major Professor: Hasan Akay) NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Wednesday. Click here for ABSTRACT.

14) April 29, 2004, "Recent Implementation of Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) Algorithm for Grid Environment,"  RESAT PAYLI, Research Associate, CFD Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI. NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND VENUE. This seminar will be in ET 137 at 10:00 AM. Click here for ABSTRACT.

15) May 10, 2004, "Modeling of Pulsed Detonation Thermal Spraying," Dr. KHALID RAMADAN, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Monday. Click here for ABSTRACT.

16) May 11, 2004, Tuesday, "Pressure Loss Effects in a Wave Rotor Due to Contact Sealing, " JACE McFERRAN, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, (Major Professor: Razi Nalim), Click here for ABSTRACT.

17) June 11, 2004, Friday,  "On Least-Squares Based Finite Element Models for Problems of Mechanics," Dr. J. N. REDDY, Distinguished Professor and Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A & M University, TX, NOTE CHANGE OF DAY. This seminar will be on a Friday.  Click here for ABSTRACT.

18) June 16, 2004, Wednesday, "The Development of a Three-Dimensional Lattice Boltzmann Model for Compressible Flows," CHIN WAI LIM, Master's Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI. (Major Professor: Andrew Hsu),  Click here for ABSTRACT.

19) July 12, 2004, Monday, "Laminar Diffusion Flame Shapes under Earth-gravity and Microgravity Conditions," JASON ABSHIRE,  Master's Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI. (Major Professor: Sivakumar S. Krishnan).  Click here for ABSTRACT.

20) July 21, 2004, Wednesday, "The Development of a CFD Chemistry ODE Solver for Ethylene Fuel ," KEITH BANDI,  Master's Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI. (Major Professor: Andrew Hsu).  Click here for ABSTRACT. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME. This seminar is on Wednesday and starts at 1:00 PM.

21) August 5, 2004, Thursday, "Presentations by Visiting Interns at CFD Lab", Mentor: Dr. Erdal Yilmaz.  Click here for more information.

22) August 9, 2004, Monday, "Performance Prediction and Preliminary Design of Wave Rotors Enhancing Gas Turbine Cycles", PEZHMAN AKBARI,  Doctoral Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Michigan State University, MI. Click here for ABSTRACT. NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME. This seminar is on Monday and starts at 10:00 AM.
 
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