Robert V. Wilson

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University, 1996

MS, Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University, 1993

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University, 1991

Employment

Associate Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, August 2005 to present

Associate Research Engineer, IIHR–Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, April 2005 to August 2005

Assistant Research Engineer, IIHR–Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, February 1999 to April 2005

Postdoctoral Associate, IIHR–Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, January 1997 to February 1999

Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellow/ICASE Student Fellow, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA/Old Dominion University, July 1992 to January 1997

University Service

Graduate Student Advisor for three Masters Degree students

Graduate Student Advisor for one Doctoral Degree student

Academic Specialties

Numerical Methods for Free Surface Flows including Interface Tracking and Capturing Schemes

Unsteady RANS and DES Modeling of Free-Surface Turbulent Flows

Prediction of Six-Degree of Freedom Motions and Maneuvering

Computational Ship Hydrodynamics

Large-Eddy and Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Free-Shear Flows

High-Performance Parallel Computing

Verification and Validation Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations

Professional Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Member

American Institute Aerospace of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Member

Professional Activities

Organizing Committee, 5th Osaka Colloquium, March 14-15, 2005, Osaka, Japan

Session Chairman, “Optimization and Submarine Applications,” 5th Osaka Colloquium, March 14-15, 2005, Osaka Japan

Session Chairman, “Verification and Validation for Ship Hydrodynamics,” Gothenburg 2000: A Workshop on CFD in Ship Hydrodynamics, Gothenburg Sweden, September 2000

Awards and Honors

Lewis F. Moody Award, best paper, ASME Fluids Engineering Division, “Estimating Uncertainty in Computations of Two-Dimensional Separated Flows,” A.O. Demuren and R.V. Wilson, 1995

Virginia Space Grant Fellow, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, 1991 – 1993

Government Student Researchers Program Fellow, 1992-1996

Consulting

Office of Naval Research, Technical Consultant, Secret Security Clearance, 1999 to 2005

Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, July 2000

Code Development

CFDSHIP-IOWA: general-purpose, unsteady free surface RANS code for ship hydrodynamics on high-performance, parallel architectures. Development in support of staff and student basic research at IIHR and transitioned to researchers in academia (U. of Iowa, U. of Michigan, Penn State, RPI, Osaka Prefecture University, West Virginia University); industry (Northrop Grumman Corp, Jacobs Sverdrup Arnold AFB, FORCE Technology Denmark, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman Newport News, Proteus Engineering, Anteon Corp.); and government labs (NSWC Carderock, NSWC Costal Systems Station, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake).

January 1997 to August 2001, co-developer with Dr. E. Paterson and Prof. F. Stern.

August 2001 to May 2002, co-developer with Prof. F. Stern.

May 2002 to August 2005, co-developer with Dr. P. Carrica and Prof. F. Stern.

Research Activities

Grants/Contracts

R. Wilson (PI) and F.Stern (co-PI), “High Performance, CFD-Based Global Optimization for High Speed Ship Design,” Office of Naval Research, April 2005 to March 2008, $306,131.

F. Stern (PI), with co-PIs, R. Wilson, J. Longo, and P. Carrica, “6DOF Viscous Ship Hydrodynamics,” Office of Naval Research, 2001to 2003, $2,900,000.

F. Stern (PI), with co-PIs, R. Wilson, and P. Carrica, “Computational Hydrodynamic Tools for HSSL Ships,” Office of Naval Research, August 2005 to February 2006, $500,000.

Supervision and Training

January 1997 to August 2005, supervision and training of 15 graduate students and 3 post-doctoral associates at IIHR in the solution of ship hydrodynamics problems and the use of CFDSHIP-IOWA RANS code and related software.

Organization

April 20, 1998, co-organizer with Eric Paterson, CFDSHIP-IOWA, 1st Users Group Meeting, attended by members of government labs, academia, and industry.

July 15, 2003, co-organizer with Pablo Carrica, CFDSHIP-IOWA, 2nd Users Group Meeting, attended by members of government labs, academia, and industry.

Reviewer

Journal of Computational Physics

Journal of Fluids Engineering

Journal of Flow, Turbulence, and Combustion

Journal of Ship Research

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Wilson R., Carrica, P., and Stern F., “URANS Simulation for a High-Speed Transom Stern Ship with Breaking Waves,” Int. J. of CFD, to appear 2006.

2. Wilson R., Carrica, P., and Stern F., "Unsteady RANS Method for Ship Motions with Application to Roll for a Surface Combatant," Computers and Fluids, to appear 2006.

3. Carrica, P., Wilson R., and Stern F., “Unsteady RANS Simulation for Forward Speed Diffraction of a Surface Combatant,” Computers and Fluids, to appear 2006.

4. Carrica, P., Wilson R., and Stern F., “An Unsteady Single-Phase Level Set Method for Viscous Free Surface Flows,” Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids, to appear 2006.

5. Stern, F., Wilson, R., and Shao, J., “Quantitative Approach to V&V of CFD Simulations and Certification of CFD Codes with Examples,” Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids, to appear 2006.

6. Weymouth, G. Wilson R., and Stern F., “RANS CFD Prediction of Pitch and Heave Ship Motions in Head Seas,” Journal Ship Research, Vol. 49(2), June, 2005, pp. 80-97.

7. Wilson R., Shao J., and Stern F., “Discussion: “Criticisms of the “Correction Factor” Verification Method” (Roache, P., 2003, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 125, pp. 732-733),” ASME J. Fluids Eng, Vol. 126, No. 4, 2004.

8. Stern F., and Wilson, R., “Author’s Closure,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., Vol. 124(3), 2002, pp.810-811.

9. Wilson R., Stern F., Coleman H., and Paterson E., “Comprehensive Approach to Verification and Validation of CFD Simulations-Part2: Application for RANS Simulation of A Cargo/Container Ship,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., Vol. 123, Dec. 2001, pp. 803-810.

10. Stern F., Wilson R., Coleman H., and Paterson E., “Comprehensive Approach to Verification and Validation of CFD Simulations-Part 1: Methodology and Procedures,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., Vol. 123, Dec. 2001, pp. 793-802.

11. Demuren A., Wilson R., and Carpenter M., “Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows, Part I: Theoretical Development”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 39(3), March 2001, pp. 207-230.

12. Wilson R., Demuren A., and Carpenter M., “Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows, Part II: Applications”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 39(3), March 2001, pp. 231-255.

13. Wilson R., Demuren A., “Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Jets with Rectangular Cross-Section”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 120, June 1998, pp. 285-290.

14. Wilson R., Demuren A., “Numerical Simulations of Two-Dimensional, Spatially Developing Mixing Layers”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, 29, 1996, pp. 485-509.

15. Demuren A., Wilson R., “Estimating Uncertainty in Computations of Two-Dimensional Separated Flows”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 216, June 1994, pp. 216-220.

Conference Proceedings

1. Wilson R. and Stern F., “URANS Simulations For A High-Speed Transom Stern Ship With Breaking Waves,” to appear, Proceedings of FAST 2005, 8th Int. Conf. on Fast Sea Transportation, June 27-30, 2005, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

2. Sakamoto N., Wilson R., and Stern F., “RANS Simulations for High Speed Ships in Deep and Shallow Water,” to appear, Proceedings of FAST 2005, 8th Int. Conf. on Fast Sea Transportation, June 27-30, 2005, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

3. Kandasamy, M., Xing, T., Wilson, R., and Stern, F., “Vortical and Turbulent Structures and Instabilities in Unsteady Free-Surface Wave Induced Separation,” Proceedings of 5th Osaka Colloquium, March 14-15, 2005, Osaka Japan.

4. Wilson R., Carrica P., and Stern F., “RANS Simulation for a Container Ship using a Single Phase Level Set and Overset Grid Method,” Proceedings of CFD Tokyo 2005 Workshop, Tokyo Japan, March 2005.

5. Carrica P., Wilson R., and Stern F., “Unsteady RANS Simulation for Forward Speed Diffraction of a Surface Combatant,” Proceedings of CFD Tokyo 2005 Workshop, Tokyo Japan, March 2005.

6. Miller, R. Wilson, R., and Carrica, P., Gorski, J., “RANS Simulation of a Naval Surface Combatant Using a Single-Phase Level Set Method with Overset Grids,” Proceedings of the CFD Workshop Tokyo 2005, Tokyo, Japan, 9-11, March 2005.

7. Tahara, Y., Wilson, R., and Carrica, P., “Comparison of Free Surface Capturing and Tracking Approaches in Application to Modern Container Ship and Prognosis for Extension to Self-Propulsion Simulator,” Proceedings of the CFD Workshop Tokyo 2005, Tokyo, Japan, 9-11, March 2005.

8. Wilson, R., Carrica, P., Hyman, M., and Stern, F., “A Steady and Unsteady Level-Set Method for Large Amplitude Ship Motions and Maneuvering,” Proceedings 25th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, St Johns, Canada, August 2004.

9. Stern, F., Wilson, R., and Shao, J., “Quantitative Approach to V&V of CFD Simulations and Certification of CFD Codes with Examples,” Proceedings International Symposium Advances Computational Heat Transfer (Invited paper), Kirkenes-Bergen, Norway, 19-24 April 2004.

10. Xing, T., Kandasamy, M., Wilson, R. and Stern, F., “DES and RANS of Unsteady Free-surface Flows,” 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 5-8 Jan 2004, Division for Fluid Dynamics.

11. Weymouth G., Wilson, R., and Stern, F., “RANS CFD Prediction of Pitch and Heave Ship Motions in Head Seas,” Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conf. on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Busan, S. Korea, September 2003.

12. Stern F., Wilson R., Longo J., Carrica P., Xing T., Tahara Y., Simenson C., Kim J., Shao J., Irvine M., Kandysamy M., Ghosh S., and Weymouth G., “Paradigm for Development of Simulation Based Design for Ship Hydrodynamics,” Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conf. on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Busan, S. Korea, September 2003.

13. Stern, F., Wilson, R., and Shao, J., “Statistical Approach to CFD Code Certification,” AIAA 2003-6345, Applied Aerodynamics Special Session on CFD Uncertainty, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 6-9 January 2003.

14. Wilson R. and Stern F., “Unsteady RANS Simulation of a Surface Combatant with Roll Motion”, Proceedings of 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukuoka, Japan, July 8-13, 2002.

15. Wilson R. and Stern F., “Verification and Validation for RANS Simulation of a Naval Surface Combatant,” 40th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, AIAA 2002-0904, Jan. 2002.

16. Wilson R., Paterson E., and Stern F., “Verification and Validation of a Naval Combatant,” Proceedings of CFD Gothenburg 2000 Workshop, Gothenburg Sweden, September 2000.

17. Demuren A., Wilson R., “Streamwise Vorticity Generation in Laminar and Turbulent Jets”, Proceedings of the 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, FEDSM99-6807, San Francisco, July 18-23, 1999.

18. Stern F., Wilson R., Coleman H., and Paterson E., “Verification and Validation of CFD Simulations”, Proceedings of the 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, FEDSM99-6913, San Francisco, July 18-23, 1999.

19. Wilson R., Paterson E., Leighton R., Longo J., and Stern F., “Unsteady Modeling of a Naval Combatant in Head Waves: RANS CFD and EFD”, Proceedings of 22nd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Washington D.C., August 9-14, 1998.

20. Wilson R. and Demuren A., “On the Origin of Streamwise Vorticity in Complex Turbulent Jets”, Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM98-5004, Washington D.C., June 21-25, 1998.

21. Paterson E., Wilson R., and Stern F., “Verification/Validation of Steady Flow RANS CFD for Naval Combatant”, Proceedings of 1st Symposium on Marine Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Washington D.C., May 1998.

22. Wilson R. and Demuren A., “Large-Eddy Simulation of Complex Turbulent Jets”, Proceedings of ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM97-5214, Vancouver BC, Canada, June 1997.

23. Wilson R. and Demuren A., “Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Jets with Rectangular Cross-Section”, Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FED-Vol. 238(3), San Diego, California, July 1996, pp. 121-128.

24. Wilson R. and Demuren A., “Estimating Uncertainty in Computations of Two-Dimensional Separated Flows”, Proceedings of the Quantification of Uncertainty in Computational Fluid Dynamics, FED-Vol 158, Washington D.C., June 1993, pp. 9-18.

25. Wilson R., “On the Prediction of Multigrid Efficiency Through Local Mode Analysis”, Proceedings of Sixth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, Part 2, eds. N. Melson, T. A. Manteuffel, and S. F. McCormick, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 1993, pp. 679-689.