Ayodeji Demuren

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

(B.S., Ph.D., Imperial College, London)

Tel: (757) 683-6363
Fax: (757) 683-5344
Email: ademuren@odu.edu

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CONTENTS

Awards
Fields of Interest
Current Research Projects
Recent Publications
Professional Affiliations
Courses I Teach

Awards

1995 Lewis F. Moody Award for the best paper presented to the ASME Fluids Engineering Division

Fields of Interest

Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Turbulence Modeling, Computational Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Processing.

Recent Publications

• Wang B., Demuren A.O., Gyuricsko E., and Hui H., "An Experimental Study of Pulsed Micro Flows Pertinent to Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Therapy" , Experiments in Fluids, Vol 51, 2011, pp. 65-74.
  
  
• Ahonsi M.O., Banko T.J., Doane S.R., Demuren A.O., Copes W.E., and Hong C., "Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure, Agitation and CO2 stress on Phytophthora nicotianae Zoospore Survival" , Pesticide Management Science, Vol. 66, 2010, pp. 696-704.
  
  
• Demuren A.O., and Grotjans H., "Buoyancy-Driven Flows - Beyond the Boussinesq Approximation" , Numerical Heat Transfer , Part B, Vol. 56, 2009, pp. 1-22.
  
  
• Demuren A.O., Wilson R.V., and Carpenter M., "Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows, Part I: Theoretical Development", Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2001, pp. 207--230.
  
  
• Wilson R.V., Demuren A.O., and Carpenter M., "Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows, Part II: Applications", Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2001, pp. 231--255.
  
  
• Wilson, R.V., and Demuren, A.O., "Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Jets with Rectangular Cross-Section" , ASME, Journal of Fluids Engineering , Vol. 120, June 1998.
  
  
• Demuren, A.O., and Ibraheem, S.O., "A Multigrid Method for the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations", AIAA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, 1998, pp. 31--37.
  
  
• Demuren, A.O., "Modeling Jets in a Cross Flow," Chapter 13.4.2, In Handbook of Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Machinery, Eds. J.A. Schetz and A.E. Fuhs, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 1, 1996, pp. 787--807.
  
  
• Ibraheem, S.O., and Demuren, A.O., "On Bi-grid Local Mode Analysis of Solution Techniques for 3--D Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations", Journal of Computational Physics , Vol. 125, 1996, pp. 354--377.
  
  
• Wizman, V., Laurence, D., Kanniche, M., Durbin, P., and Demuren, A.O., "Modeling Near Wall Effects in Second Moment Closures by Elliptic Relaxation", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 17, 1996, pp. 255--266.
  
  
• Wilson, R.V., and Demuren, A.O., "Two-Dimensional Spatially Developing Mixing Layers", Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 29, 1996, pp. 485--509.
  
  
  

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA
  
  
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME
  
  
• Member, American Physical Society APS
  
  
• Fellow, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK IMechE
  
  

Courses I Teach

Undergraduate Courses

ME 303 Mechanics of Fluids Class Website
ME 315 Heat and Mass Transfer Class Website
ME 340 Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering Class Website
ME 406 Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
ME 414 Introduction to Gas Dynamics
ME 440/540 Introduction to Finite Element Analysis Class Website

Graduate Courses

ME 608 Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering I Class Website
ME 618 Convection Heat Transfer
ME 713 Turbulent Flow I

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