Faculty - A. J. Baker
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A.J. Baker, Ph.D., P.E. |
| Teaching ~Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Professional Activities ~ Selected Publications |
TEACHING• Computational Mechanics |
EDUCATION• PhD, SUNY/Buffalo |
RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)
Joining UT from commercial aerospace industry in 1975, Dr. Baker's research expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), specifically in finite element (FE) methods. In his tenure at UTK, he has guided some 17 PhD dissertations and 18 MSc theses/projects, and has authored over 270 technical publications in the CFD and FE fields since 1970. He has written two academic textbooks, each with international editions and one Japanese translation, on finite element computational mechanics and CFD. He has completed the text manuscript replacing the 1991 McGraw-Hill text, now entitled The Computational Engineering Sciences, which includes CD-based diverse computing experiences Matlab-enabled. The drafting of the second edition of the 1983 Finite Element Computational Fluids Mechanics text manuscript is initiated.
Over the past seven years, his pedagogical focus has turned to Internet for academic outreach of the computational engineering sciences graduate curriculum. UT CFD Lab operates a comprehensive Internet website (http://cfdlab.utk.edu) with state-of-the-art facilities for generating and video streaming live and archived lecture/courseware materials to remote locations including international. The UT Graduate School has approved a 12 hour CFD Certificate graduate program functioning solely in this Internet modality.
Dr. Baker has served as Principal Investigator/Technical Director for over $7M in CFD and computational mechanics research contracts. He was designated UT Chancellor's Research Scholar in l983, the highest citation for university research achievement. His role in promoting academic advance spinoff resulted in the 1993 Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from UT. He has been elected a Fellow of both the US and International Association for Computational Mechanics. In recognition of his dedication to academic research, he was named a 2004 UT College of Engineering Research Fellow.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)
| 1975 - Present | Professor, formerly Associate Professor, Engineering Science, University of Tennessee |
| 1983-Present | Director, UT CFD Laboratory, University of Tennessee |
| 9/2000 | Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Potchefstroom, South Africa |
| 1975-1997 | President and Chief Scientist, Computational Mechanics Corp., Knoxville, TN |
| 9/1995 | Visiting Professor, Civil Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 6/1994 | Traveling lecturer, Southwest Mechanics Conference |
| 3/1983 | Lecturer, von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1974 - 1975 | Visiting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics, Old Dominion University, and NASA Research Scientist, Hampton, VA |
| 1971 - 1973 | Visiting Scientist (summers), ICASE, NASA Langley, Hampton, VA. |
| 1970 - 1974 | Principal Research Scientist and Manager, Computational Fluid Mechanics Group, Research Dept, Textron/Bell Aerospace, Buffalo, NY. |
| 1965 - 1970 | Instructor, Engineering Faculty, State University of New York/Buffalo |
| 1958 - 1964 | Mechanical Engineer, Development Laboratory, Union Carbide Corp., Buffalo, NY. |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)
Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Member, American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), American Society of Heating,
Refrigeration & Air Condition Engineers (ASHRAE)
Associate Editor, Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Editorial Board Member for the following:
- International Journal Numerical Heat Transfer
- International Journal Numerical Methods in Fluids
- Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computer Modeling in the Sciences and Engineering
- Journal of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology
Listed in Who’s Who in Computational Science & Engineering (2005)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)
Refereed Journal Articles (70 articles 1972 – 2008, * denotes not first listed author)
"Ensuring Engineering Accuracy of Multi-Physics Predictions: an Internet-Streamed Finite Element Course,” abstract accepted for special edition, Int. Journal Engineering Education, to appear fall 2008.
“Aircraft Passenger Cabin ECS-Generated Ventilation Velocity and Mass Transport CFD Simulation, II. Mass Transport Validation Exercise,” with S.C. Ericson, J.A. Orzechowski, K.L. Wong & R.P. Garner, Journal Inst. Environmental Sciences & Technology, V. 51, No. 1, 2008.
“A Modified Conservation Principles Theory Leading to an Optimal Galerkin CFD Algorithm,” with S. Sahu, Int. J. Num. Mtd. Fluids, V. 55, No. 8 , p. 737 – 783, 2007.*
“Aircraft Passenger Cabin ECS-Generated Ventilation Velocity and Mass Transport CFD Simulation, I. Velocity Field Validation,” with S.C. Ericson, J.A. Orzechowski, K.L. Wong & R.P. Garner, Journal Inst. Environmental Sciences & Technology, V. 49, No. 2, p. 51-83, 2006.
“Active Netlib: An Active Mathematical Software Collection for Inquiry-based Computational Science and Engineering Education,” with S. Moore, J.Dongarra, C Halloy & C Ng, Journal Digital Information, V. 2, Pt. 4, 2004. *
Textbooks (3 authored, 1983 – 2007)
“The Computational Engineering Sciences," j-Computek Press, Loudon TN, 2006, 264 + xvi pages.
Chapters in Monographs (9 authored, 1975 - 1998)
"The Finite Element Method for Numerical Solution of the Equations of Fluid Mechanics," Ch. 28 in R. W. Johnson (ed.), The Handbook of Fluid Dynamics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1998.
Conferences and Proceedings (138 authored, 1970 – 2007, I = Invited paper, * denotes not first listed author)
“An ALE Algorithm for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Simulation of a Laser Surface Treatment Process,” with J.A. Orzechowski and C.-X. Lin, 9th US Congress of Computational Mechanics, UC Berkley, CA, July 2007.
“Vascular CFD Modeling Via in vivo Solid Model Generation,” with S.K. Karra, M.R. Mahfouz and S.C. Ericson, Proc. 7th Int. Sym. Computer Methods Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, France, March, 2006.*
“CFD Advanced Professional Education via Internet,” with M. A. Grubert, S.C. Ericson, S. Sahu & J.A. Orzechowski, Proc. ASME Intl. Mechanical Engineering Conference Education, IMECE2005-80075, 2005
“A Modified Conservation Law Approach to Improved Finite Element Incompressible Navier-Stokes Algorithms,” with S. Sahu, K.-J. Bathe, Ed., 3rd MIT Conf. Computational Fluid/Solid Mechanics, Elsevier, 2005.
“The Computational Engineering Sciences Via Internet,” with M. A. Grubert, S. Sahu, S.C. Ericson & J.A. Orzechowski, Technical Paper ASCE_2005-9860, 2005.
“Casting to Geometrical Specification: Theory and Practice of Simulation Uncertainty and Sensitivity,” with M. A. Grubert & V. E. Lamberti, Technical Paper AIAA_2005-0495, 2005.
“Finite Element Analysis Video-Streamed on Internet: A Computational Engineering Sciences Academic Course,” with M. A. Grubert, S. Sahu & S.C. Ericson, Technical Paper AIAA_2005-1073, 2005.
Research Contract Reports (70 authored, 1968 - 2006)
“Validation for CFD Prediction of Mass Transport in an Aircraft Passenger Cabin,” with S.C. Ericson, K.L. Wong, J.A. Orzechowski and R.P. Garner, US Dept. Transportation Report DOT/FAA/AM-06/27, 2006.
“ARC Automotive Airbag Inflator CFD Simulation Project: 2005,” with M. A. Grubert and S. Sahu, UT CFD Lab Report CFDL_05:CTRPPT.3, 2005.
“A Parametric Study of EHD Plasma Actuators for Munition Control,” with D. Sherman, Atmospheric Glow Technologies LLC final report for contract FA8651-04-C-0255, 2005.*
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