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| Biography: | David Thompson is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He is also an Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems and the lead of the Computational Fluid Dynamics group. Prior to joining the academic faculty, he was a member of the research faculty at the Engineering Research Center. His previous related experience includes time on the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington and in industry at General Dynamics/Ft. Worth Divsion (now Lockheed Martin).
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| Research Interest: | Vortex dominated flows including unsteady flows, analysis of large computational fluid dynamics data sets using automated feature-detection and characterization techniques, automated mesh generation emphasizing the use of general polyhedral elements and solution adaptive meshing, fluid dynamics of biological systems, and aircraft icing, predicting both ice accretion and icing effects
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| Publications: | Soni, B., & Thompson, D. (2012). Effects of Temporally-Varying Inlet Conditions on Flow and Particle Deposition in the Small Bronchial Tubes. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 28(9), 915-936. DOI:10.1002/cnm.2472. [Abstract]
Walters, K., Burgreen, GW, Lavallee, D. M., Thompson, D., & Hester, R. L. (2011). Efficient, Physiologically Realistic Lung Airflow Simulations. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Letters: Special Issue on Multi-Scale Modeling and Analysis for Computational Biology and Medicine. 58(10), 3016-3019. [Abstract] [Document]
Kasmai, N., Thompson, D., Luke, E., Jankun-Kelly, M., & Machiraju, R. (2011). Adaptive Mesh Refinement Using High-Level Vortex Descriptors. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 66(10), 1274-1294. [Abstract] [Document]
Soni, B. J., Thompson, D., & Machiraju, R. (2008). Visualizing Particle/Flow Structure Interactions in the Small Bronchial Tubes. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graphics (Proc. Visualization/Information Visualization 2008). Washintgon, DC: IEEE. 14(6), 1412-1419. [Abstract]
Jankun-Kelly, M., Thompson, D., Jiang, M., & Machiraju, R. (2006). Vortex Visualization for Practical Engineering Applications. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graphics (Proc. Visualization/Information Visualization 2006). Washington, DC: IEEE. 12(5), 957-964. [Abstract] [Document]
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| Total Publications by this Author: 36 |
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