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Dr. Sergey Smirnov

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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

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Research Interests (Research - Environmental Fluid Mechanics")

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Publications

Journal Papers/Book Chapters

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Voropayev, S. I., Smirnov, S. A. and Brandt, A. (2001) Dipolar eddies in a stratified shear flow, Phys. Fluids 13, 3820. PDF
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. Smirnov, S.A. and Voropayev, S.I. (2003) On the asymptotic theory of momentum/zero-momentum wakes, Phys. Letters A 307, 148. PDF
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Smirnov S.A. and Boyer D.L. (2007) Topographic control of non-axisymmetric stratified spin-up, Fluid Dyn. Res. 39, 378. PDF
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. Smirnov S.A., Pacheco J.R., Verzicco R. (2010) “Three-dimensional vortex visualization in stratified spin-up,” Journal of Visualization. 13, 81.
  23. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Smirnov S.A. Coastal Trapped Waves AGU Ocean Science Meeting, March 1-7, 2008. Orlando, FL.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.