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 Prof. Farzad Mashayek University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
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| Title: Processing Signals Generated from Computer Simulations of Turbulent Flows | |
| Abstract:
Turbulent flows are ubiquitous in natural phenomena and technological applications, such as severe storms around the world and combustion in jet engines. Understanding and prediction of turbulence has remained one of the longest-standing, unsolved problems in science, despite nearly two centuries of widespread research. This is primarily due to the tremendous variations in flow properties in both time and space. Supercomputers are now routinely used to simulate and predict turbulent flows using hundreds and thousands of processors in parallel. One of the main difficulties associated with such large-scale simulations is the huge amount of data that needs to be processed in order to provide useful information for practical applications, e.g. outlet pressure distribution in a nozzle. This talk discusses novel ideas for processing flow signals (velocity, pressure, temperature, etc.) when dealing with gigabytes and even petabytes of data generated from massively parallel simulations of turbulent flows.
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| Biography:
Farzad Mashayek received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mashayek’s research interests are in the areas of turbulent combustion, plasma, electrostatic atomization and solid-ion batteries. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mashayek has received the CAREER award form the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He has organized and hosted multiple conferences and technical sessions in the areas related to turbulent reacting flows.
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