Fluid Dynamics

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

Research

• Reviews:
  • The Influence of Developments in Dynamical Systems Theory on Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Sen, M., in Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, (editor) M. Gad-el-Hak, Lecture Notes in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, Vol. 46, pp. 1-23, 1989.
• Falling films and jets:
  Journal publications
  • Longitudinal and Transverse Dimensions of an Incipient Jet Driven by a Constant Head, M. Sen, J. Hernández and J. Cervantes, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 8, pp. 107-109, 1989.
  • The Periodicity of Droplets Emanating from Interconnected Orifices, D.M. Weis, P.F. Dunn and M. Sen, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 13, pp. 257-266, 1992.
• Flow over bodies:
  Journal publications
  • Low-Reynolds Number Flow over a Rotatable Cylinder-Splitter Plate Body, J.C. Xu, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, Physics of Fluids A, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 1925-1927, 1990.
  • Dynamics of a Rotatable Cylinder with Splitter Plate in Uniform Flow, J.C. Xu, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 401-416, 1993.
  • Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Flow Past a Freely Rotatable Square Cylinder, T. Zaki, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 555-582, 1994.
  • Prediction of turbulence statistics behind a square cylinder using soft computing techniques, P.K. Panigrahi, M. Dwivedi, V. Khandelwal and M. Sen, to be published in ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
• Modeling:
  Journal publications
  • Simple Modeling Procedure for Estimation of Cyclonic Wind Speeds, J. Sánchez-Sesma, J. Aguirre and M. Sen, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 114, No. 2, pp. 352-370, 1988.
  • An Inflow-Outflow Characterization of Inhomogeneous Permeable Beds, M. Sen and K.T. Yang, Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 4, pp. 97-104, 1989.
  • Dynamic Analysis of a Hemispherical Dome Levitated by an Air Jet, M. Sen, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 226-235, 1993.
• MEMS devices:
  Journal publications
  • A Novel Pump for MEMS Applications, M. Sen, D. Wajerski and M. Gad-el-Hak, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 624-627, 1996.
  • Flow and Load Characteristics of Microbearings with Slip, J. Maureau, M.C. Sharatchandra, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 7, pp. 55-64, 1997.
  • Navier-Stokes Simulations of a Novel Viscous Pump, M.C. Sharatchandra, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 119, No. 2, pp. 372-382, 1997.
  • New Approach to Constrained Shape Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms, M.C. Sharatchandra, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 51-61, 1998.
  • Analysis of Viscous Micropumps and Microturbines, D. DeCourtye, M. Sen and M. Gad-el-Hak, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 10, pp. 13-25, 1998.
• Numerical and experimental methods:
  Journal publications
• A Multilevel Wavelet Collocation Method for Solving Partial Differential Equations in a Finite Domain, O.V. Vasilyev, S. Paolucci and M. Sen, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 120, pp. 33-47, 1995.
• Characteristics of Hot-Wire Microsensors for Time-Dependent Wall Shear Stress Measurements, L. Löfdahl, V, Chernoray, S. Haasl, G. Stemme and M. Sen, submitted to Experiments in Fluids.

Theses and dissertations

• Master's theses
  • Non-Linear Interaction between Shallow Water Waves, J.L. Samaniego, 1978.
  • Characteristics of Circular Jets, E. Rincon, 1981.
  • Approximate Stability Analysis for a Cylindrical Falling Film, F.J. Solorio, 1982.
  • Maximum Cyclonic Wind Speeds, J. Sánchez-Sesma, 1985.
  • Starting Characteristics of Round Jets, J. Hernández, 1987.
  • Analysis of Flow over Fixed and Rotatable Cylinder-Splitter Plate Body, J.C. Xu, 1990.
  • Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flow Past a Freely Rotatable Square Cylinder (Co-Director), T.G. Zaki, 1991.
  • A Two-Dimensional Model for an Evaporative Falling Film with Deposition, M. Núñez, 1994.
• PhD dissertations
  • Linear Stability of a Cylindrical Falling Film of Liquid: Theoretical and Experimental Study, F.J. Solorio, 1989.
  • Mathematical Modeling of Thermocompressive and Thermoacoustic Machines (Co-Director), D. Omari, 1996.
  • Study of External Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Single-Row Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers, R. Romero-Méndez, 1998.