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Dr. David P. Schmidt

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director

 

David Schmidt210B Marston Hall
University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
E-mail: schmidt@acad.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-1393
Fax: (413) 545-1027

 

Education:
B.S., North Carolina State University, 1992;
M.S., Stanford University, 1993;
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997

Research Interests: Sprays, cavitation, and other multiphase flows

Awards & Honors:

  • Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automotive Engineering, 2009.
  • Awarded Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna, 2006.
  • Best Paper in Conference, ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division, 2003.
  • College of Engineering Commencement Speaker, 2003.
  • Student-selected Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Year, 2003.
  • Student-selected Mechanical Engineering Advisor of the Year, 2003.
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2002.

Select Archival Publications:

  • Shaoping Quan , Jing Lou, David P. Schmidt, “Modeling Merging and Breakup in the Moving Mesh Interface Tracking Method for Multiphase Flow Simulations,” Journal of Computational Physics, in press, 2009.
  • J. Lee, R. Madabhushi, C. Fotache, S. Gopalakrishnan, , and D. Schmidt, “Flashing Flow of Superheated Jet Fuel,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, in press, 2009.
  • Shaoping Quan and David Schmidt, "A moving mesh interface tracking method for 3D incompressible two-phase flows," Journal of Computational Physics, 221(2) , 2007.
  • Shaoping Quan and David Schmidt, "Direct Numerical Study of a Liquid Droplet Impulsively Accelerated by Gaseous Flow,"  Physics of Fluids, 18, 102103, 2006.
  • X. Shan, D. Schmidt, and J. Watkins, "Study of Natural Convection in Supercritical CO2 Cold Wall Reactors: Simulations and Experiments," Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 40(1), 2006.
  • Matthew J. Frain, David P. Schmidt, Yong-Le Pan, and Richard Chang, "Selective Classification and Concentration of Flowing Aerosols," J. of Aerosol Science and Technology, 40(3) , 2006.
  • Shuhai Hou and David P. Schmidt, "Adaptive Collision Meshing and Satellite Droplet Formation in Spray Simulations," Int. J. of Multiphase Flow, 32(8), 2006.

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