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Mechanical Engineering
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Oleg Zikanov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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University of Michigan - Dearborn
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering
4901 Evergreen Road, 1320 HPEC
Dearborn, Michigan 48128
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 | Education - Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics, Moscow State University and Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow, Russia, 1993.
- M.S. in Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1987.
| | Areas of Research Interests - Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Turbulence
- Magnetohydrodynamics of liquid metals
- Phase transition in turbulent flows
- Population dynamics of phytoplankton
- Hydrodynamic instability and transition to turbulence in shear flows
- Hydrodynamics of aluminum reduction cells
- Multi-phase filtration in porous media
| | Selected Publications - Lyubimov, D. V., Shklyaev, S., Lyubimova, T. P., Zikanov, O., “Instability of a drop moving in a Brinkman porous medium” Phys. Fluids, vol. 21, 014105 (2009)
- Boeck, T. Krasnov, D., Thess, A., Zikanov, O. “Large-scale intermittency of liquid metal channel flow in a magnetic field,” Phys. Rev. Let. vol. 101, 244501 (2008).
- Vorobev, A., Zikanov, O., Mohanty, P. “Modeling of the in-flight synthesis of TaC nanoparticles from liquid precursor in thermal plasma jet,” J. Phys. D. vol. 41 08532 (2008).
- Krasnov, D., Rossi, M., Zikanov, O. and Boeck, T. “Optimal growth and transition to turbulence in channel flow with spanwise magnetic field,” J. Fluid Mech. vol. 596, 73-101 (2008)
- Thess, A., Votyakov, E., Knaepen, B., and Zikanov, O. “Theory of Lorentz force flowmeter,” New J. Phys. vol. 9 299 (2007).
- Thess, A., Zikanov, O. “Transition from Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional MHD Turbulence," J. Fluid Mech. vol. 579, 383-412 (2007).
- Krasnov, D., Zienicke, E., Zikanov, O., Thess, A., & Boeck, T. “Numerical study of instability and transition to turbulence in the Hartmann flow,” J. Fluid Mech. vol. 504, 183-211, (2004).
- Sun, H., Zikanov, O., Ziegler, D. P. “Two-dimensional model of melt flows and interface instability in aluminum reduction cells,” Fluid Dyn. Res. vol. 35, 255-274 (2004).
- Zikanov, O. and Thess, A. “Direct numerical simulation of forced MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number,” J. Fluid Mech. vol. 358, 299-333 (1998).
- Zikanov, O. “On the instability of pipe Poiseuille flow,” Phys. Fluids, vol. 8, 2923-2932 (1996).
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