Kamran Mohseni

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

Group and Personal Website

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)

Provost Faculty Achievement Award for research in bio-inspired propulsion (2008)
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

Mobile sensor networking platforms, micro/nano transport, flow control, bio-propulsion, wind energy, computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, electron transport in semiconductor devices, bioengineering, and inverse problems in heat and flow transport

Publications (selected)

B. Cardwell and K. Mohseni, Vortex Shedding over a Two-Dimensional Airfoil: Where the Particles Come From? AIAA J., 46(3), 545-547, 2008.

E. Baird and K. Mohseni, Digitized Heat Transfer: A New Paradigm for Thermal Management of Compact Micro Systems, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 31(1), 143-151, 2008.

P. Young and K. Mohseni, Calculation of DEP and EWOD Forces for Application in Digital Microuidics, ASME J. Fluid Eng., 130(8) 2008 (9pp).

G. Norgard and K. Mohseni, A regularization of Burgers equation using a filtered convective velocity, J. Phys. A, 41 (2008) 344016 (21pp).

M. Krieg and K. Mohseni, Thrust Characterization of a Bio-inspired Vortex Ring Generator for Locomotion of Underwater Robots, IEEE J. of Oceanic Eng., 33(2) 2008 (10pp).

D. Lipinski, B. Cardwell, and K. Mohseni, A Lagrangian analysis of a two-dimensional airfoil with vortex shedding, J. Phys. A, 41, (2008) 344011 (22pp).

J. Allred, A.B. Hasan, S. Panichsakul, W. Pisano, P. Gray, J. Huang, R. Han, D. Lawrence, and K. Mohseni, SensorFlock: An airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, pp 117-129, 2007, Sydney, Australia.

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 , 3(6) 635-644, 2007.

M. Krieg and K. Mohseni, Developing a transient model for squid inspired thrusters, and incorporation into underwater robot control design, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 08), Nice, France, Sept. 22-26, 2008.