2016 ME Retreat - Overview of Fluid-Thermal Group
Group Members:
Andre Benard ( ) CFD, MultiPhase Flows
Giles Brereton () Engine, Heat Transfer, Turbulence
Abraham Engeda () Turbomachinary, energy systems
John Foss ( ) Experimental Fluids (retired)
Tong (Tony) Gao () CFD, active/soft particles
Farhad Jaberi () CFD, Turbulence, propulsion, energy
James F. Klausner ( ) Experimental MultiPhase Flows, Heat Transfer
Manoochehr Koochesfahani ( ) Experimental Fluids
Peter Lillehoj () Experienal Micro-Fluid
Norbert Mueller ( ) TurboMachinery, Refrigeration
Ahmed Naguib () Experimental Fluids
Harold Schock () Experiential Automotive-Energy
Rodney Tabaczynski ( ) Auto, engine, turbulence
Elisa Toulson () Experimental combustion, Auto, Energy
Indrek wichman () Combustion, energy
Neil Wright () Bio Thermal-Fluid
Junlin Yuan () CFD, Turbulence, rough wall
Mohsen Zayernouri ( ) CFD, applied Math
George Zhu () Control of Auto Systems
Rebecca Anthony () Experimental material processing, plasmas
Junghoon Yeom ( ) Nanomanufacturing, gas sensing, micro power
Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Group Focus and Research Interests:
The Fluid-Thermal group research is focused on:
· fundamentals of fluid mechanics
· heat/mass transfer, and
· thermodynamical
sciences and application of these sciences to practical engineering systems such as:
· internal combustion engines and alternative powertrain systems,
· turbomachinery and propulsion systems,
· alternative (biofuel, solar, wind, etc.) energy systems,
· material processing systems,
· biomedical and biological systems
Toenhanceitscompetitiveness and productivity,theFluid-Thermal group will:
a. Focusonestablished,wellperformingprogram(s)thatcanputtogetherlarge scaleresearchefforts:energyandautomotive, ???
b. ExpandinareasalignedwithcurrenteffortsintheCollege and University,particularlyin:
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus areas such as design and characterization of filters, waterless fast cooling and energyproduction, advanced sprays and low evaporation water irrigation and nutrition/pesticide delivery systems,………
- Low/zero “emission” transportation systems
- biomedical applications of fluid-thermal engineering such as MRI in multiphase flows, CFD-CSM of patient specific problems
- fluid-thermal engineering in composite material processing and other advanced manufacturing applications
- data science and high performance computing, and
- FRIB relevant fluid-thermal research such as rare isotope tracing.
c. Establish subgroups and target new resources(e.g.faculty lines, internal and local funding, student fellowship)toexpand the boundariesoftraditionalfluid-thermalengineering,focusingonareaswherewealreadyhaverelevantexpertisethatcanbeusedtobuildfurtherstrength (e.g. micro-nano fluid and heat transfer applications in sensors, freight activity such as truck aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions for soft material biological and artificial systems, efficient fluid-thermal methods for material processing and recycling, high speed propulsion, integrated computational manufacturing,…………..
Fluid-Thermal Graduate Education:
· Student Recruitment – assessing/predicting needs, reviewing applications, engaging potential students, ……
· Student research environment – quite space, lab culture,…..
· Enforcing quality – papers, seminars, qualifying exam, comprehensive exam,….
· Advertising/communicating our fluid-thermal research - inviting seminar speakers, tours of labs, internal/external student seminars, papers, websites
· Fluid-Thermal Curriculum management
Graduate Courses -
ME 800 Engineering Analysis
ME 810 Advanced Classical Thermodynamics
ME 811 Micro-Scale Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
ME 812 Conductive Heat Transfer
ME 814 Convective Heat Transfer
ME 819 Combustion
ME 830 Fluid Mechanics I
ME 832 Fluid Mechanics II
ME 834 Fundamentals of Turbulence
ME 835 Turbulence Modeling and Simulation
ME 836 Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics
ME 840 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
ME 842 Advanced Turbomachinery
ME 940 Selected Topics in Thermal Science
Undergrad Courses –
ME 201 Thermodynamics
ME 332 Fluid Mechanics
ME 433
ME 410 Heat Transfer
ME 412 Heat Transfer Laboratory
ME 416 Computer Assisted Design of Thermal Systems
ME 417 Design of Alternative Energy Systems
ME 422 Introduction to Combustion
ME 440 Aerospace Engineering Fundamentals
ME 442 Turbomachinery
ME 444 Automotive Engines
ME 445 Automotive Powertrain Design
ME 494 Biofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Suggestions made by fluid-thermal faculty:
· Some of Senior Level Undergraduate courses could be cross listed with introductory level graduate courses to increase enrollment and to attract MSU undergraduates to graduate program
· Offer more special-topic courses leading to new graduate courses. ME 940 should be replaced with a general Special Topics course in ME. This course will then be used by Fluid-Thermal Faculty to introduce new courses into program. Possible new graduate courses suggested: MultiPhase Flows (should be coordinated with Charles Petty in CHEMS), Advanced CFD, Alternative/Green Energy (could be cross listed with similar undergraduate course), Advanced Biofluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, etc.
· Conductive and Convective Heat Transfer Courses (ME 812 and 814) could be replaced by Heat Transfer I and II. These courses could include advanced topics in conduction, radiation and convection heat transfer as well as mass transfer, etc.
· Advanced Classical Thermodynamics and Combustion can be replaced with Thermodynamics I and II. Topics like Combustion, Mixture Thermodynamics could be included in Thermodynamics I and II.