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Research Professor

Location:
Round Rock, TX
Posted:
May 17, 2023

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Abdollah (Abi) Arabshahi, Ph.D.

Personal Data:

Citizenship: United States

Phone: 423-***-****

E-Mail: ************@*****.***

Professional Preparation:

Mississippi Sate University Starkville, MS Civil Engineering B.S. 1982 Mississippi Sate University Starkville, MS Aerospace Engineering M.S. 1985 Mississippi Sate University Starkville, MS Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. 1989 Appointments:

Research Specialties:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Unsteady Viscous Flow Applications

• Structured and Unstructured Grid Technologies

• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

• Internal and External Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics

• Computational Bio-Fluid Dynamics

Areas of expertise:

• Advanced experience in code development and validation of viscous flow solvers for flow around complex configurations

• Advanced experience in CFD simulations with the Reynolds-AverageNavier-Stokes (RANS) and commerical pre- and post-processing software Pointwise, Tecplot and Fieldview

2005 - 2023 Research Professor

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

2002 – 2005 Associate Research Professor

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

1998 – 2002 Senior Research Associate

Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University 1996 – 1998 Research Engineer II, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NSF/ ERC for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University 1991 - 1996 Research Engineer I, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NSF/ ERC for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University 1989 – 1991 Post-doctoral Fellow, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NSF/ ERC for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University

• Advanced experience in viscous flow simulations around complex configurations in wide range Mach Numbers; subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight regimes, and aerothermal applications.

• Advanced skills and experience in Structured and unstructured grid generation for complex configurations

• Advanced experience with vehicle stability and control, hydrodynamic, and aerodynamic

• Proficient in Fortran 90/95 programming and some experience programming with C/C++, Python, and MATLAB.

Academic Activities:

• Taught ENCM 5500 course; Practicum in Structured and Unstructured Flow Solver Development

• Mentoring and advising students involved in research associated with the UT SimCenter, monitoring student progress, as well as instruction regarding the use and implementation of UT SimCenter research codes

• Supervised and mentoring 74 undergraduate students involved in their undergraduate research associated with the UT SimCenter. This included both the monitoring of the students' progress as well as instruction regarding the use and implementation of the UT SimCenter research software. This is contingent to the students' becoming familiar with the research component of our graduate program

• Committee member for five Master’s degree students and three Doctoral candidates

• Advised students involved in sponsored research conducted at the CFD Laboratory/Mississippi State University, provided instruction regarding use and implementation of research codes, monitored student progress

• Assisted in teaching graduate level course, CFD II (ASE 8423)

• Supervised Master’s degree candidate at the Air Force Institute of Technology

• Supervised project efforts of two high school students from the Mississippi School for Math and Science

• (MSMS) in the Super Quest competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Professional Activities:

• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor society), Member

• Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society), Member

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Member

• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member

• American Society of Naval Engineers, Member

• Member of Graduate Faculty

• Digital Twin Research Thrust Lead / UTC - SimCenter

• Trained scientists at UTC in computational field modeling and simulations, high performance scientific computing and simulations

• Work with Dr. Tony Skjellum (SimCenter/Computer Science) on the NNSA/DOE PSAAP III Program and Center. Funded R&D on high performance applications in CFD and multiphysics codes. Working on novel algorithms relevant to Los Alamos National Laboratory Exascale Simulations, in particular.

• Collaborative research with Dr. Jin Wang (Mathematics) on development of an in-house computational framework to incorporate CFD into the within-host viral kinetics modeling

• Collaborate with faculty/researchers with different backgrounds and interests, including mechanical, mathematics, computer science, bio-engineering, physics and chemical engineering

• Collaborative research with Dr. Dan E. Olson (Professor of Medicine, University of Toledo College of Medicine, MD, PhD, DIC) to develop numerical simulations which incorporates the physical properties of large spittle droplets within the expectoration under a spectrum of forceful exhalations to assess the suspected fine aerosol development at the edges of the cough jet

• Collaborative research with Dr. Jigme Sethi, MD (Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at UTCOM- Erlanger Hospital and Health System) to develop a computational tool that accept CT scans of actual patients and provide a numerical modeling of their lung function and enhance the capability of the in-house computational tool to estimate particle deposition in all regions of the respiratory tract for any aerosol respired at any pattern

• Collaborative research with Drs. Dr. Morgan Smith (Anthropology) and Boris Belinskiy

(Mathematics) on application of a numerical model of low-frequency acoustic wave interaction with stone tools and development of a code for simulating this interaction to identify submerged pre-contact archaeological sites

• Collaborative research with Dr. Ashley Manning-Berg (Biology, Geology and Environmental Science) to develop and perform numerical modeling that will predict the range of preserved microbial morphologies given a specific length of time that the microbes were exposed to decomposition

• Collaborative research with Dr. Stephanie DeVries (Biology, Geology and Environmental Science) and Dr. Jejal Reddy Bathi (Chemical and Civil Engineering) to study the transport behavior of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) colloids and their influence on the transport of engineered nanoparticles (NP) and select pharmaceuticals through groundwater. Reviewer:

• AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

• Mathematical and Computer Modeling Journal

• Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

• Journal of Biomechanical Engineering,

• International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Applications (IJMEA)

• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

• Journal of Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

• Journal of Aerospace Science and Technology (JAST)

• Digital Twins in Production Engineering and High-Performance Computing Education Workshop, December 3rd & 4th, 2020

Book:

Whitfield, D. L., Taylor, L. K., Beddhu, M., and Arabshahi, A., "Discretized Newton- Relaxation Solution of the Three-Dimensional Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations," Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Chapter 28, pp. 575-594, D. A. Caughey and M. M. Hafez, Editors, ISBN 0-471-95334-2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1994. Publications and Presentations:

1. Arabshahi, A. and Azarnoosh, J. “Numerical simulation of the airflow in the human respiratory system for various environmental," submitted to the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, January 2023.

2. Arabshahi, A., Ranjan, R. and Johnston, T., “Simulation of a particle-laden turbulent channel flow using an improved Eulerian-Lagrianan model,” submitted to the Journal of Physics of Fluids- American Institute of Physics (AIP), December 2022. 3. Arabshahi, A., “Computational Simulation of the Aerothermal Environment of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles,” AIAA-2021-1075, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, January 11-15, 2021.

4. Gannod, G., Skjellum, A., Ghafoor, S., Arabshahi, A., Davis, K. and Morris, M., “Digital Twins in Engineering Education: A Needs Analysis,” the 2021 Frontiers in Education Conference, Lincoln, NE, October 13-16, 2021.

5. Johnston, T., Ranjan, R., and Arabshahi, A., “Effects of Subgrid Dispersion Modeling on the Statistics of Particle-Laden Turbulent Separating/Reattaching Flows," the UTC Technology Symposium, April 2021.

6. Arabshahi, A.; Palchoudhury, S.;“Computational Fluid Dynamic Approach for Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Au Nanoparticles for COVID-19” the American Chemical Society-Engineering Au, January 2021.

7. Boutchuen, A., Zimmerman, D., Arabshahi, A., and Palchoudhury, S., “A Novel In Vitro Computational and Experimental Analysis of Nanoparticle Flow using Hydrogel Channels,” Accepted to the Journal of Nanomaterials, September 2020, (in press)

8. Boutchuen, A., Zimmerman, D., Arabshahi, A., Melnyczu, K. J. and Palchoudhury, S.,

“Understanding Nanoparticle Flow with a New In Vitro Experimental and Computational Approach using Hydrogel Channels,” Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Volume 11, February 2020, Pages 296-309.

9. Azarnoosh, J., Sreenivas, K., Arabshahi, A., “Numerical Simulation of Tidal Breathing Through the Human Respiratory Tract,” ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Paper No: BIO-19-1194, 2020.

10. Palchoudhury, S., Arabshahi, A., Gharge, U., Albattah, A., George, O., and Foster, Y., “Integrated Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach for Nanoparticle Flow Analysis,” the Journal Physics Letters A, Volume 383, Issue 14, May 2019, Pages 1615-1621. 11. Boutchuen, A., Zimmerman, D., Aich, N., Masud, A.M., Arabshahi, A., and Palchoudhury, S.,

“Increased Plant Growth with Hematite Nanoparticle Fertilizer Drop and Determining Nanoparticle Uptake in Plants Using Multimodal Approach,” the Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2019, Article ID 6890572, June 2019.

12. Arabshahi, A., Palchoudhury, S., “Computational fluid dynamic modeling to predict the transport of nanoparticle drugs,” the Journal Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing, September 2018. 13. Palchoudhury, S., Jungjohann, K., Weerasena, L., Arabshahi, A., Gharge, U., Albattah, A., Miller, J., Patel, K., Holler, R., “Enhanced Legume Root Growth with Pre-soaking in α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticle Fertilizer,” RSC Advances (2018, 8, 43, 240**-*****) 14. Palchoudhury, S., Arabshahi, A., Gharge, U., Boutchuen, A., Foster, Y., Zimmerman, D.; Alresheedi, H.,“A new class of integrated chalcogenide nanocrystals and thin films for solar cell applications,” TMS 2019 148th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, March 2019 15. Palchoudhury, S., Arabshahi, A., Foster, Y., Gharge, U., Boutchuen, A., “Synthesis and size analysis of DNA conjugated bio-hybrid nanostructures,” Materials Research Society Fall Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2018.

16. Hasbestan, J.J., Newman III, J.C., and Arabshahi, A., “Pleasingly Parallel Discontinuous Least Squares Spectral Element Method for Laminar Incompressible Flows with H-Refinement," presented at the 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2017.

17. Azarnoosh, J., Sreenivas, K., Arabshahi, A., “CFD Investigation of Human Tidal Breathing through Human Airway Geometry,” Procedia Computer Science, Vol.80, pp. 965-976, 2016. 18. Hasbestan, J.J., Newman III, J.C., and Arabshahi, A., "PLEASINGLY PARALLEL MATRIX FREE DISCONTINUOUS LEAST-SQUARES SPECTRAL ELEMENT ALGORITHM FOR FLUID FLOW WITH NONCONFORMAL ELEMENT REFINEMENT," FEDSM2016-7510, ASME 2016 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Washington, DC, July 10-14, 2016. 19. Azarnoosh, J., Sreenivas, K., Arabshahi, A., “CFD Investigation of Human Tidal Breathing through Human Airway Geometry,” International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), San Diego, California, June 6-8, 2016.

20. Hasbestan, J.J., Newman III, J.C., and Arabshahi, A., "Least Squares Spectral Element Method For Laminar Compressible Flows," AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech 2016) San Diego, California, January 4-8, 2016.

21. Gruetzemacher, R., Arabshahi, A."Effects of Inhalation Transience on Particle Transport Through a CT-Based Human Airway Geometry," IMECE2015-52606, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, Houston, TX, November 13-19, 2015. 22. Gruetzemacher, R., Arabshahi, A., and Sreenivas, K., "Effects of Inhalation Transcience on Flow Structures during Numerical Simulation of Airflow through a CT-Based Airway Geometry," Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C), Snowbird Resort, Utah, June 17-20, 2015.

23. Gruetzemacher, R., Arabshahi, A., and Sreenivas, K., "Numerical Simulation of Airflow in a CT- based Human Airway Model With Physiologically Appropriate Boundary Conditions," Poster Presentation within the Respiratory Bioengineering Track, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 2014

24. Hasbestan, J.J., Newman III, J.C., and Arabshahi,A., "A New Approach to Mesh Adaptation Procedure Using Linear Elasticity for Geometries Undergoing Large Displacements," FEDSM2014-22010, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and 11th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Chicago, Illinois, August 2014.

25. Gruetzemacher, R., Arabshahi, A., and Sreenivas, K., "Simulation of Airflow and Particle Deposition in the Lungs," Poster Presentation, 2014 UT Institute of Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Knoxville, TN, April 2014.

26. Arabshahi, A., Taylor, L., and Whitfield, D. L., "Computation of Dynamic Stability and Control Derivative," AIAA 2011-3348, 29th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference 27-30 June 2011, Hawaii, Hawaii.

27. Arabshahi, A., Webster, R. S., Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., and Whitfield, D. L., “Numerical Simulation of Reacting and Non-reacting Nozzle Flows,” AIAA-2009-4858, the 45th AIAA/ASME/ SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Denver, CO, August, 2009. 28. Arabshahi, A., Sreenivas, K., Nichols, D.S., Mitchell, B. C. J., Taylor, L. K., and Whitfield, D. L.,

"Computational Analysis of Turbulent Internal Flow in Ballistic Solid Rocket Motors,"AIAA-2007-1449, the 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007.

29. Arabshahi, A., Webster, R. S., Briley, W. R., and Whitfield, D. L., "Numerical Analysis of Solid Propellant Rocket Motor Internal Flows,"AIAA-2006-5114, the 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Sacramento, CA, July 9-12, 2006. 30. Arabshahi, A., Janus, J. M., "A Multiblock Compressible Navier-Stokes Flow Solver Applied to Complex Launch Vehicles," AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 469-472, May-June 2004.

31. Arabshahi, A., Gibeling H. J., "Computational Hydrodynamics for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Moving Control Surfaces, "FEDSM2002-31428, ASME 2002 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2002. 32. Arabshahi, A., Tangirala, S., Dzielski, J. E., Gibeling H. J., "CFD Based Prediction of Stability and Control Derivatives for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” the 8th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2002. 33. Arabshahi, A., Boger, D. A., Lindau, J. L., Zajaczkowski, F. J., " CFD Validation and Development for CCAT Design Analysis," the CCAT board, ONR PMS 415, Applied Research Laboratory, State College, PA, February 2002.

34. Arabshahi, A., Gibeling H. J., "Numerical Simulation of Viscous Flows about Underwater Vehicles," OCEANS 2000 MTS/IEEE Conference & Exhibition, Providence, RI, September 2000. 35. Arabshahi, A., Janus, J. M., "A Multiblock Compressible Navier-Stokes Flow Solver Applied to Complex Launch Vehicles," AIAA-99-3378, the 14th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 28-July 1 1999.

36. Arabshahi, A., Gibeling H. J., "Computational Hydrodynamics for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," the 4th Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations & Computational Simulations, May 1999.

37. Arabshahi, A., et. al., "A Perspective on Naval Hydrodynamic Flow Simulations," The 22nd Naval Hydrodynamics Program, August 1998.

38. Beddhu, M., Jiang, M. Y., Whitfield, D. L., Taylor, L. K., and Arabshahi, A., "CFD Validation of the Free Surface Flow Around DTMB Model 5415 Using Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations," The 3rd Osaka Colloquium on Advanced CFD Applications to Ship Flow and Hull Form Design

(OC’98), May 1998.

39. Arabshahi, A., Beddhu, M., Briley, W.R., Chen, J.P., Gaither, A., Gaither, K., Janus, J.M., Jiang, M., Marcum, D., McGinley, J., Pankajakshan, R., Remotigue, M., Sheng, C., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L.K., and Whitfield, D.L., “A Perspective on Naval Hydrodynamic Flow Simulations,” Presented at the 22nd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Washington, D.C., August 9-14, 1998. 40. Beddhu, M., Jiang, M. Y.,Whitfield, D. L., Taylor, L. K. and Arabshahi, A., “CFD Validation of the Free Surface Flow Around DTMB Model 5415 Using Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations,” Third Osaka Colloquium on Advanced CFD Applications to Ship Flow and Hull Form Design, Osaka, Japan, May 25-27, 1998.

41. Beddhu, M., Jiang, M. Y., Whitfield, D. L., Taylor, L. K., and Arabshahi, A., "An Algorithm for Calculating Unsteady Free Surface Flows Around Complex Geometries Using Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes Equations." Journal of Computational Physics, April 1998. 42. Razzaghi, M., Arabshahi, A., and Lin, S. D., "Analysis of Linear Distributed Parameter Systems via Double Fourier Series," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 87, No. 2-3, pp. 205-215, 1997. 43. Beddhu, M., Jiang, M. Y., Whitfield, D. L., Taylor, L. K., and Arabshahi, A., "Computational Physical Oceanography - A Comprehensive Approach Based on Generalized CFD/Grid Techniques for Planetary Scale Simulations of Oceanic Flows,” MSSU-EIRS-ERC-97-5, March 1997. 44. Arabshahi, A., Whitfield, D. L., "Multiblock Euler Computation of Transonic Flow About A Generic Aircraft Configuration," International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 4, No. 3-4, pp. 307-321, 1995.

45. Arabshahi, A., Taylor, L. K., and Whitfield, D. L., “UNCLE - Toward A Comprehensive Time- Accurate Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flow Solver,” AIAA-95-0050, 33rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 9-12, 1995. 46. Taylor, L. K., Arabshahi, A., and Whitfield, D. L., "Unsteady Three-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Computations for a Prolate Spheroid Undergoing Time-Dependent Maneuvers," AIAA-95-0313, 33rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 9-12, 1995. 47. Razzaghi, M., Arabshahi, A., and Lin, S. D., "Identification of Nonlinear Differential Equations Via Fourier Series Operational Matrix for Repeated Integration," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 68, pp. 189-198, 1995.

48. Taylor, L. K., Busby, J. A., Jiang, M. Y., Arabshahi, A., Sreenivas, K., and Whitfield, D. L., "Time Accurate Incompressible Navier-Stokes Simulation of the Flapping Foil Experiment," Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Iowa City, Iowa, August 1993.

49. Cox, C. F., Cinnella, P., and Arabshahi, A., "Multi-Block Calculation for Flows in Local Chemical Equilibrium," AIAA-93-2999, 24th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, July 1993. 50. Pankajakshan, R., Arabshahi, A., and Whitfield, D. L., "Turbofan Flowfield Simulation Using Euler Equations With Body Forces," AIAA-98-1978, AIAA 29th Joint Propulsion Conference, Monterey, CA, June 1993.

51. Hammersley, J. R., Olson, D. E., Reddy, R. N., Arabshahi, A., Gatlin, B., “Computational Modeling of Airflow in the Smaller Airways,” American Thoracic and American Lung Association. May 1992. 52. Hammersley, J. R., Reddy, R. N., Arabshahi, A., “Computational Modeling of Airflow in the Smaller Airways.” Arkansas Computer Science Conference, April 1992. 53. Hammersley, J. R., Olson, D. E., Reddy, R. N., Arabshahi, A., and Gatlin, B., "Computational Modeling of Airflows in the Smaller Airways," American Review of Respiratory Diseases, Vol. 145, p. A32, April 1993.

54. Soni, B. K., Huddleston, D. H., Arabshahi, A., and Vu, B., "A Study of CFD Algorithms Applied to Complete Aircraft Configurations," AIAA-93-0784, the 31st AIA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1993.

55. Hammersley, J. R., Reddy, R. N., and Arabshahi, A., "Computational Simulation of Airflow within Human Lungs," Arkansas Computer Science Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 1992. 56. Hammersley, J. R., Olson, D. E., Reddy, R. N., Arabshahi, A., and Gatlin, B., "Computational Modeling of Airflows in the Smaller Airways," American Lung Association Conference, Miami Beach, FL, May 1992.

57. Arabshahi, A. and Whitfield, D. L., "Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Unsteady Flow for Multibody Configuration,” AIAA-91-0023, AIAA 29th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 1991.

58. Razzaghai, M. and Arabshahi, A., "Solutions of Convolution Integral and Fredholm Integral Equation Via Double Fourier Series," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 215-224, 1991.

59. Arabshahi, A. and Whitfield, D. L., "A Multiblock Approach to Solving the Three-Dimensional Unsteady Euler Equations About A Wing-Pylon-Store Configuration," AIAA-89-3401, AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Boston, MA, August 14-16, 1989. 60. Whitfield, D. L., Janus, M. J., and Arabshahi, A., "Unsteady Euler Solutions on Dynamic Grids for Complex Configurations," AGARD-CP-464, Loen, Norway, May 1989. 61. Arabshahi, A., "A Dynamic Multiblock Approach to Solving the Unsteady Euler Equations about Complex Configurations," Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1989. 62. Razzaghi, M. and Arabshahi, A., "Solutions of Linear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Via Polynomial Series,” International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 375-384, 1989. 63. Razzaghi, M., Tahai, A., and Arabshahi, A., "Solutions of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems via Fourier Series and Application to Optimal Control of Linear Systems," Journal of Franklin Institute, Vol. 326, No. 4, pp. 523-533, 1989.

64. Razzaghi, M. and Arabshahi, A., "Optimal Control of Linear Distributed Parameter Systems via Polynomial Series," International Journal of System Science, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 1141-1148, 1989. 65. Razzaghi, M. and Arabshahi, A., "Analysis of Linear Time-Varying Systems and Bilinear Systems Via Fourier Series," International Journal of Control, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 889-898, 1989. 66. Arabshahi, A., "Correlations for the Drag Coefficient of Blunt Circular Cylinders in Transonic Axial Flow," Master’s Thesis, May 1984.

Grants and Contracts:

1. Research proposal entitled, "Enhanced Eulerian-Lagrianan Formulation for Investigation of Turbulent Dispersed Multiphase flows," to the CEACSE THEC, PI, $92,911, July 1, 2020 to June 30,2021, funded.

2. Research proposal entitled, "COVID-19-Patient-Specific HPC Simulation of Pulmonary Airflow Structure and Aerosol Particles Transport/Deposition Patterns," to the IBM Faculty Award Technical Discovery, PI, $50,000, March 2021.

3. Research proposal white paper entitled, " High-Performance Numerical Simulation of Flow Structures and Transport/Deposition of Particles in Pulmonary Airways in Support of COVID-19 treatments in hospitalized and long-haul patients," the National Science Foundation’s Leadership Class Computing Facility (NSF’s LCCF), PI, $120,000 - $150,000 per year, February 26, 2021. 4. Research proposal entitled, "Decomposition Modeling of Microbial Mat Ecosystems to Quantify Earth's Early Fossil Record," the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $100,000, July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. 5. Research proposal entitled, "Three Birds With One Stone: Applying Numerical Modeling and Computer Simulations to Expedite Offshore Capital Development, Save Underwater Cultural Heritage, and Understand Past Climate Change,” the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $100,000, July 1, 2021,to June 30,2022.

6. Research proposal entitled, "Novel Point-of-Care Diagnostics for COVID-19 with Biohybrid Nanoparticles and Computational Fluid Dynamics,” the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $100,000, July 1, 2021 to June 30,2022.

7. UT Biomedical Research Initiation Collaborative Grants, "Computational Investigation of Region Aerosol Deposition in Realistic Human Airways," Co-PI, $24,920, January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020, funded.

8. Department of Energy (DOE), "PSAAP-III (FIC): Center for Understandable, Performant Exascale Communication Systems (CUP-ECS)," Senior Personnel, $1.3M (UTC portion), July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2025, funded.

9. Research proposal white paper entitled,"A Data-Driven Multi-Parameter Reduced Order Modeling Framework for Investigation of Hypersonic Systems," PI, $887,427, AFOSR # FOA-AFRL- AFOSR-2020, 05/01/2021 - 04/30/2024, not funded.

10. Research proposal entitled,"COVID-19-Relevant Computational Modeling of Human Respiratory Airways," PI, $1,222,244, PRMPR-IIRA-2020, DOD- Department of the Army, USAMRAA,10/01/2021 - 9/30/2025, not funded.

11. Research proposal entitled,"STOP COVID: Stopping Transmission Of airborne Pathogens in COnfined spaces Via Integrated Designs," Co-PI, $1,599,432, W81XWH-20-PRMPR-IIRA-COVID, DOD-Department of the Army, USAMRAA, 10/01/2021- 9/30/2025, not funded. 12. UT Biomedical Research Initiation Collaborative Grants, "Computational Investigation of Region Aerosol Deposition in Realistic Human Airways," Co-PI, $24,920, January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020, funded.

13. Department of Energy (DOE), "PSAAP-III (FIC): Center for Understandable, Performant Exascale Communication Systems (CUP-ECS)," Senior Personnel, $4,411,355, January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2024, funded.

14. National Science Foundation (NSF), “Collaborative Research: Software Engineering Workforce Development in High Performance Computing for Digital Twins,” Co-PI, $57,635, October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020, funded.

15. National Science Foundation (NSF), “RUI: Efficient Adaptive Backward SDE Methods for Nonlinear Filtering Problems,” PI, $42,269, August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020, funded. 16. Research proposal entitled, "A study on the local and global effects of polymer entanglement in material properties and biological functions," to the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $99,941, July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020, funded.

17. Research proposal entitled, "Experimental and numerical simulation of nanoparticle flow through hydrogel channels," to the UTC Faculty Grants, Co-PI, $1,500, May 25, 2019 to August 15, 2019, funded.

18. Research proposal entitled, "Hypersonic Vehicle Structures," Sub-contract from the University of Dayton Research Institute, Co-PI, $893,239, September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2020, funded.

19. Research proposal entitled, "Computational Modeling of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Sensitivity to Inflow Conditions," to the One UT Grant Competition, Co-PI, $49,368, February 3, 2020, funded.

20. Research proposal entitled, "Multifunctional rain barrel technology merging nanophoto catalysis and bioremediation," to the One UT Grant Competition, Co-PI, $49,632, February 3, 2020.

21. National Science Foundation (NSF)-Particulate and Multiphase Processes program,

“Coupled Computational and Experimental Approach to Understand the Flow of Nanodrugs,” PI, $300,000, April 2020.

22. National Science Foundation (NSF), “Collaborative Research: Software Engineering Workforce Development in High Performance Computing for Digital Twins,” Co-PI, $57,635, October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020; Funded

23. National Science Foundation (NSF), “RUI: Efficient Adaptive Backward SDE Methods for Nonlinear Filtering Problems,” PI, $42,269, August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020; Funded 24. Research proposal entitled, "Hypersonic Vehicle Structures," Sub-contract from the University of Dayton Research Institute, Co-PI, $893,239, September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2020; Funded 25. The UTC-Walker Center for Teaching and Learning, “Experimental and numerical simulation of nanoparticle flow through hydrogel channels,” Co-PI, $ 1500, May 25, 2019 to August 15, 2019; Funded.

26. National Science Foundation (NSF)-Particulate and Multiphase Processes program, “Coupled Computational and Experimental Approach to Understand the Flow of Nanodrugs,” Co-PI, $398,846, January 2019.

27. National Institute of Health-R15 Area Program, Methods and Technologies Branch, National Cancer Institute Division, Computational and Experimental Method for Flow of Nanoparticles, PI, $300,000, April 2019.

28. Research proposal entitled, "Computational Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Complex Flows through Bifurcating Networks with Applications to the Human Pulmonary System," to the CEACSE THEC, PI, $99,989, October 2018.

29. Research proposal entitled, "Computational Fluid Dynamic Approach for Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Au Nanoparticles," to the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $100,000, October 2018. 30. Research proposal entitled, "A study on the local and global effects of polymer entanglement in material properties and biological functions," to the CEACSE THEC, Co-PI, $99,941, October 2018. 31. The UC Foundation, "Advancing Computational Solvers for New Scientific Insights on the Path to ExaScale Computing," PI, $100,000, January 2018; Not Funded. 32. Tennessee Higher Education Commission Center of Excellence in Applied Computational Science and Engineering, "A Multiblock Multigrid Algorithm for the Three-Dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations," PI, $99,349, March 2018; Not Funded. 33. Tennessee Higher Education Commission Center of Excellence in Applied Computational



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