Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Civil Engineering Research Projects: 

Developing HSPF Model and Performing Watershed Simulations for Canerun Fecal TMDL

Visualization Modules for Solute Transport in Ground Water

Sponsor:  Northwest Indiana Computational Grid ($15,000, Summer 2009)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Equipment for Soil Engineering Laboratory

Sponsor: Special Projects, PUC ($ 24,798, Fall 2009, Spring 2010)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Equipment for Hydrology and Hydraulics Laboratory

Sponsor: Special Projects, PUC ($16,250, Fall 2009, Spring 2010)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Hart Ditch Flood Modeling

Sponsor: Little Calumet River Commission ($2,000, Fall 2010)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Generalized Visualization Modules for Solute Transport in Ground Water

Sponsor: Northwest Indiana Computational Grid ($15,000, Summer 2009)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Developing HSPF Model and Performing Watershed Simulations for Canerun Nutrient TMDL

Sponsor: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute ($5,000, Spring 2011)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Climate Change Impact on Base Flows in Northwest Indiana

Sponsor: Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Department of Natural Resources ($5,000, Spring 2011. Matching: $5,000)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Influence of Large Wind Farms over Rainfall Pattern in Indiana

Sponsor: PRF Summer Research Grant, Purdue University ($8,000, Summer 2011)

Principal Investigator: C. Viswanathan

Direct Structural Health Monitoring of a Blast Furnace Refractory Using Novel Acoustical Technology

Sponsor:   Indiana 21^st Century Research and Technology Fund ($692,199, 2004¨C2007)

Principal Investigator:  Y. Kin

Engineering Faculty Participants: T. Hentea and C. Zhou

Collaborators:   Los Alamos National Lab, Mittal Steel, StevensInst. of Technology, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, and US Steel

Evaluation of Erosion Patterns in a Blast Furnace Hearth Using a Computational Fluid Dynamics Model

Sponsor:  Indiana 21^st Century Research and Technology Fund ($1.29million, 2003¨C2007)

Principal Investigator: C. Zhou

Engineering Faculty Participants: H. Abramowitz, T. Hentea, Y. Kin, and G. Nnanna

Collaborators: Mittal Steel, Purdue West Lafayette, US Steel

 CFD Modeling for High Rate Pulverized Coal Injection to Blast Furnaces

Sponsor: American Iron and Steel Institute ($240,621) and Indiana 21^st Century Research and Technology Fund ($200,251, 2005-2007)

Principal Investigator: C. Zhou

Engineering Faculty Participants: T. Hentea

Collaborators: Dofasco, Mittal Steel, Stelco Inc., US Steel, and Union Gas

CFD Analysis of Exhaust Manifolds and Heat Exchangers

Sponsor: Hadady Corporation ($39,000, 2003¨C2006)

Principal Investigator: C. Zhou

CFD Analysis of Ladles

Sponsor: Mittal Steel ($10,000, 2005¨C2006)

Principal Investigator: C. Zhou

Acquisition of Advanced Instrumentation for Fluid Flow and Particle Motion Research and Teaching at Micro to Macro Scales

Sponsor: National Science Foundation ($302,895, 2004¨C2007.)

Principal Investigator: C. Zhou

Engineering Faculty Participants: G. Nnanna

Collaborators: Purdue West Lafayette

RF Effects on Gene Expression

Sponsor: DOD Air Force ($2.65 million, 2002¨C2007)

Principal Investigator: C. Tseng (Biology)

Co- Principal Investigators: H. Gerber, M. Gealt, and C. Zhou

Collaborators: University of Chicago and Northwestern University

Proposal for Development of Coking/Coal Gasification Concept to Use Indiana Coal for the Production of Metallurgical Coke and Bulk Electric Power

Sponsor: Indiana Coal Program, ($29,995,  2005)

Principal Investigator: R. Kramer (Energy Center)

Engineering Faculty Participants: H. Abramowitz and C. Zhou

Collaborators: Mittal Steel

3D Visualization of Ternary Diagrams

Sponsor: AIST  ($25,000, 2005¨C2010)

Principal Investigator: H. Abramowitz

AIST Foundation Professor

Sponsor: AIST  ($150,000 2002-2006)

Principal Investigator: H. Abramowitz

NSF Scholarship

Sponsor: NSF CSEM Scholarship Program  ($280,000, 2003-2007)

Principal Investigator: H. Abramowitz

Engineering Faculty co PI: E. Pierson

PUC Participant: R. Hamilton (coPI)

Freshmen Engineering Mentors

Sponsor: Purdue University Calumet ($4,000, Fall 2005)

Principal Investigator: H. Abramowitz

 RF/RFID Tech of Tracking Objects inside Buildings

Sponsor: Prologic Inc. ($45,987, Fall 2005)

Engineering Faculty Participant: H. Gerber

 The Statistics of Munition/Target Pairing

Sponsor: Prologic Inc. ($61,44, Fall 2005)

Engineering Faculty Participant: D. Gray

PUC Participant: J. Coffey (Mathematics)

 Nanofluid Research

Sponsor: PUC ($4,000, Spring 2006)

Principal Investigator: G. Nnanna

Virtual Reality Research

Sponsor: PUC ($4,000, Spring 2006)

Principal Investigator: L. Yang

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