COMSOL Conference 2007 Boston

User Presentation Schedule

Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pm

Bioengineering - Friday 10:30 - 12:15 pmModerator: Dr. Steven Conrad, LSU
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
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
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
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.

Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pm

NASA Tech Briefs Multiphysics Session - Friday 1:30 - 3:15 pmModerator: Joseph T. Pramberger, NASA Tech Briefs
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.
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
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
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

Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pm

Education - Friday 4:00 - 5:40 pmModerator: Dr. Guigen Zhang, University of Georgia
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
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
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
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
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

Saturday 9:00 - 10:30

Chemical Engineering II - Saturday 9:00 - 10:30
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
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
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

Saturday 10:45-12:15

MEMS and Microfluidics II - Saturday 10:45-12:15
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
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
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

Date: October 4-6

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