Kamran Mohseni Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309-0429 (303) 492-0286 mohseni@colorado.edu

Focus Area
Vehicle Systems

Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2000
M.S., Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1993
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, 1990

Professional Experience
2007-present, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
2001-2007, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
2000-2001, Postdoctoral Fellow, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

Awards (selected)
DARPA Young Faculty (2007)
Dean's Award for Professional Progress (2006)
Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award. Caltech (2000)
Everhart Lecturer (distinguished graduate student at Caltech (1999)
W.S. Atkins Prize. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1993)
Iranian Physical Society National Award, M. Hessabi Award. (1990)

Research Interests
Bioinspired aerial and underwater vehicles, Fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, Micro and nanofluidics, Microscale heat transfer, electron transport in semiconductor devices, Bioengineering, and inverse problems in heat and flow transport

Publications (selected)
Y-J. Chang, K. Mohseni, and V. Bright, Fabrication of tapered SU-8 structure and effect of sidewall angle for a variable focus microlens using EWOD,/ Sensors and Actuators A/, 136(2), 546-553, 2007.
E. Baird, P. Young, and K. Mohseni, Electrostatic force calculation for an EWOD-actuated droplet,/ Microfluid Nanofluid /, 2007.
E. Baird and K. Mohseni, A unified velocity model for digital microfluidics, / Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering/, 11(1-2), 109-120, 2007.
E. Baird and K. Mohseni, Digitized heat transfer using electrowetting on dielectric, / Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering/, 11(1-2), 99-108, 2007.
K. Mohseni, Pulsatile vortex generators for low-speed maneuvering of small underwater vehicles,/ Ocean Engineerings /, 33(16), 2209-2223, 2006.
K. Mohseni and A. Dolatabadi, An electrowetting microvalve: Numerical simulation,/ Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences/, 1077(1), 415-425, 2006.
A. Dolatabadi and K. Mohseni and A. Arzpeyma, Behaviour of a moving droplet under electrowetting actuation: Numerical simulation/ Canadian J. of Chemical Engineering/, 84(1), 17-21, 2006.
K. Mohseni, A formulation for calculating the translational velocity of a vortex ring or pair, / Bioinspiration & Biomimetics/, 1, S57-S64, doi:10.1088/1748-3182/1/4/S08, 2006 # K. Mohseni, A. Shakouri, R. Ram, and M.C. Abraham, Electron vortices in semiconductor devices, / Phys. of Fluids/, 17(10), 100602, 2005.
H. Zhao and K. Mohseni, A dynamic model for the Lagrangian-averaged Navier-Stokes-alpha equations, / Phys. of Fluids/, 17(7), 075106, 2005.
D. Lawrence and K. Mohseni, Efficiency Analysis for Long-Duration Electric MAVS / AIAA Infotech Aerospace/, AIAA paper 2005-7090, Arlington, Virginia, September, 26-28, 2005.
J. Hall, K. Mohseni, D. Lawrence, and P. Geuzaine, Investigation of variable wing-sweep for applications in micro air vehicles, / AIAA Infotech Aerospace/, AIAA paper 2005-7171, Arlington, Virginia, September, 26-28, 2005. http://enstrophy.colorado.edu/%7Emohseni/PSpdf/MyPapers/AIAA2005ArlingtonVAInfotechMAVSweepWing1.pdf
E. Baird, P. Young, and K. Mohseni, Comparison of Electrowetting on Dielectric and Dielectrophoresis Force Distributions, / 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit /, AIAA paper 2007-0618, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007.
J. Hall and K. Mohseni, Numerical simulation of an airfoil at low Reynolds number, / 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit /, AIAA paper 2007-1269, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007.
G. Norgard and K. Mohseni, A Regularization of Burgers Equation using a Filtered Convective Velocity, / 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit /, AIAA paper 2007-0714, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007.
J. Hall, D. Lawrence, and K. Mohseni, A State Space Model for Lateral Control of a Tailless Micro Aerial Vehicle, / 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit /, AIAA paper 2007-0663, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007.
Y.-J. Chang, V.M. Bright, E. Schonbrun, and K. Mohseni, A variable focus microlens using EWOD on a tapered SU-8 structure, / Hilton Head 2006: A Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop/, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 4 - 8, 2006.
K. Mohseni and E. Baird, Electrowetting Droplet Manipulation for Application in Thermal Management of Compact Microsystems, / ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting/, FEDSM2006-98316, Miami, FL, July 17-20, 2006.
K. Mohseni and Y.L. Vargas, Characterization and Thrust Optimization of Synthetic Jets, / ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting/, FEDSM2006-98312, Miami, FL, July 17-20, 2006.
O. Nilsen and K. Mohseni, Flow Characterization of an Electrostatic Resonant Plate Micromixer by a Scaled Model, / ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting/, FEDSM2006-98310, Miami, FL, July 17-20, 2006.

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