CEAS Faculty Publications – Spring 2009

The following list (no doubt incomplete) shows recent conference and journal publications for the faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This gives you some idea of the breadth of our researchers’ work. The data was gathered from searches in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, as well as scanning as many faculty CVs as I had time for yesterday. I would like to congratulate all these fine researchers for their work.

Recent Faculty Publications – College of Engineering and Applied Sciences – Spring 2009

Ale, B. B., & Bade Shrestha, S. O. (2009). Introduction of hydrogen vehicles in kathmandu valley: A clean and sustainable way of transportation. Renewable Energy, 34(6), 1432-1437.

Bliznyuk, V., Singamaneni, S., Sahoo, S., Polisetty, S., He, X., & Binek, C. (2009). Self-assembly of magnetic ni nanoparticles into 1D arrays with antiferromagnetic order. Nanotechnology, 20(10), 105606.

Chavez, Hector Miguel, Wuwei Shen, & Shaoying Liu. (March 2009). An Approach to Detection of UML-Based Ownership Violation, Proceeding of ACM SAC 2009, Hawai, USA.

Chen, K. H., Johnson, J. P., Merati, P., & Leong, C. H. (2009). Investigation of buoyancy driven flow in a simplified full-scale underhood – numerical study. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 41, 75-99.

Dong, L. (April 2009). Turbo equalization with channel prediction and iterative channel estimation, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

Dong, L. (April 2009). Cooperative network localization via velocity estimation, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

Du, X., Guizani, M., Xiao, Y., & Chen, H. (2009). A routing-driven elliptic curve cryptography based key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks. Ieee Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(3), 1223-1229.

Fajardo, C., & Sick, V. (2009). Development of a high-speed UV particle image velocimetry technique and application for measurements in internal combustion engines. Experiments in Fluids, 46(1), 43-53.

Gustafson, P. A., & Waas, A. M. (2009). A bonded joint finite element for a symmetric double lap joint subjected to mechanical and thermal loads. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, published online 10 Feb 2009.

Gustafson, P. A., & Waas, A. M. (2009). The influence of adhesive constitutive parameters in cohesive zone finite element models of adhesively bonded joints. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 46(10), 2201-2215.

Jayatissa, A. H., Guo, K., Gupta, T., & Jayasuriya, A. C. (2009). Spin coating of transparent zinc oxide films using novel precursor. Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics, 20(6), 577-581.

Kim, H., Oh, J., & Jayakrishnan, R. (2009). Effects of user equilibrium assumptions on network traffic pattern. Ksce Journal of Civil Engineering, 13(2), 117-127.

Kujawski, D., & Sree, P. C. R. (2009). Generation and analysis of FCG data using a single specimen and K max-ΔK testing matrix. International Journal of Fatigue,

Lee, H. S., & O’Neill, A. T. (2009). Forced convection and nucleate boiling on a small flat heater in a rectangular duct: Experiments with two working fluids, a 50-50 ethylene glycol-water mixture, and water. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D-Journal of Automobile Engineering, 223(D2), 203-219.

Liou, W. W., Peng, Y., & Parker, P. E. (2009). Analytical modeling of capillary flow in tubes of nonuniform cross section. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 333(1), 389-399.

Liu, T., Liou, W. W., & Schulte, M. (2009). Aeroship: A hybrid flight platform. Journal of Aircraft, 46(2), 667-674.

Liu, T., J. Montefort, W.W. Liou, S. Pantula, Y. Yang, Q. Shams “Post-Stall flow control using a flexible fin on airfoil,”, 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-1106.

Lu, M., & Liou, W. W. (2009). New two-equation closure for rough-wall turbulent flows using the brinkman equation. AIAA Journal, 47(2), 386-398.

Lu, M., & W.W. Liou, “Numerical study of roughness effects on a NACA0012 airfoil using a new second-order closure of the rough wall layer modeling,” 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-0052.

Merati, P., Leong, C. H., Chen, K. H., & Johnson, J. P. (2009). Investigation of buoyancy driven flow in a simplified full scale underhood – PIV and temperature measurements

Pantula, S., M.-H. Lu, W.W. Liou, “Calculations of turbulent flow around airfoils with attached flexible fin using an immerse boundary method,”, 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-0721.

Shen, Wuwei, & Eric Wong: Flexible Aspect-Oriented Design Model Checking, Proceeding of APSEC, December 3-5, 2008, Beijing, China.

Shrestha, S. O., Bade, Wierzba, I., & Karim, G. A. (2009). Prediction of the extent of diluents concentrations in flammability limited gaseous fuel-diluent mixtures in air. Applied Thermal Engineering.

Sivaselvan, M. V., Reinhorn, A. M., Shao, X., & Weinreber, S. (2008). Dynamic force control with hydraulic actuators using added compliance and displacement compensation. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 37(15), 1785-1800.

Wang, J., Y. Fu, & L. Dong. (April 2009). Modeling of UHF voltage multiplier for radio-triggered wake-up circuit, in Proc. 10th Annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON).

Xiao, Y., Chen, H., Du, X., & Guizani, M. (2009). Stream-based cipher feedback mode in wireless error channel. Ieee Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(2), 622-626.

Yang, Z., Wang, C., Gupta, A., & Ivanĉić, F. (2009). Model checking sequential software programs via mixed symbolic analysis. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 14(1)

Zhao, D., & Yang, L. (2009). Incremental isometric embedding of high-dimensional data using connected neighborhood graphs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 31(1), 86-98.

New CEAS Faculty Members

I had the fortune to meet two new faculty members in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences today at the luncheon for new faculty. They are:

Dr. Sarah Shao – Civil and Construction Engineering

Dr. Peter Gustafson – Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Also, after two years as a research associate in the department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Dr. Upul Attanayake is returning as a tenture track faculty member.

Welcome Doctors Gustafson, Shao and Attanayake!

Information Literacy lecture – Thursday October 4th

This Thursday evening, I will be giving a lecture on “Information Literacy for Engineers” from 6:30-7:30pm in Lecture Room 3226 Kohrmann Hall, on the Main Campus of WMU. Topics covered will include definitions of information literacy, why it is necessary, where information fits in the engineering design process, and the types of engineering information sources that are out there. I hope you will either let your students know about this (if you are a faculty member) or stop by (if you are a student). This lecture is part of the College of Engineering program’s STEP lectures for first-year engineering students.

Engineering Opportunity Day – Thursday September 27

Next Thursday, September 27th, from 10am – 4pm, will be the 12th annual Engineering Opportunity Day at the Parkview Campus of CEAS.  This day-long event will provide an opportunity for undergraduates and graduate students to meet with representatives from engineering firms, corporations and government agencies and find out about internships and jobs in their respective fields.  This event is free and open to the public.  Students are encouraged to dress appropriately and to bring copies of their resumes.

This event is sponsored by the Stryker Corporation of Kalamazoo, and has been coordinated by Tracey Moon, the assistant director of Career and Student Employment Services at WMU.

Fiala’s CEAS e-News on Patten’s Wind Turbine

You can read Jerrie Fiala’s latest issue of CEAS e-News, detailing the coming dedication of John Patten’s new wind turbine, by going here and downloading it in PDF.  The issue to download for this news article is the September 11 issue.

Welcome Dr. Fajardo!!!

I just found out the other day that our College of Engineering and Applied Sciences has hired Dr. Claudia M. Fajardo as a new faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. She comes to us from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she just finished her PhD. She also got her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from WMU! She was named a recipient of the 2005 Yanmar/SAE Scholarship, and in addition, also received a Best Paper award from The Combustion Institute. Her research involves turbulence and internal combustion engines. The title of her PhD thesis at the University of Michigan was “Development and Application of a High-speed UV Particle Image Velocimetry Technique for Investigations in Internal Combusion Engines.” One of her publications includes an article in the January 2007 issue of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute: “Flow field assessment in a fired spray-guided spark-ignition direct-injection engine based on UV particle image velocimetry with sub crank angle resolution”, co-authored with Dr. Volker Sick at the University of Michigan. (You will need a subscription to ScienceDirect or to login with your BroncoNet ID and password to view this article.)

Welcome back to WMU Dr. Fajardo!!

John Patten’s Wind Turbine

As my wife and I were driving up Route 131 this past Saturday, on our way back home from our summer vacation, we noticed a tall, striking wind turbine near the Western Michigan University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences campus at Parkview. We both wondered if it had been there before we left, as we did not remember it. Well, we were right, it is a new feature of the Parkview landscape.

There is a front-page article on WMU Professor John Patten’s new wind turbine in the Monday, August 13, 2007 issue of the Kalamazoo Gazette. The article by Paula M. Davis (pdavis@kalamazoogazette.com) is entitled “Professor funds WMU wind turbine” and briefly discusses this new project. Professor Patten has sunk over $10,000 of his own money into this project to promote this clean, green method of energy production. I hope that our CEAS engineering students will take this as inspiration to delve into this way of power generation. Kudos to Dr. Patten for taking this step (and putting his own money on the line as well).

The article is still available for the next week or so on the MLive Kalamazoo Gazette site, and then you’ll have to try to access it via Interlibrary Loan or by getting your hands on a copy of the paper. There are two photos in the print edition that show you what the turbine looks like.