George Gogos

(402) 472-3006

E-mail: ggogos1@unl.edu

• Ph.D., 1986 University of Pennsylvania
• M.S.,  1982 University of Pennsylvania
• B.S.,   1980 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Areas of Funded Research:

• Transport phenomena in vaporizing and combusting sprays (numerical models)


• Thermal processes in DNA multiplication (rapid PCR development) for detection of biological agents (numerical models and experiments)


• Microfluidics (numerical models and experiments)


• Blast wave mitigation (numerical models and experiments)
• Thermal processes in plastics manufacturing (numerical models)


• Laser/materials interactions (numerical models)

Recent Journal Publications:

• Raghavan, V., Pope, D.N., Howard, D. and Gogos, G. “Surface Tension Effects during Low Reynolds Number Methanol Droplet Combustion,” Combustion and Flame, 145:791-807, 2006.
• Yang, S., Raghavan, V. and Gogos, G., “Numerical Study of Transient Laminar Natural Convection over an Isothermal Sphere,” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow,” accepted, 2006.
• Raghavan, V., Whitney, S.E., Ebmeier, R.J., Padhye, N.V., Nelson, M., Viljoen, J.J. and Gogos, G., “Thermal Analysis of the Vortex Tube Based Thermocycler for Fast DNA Amplification: Experimental and Two-Dimensional Numerical Results,” Review of Scientific Instruments, accepted, 2006.
• Raghavan, V., Pope, D.N. and Gogos, G. “Effects of Forced Convection and Surface Tension during Methanol Droplet Convection,” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, in press, 2006.
• Raghavan, V., Gogos, George, Vishwanathan, B. and Tirumalachari, S. “Effect of Gravity on Methanol Diffusion Flames Burning Within a Forced Convective Environment,” International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 33:686-97, 2006.
• Saito, K., Raghavan, V. and Gogos, G. “Numerical Study of Transient Laminar Natural Convection Heat Transfer over a Sphere Subjected to a Constant Heat Flux,” Heat and Mass Transfer, accepted, 2006.
• Raghavan, V., Gogos, G., Babu, V. and Sundararajan, T., “Entropy Generation during the Quasi-Steady Burning of Spherical Fuel Particles,” International Journal of Thermal Sciences, accepted, 2006.



• Pope, D. and Gogos, G. Numerical Simulation of Fuel Droplet Extinction Due to Forced Convection , Combustion and Flame 142: 89-106, 2005.
• Pope, D.N. and Gogos, G. A New Multicomponent Diffusion Formulation for the Finite-Volume Method: Application to Convective Droplet Combustion , Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 48, 3:213-234, 2005.
• Zhang, Z., and Gogos, G. Effects of Laser Intensity and Ambient Conditions on the Laser Induced Plume , Applied Surface Science, 252:1057-1064, 2005.
• Pope, D.N., Howard, D., Lu, K. and Gogos, G. Combustion of Moving Droplets and Suspended Droplets: Transient Numerical Results , AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 19, 3:273-281, 2005.



• Ebmeier, R., Whitney, S., Sarkar, A., Nelson, M., Padhye, N., Gogos, G. and Viljoen, J.H. Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube Thermocycler for Fast DNA Amplification and Real-Time Optical Detection , Review of Scientific Instruments, 12:5356-5359, 2004.
• Ebmeier, R., Whitney, S., Alugupally, S., Nelson, M., Padhye, N., Gogos, G. and Viljoen, J.H. Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube Thermocycler for DNA Amplification , Instrumentation Science & Technology, 32:567-570, 2004.
• Zhang, H. and Gogos, G. Numerical Research on a Vaporizing Fuel Droplet in a Forced Convective Environment , Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 30:181-198, 2004.
• Gogos, G. Bubble Removal in Rotational Molding , Polymer Engineering and Science, 44:388-394, 2004.
• Zhang, Z. and Gogos, G. Theory of Shock Wave Propagation During Laser Ablation , Physical Review B, 69:235403, 2004.