CURRICULUM VITAE
RATHINAM PANNEER SELVAM
Phone:(479) 575‑5356
James T. Womble Professor of Computational Mechanics &
fax: (479)575‑7168
Nanotechnology Modeling
email: rps@uark.edu
Department of Civil Engineering
Citizenship:
Web page:
http://compmech.cveg.uark.edu
Director of Computational Mechanics Lab (1999-present).
Assistant Director, Microelectronics-Photonics
Graduate Program (2008-present)
Adjunct Faculty in Electrical engineering and Computer Engineering & Computer
Science
Member of High Density Electronic Center (HiDEC)
Faculty of Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program (2000-present)
Chief Technology Officer & Partner
(June 2004-present), Power Electronics Leveling Solutions LLC (PELS),
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
MSCE, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology,
Master of Engineering (Structural), University of
BSCE, University of
REGISTRATION:
Registered Professional Engineer:
HONORS AND AWARDS:
James T. Womble Professor
of Compuational Mechanics & Nanotechnology Modeling, Aug.
2005-present
Fellow of ASCE, Jan. 2004- present
Memeber of the
Civil Engineering Academy,
Member of Honor Societies: Sigma Xi, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Beta
Delta
Name cited in the 49th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in
Member of
Arkansas Governor's Earthquake Advisory
Committee, Feb. 1990- present.
Outstanding
Paper Award, The Space
Technologies and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2005) received Feb. 14,
2006
Best
Paper Award: In the 34th
International Symposium on Microelectronics, Oct., IMAPS 2001
College of Engineering
Outstanding Researcher
Award for the years: 2000, 2001, 2006 & 2008
Received Texas Instruments
Outstanding Teacher Award for the year 1998
Received Halliburton
Outstanding Researcher Award for the year 1992 & 1994.
Received
Senior Research Associateship Award
for the year 1993 from National Research Council.
Received
Recognition from Governor
as the Outstanding Citizen of the State of
Outstanding
Public Service Award by Federal
Emergency Management (FEMA) for his contribution to the States Earthquake
Preparedness Program, 1990
Certificate of Appreciation from the State of
Ranked No. l at the
Received
Kulasekaran Memorial Gold Medal
for securing I Rank in B.E. (Civil),
PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
Editorial Board:
Wind & structures, An International Journal May 2006-present
Scientific Board of
The Journal of Higher Schools of
Membership:
American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE)- 2000- present
Wind Engineering Research Council 1986-2000
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Member 1986-present & Fellow
2004-present
Indian Society for Wind Engineering (ISWE)-2007-present (Life Member)
Charter Member of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) 2000-present
International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS)
American
Material Research Society (MRS) 2004- present
American society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2005-present
Order of the Engineer 1982-present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching and Research
James T. Womble Professor of Compuational Mechanics &
Nanotechnology Modeling, Aug. 2005-present
Professor of Civil Engineering
(Aug. 1999-present),
Currently involved in the application of computer simulation in
nanostructures (multiscale modeling, improving the properties of cement and
asphalt through nanoscience), wind engineering, tornado forces on buildings,
aeroelasticity, panel & wing flutter, thermal management of electronic
packaging, multiphase flow, spray cooling, bridge aerodynamics, adaptive finite
element method and general numerical modeling of solid and fluid mechanics
problems using boundary element, finite element and finite difference procedure.
Visiting Faculty (June,
2005- July, 2005), Summer faculty fellowship, Wright-Patterson Air Force,
Dayton, Ohio, Worked on further developments on computer modeling of spray
cooling.
Visiting Faculty (
Worked on computer modeling of spray cooling. Developed a multi-phase flow model
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
(Aug. 1991‑ Aug. 1999),
Visiting Faculty (June23,
1998- Aug. 15, 1998), Wright-Patterson Air Force,
Worked on fluid-structure interaction modeling. Studied panel flutter due to
transonic flow
Visiting Faculty (June2,
1997- Aug. 15, 1997), Wright-Patterson Air Force,
Worked on fluid-structure interaction modeling. Studied panel flutter due to
transonic flow
Visiting Professor (May 15,
1996- July 31, 1996), Department of Energy Engineering,
Visiting Research Scientist
(May 15, 1995-July 15, 1995), ATDD/NOAA,
Visiting Research Scientist
(July 15, 1993-Aug. 15, 1993),
EDF-LNH, 6 Quai Watier, B.P. 49, 78401
National Research Council Senior Research Associate
(May 15, 1993 - July 15, 1993),
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
(Jan. 1986 – Aug. 1991),
Visiting Research Scientist
(May 1990‑ August 1990), CSIRO,
Division of Building, Construction and Engineering,
Research Associate and Part‑time Instructor
(Sept. l984 ‑ Dec. 1985),
Research and Teaching Assistant
(Sept. l982 ‑ Aug. l984), Texas Tech University, Involved in research on
boundary element techniques for tornado‑structure interaction problem and
dynamic analysis of non‑linear plate for blast loading using finite difference
techniques.
Graduate Research Assistant
(May l98l ‑ August l982), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Experimental research on polymer concrete and stress analysis of hip
joint using finite element method and photoelasticity.
Associate Lecturer (December
l980 ‑ May l98l), Department of Civil Engineering,
Industry & Consulting
Chief Technology Officer & Partner
(June 2004-present), Power Electronics Leveling Solutions LLC (PELS),
Fayetteville, AR. Interested in thermal management, power electronics and spray
cooling technology. Instrumental in acquiring SBIR phase I($70,000) and phase II
($600,000) NASA funding. Through this PELS could support several graduate
students.
Assistant Engineer (October
l980 ‑ November l980),
Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage
Research areas
Numerical modeling of linear, nonlinear and dynamic behavior in structural mechanics, fluid dynamics and acoustics using boundary element, finite element and finite difference methods. Developing spray cooling devices for high power electronic systems. Experimental research using photoelasticity and strain measuring instruments. Computer modeling of optoelectronic devices, thermal stress and flow in electronic packages, bridge and panel flutter, tornado effects on buildings and multiscale and multiphysics modeling in nano-devices.
Summer Institute
Selected for and attended the 1988 Cornell National
Supercomputer Facility Summer Institute from July 11‑22. Sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science
and Engineering,
Short Courses and Symposiums
Air Force:
Thermal Management Science and Technology Workshop, March 29, 2007.
NSF: Workshop on nano technology for cement and concrete,
ONR-Radar Workshop,
16th Annual Spacecraft Thermal Control
Workshop, The Aerospace Corporation,
Nanotech 2003, attended the conference in
Applications Code
Optimization and Performance Analysis for Cray X/Y-MP systems, attended the
short course at the
Sun Education and Research Conference Agenda, Received
invitation and attended the conference in
Overview and Perspective of the New and Revised
Earthquake Regulations in 1988 Uniform Building Code, Attended the seminar in
Application of the Boundary Element Method for Thermal
and Thermoelastic Problems, Presented as a Panelist in ASME International
Conference on Computers in Engineering, Las Vegas, NE, August ll‑l4, l984.
Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures, attended UMC's
Ninth Annual Short Course on Wind Load,
Weatherwise,
Sep/Oct. 2003, Predicting tornado-structure interaction, p8
Structural Engineer, August 2003, Tornado-resisted building, p10
Materials Performance, September
2001, eliminating bridge flutter
Civil Engineering, ASCE,
Aug. 2001, pp: 31, Computer model simplifies bridge flutter analysis
Reuters Health,
Formed
the Computational Mechanics Laboratory in 1999. Acquired laboratory space and
computer hardware and software’s worth $2,000,000. Currently the lab has more
than 10 SUN & 1 SGI workstations for visualization and computing. They were all
served by SUN 4 processor system with 1 Terabytes of disk space and 4 Gbytes of
Ram space. The high performance computing is performed in two types of parallel
computing systems. The shared memory computing system (SUN4500) has 8 processor
with 4 Gbytes of ram space and 108 Gbytes of disk space. The distributed
parallel computing system has 12 node with each node has 2 processors (total 24
processors). Each node has 4 Gbytes of ram space and 72 Gbytes of disk space
(total 48 Gbytes of ram space and 864 Gbytes of disk space). The distributed
parallel system was donated in package worth of $800,000 by SUN Micro Systems in
2001. Hence a state of the art high performance computing facility was
established for research.
Session Organization or Chairman
Selvam,
R.P., Co-Chaired the session on Thermal modeling-2 (TM05), ASME-Interpack’07
conference, July 8-12,
Selvam,
R.P., Co-Chaired the session on Field Testing, 4th National
Conference on Wind Engineering, Oct. 30 to Nov. 1st, 2007, SERC,
Selvam,
R.P., Co-Chaired the session on Convection in electronics-2,
ASME Summer Heat
Transfer Conference,
July 17-22,
Selvam,
R.P., Chaired the session on Thermal modeling of electronic systems III,
Interpack 2005, July 17-22,
Selvam, R.P., Chaired
the session 7, 2nd
International Conference on Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power, IIT Roorkee,
Selvam,
R.P. & Kawai, H., Chaired the session on Wind-structure related topics,
The Second International Symposium on Advances in Wind & Structures,
Selvam,
R.P., Chaired the session on Atmospheric boundary layers and extreme winds,
National Conference on Wind Engineering
2002, IIT,
Selvam,
R.P.& L. Nguyen, Chaired the session
on Modeling & CAD, 2001 International
Symposium on Microelectronics,
Selvam,
R.P. & R. Bailey, Charied the session on CFD in Wind Engineering,
National ASCE Conference, Houston, Oct. 13, 2001
Selvam, R.P., Chaired
the session on Wind loads, codes & standards,
Americas Conference on Wind Engineering-2001,
Selvam, R.P., Chaired
session on Computational wind engineering,
2001 Structures congress and exposition,
Invited Presentations
R. P. Selvam (2007),
Developments in computational wind engineering,
Proceeding of the 4th National Conference on Wind Engineering,
Eds. N. Lakshman, S. Arunachalam and
S. Gomathinayagam, SERC, Chennai, India, Oct. 30 to Nov. 1st , Allied
Publishers Private Ltd., 1-10, Key-note
Lecture
R. P. Selvam,
R.P. Selvam (2007), Served as one of the six
panelists in the Panel Discussion and Concluding Session at the
4th National Conference on
Wind Engineering, SERC,
R. P. Selvam, S. Sarkar, M. Sarkar (2007), Modeling Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer – Current Status and Future Challanges, Invited paper, 7th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, IISC Bangalore, India, Nov. 26-30, 2007
R. P. Selvam (2007),
Wind forces on buildings and bridges using computer modeling, invited
presentation at the Institution of
Engineers,
R. P. Selvam (2007),
Multiphase flow modeling and spray cooling, invited presentation at the
University Institute of Chemical Technology,
Selvam, R.P., Computer
Modeling for Bridge Aerodynamics, Presentation for the Structural Engineering
graduate students,
Selvam, R.P., Spray Cooling for High Power Electronics, Presentation for the General Engineering students at the S.K.P. Engineering College, Tiruvannamali, India, Jan. 6, 2007
Selvam, R.P., Higher Studies in USA, Presentation for the General
Engineering students at the Aurunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai,
India, Dec. 21, 2006
Selvam, R.P., Computer Modeling of Multi-Phase
Spray Cooling for Power Electronics, Special presentation at the
IMAPS Student Organization,
University of Arkansas, Oct. 6, 2004.
Selvam, R.P.,
Computational modeling of spray cooling, Power Division, Air Force Research
Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
Selvam, R.P., Computer
modeling of fluid-structure interaction problem using ALE procedure,
Geotechnical and Structural
Selvam, R.P., Computational issues in solving the incompressible NS equations, 2nd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec. 12, 2002 (1hr Key note presentation)
Selvam,
R.P., Tornado modeling,
Selvam,
R.P., Computer modeling of tornado forces on buildings,
Second International Symposium on Wind & Structures,
Selvam,
R.P., Computational issues in Bridge Aerodynamics,
National Conference on Wind Engineering, IIT- Roorkee, India, April
4-6, 2002
Selvam,
R.P., Micro-jet array cooling (MEMS) devices and modeling of HTS tunable filter,
Department of Electronics & Computer
Science, IIT,
Selvam,
R.P., Micro-jet array cooling (MEMS) devices and modeling of HTS tunable filter,
National Physical Laboratory,
Selvam,
R.P., Computational Wind Engineering,
Society of Structural Engineers,
Selvam,
R.P., Computational Wind Engineering,
Selvam,R.P., Computational Wind Engineering,
National ASCE Conference & Exposition,
Selvam,
R.P., Developments in Computational wind engineering, at the
30th Anniversary Alumini
Conference,
Selvam,
R.P., Computational procedures in grid based computational bridge aerodynamics,
in Bridge Aerodynamics, in the
International symposium on advances in bridge aerodynamics, Copenhagen, May
10-13, 1998, Larsen, A. and Esdahl (eds), Balkema, Rotterdam, 1998, pp. 327-336.
Selvam, R.P., Application of the Boundary Element Method
for Thermal and Thermoelastic Problems, Presented as a Panelist in
ASME International Conference on
Computers in Engineering, Las Vegas, NE, August ll‑l4, l984.
Selvam, R.P., Computational methods in CFD, ERDC/MSRC,
Selvam, R.P., Wind Engineering, at the AHTD/MBTC seminar,
Papers published: More than
200 papers through journals, books, conference proceedings and reports. (45
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Students advised: 32
students (25MS & 7Ph.D), 6 UG & 4 Post Doc.
Research funds Acquired:
More than $5.2 Million.
TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT:
Undergraduate
Graduate
CE Computer Application
Matrix Analysis of Structures
Mechanics of Materials
Finite Element Methods
Determinate Structures
Boundary Element Methods
Indeterminate Structures
Structural Dynamics
Reinforced Concrete Design
Advanced Structural Steel
Structural Steel Design
Numerical Methods in Fluids
Structural Loading
Computational fluid dynamics
Structural Materials
Introduction to Computational Science & Eng.
Professional Practice
Multiphase flow modeling
Numerical Methods in Engineering
Numerical Methods in
Probability in Civil Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Structural Analysis
Computer Methods of Structural Analysis
STUDENT RESEARCH DIRECTED
1.
Joe Johnston,
Ph.D in MicroEP, Jan. 2008-
2.
Shanique Murray,
Nanocement, MSCE, Jan. 2008-
3.
Vikram Jayaraman,
Nano-cement, MSCE, Aug. 2006-
4.
5.
Mita Sarkar, Spray
Cooling Modeling, Ph.D., Jan. 2005-
6.
Matt Hamilton, Computational study on micro-macro-gravity
effects on spray cooling heat transfer, MS in Micro. EP, Jan. 2006-Aug. 2007
7.
Joe Johnston, Multi-phase numerical simulation of heat
transfer during spray cooling with phase change at the micro-scale, MS in Micro
EP, Jan. 2006-Aug. 2007
8.
Sandya Bhaskara,
Computer modeling of spray cooling to achieve high heat removal, MSCE, Dec. 2005
9.
Nahid Sultana,
FEM modeling of strained quantum wells for the design of a far infrared
photdetector, (Co-advisor), MSEE, Dec. 2004
10.
Paul Millett, Multiscale modeling of nanostructures,
Ph.D., Aug. 2006
11.
Paul Millett, Computer modeling of the tornado-structure interaction, MSCE, Aug.
2003
12.
Steve Brannan, Methods to improve roof joist design, MSCE, May 2003
13.
Y. Jung, Computer modeling of heat transfer for a MEMS based on micro-jet array
air impinging cooling device, Ph.D,
Dec. 2003
14.
W. Gazel, Validation of aeroelastic finite element program for two-dimensional
flow past suspended bridges using moving grids, (Co-advisor) MSCE, May 2004.
15.
M. Jones, Visulization in civil engineering, MSCE, Sp. 2001
16.
K. Reynolds, HTS filter modeling, MSCE, Sp. 2001
17.
S. Govindaswamy, Computer modeling of bridge flow, MSCE, Sp. 2001
18.
D. Benton, Panel flutter modeling, MSCE, Sp. 2001
19.
Y. Peng, Nonlinear thermal stress analysis of the electronic packages,
Ph.D, May 2001
20.
Y. Jung, Geometric nonlinear finite element analysis,
MSCE, Fall 2000
21.
22.
J. Khater, Computer modeling of flow and heat transfer in a MEMS structure,
MSCE,Sum. 2000
23.
S. Vimalendran, Nonlinear dynamic analysis of pavements,
Ph.D. dissertation, Dec. 1999
24.
Y. Peng,
Computer
modelling of roof corner Vortex, MS thesis, Aug. 1999
25.
M. Ramm, Incomplete Choleskey Decomposition, MSE, Report, May 1998
26.
Mike Tarini: Computer Modelling of Wind Flow Around a 3D Circular Cylinder and a
Bridge Using LES and FEM, M.S. thesis, Completed by Aug. 1997.
27.
Anousone Arounpradith: Recent Developments of the Flexible Pavement Analysis
Program ARKPAV, M.S. thesis, Completed by November 1995.
28.
Phani B. Konduru: Computational and Experimental Roof Corner Pressures on the
29.
Robert L. Jarnigan: Control-Volume Procedure for Non-orthogonal Grid Systems,
M.S. report, May 1992.
30.
Kandasamydurai Raj: Nonlinear Finite Element analysis of Pavements, M.S. Thesis,
August 1991.
31.
Joseph W. Smith: Predicting Wind Flow Over Hills Using the k‑e Model, M.S.
Thesis, 1990
32.
Sik H. Wong: Numerical Modeling of Wind Flow Over Two Dimensional Hills Using a
Boundary‑Fitted Coordinate System, M.S. Thesis, August 1988.
Dr. Sanjay Patro, Feb. 2006-Jan. 2008, currently working
with CPP- Wind engineering firm,
Dr. Z. Qu (
Dr. Q. Zheng (
Dr. U. Roy (
Visiting Faculty: Dr. Manoranjan Barik, Assistant
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National
Visiting faculty, Dr.
D. Sarode, Reader in Civil Engineering, University Institute of Chemical
Technology, Matunga, Mumbai-19, India, May to Aug. 2007
Undergraduate Research Directed
Shanique Murray, Validation of adaptive aeroelastic finite element program for
two dimensional flow past a suspension bridge girder section using unstructured
grids, Honors
Thesis, Jan. 2006-Dec. 2007
John Riorden, Computer modeling of tornado forces, Civil Engineering,
John Brothers, Computer modeling
quantum electronics, Freshman Honor Student, Electrical engineering student,
Jonathan Mau,
Finite Difference Method with Message Passing Programming, Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program, Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU), Summer 2003
Derrick Barbee, Comparing Computer Models of Micro-jet Array at the University
of Arkansas, Oregon State University and Purdue University,
Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program, Research Experience for
Undergraduates (REU) , Summer 2001
High School Student
Research Directed
Mr. Caleb Eggensperger, Modeling spray Cooling: Analysis of the effects of
different variables on the effectiveness of spray cooling, Supported through
Summer Engineering And Science Research Experience,
Other Teaching Related Activities
Received Texas Instruments
Outstanding Teacher Award for the year 1998
Organized and co-ordinate Graduate seminar from 1986-1996 & 2006-present
Teach Review sessions on structural analysis for FE Exam each semester
(1990-present)
Helped two undergraduate students to get Walton fellowship and one student to
get SURF grant
Motivated Dr. Paul Millett to get distinguished Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2006)
Helped Mr. Suranjan Sarkar to get distinguished Academy Fellowship (2005-presnt)
Advised Ms. Wezel Gazel to get Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
from DOT
Completed formal ABET training (through video conference)-April 21, 2006; listed
as trained ABET visitor to evaluate Civil Engineering programs
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