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Faculty - Jay I. Frankel

Jay Frankel

Jay I. Frankel
Professor
Director, Graduate Programs Committee

402 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
Office: (865)974-5129
Fax: (865)974-5274
Email:jfranke1@utk.edu

Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Selected Publications

TEACHING

• Engineering Analysis
• Advanced Diffusion Theory
• Thermodynamics

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 1986, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• MSME, 1982, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• BSME, 1980, University of Maryland

RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)

• Radiative and conductive (isotropic and anisotropic) transport in solids
• Heat flux estimation from heating rate sensors
• Rate-based sensor development for thermal systems
• Detecting sudden changes in heat flux by in-situ sensors, sensitivity analysis, inverse heat conduction
• Parameter estimation
• Integral and integro-differential equations of mathematical physics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, vibrations
• Weighted-residual methods: spectral and radial basis functions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)

2009 - Present Guest Professor, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
1996 - Present Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee
2007, July - December Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Faculty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Center for Advanced Science and Engineering Research
1993 - 1996 Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Tennessee
1992 - 1993 Assistant Head, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology
1991 - 1993 Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology
1986 - 1992 Director, Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Florida Institute of Technology
1986 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology
1983 - 1984 Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland
1983 - 1984 Guest Worker: National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), Gaithersburg, MD
1982 - 1983 Thermal Analyst, ORI Inc. Silver Spring, MD

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)

Fellow, Computational Mechanics, Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee

AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee Liaison to Ground Test Technical Committee

Editorial Boards: Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)

Frankel, J.I., “A New Asymptotic Temperature-Heat Flux Integral Relationship in Cylindrical Coordinates”, AIAA J.  Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, #1, pp. 191-196 (2009).

Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, R.V. Arimilli, and J. Wu, “A New Multidimensional Integral Relationship between Heat Flux and Temperature for Direct Internal Assessment of Heat Flux”, Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), Vol. 59, #5, pp. 869-888 (2008).

Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, R.V. Arimilli, and J. Wu, “Locating Sudden Changes in Heat Flux using Higher-Temporal Derivative of Temperature”, AIAA. J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 45, #3, pp. 631-635 (2008).

Frankel, J.I., “Temperature-Heat Flux Integral Relationship in the Half-Space by Fourier Transforms”, AIAA J.  Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 22, #4, pp. 786-791 (2008).

Frankel, J.I., and R.V. Arimilli, “Inferring Convective and Radiative Heating Loads from Transient Surface Temperature Measurements in the Half-Space”, Inverse Problems in Sciences and Engineering vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 463-488 (2007).

Frankel, J.I., “Regularization of Inverse Heat Conduction by Combination of Rate Sensors Analysis and Analytic Continuation”, J. Engineering Mathematics, vol. 57, pp. 181-198 (2007).

Frankel, J.I., “Generalizing the Method of Kulish to One-Dimensional Unsteady Heat Conducting Slabs”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 20, #4, pp. 945-950 (2006).

Frankel, J.I., G.E. Osborne, and K. Taira, Stabilization of Ill-Posed Problems through Thermal Rate Sensors”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 20, #2, pp. 238-246, (2006).

Frankel, J.I., and K. Taira, “Integral Equation Formulation and Error Estimation for Radial Flow Between Two Flat Disks”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 181, pp. 103-124, (2005).

Frankel, J.I., and J.J. Lawless, “Numerically Stabilizing Ill-Posed Moving Surface Problems through   Heat Rate Sensors”, AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 19, #4, pp. 587-592, (2005).

Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, and K. Taira, “In-Phase Error Estimation of Experimental Data and Optimal First Derivatives”, AIAA Journal, vol. 42, #5, pp. 1017-1024, (2004).

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