Dr. Ravishekar Kannan

Principal Scientist
CFD Research Corporation, USA


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, USA

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Area of Interest:

Physics
Numerical Methods
Fluid Dynamics
Nuclear Physics
Spectroscopy

Selected Publications

  1. Kannan, R.R., A.J. Przekwas, N. Singh, R. Delvadia, G. Tian and R. Walenga, 2016. Pharmaceutical aerosols deposition patterns from a dry powder inhaler: Euler lagrangian prediction and validation. Med. Eng. Phys., 10.1016/j.medengphy.2016.11.007.
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  2. Kannan, R., Z.J. Chen, N. Singh, A. Przekwas, R. Delvadia, G. Tian and R. Walenga, 2016. A quasi-3D wire approach to model pulmonary airflow in human airways. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 10.1002/cnm.2838.
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  3. Kannan, R., P. Guo and A. Przekwas, 2015. Particle transport in the human respiratory tract: Formulation of a nodal inverse distance weighted Eulerian-Lagrangian transport and implementation of the Wind-Kessel algorithm for an oral delivery. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., Vol. 32. 10.1002/cnm.2746.
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  4. Kannan, R., V. Harrand, X.G. Tan, H.Q. Yang and A.J. Przekwas, 2014. Highly scalable computational algorithms on emerging parallel machine multicore architectures II: Development and implementation in the CSD and FSI contexts. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 74: 2808-2817.
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  5. Kannan, R., V. Harrand, M. Lee and A.J. Przekwas, 2013. Highly scalable computational algorithms on emerging parallel machine multicore architectures: Development and implementation in CFD context. Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids, 73: 869-882.
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  6. Kannan, R., 2013. An implicit LU-SGS spectral volume method for the moment models in device simulations III: Accuracy enhancement using the LDG2 flux formulation for non-uniform grids. Int. J. Numer. Modell. Electron. Networks Devices Fields, 26: 172-191.
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  7. Kannan, R., 2012. A high order spectral volume formulation for solving equations containing higher spatial derivative terms II: Improving the third derivative spatial discretization using the LDG2 method. Commun. Comput. Phys., 12: 767-788.
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  8. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2012. A high order spectral volume solution to the Burgers' equation using the Hopf-Cole transformation. Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids, 69: 781-801.
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  9. Kannan, R. and Z. Wang, 2012. Improving the high order spectral volume formulation using a diffusion regulator. Commun. Comput. Phys., 12: 247-260.
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  10. Kannan, R. and A. Przekwas, 2012. A near-infrared spectroscopy computational model for cerebral hemodynamics. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 28: 1093-1106.
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  11. Kannan, R., 2011. High order spectral volume method for moment models in semiconductor device simulations: Formulation in 1D and application to a p-multigrid method. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 27: 1362-1375.

  12. Kannan, R., 2011. An implicit LU-SGS spectral volume method for moment models in device simulations II: Accuracy studies and performance enhancements using the penalty and BR2 formulations. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 27: 650-665.
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  13. Kannan, R., 2011. A high order spectral volume method for elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems: Formulation and application of an implicit p-multigrid algorithm for line contact problems. Comput. Fluids, 48: 44-53.
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  14. Kannan, R., 2011. A high order spectral volume formulation for solving equations containing higher spatial derivative terms: Formulation and analysis for third derivative spatial terms using the LDG discretization procedure. Commun. Comput. Phys., 10: 1257-1279.
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  15. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2011. LDG2: A variant of the LDG flux formulation for the spectral volume method. J. Sci. Comput., 46: 314-328.
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  16. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2011. Curvature and entropy based wall boundary condition for the high order spectral volume Euler solver. Comput. Fluids, 44: 79-88.
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  17. Kannan, R. and A. Przekwas, 2011. A computational model to detect and quantify a primary blast lung injury using near-infrared optical tomography. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 27: 13-28.
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  18. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2010. The direct discontinuous galerkin (DDG) viscous flux scheme for the high order spectral volume method. Comput. Fluids, 39: 2007-2021.
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  19. Liang, C., R. Kannan and Z.J. Wang, 2009. A p-multigrid spectral difference method with explicit and implicit smoothers on unstructured triangular grids. Comput. Fluids, 38: 254-265.
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  20. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2009. A study of viscous flux formulations for a p-multigrid spectral volume navier stokes solver. J. Sci. Comput., 41: 165-199.
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  21. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2009. A parallel overset adaptive cartesian/prism grid method for moving boundary flows. In: Computational Fluid Dynamics 2006. Deconinck, H. and E. Dick (Ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany., ISBN: 978-3-540-92778-5, pp: 323-328..
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  22. Kannan, R. and Z.J. Wang, 2007. Overset adaptive cartesian/prism grid method for stationary and moving-boundary flow problems. AIAA J., 45: 1774-1779.
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