Kenneth Jansen
Professor
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0431
Phone: (303) 492-4359
Kenneth.Jansen@colorado.edu

 

Focus Area

Vehicle Systems, Bioastronautics

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Division of Applied Mechanics, with minor in Aeronautics
& Astronautics, Stanford University, 1993
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1988
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1987

Professional Experience

2010-present, ProfessorAerospace Engineering, University of Colorado
2007-2009, Full Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, with
joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and in Information Technology,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2001-2009, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Nuclear Engineering,
with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and in Information Technology,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1996-2001, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering with joint appointments in
Computer Science (2001) and in Information Technology (1998), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1993-1996, Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, NASA Ames/Stanford
University. Large-eddy simulation utilizing unstructured-grid finite element methods.

Awards (selected)

Associate Fellow AIAA (2011)
Boeing Supplier of the Year in the technology category (2011)
Rensselaer School of Engineering Faculty Research Award 2009
Young Investigator Award from the International Association for Computational Mechanics (2004)
The Lewis T. Assini Undergraduate Teaching and Counseling Award from the Department of
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2004)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2000)
R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the United States Association of Computational
Mechanics (2001)

Research Interests

Computational mechanics with emphasis on fluid dynamics and turbulence modeling.  Specialization in massively parallel simulations using unstructured/adaptive grids. Applications include aerodynamics (with an emphasis on flow control and turbulence), biological flows (cardiovascular and respiratory), and two-phase flows.

Publications (selected)

“Experimental and numerical investigations of active control of inlet ducts”, J. Vaccaro, O. Sahni, J. Olles, K.E. Jansen, and M. Amitay, Journal of Flow Control, 1, n2, 2009, pp.133-154.

“Strong Scaling Analysis of a Parallel, Unstructured, Implicit Solver and the Influence of the Operating System Interference”, O. Sahni, C.D. Carothers, M.S. Shephard, and K.E. Jansen, Scientific Programming, 17 (3): 261-274, 2009.

“Cardiovascular Flow Simulations at Extreme Scale”, M. Zhou, O. Sahni, H.J. Kim, C.A. Figueroa, C.A. Taylor, M.S. Shephard and K.E. Jansen, Computational Mechanics, (accepted), 2009.

“A Stabilized Finite Element Method for Computing Turbulence,” K.E. Jansen, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 174 (1999) 299-317.

“A parameter-free dynamic subgrid-scale model for large-eddy simulation”, A.E. Tejada Martinez and K.E. Jansen, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,195 (2006), pp 2919-2938.

“A Dynamic Smagorinsky Model with a Dynamic Filter Width Ratio”, A.E. Tejada-Martinez and K.E. Jansen, Physics of Fluids, 16 (2004) 2514-2528.

“A Stabilized Finite Element Formulation for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Using a Hierarchical Basis,” C.H. Whiting and K.E. Jansen, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 35 (2001) 93-116.

“A Generalized Alpha Method for Integrating the Navier-Stokes Equations with a Stabilized Finite Element Method,” K.E. Jansen, C.H. Whiting and G.M. Hulbert, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering; 190 (2000) 305-319.

“Large-Eddy Simulation and the Variational Multiscale Method,” T.J.R. Hughes, L. Mazzei, and K.E. Jansen, Computing and Visualization in Science, 3 (2000) 47-59.

“Computation of incompressible bubble dynamics with a stabilized finite element level set method”, S. Nagrath, K.E. Jansen and R.T. Lahey, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194, n42-44 (2005) 4565-4587.

Curriculum Vitae

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