Recent Research Projects of AEM Professors

For more detailed information on some of these projects, please see our Department's research page.

Advanced Research Projects Agency

Parallel Scalable Libraries for Large-Scale Applications
A. Sameh, L. Petzold, Y. Saad & Tayfun Tezduyar

American Chemical Society

Control of Particle-Laden Flows with Ceramic Actuators
Ellen Longmire

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Active Thin Films
Richard James & Mitchell Luskin

Analysis, Design, and Computation of Active Materials
Richard James &
Mitchell Luskin

Application of Linear Parameter Varying Control Methods to Aerospace Systems (with CalTech)
Gary Balas

Magnetostriction of Martensite
Richard James

Measurement of Vibrational Nonequilibrium Reaction Rates (with CalTech)
Graham Candler

Robust Nonlinear Control Theory as the Applications to Aerospace Vehicles (with CalTech)
Gary Balas

Simulation of Turbulent Hypersonic Flows
Graham Candler

Army Research Laboratory

Army High Performance Computing Research Center
Tayfun Tezduyar

Army High Performance Computing Research Center

Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling
Tayfun Tezduyar

High Performance Computation of Compressible Flows, Turbulent Flows
Graham Candler

Army Research Office

Advanced Methods for Interceptor Flow Simulations
Graham Candler

Aerodynamic Dissemination (Shock Tube)
Daniel Joseph & Gordon Beavers

Break-up of Viscoelastic Liquids in High-Speed Air Flow
Daniel Joseph

Finite Element Computation of the Dynamics of Large Ram Air Parachutes
William Garrard & Tayfun Tezduyar

New HPC Techniques for Finite Element Simulation of Large Ram Air Parachutes
Tayfun Tezduyar & William Garrard

Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasmas (with Stanford University)
Graham Candler

Simulation of Nonequilibrium AeroThermo Chemistry Using
Continuum and Particle Methods
Graham Candler

Simulation of TMD Flowfields
Graham Candler

Three Problems in Fluid Dynamics
Daniel Joseph

Two-Phase Flows of Rheologically Complex Fluids
Daniel Joseph

Virtual Fluid-Object Interaction Laboratory (Army/DURIP)
Tayfun Tezduyar and Andrew Johnson

Baylor College of Medicine

Respiratory System Mechanics
Theodore Wilson

Center for Interfacial Engineering

Modeling of Articular Cartilage
Perry H.Leo

Electric Power Research Institute

Particle-Turbulence Interactions Near Walls
Ellen Longmire

The Hoechst-Celanese Company


Study of Spinning Rod Interfacial Tensionometer used to Measure Polymer Bands Daniel Joseph

Minnesota Department of Trasportation

Automated Route Planning and Optimizing Software
Maria Gini and Yiyuan Zhao

Dynamics and Stability of Capsules in Pipeline Transportation
Yiyuan Zhao and Daniel Joseph

System Design in Pipeline Transportation
Yiyuan Zhao, Thomas Lundgren and Daniel Joseph

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Aeroacoustics in Turbulent High-Speed Jets (Ames)
Thomas Lundgren

Aircraft Scheduling and Conflict Resolution in Air Traffic Management (Ames)
Yiyuan Zhao

Computational Methods for Simulation of Hypersonic Re-Entry Flows (Langley)
Graham Candler

Economic Analysis of a Mach 4 Transport (Langley)
William Garrarand and Andrew Vano

Finite Element Computation of Compressible Flows with Particular Emphasis on Blunt Geometrics, Wake Flows, and Unsteady Behavior (Johnson)
Tayfun Tezduyar

Large Scale Turbulent Structure in Supersonic Jets (Ames)
Thomas Lundgren

The Minnesota Space Grant College Consortium (NASA Headquarters)
William Garrard

Nonlinear Fedback Control of Aircraft Propulsion Systems (Lewis)
William Garrard and Gary Balas

Optimal Takeoff Procedures for Category A. Helicopters (Ames)
Yiyuan Zhao

Parallel 3D Computation of Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interactions of Ram-Air Parachutes (Johnson)
Tayfun Tezduyar

Robust System Identification and Validation for Control (Langley)
Gary Balas

Studies of Trajectory Synthesis Methods and Trajectory Sensitivity in Air Traffic Management (Ames)
Yiyuan Zhao

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH)

Respiratory Action of the Intercostal Muscles
Theodore Wilson

National Science Foundation

Cavitation in a Flowing Liquid
Daniel Joseph

Direct Simulation of the Motion
of Particles in Flowing Liquid
Daniel Joseph & Ahmed Sameh

Engineering Research Equipment: Drum Camera and Holography
Gordon Beavers, Daniel Joseph & Ellen Longmire

Experimental, Analytical and Computational Study of Nematic Optical Elastomers
Richard James

Experiments in Particle-Laden and Buoyancy Driven Flows
Ellen Longmire

Interfaces with Structure: Kinetics, Nucleation, Microstructures, Topological Transactions
Lev Truskinovsky

Loss of Coherence and Formation of Incoherent Structures at Crystalline Interfaces
Perry Leo

Measurements of Crack Tip and Microstructural Strains in Single Crystals
Thomas Shield

Modeling of Disperse Multiphase Flows
Tayfun Tezduyar

Nonlinear Control of Systems with Relative Equilibria
Thomas Posbergh

Nonlocal Models in the Mechanics of Materials
Roger Fosdick

Numerical Methods for Very Large, Sparse Dynamical Systems
Daniel Boley (CSCI) & Gary Balas

Robust Structural Control for Hazard Mitigation Using Probable and Possible Models
Gary Balas & William Garrard

Studies of Two-Phase Flows of Solids and Liquids
Daniel Joseph & Thomas
Lundgren

Transitions and Defects in Ordered Materials
Richard James

Transitions and Defects in Ordered Materials
Richard James & Mitchell Luskin

Undergraduate Internship in High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics
Tayfun Tezduyar & D. Truhlar

Office of Naval Research

Basic Research on the Improvement of Magnetostrictive and Shape Memory Alloys
Richard James & Thomas Shield

Novel High Performance
Magnetoferro-Elastic Actuators (with DARPA)
Richard James & Thomas Shield

Packard Fellowship
Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Amy Alving

The Pillsbury Company
Rheology of Bread Dough

Daniel Joseph

Syncrude LTD of Canada

Lubricated Pipeline of Bitumen Froth
Daniel Joseph

Pipeline Transportation of Bitumen-Froth in Core-Annular Flow Mode
Daniel Joseph


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