Dr. Sergey Smirnov
Contact Information
Dr. Sergey A. Smirnov
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1021
Tel: (806)742-3563 ext. 278
Fax: (806)742-3540
Email: sergey.smirnov@ttu.edu
Education
- M.S. (Physics), Moscow Physical-Engineering Institute (Russia), 1995
- Candidate of Sciences (Physics/Math), Moscow Physical-Engineering Institute and Institute for Problems in Mechanics (Russian Academy of Sciences), 1998
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2002
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 2005-present
- Faculty Research Associate and Instructor, Arizona State University, 2002-2005
- Research Scientist, Institute for Problems in Mechanics (Russian Academy of Sciences), 1995-1998
Research Interests (Research - Environmental Fluid Mechanics")
- Rotating and stratified flows
- Internal gravity waves
- Coastal-trapped waves
- Wakes and jet flows
- Turbulence and mixing
- Multiphase flows
- Physicochemical flows in biomedical systems
Teaching Areas
- Engineering Mechanics (Statics, Dynamics)
- Fluid Mechanics, CFD with FLUENT
- Environmental/Geophysical Fluid Mechanics
- Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer
Service
- Grand Awards Judge at the Intel 2005 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), 2005
- Faculty participant at the Arizona 5th Annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Institute, 2005
- Judge at the 2nd ASU Symposium on Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences (REAS), 2004
- Member of the organizing committee of the 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, 2001
- Reviewer for Physics of Fluids, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Marine Systems, Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
- Peer reviewer for the Divisions of Ocean Sciences and Fluid Dynamics (NSF)
Professional Societies
- Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics).
Publications
Journal Papers/Book Chapters
- Smirnov, S. A. (1996) Amplitude and phase characteristics of internal lee waves generated by a body moving under an arbitrary angle to horizon, (In Russian). Preprint #574, (Institute for Problems in Mechanics, RAS, Moscow, Russia).
- Smirnov, S. A. and Chashechkin, Yu. D. (1998) Internal lee (joined) waves at an arbitrary orientation of the incident flow, Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 34, 475.
- Smirnov, S. A., Chashechkin, Yu. D. and Il'inykh, Y. S. (1998) “High-accuracy method for measuring profiles of buoyancy periods, Measurement Techniques 41, 514.
- Il'inykh, Y. S., Smirnov, S. A. and Chashechkin, Yu. D. (1999) Excitation of harmonic internal waves in a viscous continuously stratified liquid, Fluid Dynamics 34, 890.
- Chashechkin, Yu. D., Kistovich, Yu. V. and Smirnov, S. A. (2001) Linear generation theory of 2D and 3D periodic internal waves in a viscous stratified fluid, Environmetrics 12, 57. PDF
- Voropayev, S. I., Smirnov, S. A. and Brandt, A. (2001) Dipolar eddies in a stratified shear flow, Phys. Fluids 13, 3820. PDF
- Voropayev, S. I., Smirnov, S. A., Filippov I. A. and Boyer, D. L. (2002) Stratified wakes generated by a point momentum source, Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 38(3), 358.
- Voropayev, S. I., Smirnov, S. A., Brandt A. and Filippov I. A. (2002) Mushroom-like currents in a stratified shear flow, Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 38(2), 212.
- Voropayev, S. I. and Smirnov, S. A. (2003) Vortex streets generated by a moving momentum source in a stratified fluid, Phys. Fluids 15, 618. PDF
- Smirnov, S.A. and Voropayev, S.I. (2003) On the asymptotic theory of momentum/zero-momentum wakes, Phys. Letters A 307, 148. PDF
- Voropayev, S.I., Smirnov, S.A. and Testik, F.Y. (2004) On the case when steady converging/diverging flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a round cone permits an exact solution,Mechanics Research Communications. 31, 477. PDF
- Boyer, D.L., Srdic, A.N., Smirnov, S.A., Haidvogel, D.B. and Sommeria, J. (2004) Aspects of oscillatory along-shelf flow in the vicinity of an isolated submarine canyon, In: Shallow Flows (Eds. G.H. Jirka and W.S.J. Uijttewaal), 201 (Taylor & Francis Group plc, London, UK). PDF
- Smirnov S.A., Baines P.G., Boyer D.L., Voropayev S.I., and Srdic-Mitrovic A.N. (2005) “Long-time evolution of linearly stratified spin-up flows in axisymmetric geometries, Phys. Fluids. 17(1), 016601. PDF
- Smirnov S.A., Boyer D.L., and Baines P.G. (2005) “Nonaxisymmetric effects of stratified spin-up in an axisymmetric annular channel, Phys. Fluids. 17(8), 086601. PDF
- Boyer D.L., Sommeria J., Srdic A.N., Pakala V.K.C., Smirnov S.A. and Etling D. (2006) " The effects of boundary turbulence on canyon flows forced by periodic along-shelf currents," J. Phys. Oceanography 36(5), 813. PDF
- Smirnov S.A. and Boyer D.L. (2007) Topographic control of non-axisymmetric stratified spin-up, Fluid Dyn. Res. 39, 378. PDF
- Voropayev S.I., Fernando H.J.S., Smirnov S.A. and Morrison R. (2007) “On surface signatures generated by submersed momentum sources, Phys. Fluids 19(7), 076603 PDF
- Smirnov S.A. (2007) Stability of stratified spin-up flows, In: WIT Transactions on Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 46 (Eds. C.A. Brebbia & G.M. Carlomagno), pp. 287-296 (WIT Press) PDF
- Smirnov S.A., Pacheco R., Verzicco R. (2008) Laboratory-numerical studies of stratified spin-up flows, Environmental Fluid Mech. DOI 10.1007/s10652-008-9087-2 PDF
- Valleru N., Smirnov S.A., Tan J., Parameswaran S., Raj R. (2009) “Numerical simulations of high-frequency respiratory flows in a model bifurcating lung geometry,” In: WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health, Vol. 13 (Ed. C.A. Brebbia), pp. 115-122 (WIT Press)
- Smirnov S.A., Pacheco J.R., Verzicco R. (2010) “Numerical simulations of nonlinear thermally-stratified incremental spin-up in a circular cylinder,” Physics of Fluids. (In Press)
- Smirnov S.A., Pacheco J.R., Verzicco R. (2010) “Three-dimensional vortex visualization in stratified spin-up,” Journal of Visualization. 13, 81.
- Hu Y., Shi L., Parameswaran S., Smirnov S.A., He Z. (2010) "Left ventricular vortex under mitral valve edge-to-edge repair,". Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology. (In Press)
Conferences/Presentations
- Voropayev, S.I., Smirnov, S.A. and Brandt, A. (2000) Dipolar eddies in a stratified shear flow, In: Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. July 10 - 13, Vancouver, Canada.
- Voropayev, S.I., Smirnov, S.A., Filippov, I.A. and Boyer, D.L. (2000) Large eddies and vortex streets behind moving jets in a stratified fluid, In: Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. July 10-13, Vancouver, Canada.
- Smirnov, S.A. (2001) Modeling of momentum and zero-momentum stratified wakes, In: Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. December 5-8, Tempe, USA.
- Voropayev, S.I., Smirnov, S.A. and Boyer, D.L. (2001) Momentum/zero-momentum stratified wakes and late-wake eddies,In: International Conference on Fluxes and Structures in Fluids. June 20-22, Moscow, Russia.
- Srdic-Mitrovic, A., Smith IV, D., Boyer, D.L., Smirnov, S.A. and Sommeria, J. (2002) Turbulent flow over submarine canyon, In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 6-10, San Francisco, USA.
- Boyer, D.L., Srdic-Mitrovic, A.N., Smirnov, S.A., Baines, P.G. and Sommeria, J. (2003) The stability of along-isobath currents for a shelf-continental slope orography, In: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Meeting, June 30-July 11, Sapporo, Japan.
- Boyer, D.L., Haidvogel, D.B., Sommeria, J, Smirnov, S.A. and Srdic, A.N. (2003) The effects of boundary turbulence on canyon flows forced by periodic, along-shelf currents. In: International Conference on Fluxes and Structures in Fluids. June 23-26, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Smirnov, S.A., Baines, P.G. and Boyer, D.L. (2006) "Non-axisymmetric effects of stratified spin-up flows in axisymmetric geometries," In: EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS16I-01.
- Smirnov S.A., Yankovsky A., Boyer D.L. and Baines P.G. (2006) Laboratory study of coastal-trapped wave interaction with submarine canyon, The 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19-21, 2006; Tampa Bay, FL, USA.
- Smirnov S.A. and Boyer D.L. (2006)Buoyant control of non-axisymmetric instabilities during spin-up of rotating stratified fluid,The 6th EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Smirnov S.A., Boyer D.L., Yankovsky A.E. and Baines P.G. (2006)Scattering of coastal-trapped waves on topographic irregularities, Geophys. Res. Abstracts 8, 00011.
- Smirnov S.A., Pacheco J.R. (2007) Laboratory and numerical studies of stratified spin-up flow stability, The 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 18-20, 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
- Smirnov S.A., Pacheco J.R. (2007) Stability of stratified spin-up flows, The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEH), December 4-7, 2007, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
- Smirnov S.A. Coastal Trapped Waves AGU Ocean Science Meeting, March 1-7, 2008. Orlando, FL.
- Pacheco J.R., Smirnov S.A. (2009) “Laboratory and numerical studies of stratified spin-up flow stability”, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22–24, 2009; Minneapolis, MN.
- Hu Y., Shi L., Parameswaran S., Smirnov S.A., He Z. (2010) "Numerical study on diastolic left ventricular hemodynamics using motion models of mitral valve with/without edge-to-edge repair". The Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2010), June 16-19, 2010, Naples Florida, USA.