Gary E. Pawlas
Instructor
and Assistant Director
Industry/University Cooperative Project
Center
(303) 492-2416
Gary.Pawlas@Colorado.EDU
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. Engineering Science, University of Toledo, 1991
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1983
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1981
Professional Recognition
- US Patent #7,114,517: High purity fluid delivery system, issued October 3, 2006.
- US Patent #7,005,019: Manufacturing flow meters having a flow tube made of a fluoropolymer substance, issued February 28, 2006.
- US Patent #6,776,053: Flowmeter for the precision measurement of an ultra-pure material flow, issued August 17, 2004
- US Patent #6,606,917: High purity Coriolis mass flow controller, issued August 19, 2003.
- US Patent #6,249,752: Vibrating conduit parameter sensors, operating methods and computer program productors utilizing normal modal decomposition, issued June 19, 2001.
Research Interests
- Wind Energy
- Appropriate & Sustainable Technologies
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Heat Transfer
My primary focus is sustaining and improving the quality of the Senior Design Project program run under the auspices of the Industry/University Cooperative Project Center. As time permits I will be developing a research program in Wind Energy focused on reliability and life issues.
Selected Publications
- T. Pankratz and G. Pawlas, "Improved Mass Flowrate Measurement of Gases Using Coriolis Mass Flowmeters", presented at Sensors 1995, Nuremberg, Germany, May 1995.
- T. Patten and G. Pawlas, "Use of Coriolis Meters in Gas Applications", presented at 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, San Antonio, Texas, March 1995.
- G. Pawlas and T. Pankratz, "Fluid Mechanics Effects in Coriolis Mass Flowmeters", presented at FLOMEKO '94, East Kilbride, Scotland, June 1994.
- G. Pawlas, R. Garnett, and C. Stack, "Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Coriolis Mass Flowmeter", AIAA 93-3086, July 1993.
- C. Stack, R. Garnett, and G. Pawlas, "A Finite Element for the Vibration Analysis of a Fluid Conveying Timoshenko Beam", AIAA 93-1552, April 1993.
- G. Pawlas and T. Keith, "Swirling Transonic Nozzle Flow", AIAA 91-2479, June 1991.
- G. Pawlas and T. Keith, "Analysis of a Swirl Stabilized Arcjet Thruster", AIAA 91-1995, June 1991.
- G. Pawlas and T. Keith, "Numerical Modeling of a Vortex Stabilized Arcjet Thruster", AIAA 89-2724, June 1989.