| Bioengineering - Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pmModerator: Dr. Steven Conrad, LSU | |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Comparison of artificial kidney modes using a finite element model of fluid and solute transport
Steven Conrad Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Modeling Soft Physiological Tissues and Determining Their Material Parameters via
Optimization Methods using COMSOL Multiphysics and the Optimization Lab
Robert L. Spilker Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | Finite-element Modeling of Singlet Oxygen During Photodynamic Therapy
Timothy C. Zhu, Xiaodong Zhou Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:30 - 11:50 am | 3-D Multiphysics FEM Modeling to Optimize Local Drug Delivery in a Biohybrid Device Designed for Cell Transplant
Nicola Bocca, Camillo Ricordi, Norma S. Kenyon, Paul Latta, Peter Buchwald Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine |
| 11:50 - 12:10 pm | Assessment of the Imaging Quality in Breast Cancer Electrical Impedance Tomography with FEM Modeling
Lanbo Liu1, Leigh Soutter2 1 Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut 2 Physics Logic LLC |
| Chemical Engineering - Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pmModerator: Dr. Yan-Ming Li, Osram Sylvania | |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Modeling of Catalyst Deposition Profile Effects in an All Liquid PEM Fuel Cell MEA
George H. Miley, Philip Zhang, and Kyu-Jung Kim University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Controlled hydrogen peroxide decomposition for a SOFC oxidant source with a microscale packed bed reactor
E. Lennon12, A.A. Burke1, R.S. Besser2 1 Chemical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology 2 Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | COMSOL Validation Progress on Supercritical Hydrogen Heat Transfer
James D. Freels Research Reactors Division, ORNL |
| 11:30 - 11:50 am | Modeling reactive processes in microwave plasmas for materials processing: Silicon nitride deposition
Jozef Brcka1, Son Yung Kang2, Peter Ventzek2 1Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc., Technology Development Center, Austin TX 2Tokyo Electron Ltd., Yamanashi, Japan |
| 11:50 - 12:10 pm | Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of the Catalytic Reactor for Methanol Oxidative Dehydrogenation
Tarek M. Moustafa, Mohamed Abou-Elreesh and Seif-Eddeen K. Fateen Chemical Engineering Department, Cairo University |
| Electromagnetic Design and Modeling - Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pmModerator: Dr. Markus Zahn, MIT | |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Nanoparticle Suspensions as Interactice MRI Contrast Agents
Padraig Cantillon-Murphy1, Elfar Adalsteinsson12, Markus Zahn1 1 Massachussetts Institute of Technology 2 MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Time Domain Analysis of Large-Signal Circuit-Based Fully Distributed Model for High-Frequency, Multiple-Finger FETs
M. Waliullah1, S. Goodnick2, S. M. El -Ghazaly3, A. Cidronali4, C. Toccafondi4 1 Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA, USA 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee 4 Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Florence, Italy |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | Dynamic Response Characteristics of a Novel Electrolyte Transistor
Michael Hollenbeck12, Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy23, Ronal Brower2, Robert Ewing2, Kenneth Stevens1 1 University of Utah 2 IFTA, Air Force Research Laboratory 3 Oakland University |
| 11:30 - 11:50 am | Magnetic Particle Motion in a Gradient Field
Usha K Veeramachaneni, Dr.R. Lloyd Carroll Chemistry Department, West Virginia University |
| 11:50 - 12:10 pm | Estimating the restivity of thin film multilayers using COMSOL multiphysics
Aditya Kalavagunta Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University |
| MEMS and Microfluidics - Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pmModerator: Dr. Carl Meinhart, UC Santa Barbara | |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Study of Nonlinear Effects in Electrokinetics
Gaurav Soni1, Todd M. Squires2, Carl D. Meinhart1 1Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, UC Santa Barbara 2Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Simulation of Clamped-Free and Clamped-Clamped Microbeams for Nonlinear Mechanical Switch Applications
Muhammet Uncuer, Bozidar Marinkovic, Hur Koser Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | Overcoming the Diffusion Barrier: Ultra-Fast Micro-Scale Mixing Via Ferrofluids
Leidong Mao, Hur Koser Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University |
| 11:30 - 11:50 am | Modeling Instabilities in Volatile Liquid Films Flowing over Locally-Heated Substrates Using COMSOL
Naveen Tiwari, Jeffrey M. Davis Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 11:50 - 12:10 pm | Finite-element Methods for Determining Ideal Frequencies for Synthetic Jet Formation in Small Cavities
Henri Akouka, Jeff Wright, Tom Merrill MicroDose Technologies Inc. |
| NASA Tech Briefs Multiphysics Session - Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pmModerator: Joseph T. Pramberger, NASA Tech Briefs | |
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| 1:30 - 1:50 pm | A Model for Direct Thermal Printing
William T. Vetterling, Brian Busch, Chien Liu ZINK Imaging, Inc. |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm | Thermal Modeling of a Friction Bonding Process
John Dixon1, Douglas Burkes2, Pavel Medvedev2 1Clemson University, Clemson University 2Idaho National Laboratory |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm | Geometrical Optimization of Pyrophosphate Concentration in Thermosequencing Platform for DNA Sequencing
H. Esfandyarpour12, B. Zheng1, R.F.W. Pease1, R.W. Davis2 1 1 Center for Integrated Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 2 Stanford Genome Technology Center |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm | Reaction and Thermal Modeling of a Packed Bed Reactor for Hydrogen Storage
Tyler Williams1, Keith Gazda1, Andrew Kindler2, Yuhong Huang2, Don Karner3, Jonathan Read4 1GreenMountain Engineering 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory 3ETEC 4ECOtality |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | Junction Temperature Simulation of Gallium-Nitride Green LED’s Using COMSOL
A. Chatterjee1, J. Senawiratne2, Y. Li2, M. Zhu2, Y. Xia2, W. Zhao2, J. L. Plawsky1 and C. Wetzel2 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2Future Chips Constellation and Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Computational Fluid Dynamics - Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pmModerator: Daniel Smith, COMSOL Inc. | |
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| 1:30 - 1:50 pm | Modeling a Ferrofluid in a Rotating Magnetic Field
Bruce A. Finlayson Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm | Modeling of Fluid-mechanical Instability in Pure-Mercury HID Lamps
Thomas D. Dreeben Osram Sylvania |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm | Study of Boussinesq Convection in a Water Calorimeter for Measuring the Absorbed Dose of Therapy-Level Radiation Beams
R. E. Tosh and H. H. Chen-Mayer National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm | Modeling of Two-Phase Flows
Kurt O. Lund ACES Systems |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | Stability Analysis of a Boiling Loop in Space
William Schlichting1, Richard T. Lahey, Jr.1, Michael Z. Podowski1, T.A. Ortega Gomez2 1Center for Multiphase Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Earth Science and Porous Media Flow - Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pmModerator: Dr. Jason McKenna, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center | |
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| 1:30 - 1:50 pm | The Simulation of Pore Scale Fluid Flow with Real World Geometries Obtained from X-Ray Computed Tomography
Walter Fourie1, Rajab Said2, Philippe Young3, David L. Barnes1 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska 2Simpleware, Ltd. UK 3School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter, UK |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm | Geothermal Water in Oil Reservoirs: A new 2D Model solved with COMSOL
Mario C. Suárez-Arriaga1, Fernando Samaniego2, Jochen Bundschuh3 1Faculty of Sciences Michoacan University (UMSNH), 22Faculty of Engineering National University of Mexico 3Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad ICE |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm | Modeling the heat pulse probe (HPP) in variably saturated porous media
Tamir Kamai, Jan W. Hopmans Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm | The Use of COMSOL for Integrated Hydrological Modeling
Ting Fong May Chui and David L. Freyberg Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | Currents, Sheaths and Potentials Profiles around RP Sensors and the Gondola in the Huygens Experiment
Roger Godard Royal Military College of Canada |
| Acoustics, Heat Transfer & Structural Analysis - Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pmModerator: Dr. Kyle Koppenhoefer, ACES | |
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| 1:30 - 1:50 pm | Acoustic Transparency of Non-homogeneous Plates (with repeating inclusions) using Periodic Structures Methodology
Anthony J. Kalinowski Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm | Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Analysis of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
Stefan Seelecke, Qifu Li Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm | Finite-element Modeling of Elastic Surface Modes and Single Biological Cells
Omar Falou1, J. Carl Kumaradas2, and Michael C. Kolios12 1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University 2Dept. of Physics, Ryerson University |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm | Boundary conditions for the diffusion model in room-acoustic prediction
Yun Jing, Ning Xiang Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | Development of a design and analysis methodolgy for snap-through prediction in hypersonic aircraft structures
Brendan Buholzer, Amit Shukla Department of Mechanical Engineer, Miami University |
| Education - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pmModerator: Dr. Guigen Zhang, University of Georgia | |
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| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | A Technique for the Quantitative Assessment of the Solution Quality on Particular Finite Elements in COMSOL Multiphysics
Matthias Gobbert Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 4:20 - 4:40 pm | Computational Fluid Exploration as an Engineering Teaching Tool
Marc K. Smith George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm | It Looked Great on Paper! - Use of COMSOL Multiphysics Software to Bridge the Gap between Hand Calculations and Experimental Results in Undergraduate Heat Transfer Education
Dr. Krishan Kumar Bhatia Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm | Teaching Computer-aided Modeling of Biomedical Processes in an Upper Level Undergraduate Course using COMSOL Multiphysics
V. Rakesh and A.K. Datta Dept. of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Capacitance and Inductance Matrices for Microstrip Lines
Sarhan M. Musa, Matthew N. O. Sadiku Prairie View A&M University |
| Multiphysics - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pm | |
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| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | A Hydrodynamic Model of the Chesapeake Bay in COMSOL
Reza Malek-Madani and Kevin McIlhany U. S. Naval Academy |
| 4:20 - 4:40 pm | FEM simulation of dielectrophoresis in nano-tubes sorting
V.Mathur1, J.Li1, J.Therrien2, W.D.Goodhue1 1Photonics Center, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm | Kinetics of carbon dioxide absorption into mixed aqueous solutions of MDEA and MEA based on using a laminar jet apparatus and a numerically solved absorption-rate/kinetic model
Mohamed Edali1, Ahmed Aboudheir2, Raphael Idem1 1Process Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Regina 2HTC Purenergy |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm | Chesapeake Bay Analysis using Time and Spatial Generalized Eigenfunctions
Kevin McIlhany, Reza Malek-Madani U.S. Naval Academy |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Electrostatic Screening Effects between Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Fast Transient Joule Heating during Field Emission
M. Dionne, J.-L. Meunier, S. Coulombe Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University |
| Microwave and RF - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pm | |
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| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | Modeling Effects of Structural Distortions on Air-Core Photonic Band-gap Fibers
Ming-Jun Li, James A. West, Karl W. Koch Science and Technology Division, Corning |
| 4:20 - 4:40 pm | Influence of geometric disorder on the band structure of a photonic crystal
Ilya Ponomarev1, Manfred Bayer2, Tom Reinecke1 1Naval Research Laboratory 2Universität Dortmund |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm | Modeling of Quantum Well and Cascade Semiconductor Lasers using 8-Band Schrödinger and Poisson Equation System
Mikhail V. Kisin Electrical Engineering, SUNY |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm | Analysis of small multi-element antennas using the eigenmode solver
Howard Stuart LGS, Bell Labs Innovations |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Optimization of a Photonic Crystal Waveguide Termination using the Geometry Projection Method and Comsol
Walter R. Frei Comsol, Inc. |
| AC/DC - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pm | |
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| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | 3D Modeling of a Differential Impedance Obstacle Detection Sensor for Horizontal Directional Drilling Operations
J.N. Shah1, A. Jaganathan1, E.N. Allouche1, M. Kieba2, C.J. Ziolkowski2 1Trenchless Technology Center, Louisiana Tech University 2Gas Technology Institute |
| 4:20 - 4:40 pm | Modeling of a Low Pressure Plasma Discharge
F. Jimenez, S.D. Ekpe and S.K. Dew Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm | Using Comsol Multiphysics to Model Induction Type Logging Tools: Can One Tell Right from Left?
Brian Oetiker, Barry Friedman, Hugh E. Hall Jr. Department of Physics, Sam Houston State University |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm | Grading of Electric Field by using Imbedded Foils in Rotating Machines
Emad Sharifi-Ghazivini, Edward Cherney, Shesha Jayaram Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Multiphysics Analysis for the Electromagnetic Vibration Absorber Using COMSOL
Yin He, Kefu Liu Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lakehead University |
| Material Science - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pm | |
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| 4:00 - 4:20 pm | Phononic Band Structures of Two-Dimensional Hypersonic Phononic Crystals
Cheong Yang Koh12, Taras Gorishnyy1, Edwin L. Thomas12 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering 2Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 4:40 - 4:40 pm | Numerical Simulation of Crystallinity Distribution Developed In the Extrusion of Thick Walled Polypropylene Pipe
R. D. Wilcox1, J. Collier2 1Chemistry Department, Lincoln Memorial University 2Chem. Eng. Department, Florida State University |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm | Modeling Materials through a Phase Transition: Using COMSOL Multiphysics and Applying Physics First Principles Techniques
Roger W. Pryor, Ph.D., VP Research, COMSOL Certified Consultant Pryor Knowledge Systems, Inc. |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm | A Finite Element Analysis of the Influence of Morphology on Barrier Properties of Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites
David L. Statler Jr., Rakesh K. Gupta Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Software Simulation of Electromagnetic Fields for Wood-Based Material Property Evaluation
Xiaojian Liu, Ph.D.1, Jilei Zhang1, J. Patrick Donohoe2 1Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University 2Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University |
| Chemical Engineering II - Saturday 9:00 - 10:30 | |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 am | Comparison of Darcy’s Law, the Brinkman Equation, the Modified N-S Equation and the Pure Diffusion Equation in PEM Fuel Cell Modeling
Xia Wang and ZhongYing Shi Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | 3D Modeling and Simulation of the Cooling Performance of Solid Cyclotron Targets
Miguel Avila-Rodriguez1, Jayden Sader1, Steve Mcquarrie12 1Edmonton PET Centre, Cross Cancer Research Institute, University of Alberta 2Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am | Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of an Egg
Vikas Kumar, Dheeraj Jonnalagadda, Jeyamkondan Subbiah, Harshavardhan Thippareddi Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | A Modeling Study of Diffusion Wear of Carbide Tools in Titanium Machining
M. Crosskey, E. Gutierrez-Miravete Department of Engineering and Science, Rensselaer at Hartford |
| Bioengineering II - Saturday 9:00 - 10:30 | |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 am | Modeling photothermolysis for optimizing laser treatments of vascular malformations
G. Shafirstein1, E. D. Bearden2, W. Bäumler3 1Department of Otolaryngology, Arkansas Children’s’ Hospital and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2Department of Information Technology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3Department of Dermatology, University of Regensburg |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | An Inverse Model for Estimating Arterial Wall Elasticity Using the Immersed Boundary Method
Aleksandar Jeremic, Tushar Gadkari McMaster University |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am | Compensating Spatial Variability of Quantity Index in 2D Electrical Impedance Tomography: Comsol Multiphysics Study
Sungho Oh, Rosalind Sadleir Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | Validation of vocal fold modeling assumptions through parametric modal analysis using COMSOL Script with MATLAB
Douglas Cook1, Eric Nauman1, Luc Mongeau2 1Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University 2Mechanical Engineering, McGill University |
| Multiphysics II - Saturday 9:00 - 10:30 | |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 am | Channels and Melting in Deformable Porous Media
S.L. Butler Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | An Analysis of the Thermal Effects of Focused Laser Beams on Steel
E. Rogers, E. Gutierrez-Miravete Department of Engineering and Science, Rensselaer at Hartford |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am | Numerical Modeling of CO2 Sequstration in a Caol-Bed with Variable Saturation
Guoxiang Liu, Andrei Smirnov West Virginia University |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | COMSOL Modelling and Simulation of PEM Fuel Cell’s Flow Channels
Eric Robalinho,Edgar F Cunha, Alexandre B Andrade, Martha L M Bejarano, Marcelo Linardi, Efraim Cekinski Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares |
| MEMS and Microfluidics II - Saturday 10:45-12:15 | |
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| 10:45 - 11:05 am | A Highly Efficient Cellular Manipulation and Sorting Platform
A. Rezzan Kose, B. Fisher, Hur Koser Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University |
| 11:05 - 11:25 am | Modeling Convective Heat Transfer under Laminar Flow of a Newtonian Fluid in Simple Geometries
B. Baron, E. Gutierrez-Miravete Department of Engineering and Science, Rensselaer at Hartford |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am | Implementation of Cable Theory of Neurophysiology in COMSOL
Ganapathy Narayanan Engineering Technology, University of Toledo |
| 11:45 - 12:05 pm | Exploitation of Laminar Flow for Cell-Based Assays
Michael F. Santillo1, Andrew G. Ewing2 1 Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University 2 Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University |
| Multiphysics III - Saturday 10:45-12:15 | |
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| 10:45 - 11:05 am | COMSOL-based numerical analysis of the electric field distribution during electrostatic deposition and piezo-response imaging of ultra-fine lead zirconate titanate fibers
Yu Wang and Jorge Santiago-Avilés Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:05 - 11:25 pm | Use of COMSOL Multiphysics in the inverse reflection seismology problem
Mandar Kulkarni, Ian Knowles Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 11:25 pm - 11:45 pm | Modeling Hydrodynamics of Real World Estuarine Systems
Prabin Paul, Vladimir Cvetkovic Royal Institute of Technology |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Modeling of fractional photothermolysis in dermatological applications
Reginald Eze, Anisur Rahman, Sunil Kumar Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic University |
| Bioengineering III - Saturday 10:45-12:15 | |
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| 10:45 - 11:05 am | 3D Modeling of Impedance Spectroscopy for Protein Detection in Nanoneedle Biosensors
Hesaam Esfandyarpour12, Akintunde I. Maiyegun1, Ronald W. Davis2 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University 2Stanford Genome Technology Center |
| 11:05 - 11:25 am | An Inverse Model for Estimating Arterial Wall Elasticity Using the Immersed Boundary Method
Aleksandar Jeremic, Tushar Gadkari McMaster University |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am | 3D Modeling of A Surface-Acoustic-Wave Based Sensor
Yeswanth L Rao1, Guigen Zhang123 1Micro/Nano Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, 2Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center 3 Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia |
| 11:45 - 12:05 pm | Use of COMSOL Multiphysics to develop a predictive software for food safety
Amit Halder1, Ashim Datta1, Glenn Black2, P. Michael Davidson2 1Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University 2Department of Food Science, University of Tennessee |