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National Science FoundationCombined Research and Curriculum DevelopmentMultiphase Transport Phenomena
Charles Petty (PI), Mei Zhuang (co-PI), George Chase (co-PI), Ram Mohan (co-PI), Marilyn Amey (project evaluator) |
Logo by Michael Skeggs |
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Performance Dates: Award Dates: First Year NSF Award: Second Year Award: NSF/REU Supplemental: MSU, UT, & UA Cash Match: MSU Supplemental: Total Two-Year Project Cost: |
December 1999 through January 2001 November 17, 1999 to November 16, 2001 $250,000 $250,000 First Year, $10,000 $125,000 $16,000 $651,000 |
Faculty & Postdoctoral Associates: Michigan State University
Charles A. Petty, Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Mei Zhuang, co-Principal Investigator and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Marilyn J. Amey, Senior Associate and Associate Professor of Education
André Bénard, Senior Associate and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Krishnamurthy Jayaraman, Senior Associate and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Steven M. Parks, Postdoctoral Associate
Shiwei (Michael) Shao, Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Students: Michigan State University
Sang-Yoon Kang, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, K. Jayaraman)
Figen Lacin, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Mei Zhuang)
Dilip Kumar Mandal, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, André Bénard)
Chinh T. Nguyen, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Charles Petty)
Dogan Seyyar, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty, Advisor, André Bénard)
Michael W. Shafer, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Dennis Miller)
Undergraduate Students: Michigan State University
Florin Radu Danca, Dean's Scholar in Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, K. Jayaraman)
Dina A. El-dein, Dean's Scholar in Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, Charles Petty)
Nicholas F. Lynn, Dean's Scholar in Mechanical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, Mei Zhuang)
Gregory Allen McColley, NSF/REU Scholar in Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, K. Jayaraman)
Julie A. Richards, Dean's Scholar in Mechanical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, André Bénard)
Andrew R. Yoder, Dean's Scholar in Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, Charles Petty)
Faculty: The University of Akron
George G. Chase, co-Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Thomas D. Radcliff, Senior Associate and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Edward A. Evans, Senior Associate and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Graduate Students: The University of Akron
Brian Raber, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, George Chase)
Hongmin Li, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty Advisors, Thomas Radcliff and Edward Evans)
Undergraduate Students: The University of Akron
Joshua Herron, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty Advisors, Thomas Radcliff and Edward Evans)
Seth Jentner, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, George Chase)
Michael T. Skeggs, NSF/REU Scholar in Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor, George Chase)
Faculty: The University of Tulsa
Ovadia Shoham, Senior Associate and Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Ram S. Mohan, Co-Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Siamack A. Shirazi, Senior Associate and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Keith D. Wisecarver, Senior Associate and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Graduate Students: The University of Tulsa
Ferhat Metin Erdal, Mechanical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Shiamack Shirazi)
Jin Wang, Chemical Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Keith Wisecarver)
Luis Gomez, Petroleum Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Ram Mohan & Ovadia Shoham)
Undergraduate Students: The University of Tulsa
Jose Severino, Petroleum Engineer (Faculty Advisor, Ram Mohan)
Other Technical Collaborators on the Project
Frederick Hall, UNIX Systems Analyst
Division of Engineering Computing Services
Michigan State University
Randy M. Russell, Web Curriculum Manager
Virtual University Technology Group
Michigan State University
NSF/CRCD Internet Course on Multiphase Transport Phenomena, Fall 2000
Student Participants (* non CRCD graduate students)
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Florin Danca (Chemical, MSU) Dina El-dein (Chemical, MSU) Alvin Goh* (Mechanical, MSU) Josh Herron (Mechanical, Akron) Seth Jentner (Chemical, Akron) Frank Jere* (Chemical, MSU) Chee Lum* (Mechanical, MSU) |
Nick Lynn (Mechanical, MSU) Gregory McColley (Chemical, MSU) Chris Saffron* (Chemical, MSU) Jose Severino (Petroleum, Tulsa) Mike Shafer* (Chemical, MSU) Mike Skeggs (Chemical, Akron) Jin Wang (Chemical, Tulsa) Andy Yoder (Chemical, MSU) |
Industrial Advisors and Mentors
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AEA Technology Engineering Software, Inc. Jeffery P. Henning Bethel Park, PA Bechtel Technology and Consulting Jon Berkoe San Francisco, CA Chevron Petroleum Technology Company Gene E. Kouba (Mentor) Houston, TX Dow Chemical Paul Gillis Freeport, Texas Dupont Central Research & Development Karsten Keller Wilmington, DE Eastman Chemical Company Kevin J. Fontenot (Mentor) Kingsport, TN ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Stephen L. Lyons Houston, TX |
Fluent Inc. Barbara Hutchings and Ahmad H. Haidari Lebanon, NH ICEM CFD Engineering Brigette Rosendall (now with Bechtel) San Francisco, CA Krebs Engineers Mark E. Hoyack and Tim Olson (Mentors) Tucson, Arizona Pharmacia Corporation Mark Widman (Mentor) Kalamazoo, MI The Procter & Gamble Company Savas Aydore Cincinnati, OH The Trane Company Ray Rite (Mentor) La Crosse, Wisconsin |
2.1 Major Activities: Project Milestones and Project Calendar
Pre-Award Activities
September 28, 1999: George Chase and Charles Petty meet with Mary Poats of NSF to discuss the possibility of an NSF award.
October 1999: Professor Marilyn Amey of the College of Education reviews the NSF/CRCD proposal and agrees to join the project as an evaluator.
November 2, 1999: University/Industry pre-award breakfast meeting; Annual AIChE Meeting, Dallas, Texas; Attendees included Chase (Akron), Chen (AEA), Lyons (Mobil), Parks (MSU), Petty (MSU), Shao (MSU), and Wisecarver (Tulsa).
November 17, 1999: Notice received that the NSF/CRCD two-year project will be fully funded: $500,000 (NSF); $125,000 (25% cash match from MSU/UA/UT); supplemental cash match of $16,000 from MSU to support Professor Amey's participation.
First Quarter (December-February)
December 1999 -February 2000: MSU, UA, and UT faculty recruit undergraduate students for the first-year NSF/CRCD curriculum development project (six MSU students, three Akron students, and one Tulsa student).
December 14, 1999: Virtual University Technology Group at Michigan State University agrees to support the development of an NSF/CRCD Internet course on multiphase transport phenomena. This is a significant in kind contribution to the NSF/CRCD project. Participants at this meeting included: Paul Hunt (Vice Provost, Libraries, Computing, and Technology), Robert Church (Acting Vice Provost, University Outreach), Loraine Hudson (co-Director, Virtual University Team and Digital Information Group), Mei Zhuang (Mechanical Engineering), Charles Petty (Chemical Engineering), and Anthony Wojcik (Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering).
December 23, 1999: Draft of an Intellectual Property Agreement forwarded to The University of Akron and The University of Tulsa for administrative review.
January 2000: Michigan State University housing agrees to host the NSF/CRCD 2000 CFD Summer Camp, August 2000.
January 2000: The Division of Engineering Computing Services agrees to provide technical support and training for the CFD Summer Camp. This is a significant in kind contribution to the project.
January 19, 2000: Meeting with the Virtual University Technology Group to establish production schedule for the NSF/CRCD curriculum development project.
February 7, 2000: NSF/CRCD web site (http://www.eng-mtp.vu.msu.edu/web/) established by Randy Russell, Web-Based Curriculum Manager, Virtual University Technology Group. This web site, which supports the Internet course on multiphase transport phenomena, facilitates communication among the 43 or more NSF/CRCD faculty participants, students, and industrial participants (see Section 1) by providing photographs, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, web page connections, and a WebTalk bulletin board.
February 11, 2000: Telephone conference call with UA and UT related to Intellectual Property Agreement.
February 2000: Proposal to the National Science Foundation for supplemental NSF/REU Fellowships; NSF/REU funds ($10,000) available to support G. McColley (MSU) and M. Skeggs (Akron).
February 2000: Academic equipment grant proposal submitted to Sun Microsystems for ten Ultra 10 workstations; Sun Microsystems provides a two-for-one grant for workstation acquisition (five for MSU, three for Tulsa, and two for Akron).
February 2000: Petty meets new industrial participants at ASME/Petroleum Division ETCE 2000 Meeting in New Orleans; Fluent Inc. agrees to serve on advisory board.
February 2000: Request for first-year CFD design topics and industrial mentor volunteers. This is a significant in kind contribution to the NSF/CRCD project.
February 2000: First-year subawards issued to The University of Akron and The University of Tulsa.
Second Quarter (March-May)
March - May 11, 2000: Faculty participants develop material for May 11 Advisory Board Meeting.
March-May 2000: Steve Parks developed and tested a CFD educational transport phenomena problem with Yo Kim, an undergraduate honors college student at MSU. This CFD example problem was used as an instructional tool in the NSF/CRCD Summer Workshop (August 2000). The problem is also featured as an example on the NSF/CRCD web site (www.vu.msu.edu/preview/eng-mtp). Mr. Kim is now participating in the NSF/CRCD project as a graduate student.
March - May 2000: Faculty participants initiate nine academic case studies related to multiphase transport phenomena in support of the Internet course offering. Interim reports on these projects were presented at the May 2000 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting and the August 2000 CFD Summer Workshop. The titles and developers of these case studies are listed in Section 2.2.2.
May 11, 2000: Faculty Planning Session at Michigan State University (see Section 2.2.3 below).
May 12, 2000: Industrial Advisory Board Meeting at Michigan State University. Industrial Attendees included: Jeffery Henning, AEA Technology; Paul Gillis, Dow Chemical; Kevin Fontenot, Eastman Chemical; Stephen Lyons, ExxonMobil; Barbara Hutchings, Fluent; Brigette Rosendall, ICEM CFD Engineering (now with Bechtel); Mark Hoyack and Tim Olson, Krebs Engineers; Mark Widman and Doug Jonas, Pharmacia; and Ray Rite, Trane.
May 2000: Industrial case studies and industrial mentors selected for the first round of CFD design projects for undergraduates. These ongoing projects were launched during the CFD Summer Workshop in August. See Sections 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 for additional details.
May 2000: AEA Technology Engineering Software, Inc. trained the following postdoctoral and graduate student mentors in the use of CFX software: F. Erdal (Tulsa), F. Lacin (MSU), S. Parks (MSU), B. Raber (Akron), and M. Shao (MSU); Bethel Park, PA. This is a significant in kind contribution to the NSF/CRCD project.
Third Quarter (June- August)
June 2000: Ten Sun Microsystems Ultra 10 workstations ordered for the NSF/CRCD group (five to MSU; three to Tulsa; two to Akron). The workstations were delivered in September 2000.
June-July, 2000: S. Parks further developed and tested CFD training material for the CFD summer workshop with the assistance of F. Lacin, S. Shao, and undergraduate students at MSU (Danca, El-dein, Lynn, McColley, Richards, and Yoder).
July 19, 2000: Faculty submitted an NSF/IGERT pre-proposal in support of a continuation of the NSF/CRCD initiative on multiphase transport phenomena.
August 11-18, 2000: MTP/CFD Summer Workshop and MTP Symposium at Michigan State University (see Section 2.3 below).
August 16, 2000 to February 2001: CFD design projects were launched during the summer workshop. A brief abstract of each project is given in Section 2.2.5 below. A progress report will be placed on the web site for industrial review in February 2001. These projects will be further developed by graduate student/faculty closure teams and organized as CFD case study examples for the multiphase transport phenomena Internet offering July-August 2001.
Fourth Quarter (September-November)
September 25-28, 2000: Fluent, Inc. provided specialized CFD training for the following postdoctoral and graduate student mentors in the use of Fluent software: L. Gomez (Tulsa), F. Lacin (MSU), S. Parks (MSU), Hongmin Li (Akron), and M. Shao (MSU); Ann Arbor, Michigan. This was a significant in kind contribution to the NSF/CRCD project.
September11-November17, 2000: First offering of an Internet course on Multiphase Transport Phenomena (see Section 2.3 for additional details).
October 2-3, 2000: C. Petty and M. Amey attend NSF/CRCD Annual Meeting, Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C.
Fifth Quarter (December-February)
December 2000-January 26, 2001: Faculty participants prepare final NSF/IGERT proposal in support of a continuation of the NSF/CRCD initiative on multiphase transport phenomena.
January - February 2001: Randy Russell, the Web-Based Curriculum Manager assigned to the NSF/CRCD project by the Virtual University Technology Group at Michigan State University, has established a preview page for the NSF/CRCD project (www.vu.msu.edu/preview/eng-mtp). This web site provides a means to disseminate completed project results and to recruit students for 2002. It also provides password entry into the course Web site presently undergoing b-testing (http://www.eng-mtp.vu.msu.edu/web/).
February 2001: The results developed by the undergraduate design teams during the first year will be posted on the NSF/CRCD web site for industrial review.
Sixth Quarter (March- May)
March-May 2001: Chase, Mohan, Petty, Parks, and Zhuang will develop revisions to the MTP Internet Course. This material will be reviewed by industrial advisors, June 6-7.
March - May 2001: Faculty participants and graduate students will complete academic case studies. This material will be reviewed by industrial advisors, June 6-7.
March- June 2001: Graduate students and faculty teams will develop a second round of results for the industrial case studies initiated by the undergraduate teams during the first year. These CFD case studies will be placed on the preview NSF/CRCD web site by the end of June (see Section 2.2.6 for additional details).
Seventh Quarter (June- July)
June 1-3 & 7-8, 2001: Faculty Planning and Review Session at Michigan State University.
June 4 -5, 2001: NSF/CRCD CFD Summer Workshop at Michigan State University.
June 6-7, 2001: Industrial Advisory Board Meeting & NSF/CRCD Multiphase Transport Phenomena Symposium, Kellogg Center, Michigan State University.
June -July 2001: Faculty and graduate student mentors will organize the final draft of the MTP topical lectures for the NSF/CRCD Internet Course offering in July and August.
Eighth Quarter (August- October)
July 2 - August 16, 2001: NSF/CRCD Multiphase Transport Phenomena Internet Course (second offering by MSU University Outreach and MSU Virtual University Technology Group).
September-October 2001: Preparation of final project report to the National Science Foundation.
October 2001: C. Petty and M. Amey will attend the NSF/CRCD Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2.2. Major Findings
| 2.2.1 | Steve Parks developed and tested a CFD educational transport phenomena problem with
Yo Kim, an undergraduate honors college student at MSU. This CFD example problem was used as an
instructional tool in the NSF/CRCD Summer Workshop (August 2000). The problem is also featured
as an example on the NSF/CRCD web site (www.vu.msu.edu/preview/eng-mtp). Mr. Kim is now
participating in the NSF/CRCD project as a graduate student.
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Faculty participants initiate nine academic case studies related to multiphase transport phenomena in support of the Internet course offering. Interim reports on these projects were presented at the May 2000 Industrial Advisory Board Meeting and the August 2000 CFD Summer Workshop. The results of these academic case studies will be posted on the NSF/CRCD web site in June 2000. The titles and developers of these case studies are listed below.
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Michigan State University hosted a faculty planning session on May 11, 2000. Participants included: Chase and Radcliff from Akron; Mohan, Shiamack, and Wisecarver from Tulsa; Amey, Benard, Parks, Petty, Shao, and Zhuang from MSU. The following five objectives for the two-year project were identified:
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| 2.2.4 |
Michigan State University hosted an Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on May 12, 2000. Industrial participants included: Jeffery Henning, AEA Technology; Paul Gillis, Dow Chemical; Kevin Fontenot, Eastman Chemical; Stephen Lyons, ExxonMobil; Barbara Hutchings, Fluent; Brigette Rosendall, ICEM CFD Engineering (now with Bechtel); Mark Hoyack and Tim Olson, Krebs Engineers; Mark Widman and Doug Jonas, Pharmacia; and Ray Rite, Trane. The following Industrial case studies and industrial mentors were selected for the first round of CFD design projects. These ongoing projects were launched during the CFD Summer Workshop in August. The titles of these case studies are listed below: Mixing of Suspensions in a Tank -- Pharmacia |
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CFD design projects were launched during the summer workshop (August 16, 2000). A brief abstract of each project follows. A progress report will be placed on the web site for review in February 2001. These projects will be further developed by graduate student/faculty closure teams and organized as CFD case study examples for the multiphase transport phenomena Internet course offering, July-August 2001.
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March- June 2001: Graduate students and faculty teams will develop a second round of results for the industrial case studies initiated by the undergraduate teams during the first year. These case studies will be placed on the NSF/CRCD web site by the end of June 2001. The closure design teams are as follows:
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2.3 Opportunities for Training and Development
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AEA Technology Engineering Software, Inc. provided CFD training for the following postdoctoral and graduate student mentors in the use of CFX software: F. Erdal (Tulsa), F. Lacin (MSU), S. Parks (MSU), B. Raber (Akron), and M. Shao (MSU); Bethel Park, PA., May 2000. | ||||||||||||||||
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Fluent, Inc. also provided specialized CFD training for the following postdoctoral and graduate student mentors in the use of Fluent software: L. Gomez (Tulsa), F. Lacin (MSU), S. Parks (MSU), Hongmin Li (Akron), and M. Shao (MSU); Ann Arbor, MI, September 2000. This was a significant in kind contribution to the NSF/CRCD project. | ||||||||||||||||
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Michigan State University hosted a one-week MTP/CFD Summer Workshop and a one-day MTP Symposium during the period August 11-18, 2000. Faculty and student participants included:
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2.4 Outreach Activities
An NSF/CRCD Internet course on Multiphase Transport Phenomena was offered during the period September11- November17, 2000. This experimental course was restricted to NSF/CRCD students and selected graduate students at MSU (three virtual contact hours per week for 10 weeks; 2 academic credits).
Student participants (* denotes graduate students, others are undergraduates): Florin Danca (Chemical, MSU), Dina El-dein (Chemical, MSU), Alvin Goh* (Mechanical, MSU), Josh Herron (Mechanical, Akron), Seth Jentner (Chemical, Akron), Frank Jere* (Chemical, MSU), Chee Lum* (Mechanical, MSU), Nick Lynn (Mechanical, MSU), Gregory McColley (Chemical, MSU), Chris Saffron* (Chemical, MSU), Jose Severino (Petroleum, Tulsa), Mike Shafer* (Chemical, MSU), Mike Skeggs (Chemical, Akron), Jin Wang* (Chemical, Tulsa), and Andy Yoder (Chemical, MSU).
The following topical lectures were offered. This material is presently undergoing revisions and will be open to non-CRCD student during the 2001 Summer Semester.
Topic I: Multiphase Transport Phenomena Fundamentals
September 11- September 29, 2000
Charles A. Petty, Steven M. Parks, and Mei Zhuang
Michigan State University
Topic II: Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Pattern Prediction
October 2 - October 20, 2000
Ram S. Mohan and Ovadia Shoham
The University of Tulsa
Topic III: Flow in Porous Media
October 23 - November 10, 2000
George G. Chase
The University of Akron
3.1 Presentations and News Events
"Multiphase Transport Phenomena Course Surges Beyond University Walls", EVENTS, No.147, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, February 2000.
"NSF/CRCD Multiphase Transport Phenomena: The Use of Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamic Tools to Support Engineering Design", presented by S. Parks and M. Shao, Michigan State University Faculty Computer Fair, March 29, 2000.
"NSF Combined Research Curriculum Development on Multiphase Transport Phenomena", presented by Charles Petty, North Central American Society for Engineering Education, Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, March 31, 2000.
"NSF/CRCD Multiphase Transport Phenomena Curriculum Development", presented by C. Petty, Poster Session on Frontiers in Chemical Education, Pasadena Room, AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA., November 13, 2000.
"NSF-CRCD Project on Multiphase Transport Phenomena", to be presented by R. Mohan, XXI Oklahoma AIAA ASME Symposium, The University of Tulsa, February 24, 2001.
"NSF/CRCD: Multiphase Transport Phenomena", to be presented by George Chase, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24 -27, 2001.
3.2 Web Sites
Randy Russell, the Web-Based Curriculum Manager assigned to the NSF/CRCD project by the Virtual University Technology Group at Michigan State University, has established a preview page for the NSF/CRCD project (www.vu.msu.edu/preview/eng-mtp). This web site provides a means to disseminate completed project results and to recruit students for 2002. It also provides password entry into the Internet course site presently undergoing b-testing (http://www.eng-mtp.vu.msu.edu/web/). The web site also facilitates communication among the 43 or more NSF/CRCD faculty participants, students, and industrial participants (see Section 1) by providing photographs, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, web page connections, and a WebTalk bulletin board.
