Dr. Kevin R. Anderson Professor, P.E. Mechanical Engineering Department California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Office:17-2338 Phone: (909) 869-2687 FAX: (909) 869-4341 e-mail: kranderson1@csupomona.edu

Summer 2008 Schedule & Office Hours:

MSME Cal Poly Pomona Homepage

Student Help Files:

Linear Algebra for Mechanical Engineering Students

Solving Sets of Linear Equations with a TI calculator

EXCEL Runge-Kutta Integrator

ME 439 MATLAB SISOTOOL Primer

ME 435L Powerpoint Chart Template

ME 435L Pressure Transient DFT EXCEL Worksheet

ME 499 Parallax H-Bridge for DC Motors

Useful Links:

www.allaboutcircuits.com
www.matweb.com
www.wikipedia.com

Courses Taught:

ME 312 Fluid Mechanics II
ME 302 Thermodynamics II
ME 325/L Machine Design/Lab
ME 340 System Dynamics
ME 418/L HVAC&R
ME 425/L Advanced Machine Design/Lab
ME 435/L Advanced Engineering Measurements/Lab
ME 439/L Design of Machine Controls/Lab
Full List of Courses Taught by Dr. Kevin R. Anderson

Recent Honors/Awards:

"Professor of the Year" 2006-2007 Mechanical Engineering Dept. Pi Tau Sigma Delta Beta Chapter

"DSMC of Micro-Couette Flows Extended to Large Knudsen Numbers" Maui High Performance Computing Center, Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, February 14, 2006.

"Professor of the Year" 2003-2004 Mechanical Engineering Dept. Pi Tau Sigma Delta Beta Chapter

Senior Thermal Engineer, Faculty Part-Time, NASA JPL, perform CFD analysis and thermal-fluid flow modeling support tasks for a variety of missions, September 2004-present

NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Thermal and Propulsion Engineering Section, Summer 2004

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications:

"Thermal Analysis of a Lithium Vaporizer for a High-Power Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster," B. St. Rock and J. Blandino, WPI, Worcester, MA,
K. R. Anderson Cal Poly Pomona/JPL, J.E. Polk, NASA JPL, AIAA Journal of  Propulsion and Power, Vol. 22, No. 5, Sep-Oct 2006, pp. 1098-1110.

D.B. Flowers and K.R. Anderson “Numerical Simulation of Conduction Heat Transfer in a System of Slowly Rotating Concentric Shells Separated by Small Annular Gap Distances”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 46, Issue 9: 1-17, 2004. 

Richard Getze and Kevin R. Anderson “Boundary Layer Analysis Toolkit” Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal 13(1):11 April 2004 pp. 100-109.

K.R. Anderson and S. Mahalingam, “Numerical Study of Vortex/Flame Interaction in Actively Forced Confined Non-Premixed Jets,’’ ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 122, No. 2, May 2000,   pp. 376-380.

K.R. Anderson, et al., “A Two-Dimensional Planar Computational Investigation of Flame Broadening in Confined Non-Premixed Jets,’’ Combustion and Flame, 118 (1-2), (1999) pp. 233-247.

K.R. Anderson, et al., ‘‘Classification of Absolute and Convective Instabilities in Premixed Bluff Body Stabilized Flames,’’ Combustion Science and Technology, 116, (1996) pp. 257-269.

Selected Conference Proceedings:

"Non-Grey Radiation Modeling Using Thermal Desktop/Sindaworks," Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, TFAWS06, Aug 7-Aug 11, 2006,  Univ. of Maryland, College Park.

"Using NI-ELVIS in the ME 340 and ME 435 Labs in Mechanical Engineering" Dr. Kevin R. Anderson and Dr. Angela Shih, ASEE PSW Regional Conference
April 20-21, 2006, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona.

"Electrochromic Radiators for Microspacecraft Thermal Control", Anthony Paris and Kevin Anderson, NASA JPL, SSC05-VIII-11, 19th Annual AIAA Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, UT, August 8-11, 2005

"Structural Dynamic and Aeroelastic Finite Element Simulation of an F-18 Tail Rudder, Impact of Adding a Control Surface" Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, Mr. Kevin White, Mr. Wayne McEntire, Paper #DETC2005-84184, Fifth ASME  International  Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control at the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 24-28, 2005, Long Beach, CA.

"Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Design" Dr. Kevin R. Anderson and Mr. Chris Jones, Course or Curriculum Innovations ASEE PSW Regional Conference
April 7-8, 2005, Loyola Marymount University CHARTS     PAPER

"Survey of Active Aeroelastic Control for Flutter Suppression" Paper #IMECE2004-60458 Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, Mr. Kevin A. White, Mr. M. Joe Neal, 2004 Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo Anaheim, CA November 15-17,2004.

K.R. Anderson "CFD Analysis of Inlet and Outlet Regions of Coolant Channels in an Advanced Hydrocarbon Engine Nozzle,"
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, TFAWS04,CFD/Aerothermal Session, Aug 30-Sep 3, 2004, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA.

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