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Plenary Sessions

mapping of ship wakes using 3D particle image velocimetry (PIV) and PLENARY TITLE: NANOSCALE
other advanced systems to explore finer flow details around ships. In HYDRODYNAMICS (ICNMM)
addition to the experimental efforts used to support newer ship designs,
DATE/TIME: WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 4:00 - 5:40 PM
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is becoming a main stream of the ship
design tools applied to design ship hull and shipboard machinery. Room: Regency BC
Presenter:
At Naval Surface Warfare Center, engineers are encouraged to work with
industry, academia and others including foreign government agencies to
Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois
advance ship design technologies. The existing programs such as summer
faculty program, various summer intern programs, technology transfer and
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are
discussed

Speaker Bio: Session Description:
Dr. Joseph T. (Tim) Arcano, Jr., a member of the Senior Executive Service Understanding fluid physics at nanometer scale is important for many
since November 2011, was appointed as the technical director for Naval applications including water purification, gas separations, energy storage,
Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division in May 2013. He leads DNA sequencing, etc. Molecular scale phenomena such as finite size of
more than 3,000 employees who provide the Navy a broad range of the molecule compared to the pore/slit size, restricted translational and
technical support specializing in hull, mechanical and electrical engineer- rotational motions, ballistic diffusion, etc. pose challenges to the classical
ing. Prior to his assignment at NSWC Carderock Division, Dr. Arcano continuum theory of fluids. To overcome the limitations of the classical
served as the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- theory, molecular approaches such as quantum techniques, molecular
tration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration, where he was responsible for dynamics and Monte Carlo methods are popularly used. However, these
advising NOAA and the U.S. Department of Commerce in the field of approaches are limited to small length and short time scales. Here, we
ocean exploration, research and advanced technology development. Prior discuss the development of a quasi-continuum theory to predict the
to his assignment at NOAA, he served as Corbin A. McNeill Endowed structure and transport of confined fluids. Quasi-continuum theory
Chair in Naval Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, and as Deputy seamlessly integrates molecular scale physics into classical theory and we
Chief of nuclear safety at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He also demonstrate the accuracy of the approach by considering several
served as technical director and technical authority (ship design manager) examples.
for the VIRGINIA-class Submarine Program, as technical authority for
advanced submarines at Naval Sea System Command and as a program Speaker Bio:
manager on technical staff at the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. N. R. Aluru received the B.E. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology
For the National Science Foundation, he served as a member of the and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, in 1989, the M.S. degree from Rensselaer
Replacement Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Oversight Committee, Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford
overseeing the development of the replacement for the HOV ALVIN. Dr. University, Stanford, CA, in 1995. He is currently a Richard W. Kritzer
Arcano served for 30 years of active and Reserve commissioned service Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at
in the Navy as an engineering duty officer qualified in submarines, as a the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Director of the
salvage diving officer and as an acquisition professional. He retired as a Computational Science and Engineering Program at Illinois. He is also
Navy captain. He earned a bachelor of science degree in ocean engineer- affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technolo-
ing from the U. S. Naval Academy; a master of science degree in mechani- gy, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Department of
cal engineering and an ocean engineering degree from the Massachu- Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Bioengineering Department
setts Institute of Technology; a master of science degree in national at UIUC. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute
resource strategy from the National Defense University Industrial College of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, he joined the
of the Armed Forces; and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an Assistant
from the University of Maryland. Professor.

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