Kevin W. Cassel

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1993
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1990
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Messiah College, 1988

Research Interests

• Analytical and computational solutions to partial differential equations.
• Application of advanced analytical techniques in the thermo-fluid sciences.
• Development of serial and parallel numerical algorithms for unsteady fluid flows.
• Numerical solutions of unsteady boundary-layer flows in Lagrangian coordinates.
• Theoretical description of physical processes in unsteady separation.
• Theoretical and numerical investigations of instabilities in boundary-layer flows.
• Supersonic and hypersonic boundary-layer flows.
• Unsteady mixed-convection boundary-layer flows.
• Effects of vortex-surface interaction on wall-bounded flows.
• Passive and active control of separation and dynamic stall on airfoils.
• Fluid dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of buoyancy-driven flows with heat generation.
• Computational simulations of bio-fluids.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Physical Society

Awards

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2020) 

MMAE Excellence in Teaching Award (2015) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2013).

University Excellence in Teaching Award (2008) Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ralph L. Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award (2007) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Essential Foreign Participant (2003) Invited to participate in the London Mathematical Society Colloquium on New Developments and Applications of Rapid Fluid Flows as an Essential Foreign Participant (July 2003).

Alfred Noble Prize (2002) - for the paper, A Comparison of Navier-Stokes Solutions with the Theoretical Description of Unsteady Separation, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Ralph L. Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award (2001) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (1998-2001).

Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence - for best paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Melbourne, Australia, March 3-7, 1997.

National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-1996).

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1991-1993).

Baldwin Fellowship, Lehigh University (1989-1990).

S. W. Kung Award - for best Ph.D. paper presented at the 1993 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Graduate Student Symposium, Lehigh University.

Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Books

Matrix, Numerical, and Optimization Methods in Science and Engineering by Kevin W. Cassel, Cambridge University Press, (2021) 710 p.

Variational Methods with Applications in Science and Engineering by Kevin W. Cassel, Cambridge University Press (2013) 413 p.

Expertise

Application of analytical and computational methods in the thermo-fluid sciences.