MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Education:

• Ph.D., 1987, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
• M. Eng. 1982, Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• B. Eng. 1980, Mechanical Engineering (Honors), McGill University.

Professional Experience:

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
  August 2003 - Present
• Research Fellow, National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Hampton, VA
  January 2003 - August 2003
• Research Fellow, ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
  February 1997 - December 2002
• Staff Scientist, ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
  February 1987 - January 1997
• Research Engineer: Syncrude Canada, Edmonton Alberta, Canada,
  May 1982-August 1983
• Consultant to Aerospace Industry in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Research Interests:

Our research is concerned with the development of unstructured mesh methods for computational fluid dynamics. These include discretization methods, solution methods such as multigrid and implicit methods for steady-state and time-accurate simulations, unstructured grid generation techniques and adaptive and moving mesh strategies. We are also interested in design optimization methods, and the efficient solution of coupled fluid-structural problems. All these efforts are performed in a parallel computing environment. The application areas include aerodynamics of commercial aircraft and business jets, and unsteady aeroelastic effects.

Selected Publications:

• Analysis of ``p''-Multigrid for Continuous and Discontinuous Finite Element Discretizations by B. Helenbrook, D. J. Mavriplis, and H. L. Atkins. AIAA Paper 2003-3989 presented at the 16th AIAA CFD Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2003.
• Drag Prediction Using Unstructured Mesh Solvers, D. J. Mavriplis VKI Lecture Notes, CFD-Based Aircraft Drag Prediction and Reduction, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium, February 2003.
• An Assessment of Linear versus Non-Linear Multigrid Methods for Unstructured Mesh Solvers, by D. J. Mavriplis, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 175, pp. 302-325, January 2002.
• Large Eddy and Detached Eddy Simulations using an Unstructured Multigrid Solver, by D. J. Mavriplis, J. Pelaez and O. Kandil, Proc. of the 3rd AFOSR Int. Conf. on DNS/LES, Arlington, TX, August 2001, eds. C. L. Liu, L. Sakell, and T. Beutner.
• Large-Scale Parallel Unstructured Mesh Computations for 3D High-Lift Analysis by D. J. Mavriplis and S. Pirzadeh, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol 36, No. 6, 1999, pp. 987-998.
• Unstructured Grid Techniques, by D. J. Mavriplis, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics,1997, 29:473-514
• Unstructured Mesh Generation and Adaptivity, by D. J. Mavriplis, VKI Lecture Series VKI-LS 1995-02 Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium 1995.
• Multigrid Techniques for Unstructured Meshes, by D. J. Mavriplis, VKI Lecture Series VKI-LS 1995-02, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium 1995.