Degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1993
  
• Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1990
  
• Batchelor of Science in Engineering, Messiah College, 1988

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  
• American Physical Society

Honors and Awards

• University Excellence in Teaching Award (2008) Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Ralph L. Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award (2007) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Essential Foreign Participant (2003) Invited to participate in the London Mathematical Society Colloquium on New Developments and Applications of Rapid Fluid Flows as an Essential Foreign Participant (July 2003).
• Alfred Noble Prize (2002) - for the paper, A Comparison of Navier-Stokes Solutions with the Theoretical Description of Unsteady Separation, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
• Ralph L. Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award (2001) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (1998-2001).
• Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence - for best paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Melbourne, Australia, March 3-7, 1997.
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-1996).
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1991-1993).
• Baldwin Fellowship, Lehigh University (1989-1990).
• S. W. Kung Award - for best Ph.D. paper presented at the 1993 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Graduate Student Symposium, Lehigh University.

Field of Specialty

Computational fluid dynamics addressing problems in biofluids, unsteady aerodynamics and cryogenic fluid flow and heat transfer, fundamental aspects of unsteady separation, boundary-layer flows, boundary-layer instabilities, application of optimal control theory to fluid flows, and buoyancy-driven flows with heat generation.

Research Interests

• Analytical and computational solutions of partial differential equations.
• Application of advanced analytical techniques in the thermo-fluid sciences.
• Development of serial and parallel numerical algorithms for unsteady fluid flows.
• Unsteady mixed-convection boundary-layer flows.
• Numerical solutions of unsteady boundary-layer flows in Lagrangian coordinates.
• Effects of vortex-surface interaction on wall-bounded flows.
• Theoretical description of physical processes in unsteady separation.
• Passive and active control of separation and dynamic stall on airfoils.
• Theoretical and numerical investigations of instabilities in boundary-layer flows.
• Supersonic and hypersonic boundary-layer flows.
• Fluid dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of buoyancy-driven flows with heat generation.
• Computational simulations of hemodynamics.
• Application of nonlinear optimal control theory to unsteady boundary-layer separation.

M. S. Hammes, M. E. Boghosian, K. W. Cassel, B. Funaki, and F. L. Coe "Characteristic Differences in Cephalic Arch Geometry for Diabetic and Non-Diabetic ESRD Patients," Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2009) doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfp062.

K. W. Cassel (Guest Editor), "23^rd Annual Gallery of Fluid Motion," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 18, No. 9 (2006) pp. 091101-091114.

A. V. Obabko and K. W. Cassel, "On the Ejection-Induced Instability in Navier-Stokes Solutions of Unsteady Separation," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, Vol. 363 (2005) pp. 1189-1198 (invited).

D. M. Kaplan, E. L. Black, M. Boghosian, K. W. Cassel, et al., "Progress in Absorber R&D for Muon Cooling," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Vol. 503 (2003) pp. 392-395.

A. V. Obabko and K. W. Cassel, "Navier-Stokes Solutions of Unsteady Separation Induced by a Vortex," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 465 (2002) pp. 99-130.

A. V. Obabko and K. W. Cassel, "Detachment of the Dynamic-Stall Vortex Above a Moving Surface," AIAA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 9 (2002) pp. 1811-1822.

K. W. Cassel, "The Elect of Convective Heat Transfer on Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 428 (2001) pp. 107-131.

K. W. Cassel, "A Comparison of Navier-Stokes Solutions with the Theoretical Description of Unsteady Separation," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, Vol. 358 (2000) pp. 3207-3227 (invited).

K. W. Cassel, A. I. Ruban and J. D. A. Walker, "The Influence of Wall Cooling on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Separation and Stability," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 321 (1996) pp. 189-216.

K. W. Cassel, F. T. Smith and J. D. A. Walker, "The Onset of Instability in Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 315 (1996) pp. 223-256.

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