Nathan B. Edgar, Ph.D., Director of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering LSW 130 B Tel.: 870-972-2088 Resume (pdf) | Class Schedule | HomePage

Education:

Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas, 2002.
M.S. - Mechanical Engineering (Honors), University of Kansas, 1992.
B.S. - Engineering, Arkansas State University, 1990.

Recent Courses Taught:

Heat Transfer
Thermodynamics I
Thermodynamics II
Finite Element Analysis

Teaching/Research Interests:

Computational Mehcanics
Fluid/Thermal Sciences

Consulting/External Research:

Summer research faculty 2002-2005
Center of Excellence for Computational Sciences
Air Force Research Laboratory
WPAFB, OH

Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (with Dr. Tom Parsons)
Development of Design Improvements for Bridge Railings
(2005-2006)

Tokusen USA, Inc.
Finite element modeling of a novel tire cord configuration
(2005-2006)

Representative Publications:

• “Category I Benchmark Problems Using FDL2DI”, Proceedings of the Fourth Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) Workshop on Benchmark Problems, Cleveland, OH, 2004. First author, with Miguel Visbal.
“A General Buffer Zone-type Non-Reflecting Boundary Condition for Computational Aeroacoustics”, AIAA Paper 2003-3300, 9th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Hilton Head, SC, May 2003. First author, with Miguel Visbal.
• “Simulation of 3-D Acoustic Scattering with a Pentadiagonal Compact Difference Method”, AIAA Paper 2002-2536, Proceedings of the 8th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Breckenridge, CO, June 2002. First author, with Peter TenPas.

Affiliations:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)