Simulation and Visualization

Faculty Contact: Professor Song-Charng Kong

The simulation and visualization program investigates advanced computational and experimental techniques to understand and predict physical phenomena, as well as unique image rendering methods to enhance the interpretation of complex systems and data sets. This program develops and advances simulation and visualization capabilities and applies them in a societal context. One goal is to enable scenarios for products or processes to be altered and tested in a virtual environment before any physical models are created. Such capability will significantly reduce the time and cost associated with product development, while improving the accuracy, efficiency, and robustness of a product or manufacturing process.

Associated Faculty

	Mark Bryden Virtual Reality Applications Center Development of the computational tools, algorithms, understandings, and strategies needed to analyze, understand, create, design, and build complex engineered, natural, or human system. Personal Page
	Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Computational Physics and Mechanics Laboratory Computational physics, computational mechanics (fluid mechanics and heat transfer), stochastic analysis, uncertainty quantification and propagation, multiscale modeling, control and optimization of complex systems, materials-by-design, and parallel computing and inverse problems. Personal Page
	Ted Heindel Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory The Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory investigates hydrodynamics and mixing in gas-liquid, gas-solid, and gas-liquid-solid systems using X-ray flow visualization techniques, as well as gas-liquid mass transfer. Personal Page
	Song-Charng Kong Engine Laboratory Clean Energy Technology, Biofuel Research Personal Page
	Greg Luecke Laboratory of Advanced Robotics and Computer Control Robotics and control, Multibody dynamics and simulation, Artificial neural networks for control Personal Page
	Terry Meyer Biorenewable Fuels and Combustion Laboratory Laser imaging and spectroscopy for multiphase reacting flows, combustion, and nanoenergetics. Development and utilization of biorenewable fuels, biomass pyrolysis, and biopower. Power and propulsion, gas-turbines, scramjets, hypersonic vehicles, and internal combustion engines Personal Page
	Jim Oliver Design and manufacturing process automation using:, Geometric modeling, Computer graphics, Visualization, Simulation, Optimization, Virtual reality, Human computer interaction Personal Page
	Mike Olsen Experimental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Microelectromechanical Systems Personal Page
	Shankar Subramaniam Spray modeling, Modeling and simulation of gas-particle flows, granular flows, Combustion, Turbulent reactive flows, Mixing, Stochastic models, particle methods, Computational fluid dynamics Personal Page
	Judy Vance Virtual Reality applications in mechanical engineering including virtual assembly, virtual manufacturing and mechanism synthesis; optimization; fundamentals of engineering design including design ideation and concept generation. Personal Page
	Xinwei Wang Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Science Laboratory Thermal transport in micro/nanoscale materials (thin films, coatings, nanowires, and nanotubes): novel technique development for thermal conductivity measurement, the effect of material structure on its thermophysical properties Personal Page
	Eliot Winer Internet Technology for Large-Scale Collaborative Design, Medical Imaging, Analysis, and Visualization, Multidisciplinary Design Synthesis, Computer Aided Design and Graphics, Applications in Optimal Design, Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality Modeling for Large-Scale Design. Personal Page
	Song Zhang 3D Machine Vision Laboratory Three-dimensional optical metrology, machine and computer vision, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, nondestructive evaluation, and biometrics. Personal Page