Faculty - Jay I. Frankel
Jay I. Frankel |
| Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Selected Publications |
RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)
• Radiative and conductive (isotropic and anisotropic) transport in solids
• Heat flux estimation from heating rate sensors
• Rate-based sensor development for thermal systems
• Detecting sudden changes in heat flux by in-situ sensors, sensitivity analysis, inverse heat conduction
• Parameter estimation
• Integral and integro-differential equations of mathematical physics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, vibrations
• Weighted-residual methods: spectral and radial basis functions
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)
| 2009 - Present | Guest Professor, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China |
| 1996 - Present | Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee |
| 2007, July - December | Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Faculty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Center for Advanced Science and Engineering Research |
| 1993 - 1996 | Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Tennessee |
| 1992 - 1993 | Assistant Head, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology |
| 1991 - 1993 | Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology |
| 1986 - 1992 | Director, Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Florida Institute of Technology |
| 1986 - 1991 | Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology |
| 1983 - 1984 | Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland |
| 1983 - 1984 | Guest Worker: National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), Gaithersburg, MD |
| 1982 - 1983 | Thermal Analyst, ORI Inc. Silver Spring, MD |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)
Fellow, Computational Mechanics, Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee
AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee Liaison to Ground Test Technical Committee
Editorial Boards: Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)
Frankel, J.I., “A New Asymptotic Temperature-Heat Flux Integral Relationship in Cylindrical Coordinates”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, #1, pp. 191-196 (2009).
Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, R.V. Arimilli, and J. Wu, “A New Multidimensional Integral Relationship between Heat Flux and Temperature for Direct Internal Assessment of Heat Flux”, Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), Vol. 59, #5, pp. 869-888 (2008).
Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, R.V. Arimilli, and J. Wu, “Locating Sudden Changes in Heat Flux using Higher-Temporal Derivative of Temperature”, AIAA. J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 45, #3, pp. 631-635 (2008).
Frankel, J.I., “Temperature-Heat Flux Integral Relationship in the Half-Space by Fourier Transforms”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 22, #4, pp. 786-791 (2008).
Frankel, J.I., and R.V. Arimilli, “Inferring Convective and Radiative Heating Loads from Transient Surface Temperature Measurements in the Half-Space”, Inverse Problems in Sciences and Engineering vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 463-488 (2007).
Frankel, J.I., “Regularization of Inverse Heat Conduction by Combination of Rate Sensors Analysis and Analytic Continuation”, J. Engineering Mathematics, vol. 57, pp. 181-198 (2007).
Frankel, J.I., “Generalizing the Method of Kulish to One-Dimensional Unsteady Heat Conducting Slabs”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 20, #4, pp. 945-950 (2006).
Frankel, J.I., G.E. Osborne, and K. Taira, Stabilization of Ill-Posed Problems through Thermal Rate Sensors”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 20, #2, pp. 238-246, (2006).
Frankel, J.I., and K. Taira, “Integral Equation Formulation and Error Estimation for Radial Flow Between Two Flat Disks”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 181, pp. 103-124, (2005).
Frankel, J.I., and J.J. Lawless, “Numerically Stabilizing Ill-Posed Moving Surface Problems through Heat Rate Sensors”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 19, #4, pp. 587-592, (2005).
Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, and K. Taira, “In-Phase Error Estimation of Experimental Data and Optimal First Derivatives”, AIAA Journal, vol. 42, #5, pp. 1017-1024, (2004).
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