Dr. Seshasai Srinivasan has a PhD in Computational Science and
Engineering from Michigan Technological University, USA. He is
currently a Associate Professor at McMaster University's Faculty of
Engineering and is the chair of the Software Engineering Technology program. Prior to
this, S. S. has held a Research
Scientist and a part-time instructor position at the
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of Ryerson
University, a postdoctoral position
at the Laboratory
of
Food Process Engineering of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH-Zurich) in Switzerland and a Research Associate position at
the Engine Research Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
S. S. has a vibrant
interdisciplinary research program. In his research, he conducts
investigations in
• Biosensor development.
• Electrochemical flows in
Li-ion batteries.
•
Thermodiffusion in underground oil reservoirs and molten metals.
• Thermovibrational and
microvelocity flows in experiments on the
International Space Station and free flying satellites.
•
Chemical physics in liquid hydrocarbons, associating liquid mixtures
and molten metals.
•
Combustion and multi-phase flow modeling in an internal combustion
engine.
• Evolution of multi-drug
resistant bacteria
•
Phase transformation kinetics in steels.
•
Rheology in food particles.
S. S. studies these
problems
via various approaches, viz., experimental, computational fluid dynamics, artificial
neural networks as well as statistical analysis. In additional to the
fundamental
investigations in these areas, S. S. is also interested in
numerical optimization and algorithm design. In diesel engines, such
optimization investigations are made to maximize power output while
meeting the EPA mandates on emissions. He is also interested in the
optimal heat treatment conditions for designing steels with the desired
mechanical properties. In his optimization studies, S. S. uses
gradient-based as well as heuristic search methods.
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