Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Florida International University
10555 West Flagler St., EC 3474
Miami, Florida 33174
+1 (305) 348-7016 phone
+1 (305) 348-6007 FAX dulikrav@fiu.edu http://maidroc.fiu.edu
Prof. George S. Dulikravich (Ph.D., Cornell'79; M.Sc., Univ. of Minnesota'75; Dipl.-Ing., Univ. of Belgrade'73) worked as a NRC Associate Fellow at NASA LeRC, a Visiting Scientist at DFVLR-Goettingen, Assistant Professor at University of Texas-Austin (‘82-’86), Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University (‘86-’99), Full Professor at Univ. of Texas at Arlington (‘99-‘03), and Department Chair at Florida International University (’03-’09).
His research expertise and interests are analytical, computational and highly multi-disciplinary spanning the fields of mechanical, aerospace, engineering mechanics, materials, and biomedical engineering. Some of the research topics include: the development of a variety of inverse design methods, multi-objective hybrid evolutionary design optimization algorithms, conjugate heat transfer, acceleration of iterative algorithms, turbomachinery aero-thermal-structural analysis and design optimization, optimized topology of branching cooling micro-channels, brain cooling of stroked patients, optimized freezing of organs for tissue banking, optimally controlled solidification using electric, magnetic and thermal fields, multi-objective optimization and inverse design of chemical compositions of high temperature superalloys, titanium alloys, corrosion resistant aluminum alloys and metallic glasses, design optimization of kinetic energy projectiles, and inverse design and aero-thermal optimization of transonic and hypersonic flight vehicles. This research has resulted in over 390 technical publications.
He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal on Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (founded in 1994) and an Associate Editor of seven additional journals. He is also the founder, chairman and editor of the sequence of International Conferences on Inverse Design Concepts and Optimization in Engineering Sciences (ICIDES) and International Symposium on Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization (IPDO). Professor Dulikravich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a member of the Texas Institute for Computational Mechanics (TICOM) at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Center for Space Propulsion and the Center for Gas Turbines and Power at the Pennsylvania State University.
He is the founder of the interdepartmental Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design and Optimization (MAIDO) Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington and the founder of Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design, Robust Optimization and Control (MAIDROC) Laboratory at Florida International University. In the summer of 2008, Prof. Dulikravich co-founded the International Society for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (ISIPSE) which has over 330 registered members.
Optimization of a serpentine cooling passage inside a gas turbine blade. Objective is to smooth and lower the initially non uniform surface temperature and thermal stresses.
Simulation of unsteady three-dimensional penetration/fragmentation mechanics of an aerodynamically optimized kinetic energy projectile interacting with a metal plate.
Selected publications:
Martin, T.J. and Dulikravich,
G.S. (2001) “Aero-Thermo-Elastic
Concurrent Design Optimization of Internally
Cooled Turbine Blades”, Chapter 5
in Coupled Field Problems, Series on Advances
in Boundary Elements (eds: Kassab, A.J.
and Aliabadi, M.H.), WIT Press, Boston,
MA, pp. 137-184.
Dulikravich, G.S. (1999) “Electro-Magneto-Hydrodynamics
and Solidification,” Chapter no. 9
in Advances in Flow and Rheology of Non-Newtonian
Fluids, Part B (eds: D. A. Siginer, D. De
Kee and R. P. Chhabra), Rheology Series,
8, Elsevier Publishers, pp. 677-716.
Dulikravich, G.S., Martin,
T.J., Dennis, B.H. and Foster, N.F. (1999) “Multidisciplinary
Hybrid Constrained GA Optimization”,
Chapter 12 in EUROGEN’99 - Evolutionary
Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science:
Recent Advances and Industrial Applications,
(eds: Miettinen, K., Makela, M., Neittaanmaki,
P. and Periaux, J.), John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd., pp. 231-260.
Dulikravich, G.S. and
Baker, D.P. (1999) “Using
Existing Flow-Field Analysis Codes for Inverse
Design of Three-dimensional Aerodynamic
Shapes,” a chapter in Recent Development
of Aerodynamic Design Methodologies - Inverse
Design and Optimization, (eds: Fujii, K.
and Dulikravich, G.S.), Vieweg Series on
Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Vol.
68, Springer, pp. 89-112.
Dulikravich, G.S. and
Martin, T.J. (1996) "Inverse
Shape and Boundary Condition Problems and
Optimization in Heat Conduction", Chapter
no. 10 in Advances in Numerical Heat Transfer
- Volume I (eds: Minkowycz, W. and Sparrow,
E.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 381-426.
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