ROBERT F. KUNZ                                           

OFFICE:  165 ARL BUILDING                                                                                                                                                                                      PHONE: 814-865-2144
                                                                                                                                                                              
E-MAIL: rfk102@psu.edu                                              

EDUCATION:

•  B.S., SUNY at Buffalo , Aerospace Engineering, 1983

•  M.S., University of Illinois , Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 1985

•  Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University , Aerospace Engineering, 1991

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

•  CFD algorithm/code development

•  Turbomachinery

•  Multi-phase flow

•  Biomedical engineering and biological system simulation

•  Turbulence modeling and turbulence dispersion

•  Heat exchanger thermal-hydraulics and thermal systems management

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

•  9/97 - present: Pennsylvania State University

•  Applied Research Laboratory, Senior Research Associate, Head of the Computational Mechanics Division.

•  Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering

•  7/92-9/97: Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Computational Fluid Dynamics Unit, Senior Engineer.

•  8/91-6/92: General Motors Technical Center, Torque Converter Technology Group, Private Consultant.

•  6/85-7/88: Pratt and Whitney, Applied Technology Group, Engineer.

SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

•  Kunz, R.F., Rhie, C.M., Malecki, R.E. “Calculation of Internal Flows Using a Single-Pass Parabolized Navier-Stokes Analysis,” AIAA J. , 28(5):817-818, 1990.

•  Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Explicit Navier-Stokes Computation of Cascade Flows Using the k- e Turbulence Model,” AIAA J., 30(1):13-22, 1992.

•  Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B., “Stability of Explicit Navier-Stokes Procedures Using k- e and k- e /Algebraic Reynolds Stress Turbulence Models,” J. Computational Physics , 103(1):141-159, 1992.

•  Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Computation of Turboma­chinery Flows Using an Explicit Numerical Procedure and a Coupled k- e Turbulence Model,” ASME J. Turbomachinery , 14:627-642, 1992.

•  Basson, A.H., Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Grid Generation for Three-Dimensional Turbo­machinery Geometries Including Tip Clearance,” AIAA J. Propulsion and Power , 9(1):59-66, 1993.

•  Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B., Basson, A.H. “Investigation of Tip Clearance Phenomena in an Axial Compressor Cascade Using Euler and Navier-Stokes Procedures,” ASME J. Turbo­machinery , 115:453-467, 1993.

•  By, R.R., Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Navier-Stokes Analysis of the Pump Flow Field of and Automotive Torque Converter,” ASME J. Fluids Engineering , 117:116-122, 1995.

•  Kunz, R.F., Siebert, B.W., Cope, W.K., Foster, N.F., Antal., S.P., Ettorre, S.M., “A Coupled Phasic Exchange Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Four-Field Analysis of Heated Flows with Mass Transfer,” Computers and Fluids , 27(7):741-768, 1998.

•  Kunz, R.F. D'Amico, S.W., Vassalo, P.F., Zaccaria, M.A., “LDV Measurement of Confined Parallel Jet Mixing,” ASME J. Fluids Engineering , 123:567-573, 2001.

•  Kunz, R.F., Cope, W.K., Venkateswaran, V., “Development of an Implicit Method for Multi-fluid Flow Simulations,” J. Computational Physics , 152:78-101, 1999.

•  Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Stinebring, D.R., Chyczewski, Lindau. J.W., Gibeling, H.J., Venkateswaran, S., Govindan, T.R., “A Preconditioned Implicit Method for Two-Phase Flows with Application to Cavitation Prediction,” Computers and Fluids , 29(8):849-875, 2000.

•  Kunz, R.F., Kasmala, G.F., Mahaffy, J.H., Murray, C.J., “On the Automated Assessment of Nuclear Reactor Systems Code Accuracy,” Nuclear Engineering and Design , 211:245-272, 2002.

•  Lindau, J.W., Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Stinebring, D.A., Gibeling, H.J., “ High Reynolds Number, Unsteady, Multiphase CFD Modeling of Cavitating Flows ,” ASME J. Fluids Engineering , 125:September, 2002.

•  Medvitz, R.B., Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Lindau, J.W., Yocum, A.M., Pauley, L.L., "Performance Analysis of Cavitating Flow in Centrifugal Pumps Using Multiphase CFD," ASME J. Fluids Engineering , 124:377-383, 2000.

•  Venkateswaran, S., Lindau, J.W., Kunz, R.F., and C.L. Merkle, “ Preconditioning Algorithms for the Computation of Multiphase Mixture Flows,” J. Computational Physics , 179: 1-29, 2002.

· Lindau, J.W., Medvitz, R.B., Boger, D.A., Kunz, R.F. “Propeller Cavitation Breakdown Analysis,” Journal of Fluids Engineering , 127:995-1002, 2005.

· Lindau, J.W., Sankaran, V., Kunz, R.F., Merkle, C.L. “Preconditioning of a Fully-Compressible Multi-Phase Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Model”, submitted Journal of Computational Physics , January 2005.

· Leyton-Mange, J., Yang, S, Henty, M, Kunz, R., Zahn, J, Dong, C “Design of Side-View Particle Image Velocimetry System For Cellular Adhesion Analysis," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 128:271–278, 2006.

· Kunz, R.F., Gibeling, H.J., Maxey, M.R., Tryggvason, G., Fontaine, A.A., Petrie, H.L., Ceccio, S.L., “ V alidation of Two-Fluid Eulerian CFD Modeling for Microbubble Drag Reduction Across a Wide Range of Reynolds Numbers,"  to Appear ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 129:66-79, 2007.

· Henty, M.H., Kunz, R.F., Bistline, J.E., Dong, C., " Coupled Flow-Structure-Biochemistry Simulations of Dynamic Systems of Blood Cells Using an Adaptive Surface Tracking Method," submitted Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

· Kunz, R.F., Haworth , D.C. , Kriete, A., Porzio, D., Dogan, G., " Macroscale Through Microscale Modeling of Respiratory Fluid Mechanics," submitted, Journal of Applied Physiology

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