Mihir Sen

Professor
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Tel.: (574) 631-5975
E-mail: Mihir.Sen.1[at]nd.edu

Some current areas of investigation:

• Artificial neural networks for prediction and control of thermal systems
• Genetic algorithms for optimal heat transfer correlations
• Fuzzy logic for thermal control
• Thermal control
• Heat exchangers
• Chaotic advection for heat transfer enhancement
• Potential flow heat transfer
• Energy equation in thermal anemometry

Work in progress

• Energy Applications
• Intelligent Systems
• Thermal Control
• Forced Convection
• Natural Convection
• Phase Change
• Dynamical Systems and Chaos
• Fluid Dynamics
• Chemically Reacting Flows
• Molecular Dynamics

Current graduate students:

• Jason Mayes
• Gianluca Puliti (advisor: Dr. S. Paolucci)
• Jorge Ferrer Perez

Some theses and dissertations:

• MS
  • Xiangwei Zhao, 1995
• PhD
  • Narasimha Acharya, 1993
  • David Sawyers, 1997
  • Ricardo Romero-Méndez, 1998
  • Gerardo Díaz, 2000
  • Arturo Pacheco-Vega, 2002
  • Sorour Alotaibi, 2003
  • Walfre Franco, 2003
  • Weihua Cai, 2006
  • Joel Jiménez Lozano, 2009
  • Williams Calderón Muñoz, 2009
  • Alejandro Guajardo Cuéllar, 2011

Preprints posted for informational purposes only:

• Analytical studies of flow effects due to vibrating walls, F. Carlsson, M. Sen and L. Löfdahl.
• Hydrodynamic effects in channel flow due to vibrating walls, F. Carlsson, M. Sen and L. Löfdahl.
• Heat transfer enhancement due to vibrating walls, F. Carlsson, M. Sen and L. Löfdahl.
• Heat transfer in a toroidal natural convection loop.
• Techniques of analysis for nonlinear transient flow in a pipe, Weihua Cai, Mihir Sen and K.T. Yang.
• Relation between the fluid energy equation and the response of a hot-wire anemometer in time-dependent flows, Mihir Sen, Lennart Löfdahl and Carl Fredrik Stein.
• Dynamic modeling of an absorption refrigeration system using ionic liquids, Weihua Cai, Mihir Sen and Samuel Paolucci.
• Analysis of the performance of ionic liquids in cooling loops, Mihir Sen, Samuel Paolucci and Wenjun (Katherine) Liu.
• Synchonization of self-sustained thermostatic oscillations in interacting chambers, V. Özceyhan and Mihir Sen.
• Analytical solution of the unsteady Pennes equation for burn depth determination from dynamic infrared thermographs, R. Romero-Méndez, Dirk F. DeLange, Mihir Sen and F.J. González.
• A spatially non-local model for flow in porous media, Mihir Sen and Eduardo Ramos.
• Nonlinear dynamics of flow in piping trees using projection methods, Jason Mayes and Mihir Sen.
• Dynamic simulation of an ammonia-water absorption refrigeration system, Weihua Cai, Mihir Sen and Samuel Paolucci.
• Nonlinear analysis of transient flow in a piping network, Weihua Cai and Mihir Sen.
• Dynamics of a large number of coupled, self-excited oscillators in a ring, Miguel Angel Barrón and Mihir Sen.
• Thermoelastic effect from an atomistic perspective, Matthew Kiener and Mihir Sen.
• Temperature synchronization, phase dynamics and oscillation death in a ring of thermally-coupled rooms, Jeffrey O'Brien and Mihir Sen.