W. Roger Briley, Professor

Date of Appointment

9 September 2002

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1968

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1967

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, summa cum laude, 1965

Employment

Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2002-Present

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and ERC Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 1991-2002

Co-Founder, Vice-President and Senior Research Scientist, Scientific Research Associates, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut, 1977-1991

Supervisor, Theoretical Gas Dynamics Group, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut , 1974-1977

Research Engineer, Theoretical Gas Dynamics Group, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut, 1968-1974

Research Engineer, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, 1966

Academic Specialties

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Solution Algorithms

Parallel Computing

Viscous Flow and Heat Transfer

Integrated Simulation and Design Systems

Courses and Workshops

ME-8853 Viscous Flow I (Graduate)

ME-8863 Viscous Flow II (Graduate)

ME-3113 Engineering Analysis (Undergraduate)

ME-3313 Heat Transfer (Undergraduate)

CME-4993 Introduction to Computational Field Simulation (Undergraduate)

Short Courses Supporting Technology Transfer for Flow Simulation Software, Mississippi State University (8/99, 12/00); University of Michigan (6/02); NAVSEA/Carderock (7/01)

Advisory Boards and Panels

Engineering and Science Foundation Director, Louisiana Tech University, 1999-2002

Industrial Advisory Council for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 1990-1996

Panel on “Building Partnerships in Science and Engineering,” National Science Foundation, 2000

NSF Graduate Fellowship Selection Panel, National Science Foundation, 1999

NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University: Co-Principal Investigator, Research Council, Thrust Leader for Solution Algorithms, Computational Engineering Education Board, 1991-2002

Panel on Computational Fluid Dynamics in Turbomachinery Applications, ASME, 1984

Professional Societies

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

Pi Tau Sigma (Honorary Mechanical Engineering Society)

Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society)

Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society)

Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society)

Reviewer

Journal of Computational Physics

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Computers and Fluids

ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering

AIAA Journal

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

National Science Foundation

Office of Naval Research

NASA

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

1. Lambert, B. K., Taylor, L. K., and W. R. Briley: Evaluation of a Preconditioned Flow Solver for a Broad Range of Mach Number and Temperature Ratio. To appear in Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2003.

2. Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Sheng, C., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Scalable Parallel Implicit Multigrid Solution of Unsteady Incompressible Flows. Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002, Edited by D. A. Caughey and M. M. Hafez, World Scientific Publishing Company PTE. LTD., Singapore, pp. 181-195, 2002.

Journal Articles

1. Briley, W. R., Taylor, L. K., and D. L. Whitfield: High-Resolution Viscous Flow Simulations at Arbitrary Mach Number. Journal of Computational Physics, 184(1):79-105, 2003.

2. Briley, W. R. and H. McDonald: An Overview and Generalization of Implicit Navier-Stokes Algorithms and Approximate Factorization. Journal of Computers and Fluids, 30:807-828, 2001.

3. Briley, W. R., Taylor, L. K., and D. L. Whitfield: Scalable Flow Simulations with Rotating Components. NAVO MSRC Navigator, Spring, 2001.

Conference Papers and Presentations

1. W. R. Briley, Keynote Address: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computational Engineering Education. Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education, FEDSM2002-31378, ASME Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2002.

2. Pankajakshan, R., Remotigue, M. G., Taylor, L. K., Jiang, M., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Validation of Control-Surface Induced Submarine Maneuvering Simulations Using UNCLE. 24^th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukuoka, Japan, July 8-13, 2002.

3. Chen, J. P., and W. R. Briley: A Parallel Flow Solver for Unsteady Multiple Blade Row Turbomachinery Simulations. ASME Paper 2001-GT-0348, presented at ASME TURBO EXPO 2001, New Orleans, LA, June 2001.

4. Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Sheng, C., Jiang, M. J., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Parallel Efficiency in Implicit Multiblock, Multigrid Simulations, with Application to Submarine Maneuvering. AIAA Paper 2001-1093, 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting Conference and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2001.

5. Tao, Y. X., Xu, G., Mansoor, A. M., Kirmani, S. S., and W. R. Briley: Development of Ice Accretion Model Using Modular Approach. AIAA Paper 2001-0682, 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting Conference and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2001.

6. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Physics-Based Simulations of Reynolds Number Effects in Vortex Intensive Incompressible Flows. Symposium of Advanced Flow Management, Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Meeting, Norway, May 2001.

7. Hyams, D. G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Nichols, S., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R., Marcum, D. L., and D. L. Whitfield: An Unstructured Multielement Solution Algorithm for Complex Geometry Hydrodynamic Simulations. Proceedings, 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 2000.

8. Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Jiang, M., Remotigue, M. G., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Parallel Simulations for Control-Surface Induced Submarine Maneuvers. AIAA Paper 2000-0962, 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, 2000.

9. Hyams, D. G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Briley, W. R., Marcum, D.L., and D. L. Whitfield: An Investigation of Parallel Implicit Solution Algorithms for Incompressible Flows on Multielement Unstructured Topologies. AIAA Paper 2000-0271, 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV. 2000.

10. Beddhu, M., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M. Y., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Computation of Nonlinear Turbulent Free Surface Flows using the Parallel UNCLE code. 23rd Symposium on Naval Ship Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 17-22, 2000.

11. Beddhu, M., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M. Y., Taylor, L. K., Remotigue, M. G., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Computation and Evaluation of CFD Results for Practical Ship Hull Forms. Presented at Gothenburg 2000, Workshop on CFD in Ship Hydrodynamics, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 14-16, 2000.

12. Beddhu, M., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M. Y., Remotigue, M. G., Sheng, C., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Computation of Nonlinear Turbulent Free Surface Flows Using the Parallel UNCLE Code. Proceedings, 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 2000.

Reports

1. Chen, J. P., and W. R. Briley: Development of a Parallel Turbomachinery Flow Solver, MSSU-COE-ERC-02-109 (NASA Grant NAG3-2176), June 2002. 

2. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., Sheng, C., Jayaraman, B., Wang, X., Mitchell, B., Jiang, M. Y., Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Gaither, K. P., Gaither, A., Beeland, H., Marcum, D. L., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield: Physics-Based Maneuvering Simulations for Tiltrotor Aircraft. MSU Report No. MSSU-COE-ERC-02-06 (NASA-ARC Grant NAG2-1232), April 2002. 

3. K. Sreenivas, D. G. Hyams, C. O. E. Burg, B. J. Mitchell, C. Sheng, B. Jayaraman, R. Pankajakshan, W. H. Brewer, D. S. Nichols III, L. K. Taylor, M. G. Remotigue, X. Wang, M. Y. Jiang, K. P. Gaither, A. Gaither, H. L. Beeland, J. C. Newman III, D. L. Marcum, W. R. Briley, D. L. Whitfield: Computational Engineering Research Supporting the Analysis and Design of Marine and Aerospace Vehicles. MSU Report No. MSSU-COE-ERC-02-09 (ONR Grant N00014-99-1-0751), May 2002. 

4. Briley, W. R., Taylor, L. K., and D. L. Whitfield: High-Resolution Viscous Flow Simulations at Arbitrary Mach Number, MSU Report No. MSSU-COE-ERC-01-04, March 2001. 

5. Beggs, J. H., and W. R. Briley: An Implicit Characteristic Based Method for Electromagnetics. NASA/TM-2001-210862, May 2001.

6. Coauthor of seven ERC Annual Reports for the years, NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University, 1993-1999.