Seminar Archive
Below are the names of various past seminar presenters in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Click on the individual's name to see a copy of the seminar abstract.
2008-2009 Academic Year Seminars:
- D.T. Leighton - Structure, Rheology, And Migration In Concentrated Suspensions
- A.L. Yarin - Polymer Nanofibers And Nanotubes: Encapsulation, Intercalation And Release At The Nano- And Micro-Scale
2007-2008 Academic Year Seminars:
- S.E. Black - Automated Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Challenges for Large Composite Structures (787 Program Example)
- E. Darling - Investigations of Single-Cell, Mechanical Biomarkers Via Atomic Force Microscopy
- R. Dunn, J. Mason, S. Vaze - Pursuing a Career in Industry after Graduate School
- A. Espinoza - Comparison Of The Rat Lumbar And Caudal Intervertebral Disc Torsional Mechanics
- P. Geubelle - Fatigue Response Of A Biomimetic Self-Healing Material: Experimental Observations And Multiscale Cohesive Modeling
- D. Go - Ionic Winds For Enhanced Electronics Cooling
- R. Haid - Spinal Bioengineering: Concept To Product Launch
- M. Heller - New Tricks For The Old Hornet: The V10.7 Flight Control Computer Software Upgrade
- I. Hwang - Hybrid Estimation And Intent Based Probabilistic Conflict Detection For The Next Generation Air Transportation System (Nextgen)
- Y. Jiang - Multiscale Modeling of Tumor Induced Angiogenesis
- R. Kamm - Cellular Force Transmission And Transduction
- T. Kurfess - The Globe, The Car, And The Co-Processor: A Tale About Producing The Most Complex Consumer Product On Earth
- T. Laursen - Development of Mortar Frameworks as a Foundation for Surface-based Approaches to Contact Mechanics
- D. Long - Biomechanical Investigations of Flow and Dynamics in Large and Small Blood Vessels
- M. Meerschaert - Fractional Diffusion
- R. Mittal - High-Fidelity Computational Modeling Of Moving-Boundary And Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems In Biological Flows
- S. Peterson - Flow Development In A Model Stenotic Artery With Upstream Perturbation
- V. Prakesh - Shock Response Of A ZR-Based Bulk Metallic Glass
- M. Rentschler - Aortic Aneurysm Tissue Mechanics and Abdominal In vivo Surgical Robotics
- J.J. Riley - Inertial Range Dynamics in Density-Stratified Flows
- P. Ronney - Microscale Power Generation And Propulsion: It's Not The Same As Big Devices Made Smaller
- G. Ravichandran - Stress-Induced Transformation During Deformation And Fracture Of A Shape Memory Alloy, Nitinol
- R. Santoro - Responding to 21st Century Energy Challenges: A University Perspective
- W. Saric - Flight Experiments on Laminar Flow Control In Swept-Wing Boundary Layers (An Unlikely Journey of a Mechanician)
- J. Schmiedeler - Time-Invariant Strategies for Multi-Joint Coordination in
Human Reaching and Biped Robot Walking
- L. Setton - Rational Approach To The Design Of Hydrogels For Cartilage Repair
- R. L. Spilker - The Role of Computational Bioengineering in Understanding Human Tissues
- P. Sucosky - Insights into Aortic Valve Calcification: A Mechanobiological Study
- S. Suslov - Non-Boussinesq Convection: Mathematical Playground With Engineering Applications
2006-2007 Academic Year Seminars:
- S. Acharya - Energy Generation Using Gas-Turbines-Performance Enhancement & Fuel-Flexibility
- D. Balsara - Dust Sedimentation in Protoplanetary Accretion Disks
- H. Bau - Microfluidics for Fun and Profit
- K. Bhattacharya - Quasi-Continuum Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory: A Route to Multi-Million-Atom Quantum Mechanical Calculations
- K. Breuer - The Aeromechanics of Bat Flight
- A. Bowlng - Agility and Dynamic Performance of Multilegged Robots
- A. Cocks - From Quantum Dots to Turbine Blades
- T. Fisher - Some Applications of Carbon Nanotubes for Enhanced Thermal Transport in Electronics
- A. Garcia - Engineering Cell-Biomaterials Interfaces and Tissue Constructs
- F. Incropera - Energy Supply And Demand: Prospects For The Future And Why Business-As-Usual Won't Work
- C. Jacobs - Mechanotransduction in Bone: Towards a Molecular Mechanism
- J. Li - Interfacial Plasticity in Nanostructured Metals
- A. Liman - Buckling Of Thin Pressurized Cylinders Under A Bending Load For Rocket Launcher Applications
- R. Lucht - Recent Advances In Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Techniques For Measurements Of Species And Temperature In Reacting Flows
- L. Mahadevan - Soft Adhesion And Lubrication: Glues, Cells And Joints
- F. Mashayek - Can Renewable Liquid Fuels Quench Our Energy Thirst?
- J. Powers - Computing Multiscale Composition
- M. Shannon - Nexus Between Energy, Fuels and Water
- K. Vemaganti - Characterization and Modeling of Biomaterial and Tissue
- J. Wang - Deformation of Coated Materials
2005-2006 Academic Year Seminars:
- M. Allen - Anti-Remodeling Agents and the Skeleton: Microdamage, Mecahnics and More
- J. Bellan - Large Eddy Simulation of Two-Phase Flows with Evaporation
- P.P. Castaneda - Effective Behavior, Microstructure Evolution and Macroscopic Instabilities in Porous and Reinforced Elastomers
- P. Cavanaugh - Bone Loss During Long Duration Spaceflight: Is there a Biomechanical Etiology?
- D. DeLaurentis - Design In A System-Of-Systems Context: An Air Transportation Application
- H. Gao - Mechanics of Robust and Reversible Adhesion in Biology
- A. Ghosh - Revisiting Newton's Laws: Possible Modification and Cosmological Consequences
- D. Hong - Biologically Inspired Novel Locomotion Strategies for Mobile Robots
- G. Karniadakis - Colloidal Microdevices and Dynamic Self-Assembly: Algorithms and Simulations
- P. Koumoutsakos - Multiscale Simulations Using Particles
- M. Minor - Design, Modeling, Control and Evaluation of a Hybrid Hip Joint Miniature Climbing Robot
- E. Nauman - Physical Insults to the Spinal Cord: Damage Mechanisms and Treatment Options
- G.-J. Park - Optimization Using Equivalent Static Loads
- J. Smay - Direct Writing of Functional 3-D Devices using Colloidal Gel Inks
- A.J. Smits - Turbulent Pipe Flow and Why Moody was Wrong
- S.A. Song - Overview of Advanced Energetic Materials
- G. Tryggvason - Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow
- X. Wang - Collagen and the Toughness of Bones
2004-2005 Academic Year Seminars:
- S. Balachandar - Equilibrium Eulerian Approach for Large-scale Multiphase Flow Simulations of Rockets to Volcanic Eruptions
- M. Boyce - Mechanics of the Finite Deformation Behavior of Finite Biomacromolecular Networks
- H.-C. Chang - Micro-Fluidic Designs for Minature Diagnostic Kits
- R. Duncan - Cytomechanics: Cellular Signaling in a Mechanically Active Environment
- H. Fasal - Interaction of Separation and Transition in Boundary Layers: Direct Numerical Simulations
- J. Freund - A Quiet Free Shear Flow
- T.P. Gielda - Simulation Based Design in the Home Appliance Market
- J.B. Grotberg - Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices
- K.W. Liu - Nanoscale Thermo Transport in Semiconductor and Data Storage Devices
- D. Ma - Modeling, Control, and Monitoring of Complex Structures
- A. Majumdar - Fluidic and Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials and Transport
- H. Meng - Numerical Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
- E. Morgan - Mechano-Regulation of Skeletal Repair Functional Characterization of Articular Cartilage Development
- P.M. Norris - Research in the Microscale Heat Transfer and Aerogel Research Laboratories at the University of Virginia
- R.W. Ogden - Biomechanics of Soft Biological Tissue: Structure and Modeling
- S. Saha - Bone as a Material: Engineering Challenges
- R. Reich - Lubricant Starvation when Rolling Aluminum Metal: The Formation of an Oil Pool in Front of the Roll Bite
- G.M. Shaver - Physics-based Modeling and Control of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engines
- V. Tomar - Multi-Scale Mechanics of Microscopic and Nanoscopic Ceramic Composites: A Material Design Perspective
- R. Yang - Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectrics and Thermoelectrics
- X. Zheng - Ignition of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons in Convective-Diffusive Systems
2003-2004 Academic Year Seminars:
- R.
Abeyaratne - The Mobility of Phase Boundaries
- R.
Crowninshield - Engineering Analyses of Revision Total Hip Replacement
- R.
Elliott - Bifurcation and Stability of Multilattices with Applications
to Martensitic Transformations in Shape Memory Alloys
- E.
Fried - Disclinations in Nematic Elastomers
- S.V.
Garimella - Emerging Meso-Scale Thermal Management Technologies
- A.
Lund - Computational and Experimental Studies of Nanocrystalline
and Amorphous Materials
- J.
Murthy - Sub-Ablative Thermotherapy: Heat-Induced Modification
of Collagenous Tissues
- A.
Petrella - The Role of Computational Mechanics in the Delivery of Next
Generation Total Joint Replacement
- C.
Pozrikidis - Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Bio-Fluid-Dynamics
of Red Blood Cells
- L.
Pruitt - Utilization of Biomaterials and Tissue Mechanics Research
to Improve the Bearing Surface in Articular Joints
- R.
Rand - Recent Advances in Parametric Excitation
- L.
Silbert - Jamming and the Properties of Amorphous Packings
- J.
Wetherbee - No title
- D.
Wright - Microchannels - Short History, But Bright Future