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Keith A. Woodbury
Associate Professor
Education Teaching Research Service Personal

Education:

Degree

Major

Institution

Date

Ph.D.

Mechanical Engineering

Virginia Tech

1984

M.S.

Mechanical Engineering

University of Alabama

1981

B.S.

Mechanical Engineering

University of Alabama

1979

 

Other Related Experience:

Process Modelling /Heat Transfer Engineer, Reynolds Metals Company, 1984-1988.

Professional Affiliations:

  • Registered Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia.
  • Associate Member ASME.
  • Member AIAA

Instructional Activities:

  • Undergraduate Courses- Thermodynamics I and II, Compresssible Flow, Propulsion, Instrumentation, Heat Transfer, Energy Systems Design.
  • Graduate Courses- Inverse Problems, Finite Element Analysis of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Intermediate Heat Transfer

Research Activities:

Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer, Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficients in Casting, Thermal Properties of Sand Molds.

Principal Publications for Last Five Years:

  • Krejsa, J., Woodbury, K. A., Ratliff, J. D., and Raudensky, M., "Assessment of Strategies and Potential for Neural Networks in the IHCP," submitted to Inverse Problems in Engineering, November, 1996.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Boohaker, C. G., "Simultaneous Determination of Temperature-Dependent Thermal Conductivity and Volumetric Specific Heat," HTD Vol. 332, Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer Division - Volume 1, ASME 1996 IMECE, Atlanta, GA, November, 1996, pp. 269-274.
  • Seyed-Yagoobi, J., and Woodbury, K. A., (Editors) Thermal Contact Conductance and Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer, in Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer Division - Volume 1, HTD-Vol. 332, Atlanta, GA, November, 1996.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Premanand B., "Finite Element Solution of the 2D-IHCP: Application to Steady-State Problems'', Second International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Engineering Foundation, June 9-14, 1996, Le Croisic, France.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Thakur, S. K., "Redundant Data and Future Times in the Inverse Heat Conduction Problem," Inverse Problems in Engineering, Vol. 2, 1996, pp. 319-333
  • Woodbury, K. A., "Heat Transfer", Chapter 12 of Principles and Practice of Mechanical Engineering, Great Lakes Press, Okemos, MI, 1996.
  • Raudenskı, M., Woodbury, K. A, Kral, J., and Brezina, T., "Genetic Algorithm in Solution of Inverse Heat Conduction Problems," Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, Vol 28, no 3, Oct.-Nov. 1995, pp. 293-306.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Jin, X., "A Temperature-Based Sequential Function Specification Method for the IHCP," HTD Vol. 312, 1995 National Heat Transfer Conference, Portland, OR, August 1995, pp. 141-150.
  • Haldipur, P. L., and Woodbury, K. A., "Finite Element Implementation of Thermal Boundary Conditions for a k-( Turbulence Model," HTD Vol. 311, 1995 National Heat Transfer Conference, Portland, OR, August 1995, pp. 179-190.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Thakur, S. K., "Redundant Data, Future Times and Sensor Location in the IHCP: a Case Study,'' in Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Inverse Problems, Paris, November, 1994, pp. 193-202.
  • Woodbury, K. A., and Thakur, S. K., "A Two-Dimensional Inverse Heat Conduction Algorithm," in Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, proceedings of the First International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, June 13-18, 1993, Palm Coast, Florida, ASME Book No. I00357, pp. 219-226.
  • Dumek, V., Druckmüller, M., Raudenskı, and Woodbury, K. A., "Novel Approaches to the IHCP: Neural Networks and Expert Systems," in Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, proceedings of the First International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, June 13-18, 1993, Palm Coast, Florida, ASME Book No. I00357, pp. 275-282.
  • Zabaras, N., Woodbury, K. A., and Raynaud, M., (Editors) Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, proceedings of the First International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, June 13-18, 1993, Palm Coast, Florida.
  • Woodbury, K. A., (Editor) Proceedings of the Fifth Seminar on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June, 1992.
  • Beck, J. V., Alifanov, O. M., Woodbury, K. A., Artyukin, E. A., and McCormick, N., (Editors), "Joint American--Russian Workshop on Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer," National Science Foundation, September, 1992.

Service Activites:

  • Member Ad-Hoc Committee on Computational Heat Transfer, ASME Heat Transfer Division
  • Supervisor for FE Exam (1991-present).
  • Faculty Senator (1996-present)