Dr.
Indrek Sven
Wichman
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Phone:
(517) 353-9180
FAX:
(517) 355-1750
Email:
wichman@egr.msu.edu
Mailing Address: Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Room2328-F, Engineering Building, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
USA.
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"Oh duty,
why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie, or a cutie?" (Some English
wag)
"Well, my fine American friends, now that you are independent how do
you now like taxation WITH representation?" (Another English wag)
STATEMENT OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY and
RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY
PUBLICATIONS
I. S. WICHMAN EDUCATION and
PERSONAL
ME 800
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Combustion and Flame Studies
Related to Fire and Theoretical
Combustion
- Analytical Modeling (Fire,
Ignition, Quenching, Flame Spread,
Instabilities)
- Computational Modeling (Flame
Spread, Triple Flames,
Instabilities,
Solid Pyrolysis, Microgravity Flames)
- Experimentation (MSU Fire Tunnel,
Thermal Property Measurement,
Flames
in Small Enclosed Spaces (micro flames), Burner Flame Attachment)
CURRENT RESEARCH SUPPORT
- NASA Microgravity Combustion: "Investigation
of
Diffusion Flame
Tip Instability in Microgravity." January 1, 2004-January 1, 2005.
- MSU: "Plasma/Combustion
Burner." January 1, 2004,
December 31, 2004 (will be renewed).
- NSF:
Flamelet proposal (to be submitted Fall, 2004).
STUDENTS
- Ph.D.: Two students (Yang
Long; Carlos Maidana).
- M.S.:
Five
students
(Stefanus Tanaya, Karin Aditjandra, Chandra Romel, Kaci Adkins,
Kimberly Sarbo)
- Undergraduates: Lab
assistant (Bryan Burkhart).
GRADUATE STUDENT NEEDS
TYPE OF GRADUATE STUDENT(S) SOUGHT
The graduate students I seek are
persons
with an interest in fundamental research. Students should have
excellent
mathematical preparation and physical understanding, for combustion is
a complicated subject joining many sub disciplines. I appreciate hard
work
and dedication to research and scholarly pursuits generally. I value
consistently
applied effort. Nevertheless, theoretical research requires intense
concentration,
and one good day's insight and calculation after many months of
futility
may produce lasting, valuable results. Numerical research requires
consistent
effort and running of numerous numerical cases (patience, patience).
Physical insight is needed
to describe that the simulations are saying. Experiment requires large
amounts of time for setup and preparatory work, and physical insight is
needed to describe results. No matter what the specialization (theory,
numerics, experiment), I seek students whose absolute first priority is
a love of learning. This should also be their second and third
priorities,
before eating, sleeping and recreation!
In general, a Ph. D. student's thesis
should
produce several peer reviewed publications in good journals,
usually
no fewer than four, not including conference publications. An M.S.
thesis should produce at least one such publication.
Revised:
March 5, 2002
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