Other Topics

Other topics range from fundamental investigations of flow separation-reattachment, dynamic stall on pitching airfoils, environmental flows and dispersion of pollutants, microfluid platforms for cancer research, vertical-axis wind turbines, thermal-hydraulics of nuclear reactor core components and steam generator, ablation of sacrificial rocket nozzle liners, etc.

Publications

Journal

1. Moarefian, M., Davalos, R. V., Achenie, L. E., Tafti, D. K. and Jones C. N. “Modeling iontophoretic drug delivery in a microfluidic device,” Lab Chip, 2020, 20, 3310-3321. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0LC00602E
2. Hegde, M. Meenakshisundaram, Chartain, N., Sekhar S., Tafti D.K., Williams, C. and Long, T., “3D Printing All-Aromatic Polyimides using Mask-Projection Stereolithography: Processing the Nonprocessable, Advanced Materials 2017, 1701240. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701240.
3. Narayan, S. and Tafti, D. K., Evaluation of Microchamber Geometries and Surface Conditions for Electrokinetic Driven Mixing, Analytical Chemistry, 76, 3785-3793, 2004.
4. L. Ma, D. K. Tafti, and R. D. Braatz. Optimal control and simulation of multidimensional crystallization, Special Issue on Distributed Parameter Systems, Comp. & Chem. Eng., 26, pp. 1103-1116, 2002.
5. D. Braatz, M. Fujiwara, D. L. Ma, T. Togkalidou, and D. K. Tafti. Simulation and new sensor technologies for industrial crystallization: A review. Int. J. of Modern Physics B, 16, pp. 346-353, 2002.
6. Tafti, D. K., Vorticity and Scalar Transport in Separated and Reattached Flow on a Blunt Plate, Physics of Fluids A 5(7), pp. 1661-1673, July 1993.
7. Tafti, D.K. and Vanka, S.P., A Three-Dimensional Numerical Study of Flow Separation and Reattachment on a Blunt Plate, Physics of Fluids A 3 (12), pp. 2887-2909, Dec.1991.
8. Tafti, D. K. and Vanka, S.P., Numerical Study of Flow Separation and Reattachment on a Blunt Plate, Physics of Fluids A 3 (7), pp. 1749-1759, July 1991.
9. Tafti, D. K. and Vanka, S. P., A Numerical Study of the Effects of Spanwise Rotation on Turbulent Channel Flow, Physics of Fluids A 3 (4), pp. 642-656, April 1991.
10. Tafti, D. K. and Vanka, S. P., Hot Gas Environment Around STOVL Aircraft in Ground Proximity, Part 2: Numerical Study, Aircraft, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 1991.

Conference

1. Norman, A. and Tafti, D. K., “The effect of advance ratio, solidity, and wake interactions on a 2D vertical axis turbine,” Paper No. FEDSM2016-7801, Proceedings of the ASME 2016 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 10-14, 2016, Washington, DC, USA.
2. Kasibhotla, V. R. and Tafti, D. K., Dynamic Stall Simulation of Flow over NACA0012 Airfoil at 1 million Reynolds number, IMECE2015-50827, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2015 , November 13-19, 2015, Houston, Texas, USA
3. Kasibhotla, V. R. and Tafti, D. K., Large eddy simulation of the flow past pitching NACA0012 airfoil at 1E05 Reynolds number, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and 11th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Paper No. FEDSM2014-21588, August 3-7, 2014, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
4. Viswanathan, A.K., Tafti, D.K.,  Numerical Analysis of Circulation Control on a NCCR 1510-7607N Airfoil using RANS Models, 2004 Circulation Control Conference, March 16-17, Hampton, Virginia, USA. NASA/CP-2005-213509. pp 197- 226, 2004.
5. Narayan, S. and Tafti, D. K., Electrokinetically Induced Mixing in a Microchamber, IMECE2003-41099, 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D EXPO, Washington, D. C., USA, November 15 -21, 2003.
6. Tafti D. K., Menon R. G., Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow Induced Vibrations in a Vacuum Flasher Unit, 4th International ASME/JSME/KSME Symposium on Computational Technologies for Fluid/Thermal/Chemical Systems with Industrial Applications, August 4-8, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
7. Joshi, D., Vanka, S. P. and Tafti, D. K., Large-Eddy Simulations of the Wake of a Normal Flat Plate, FED-Vol. 184, pp. 231-242, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 19-23, 1994.
8. Tafti, D. K. and Vanka, S. P., Hot Gas Environment Around STOVL Aircraft in Ground Proximity, Part 2: Numerical Study, paper 90-2270 at 26th AIAA/ASME/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 16-18, 1990.