Publications

Journal

Dennis, B. H., Han, Z.-X. and Dulikravich, G. S., "Determination of Temperatures and Heat Fluxes on Surfaces and Interfaces of Multi-domain Three-Dimensional Electronic Components", IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) - Part A, Dec. 2004, in press.

Jeong, M.J., Dennis, B.H., and Yoshimura, S., "Multidimensional Solution Clustering and Its Application to the Coolant Passage Optimization of a Turbine Blade," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, accepted, in press.

Dennis, B.H., Egorov, I.N., Dulikravich G.S, and Yoshimura, S., "Thermoelasticity Optimization of 3-D Serpentine Cooling Passages in Turbine Blades," International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 57-68.

Dennis, B.H., Eberhart, R.C., Dulikravich, G.S., and Radons, S.W., "Finite Element Simulation of Cooling of 3-D Human Head and Neck," ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 125, December 2003.

Dulikravich, G.S., Colaco, J.M., Dennis, B.H., Martin, T.J., and Lee, S.S., "Optimization of Intensities, and Orientations of Magnets Controlling Melt Flow During Solidification," Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2004.

Dennis, B.H., Dulikravich, G.S., and Yoshimura, S. "A Finite Element Formulation for the Determination of Unknown Boundary Conditions for 3-D Steady Thermoelastic Problems," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 126, February 2004.

Lee, E.-S., Dulikravich, G.S., and Dennis, B.H., "Rotor Cascade Shape Optimization With Unsteady Passing Wakes Using Implicit Dual Time Stepping and Genetic Algorithm," International Journal of Rotating Machinery, Vol. 9, No. 5, Sept-Oct. 2003.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Magnetic Field Suppression of Melt Flow in Crystal Growth," International Journal of Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 23, 2002, pp. 269-277.

Dennis, B. H., Han, Z.-X., Egorov, I. N., Dulikravich, G. S. and Poloni, C., "Multi-Objective Optimization of Turbomachinery Cascades for Minimum Loss, Maximum Loading, and Maximum Gap-to-Chord Ratio," International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines, Vol. 18, 2001, pp. 201-210.

Han, Z.-X., Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simultaneous Prediction of External Flow-Field and Temperature in Internally Cooled 3-D Turbine Blade Material," International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines, Vol. 18, 2001, pp. 47-58.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Optimization of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Control of Diffuser Flows using Micro-Genetic Algorithms and Least-Squares Finite Element Method," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 37, 2001, pp. 349-363.

Dennis, B.H., Han, Z.-X. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Optimization of Turbomachinery Airfoils with a Genetic/Sequential Quadratic Programming Algorithm," AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 5, Sept-Oct 2001, pp. 1123-1128

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simultaneous Determination of Temperatures, Heat Fluxes, Deformations, and Tractions on Inaccessible Boundaries," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, August 1999, pp. 537-545.

Submitted for Review

Conference

Charoenwat, R. and Dennis, B.H.,"Transesterification of Vegetable Oils with a Continuous Flow Capillary Reactor," 2009 ECTC Proceedings ASME Early Career Technical Conference, ASME District E. April 17-18, Arlington, TX, 2009.

Dennis, B.H., Han, Z.-X., and Dulikravich, G.S., "Determination of Temperatures and Heat Fluxes on Surfaces and Interfaces of Multi-Domain Three-Dimensional Electronic Components," ASME paper IMECE2003-42273, ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Expo (IMECE'03), Washington, D.C., Nov. 15-21, 2003.

Jeong, M.J., Dennis, B.H., and Yoshimura, S., "Multidimensional Solution Clustering and Its Application to the Coolant Passage Optimization of a Turbine Blade," 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC'03), Chicago, IL, Sept. 2-6, 2003.

Baker, D. P., Dennis, B. H., Martin, T. J. and Dulikravich, G. S., "Inverse Determination of Eroded Smelter Wall Thickness Variation Using an Elastic Membrane Concept", ASME paper HT2003-47307, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, NV, July 21-23, 2003.

Dennis, B.H., Egorov, I.N., Dulikravich G.S., and Yoshimura, S., "Optimization of Coolant Passages Located Close to the Surface of a Gas Turbine Blade," ASME paper GT2003-38051, ASME Turbo Expo 2003, Atlanta, GA, June 16-19, 2003.

Dennis, B.H., Egorov, I.N., Sobieczky, H., Yoshimura, S., and Dulikravich G.S, "Thermoelasticity Optimization of 3-D Serpentine Cooling Passages in Turbine Blades," ASME paper GT2003-38180, ASME Turbo Expo 2003, Atlanta, GA, June 16-19, 2003.

Dulikravich, G.S.,  Dennis, B. H., Martin, T. J., and Egorov, I. N.,"Multidisciplinary Hybrid and Evolutionary Optimization", Invited Lecture, Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics(WCCM V), Vienna, Austria, July 7-12, 2002.

Yoshimura, S.,  Dennis, B. H., Kawai, K., "Generalized Approach to Parallel Shape Optimization with Million DOF Finite Element Model",  Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics(WCCM V), Vienna, Austria, July 7-12, 2002.

 Dennis, B. H., Dulikravich, G.S., and Yoshimura, S. ,"A 3-D Finite Element Formulation for the Determination of Unknown Boundary Conditions for Steady Thermoelastic Problems", Keynote Lecture, Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics(WCCM V), Vienna, Austria, July 7-12, 2002.

Dulikravich, G.S.,  Dennis, B. H., Martin, T. J., and Egorov, I. N.,"Multidisciplinary Design Optimization", Invited Lecture, EUROGEN'01 - Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial Problems, Editors: K. Giannakoglou, D.Tsahalis, J. Periaux,K. Papailiou, and T. Fogarty, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Athens, Greece, Sept. 19-21, 2001.

Dulikravich, G.S.,  Dennis, B. H., Martin, T. J., and Egorov, I. N.,"Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Optimization", Invited Lecture, Mini-Symposium on Inverse Problems - State of the Art and Future Trends, XXIV Brazilian Congress on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,  Sept. 10-13, 2001.

Dulikravich, G.S., Martin, T. J., and Dennis, B. H.,"Multidisciplinary Inverse Design", Invited Key-Note Lecture, Mini-Symposium on Inverse Problems - State of the Art and Future Trends, XXIV Brazilian Congress on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,  Sept. 10-13, 2001.

Lee, E.S., Dulikravich, G.S., and Dennis, B. H.,"Rotor Cascade Shape Optimization With Unsteady Passing Wakes Using Implicit Dual Time Stepping And Genetic Algorithm", The 9th of International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 10-14, 2002.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simultaneous Determination of Steady Temperatures on Surfaces of Three Dimensional Objects using FEM," ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition-IMECE 2001, New York, NY, November 11-16, 2001.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Magnetic Field Suppression of Melt Flow in Crystal Growth," Advances in Computational Heat Transfer-CHT'2001, Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, May 20-25, 2001.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "A 3-D Finite Element Formulation for the Determination of Unknown Boundary Conditions in Heat Conduction," International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics ISIP 2001, (editors: M. Tanaka and G. S. Dulikravich), Nagano, Japan, February 6-9, 2001. pp. 67-76

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Electromagnetohydrodynamics (EMHD): Numerical Experiments in Steady Planar Flows," ASME IMECE 2K, Orlando, FL, November 5-10, 2000.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Optimization of Organ Freezing Protocols With Specified Allowable Thermal Stress Levels," ASME IMECE 2K, Orlando, FL, November 11-14, 2000.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simulation of Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics with Conjugate Heat Transfer," ECCOMAS2000 (European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), Barcelona, Spain, September 11-14, 2000.

Dulikravich, G. S. and Dennis, B. H., "Inverse Design and Optimization Using CFD," Invited Lecture in Session on Contributions to Automated Design Using CFD, ECCOMAS2000 (European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), Barcelona, Spain, September 11-14, 2000.

Dennis, B. H., Han, Z.-X., Egorov, I. N., Dulikravich, G. S. and Poloni, C., "Multi-Objective Optimization of Turbomachinery Cascades for Minimum Loss, Maximum Loading, and Maximum Gap-to-Chord Ratio," AIAA Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference and Exhibit, Long Beach, CA, Sept. 5-8, 2000.(presentation slides)

Han, Z.-X., Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simultaneous Prediction of External Flow-Field and Temperature in Internally Cooled 3-D Turbine Blade Material," ASME Turbo-Expo-2000, Munich, Germany, May 8-11, 2000, ASME paper 2000-GT-0253.

Dennis, B. H. and Dulikravich, G. S., "Simulation of Electro-Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (EMHD) with p-Version Least-Squares Finite Element Method," International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems 2000, Austin, TX, April 30 - May 4, 2000. (presentation slides)

Dennis, B. H. and Dulikravich, G. S., "Determination of Unsteady Container Temperatures During Freezing of Three-dimensional Organs With Constrained Thermal Stresses", International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics ISIP2k, (editors: M. Tanaka and G. S. Dulikravich), Nagano, Japan, March 7-10, 2000. (presentation slides)

Dulikravich, G. S., Martin, T. J., and Dennis, B. H., "Multidisciplinary Inverse Problems", Invited lecture, 3rd International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering (3icipe), Editor: K. Woodbury, Port Ludlow-Puget Sound, WA, June 13-18, 1999.

Dennis, B.H., Han, Z.-X. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Constrained Optimization of Turbomachinery Airfoil Cascade Shapes Using a Navier-Stokes Solver and a Genetic/SQP Algorithm," ASME paper 99-GT-441, ASME Turbo Expo-IGTI, Indianapolis, IN, June 7-10, 1999.

Martin, T. J., Dulikravich, G. S., Han, Z.-X., and Dennis, B. H., "Minimizing Coolant Mass Flow Rate in Internally Cooled Gas Turbine Blades," ASME paper 99-GT-146, ASME Turbo Expo-IGTI, Indianapolis, IN, June 7-10, 1999.

Dulikravich, G. S., Martin, T. J., Dennis, B. H. and Foster, N. F., "Multidisciplinary Hybrid Constrained GA Optimization", Invited lecture, EUROGEN’99 - Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advances and Industrial Applications, Editors: K. Miettinen, M. M. Makela, P. Neittaanmaki and J. Periaux, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Jyvaskyla, Finland, May 30 - June 3, 1999.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Simultaneous Determination of Temperatures, Heat Fluxes, Deformations, and Tractions on Inaccessible Boundaries," Symposium on Inverse Problems in Mechanics, ASME IMECE'98, Editors: L. G. Olson and S. Saigal, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 15-20, 1998, ASME AMD-Vol. 228, pp. 1-10; also in ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, August 1999, pp. 537-545.

Dulikravich, G.S., Martin, T.J., Dennis, B.H., Lee, E.-S. and Han, Z.-X., "Aero-Thermo-Structural Design Optimization of Cooled Turbine Blades," AGARD - AVT Propulsion and Power Systems Symposium on Design Principles and Methods for Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines, NATO-RTO-MP-8 AC/323(AVT)TP/9, Ch. 35, Toulouse, France, May 11-15, 1998.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "A Finite Element Formulation for the Detection of Boundary Conditions in Elasticity and Heat Transfer," International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics ISIP98, Editors: M. Tanaka and G. S. Dulikravich, Nagano City, Japan, March 24-27, 1998, Elsevier Science, pp. 61-70.

Dennis, B.H. and Dulikravich, G.S., "Thermo-Elastic Analysis and Optimization Environment for Internally Cooled Turbine Airfoils," XIII International Symposium on Airbreathing Engines (XIII ISABE), Editor: F. S. Billig, Chattanooga, TN, Sept. 8-12, 1997, ISABE 97-7181, Volume 2, pp. 1335-1341.

Dulikravich, G.S., Martin, T.J. and Dennis, B.H., "Aero-Thermal-Structural Optimization," NASA/ICOMP 1996 Coolant Flow Management Workshop, Cleveland, Editors: S. Hippensteele and J. Gladden, OH, December 12-13, 1996, NASA Conference CP 10195, pp. 311-334.  

Invited Lectures

2003

Florida International University

2002

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2001

University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

2000

Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, TX

1999

Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems, Fort Worth, TX

1998

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Palmdale, CA

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 

1997

Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

National Science Foundation, Washington, DC