Welcome…

This series of interactive engineering courses is part of the Combined Research Curriculum Development (CRCD) project on particle transport, deposition and removal. The support of the National Science Foundation CRCD program under the auspices of Dr. Mary Poats is gratefully acknowledged.

This site includes standard course material available to students, and an entire series of lecture notes of information related to the courses, as well as a variety of mechanisms allowing interaction with the site via the utilization of relevant java applet modules.

The Particle Transport, Deposition, and Removal On-line Curriculum

A comprehensive series of undergraduate and graduate courses covering fundamentals of particle transport processes, and the related computational and experimental methodologies. The courses cover aerosol mechanics, particle transport and deposition in laminar and turbulent flows, particle adhesion, and particle resuspension. Particular emphasis is given on industrial and environmental applications such as microcontamination control, surface cleaning, clean room and process equipment, ultrasonic and megasonic cleaning, as well as pollution control in indoor and out door environment.

What will you get out of this course?

  • formulate and solve aerosol transport and deposition problems in laminar and turbulent flows.
  • analyze particle adhesion and removal of micro- and nano-particles.
  • become familiar with computational fluid mechanics and particle trajectory analysis procedures.
  • demonstrate a working knowledge of advanced CFD codes, particularly for analyzing and solving aerosol transport in laminar and turbulent flows.
  • understand a variety of experimental procedures for studying particle transport, dispersion, adhesion and removal.
  • analyze various microcontamination problems in microelectronic and imaging industries.
  • become familiar with various surface cleaning techniques, including ultrasonic cleaning
  • understand the processes that control air pollution in building and in street canyons.
  • analyze particle deposition in lung and nose passage.

Participants

Dr. Goodarz Ahmadi – Distinguished Professor

  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • Robert R. Hill ’48 Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • Director, Turbulence and Multiphase Fluid Flow Laboratory, TMFL
  • Co-Director Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science, CARES
  • Board Member, Center for Advanced Materials Processing, CAMP
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5725
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
  • ph [fax]: 315.268.2322 [6438]
  • ahmadi@clarkson.edu
  • curriculum vitae

Dr. David J. Schmidt – Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • Research Fellow, Turbulence and Multiphase Fluid Flow Laboratory, TMFL
  • Associate Member, Center for Advanced Materials Processing
  • 366 CAMP Building
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5725
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
  • ph [fax]: 315.268.3809 [6438]
  • schmiddj@clarkson.edu
  • curriculum vitae

Dr. John B. McLaughlin – Professor

  • Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • 233 CAMP Building
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5705
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5705
  • ph: 315.268.6663
  • jmclau@clarkson.edu

Dr. Cetin Cetinkaya – Associate Professor

  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • 241 CAMP Building
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5725
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
  • ph: 315.268.6514
  • cetin@clarkson.edu

Dr. Stephen Doheny-Farina – Professor

  • Professor, Department of Technical Communications
  • 176 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5760
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5760
  • ph: 315.268.6489
  • sdf@clarkson.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Taylor – Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • 266 CAMP Building
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5725
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
  • ph: 315.268.6683
  • taylorja@clarkson.edu

Dr. Suresh Dhaniyala – Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • 204 CAMP Building
  • Clarkson University
  • Box 5725
  • Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
  • ph: 315.268.6574
  • sdhaniya@clarkson.edu

Dr. Mark Glauser – Professor

  • Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering
  • 133 Link Hall
  • Syracuse University
  • Box 1240
  • Syracuse, NY 13244-1240
  • ph: 315.443.2823
  • mglauser@syr.edu

Dr. Fa-gung Fan – Research and Technology Scientist

  • Research and Technology Scientist, Xerox Corporation
  • Xerox Corporation
  • 800 Phillips Road, 114-22D
  • Webster, NY 14580
  • ph: 585.265.5616
  • FFan@crt.xerox.com

Dr. Ahmed A. Busnaina – Professor

  • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
  • 334 Snell Engineering
  • William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor
  • Director of the Nanomanufacturing Research Institute
  • Director of the NSF Center for Microcontamination Control
  • Northeastern University
  • Boston, MA 02115-5000
  • ph: 617.373.2992
  • busnaina@coe.neu.edu

Graduate & Undergraduate Student Participants

  • Xiangwei Liu
  • M.S. Candidate (IT)
  • liux@clarkson.edu
  • Kambiz Nazridoust
  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
  • (315) 268-7685
  • kambiz@clarkson.edu
  • Chaosheng Liu
  • Ph.D. Candidate (MAE)
  • 275 CAMP
  • (315) 268-3826
  • liuch@clarkson.edu
  • Amir G. Ahmadi
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering
  • ahmadiag@clarkson.edu
  • Xinli Jia
  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
  • (315) 268-7687
  • jiax@clarkson.edu
  • Adam J. McIntyre
  • B.S. Technical communication
  • mcintyaj@clarkson.edu
  • Usability Testing