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Faculty - Ke Nguyen

Nguyen

Ke Nguyen
Associate Professor

404 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
Office: (865)974-5296
Fax: (865)974-5274
Email: knguyen@utk.edu
Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Professional Activities ~ Selected Publications

TEACHING

• Combustion
• Thermodynamics
• Nonlinear Dynamics

EDUCATION

• Ph.D 1984, University of Colorado (Boulder)
• MS 1980, University of Colorado (Boulder)
• BS 1978, University of Colorado (Boulder)

RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)

Applied research in the areas of fluidized beds, combustion, nonlinear dynamics and chaos and the application of chaos control techniques to engineering systems. Thermal pulsed combustors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)

1992 - Present Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee
1986 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Tennessee.
1984 - 1986 Research Associate and Instructor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Boulder.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)



American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)

Nguyen, K., Daw, C.S., Cheng, M., Bruns, D.D., Finney, C.E.A., and Kennel, M.B., "Spatio-Temoral Dynamics in a Train of Rising Bubbles," Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 64, pp. 191-197, 1996.

Rhode, M.A., Rollins, R.W., Markworth, A.J., Daw, C.S., Thomas, J.F., Edwards, K.D., and Nguyen, K., "Controlling Chaos in a Model of Thermal Pulse Combustion," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 78, pp. 2224-2232, 1995.

Daw, C.S., Finney, C.E.A., Vasudevan, N., van Goor, N.A., Nguyen, K., Bruns, D.D., Kostelich, E.J., Grebogi, C., Ott, E., and Yorke, J.A., "Self-Organization and Chaos in a Fludized Bed," Physical Review Letters,, Vol, 75, pp. 2308-2311, 1995.

Vasudevan, M., Finney, C.E.A., Nguyen, K., and Daw, C.S., "Feedback Control of Slugging Behavior in a Laboratory Fluidized Bed," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, Vol. 2, pp. 1001-1014, 1995.

Skrzycke, D.P., Nguyen, K., and Daw, C.S., "Characterization of the Fluidization Behavior of Different Solid Types Based on Chaotic Time Series Analysis of Pressure Signals," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fludized Bed Combustion, Vol. 1, pp. 156-166, 1993.

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