Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mark Bryden

Associate Professor

2104 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-3891
e-mail: kmbryden@iastate.edu

Links
Personal Page
Virtual Reality Applications Center

Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1998
University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1993
Idaho State University, B.S., General Engineering, 1977

Areas of Interest

Teaching:

  • Cooperative learning
  • Undergraduate research as a teaching tool
  • Design engineering within the thermal- fluids systems curriculum
  • Teaching engineering in a studio environment.

Research:

Virtual engineering of fluids and heat transfer systems within collaborative, immersive, synthetic environments. My work in this area includes:
· Development of new computational algorithms based on the differential equations of fluid dynamics and heat transfer to support real-time engineering analysis and error bounding.
· Development of robust optimization and design tools for thermal systems described by high fidelity models (e.g. CFD and FEA).
· Development of an integrated hierarchy of models to permit the coupling of multiple high fidelity models (e.g. CFD and FEA), graphical representations, detailed system process models, and other plant information to create virtual power plants and other virtual engineering systems.
· Development of tools that facilitate access to these physics-based virtual systems for the performance of analysis, design, optimization, and other engineering tasks in a natural, intuitive, interactive, and user-centered manner.
Computational and experimental study of flame spread and ignition over various charring materials, computational modeling of biomass and co-fired combustion systems, and computational modeling and design of small biomass cookstoves.
 

Recent Publications

A. C. Velivelli and K. M. Bryden, A Cache-Efficient Implementation of the Lattice-Boltzmann Method, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, accepted for publication.

S. McCorkle, K. M. Bryden, and C. G. Carmichael, A New Methodology for Evolutionary Optimization of Energy Systems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 192(44-46):5021-5036 (2003).

K. M. Bryden and M. J. Hagge, Modeling the Combined Impact of Moisture and Char Shrinkage on the Pyrolysis of a Biomass Particle, Fuel, 82(13):1633-1644 (2003).

K. M. Bryden, D. A. Ashlock, D. S. McCorkle, and G. L. Urban, Optimization of Heat Transfer Utilizing Graph Based Evolutionary Algorithms, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 24(2):267-277 (2003).

M. Hagge and K. M. Bryden, Modeling the Impact of Shrinkage on the Pyrolysis of Dry Biomass, Chemical Engineering Science, 57(14):2811-2823 (2002).