ITU	Dr. Selman Nas
	Education Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. May 1995. M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, December 1990. B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, June 1987. Reasearch Interests · Multiphase Flows in Bio/Micro Fluid Systems Time-accurate (unsteady) computations of multiphase flows with applications in bio/microfluid flows. Biological flows and fluid-biomembrane interactions in incompressible flow fields. · Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling and computation of inviscid and viscous flows about complex geometries including very low Mach number (incompressible) flows and transonic and hypersonic flows  with shock waves. Fluid-structure interactions in bio/micro fluid systems. · Numerical Methods Finite-Volume (FV) method, FV/Front tracking method for computations of multiphase flows, convergence acceleration methods such as multigrid. Selected Publications C. F. Delale, G. Tryggvason and S. Nas  “Cylindrical bubble dynamics: Exact and direct numerical simulation results,” Physics of Fluid, vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 040903-1:040903-10, April 2008.  S. Nas, M. Muradoglu and G. Tryggvason, “Pattern Formation of Drops in Thermocapillary Migration”. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 49 (13-14), pp. 2265-2276, Feb 2006. Tuzcu, V., Nas, S., Borklu, T., Ugur, A. “Decrease in R-R Interval Entropy Prior to the Onset of Atrial Fibrillation,”  Europace (2006), 8, pp. 398-402. C. F. Delale, S. Nas and G. Tryggvason, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Shock Propagation in Bubbly Liquids,” Physics of Fluid, 17, Dec 2005.  Sanbe A, James J, Tuzcu V, Nas S, Martin L, Gulick J, Osinska H, Sakthivel S, Klevitsky R, Ginsburg KS, Bers DM, Zinman B, Lakatta EG, Robbins J. “A Transgenic Rabbit Model for Human Troponin I-based Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”. Circulation 111(18):2330-2338, May 10 2005. C. F. Delale, S. Nas and G. Tryggvason, “Numerical Simulation of Shock Propagation in Bubbly Liquids by the Front Tracking Method,” Proceeding of Fluid Mechanics and its Applications of IUTAM Conference, Oct 4-7 2004, Chicago, (Invited). S. Nas and G. Tryggvason, “Thermocapillary Interaction of Two Bubbles or Drops,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow 29 (7): 1117-1135, July 2003. G. Tryggvason, B. Bunner, A. Esmaeeli, D. Juric, N. Al-Rawahi, W. Tauber, J. Han, S. Nas, and Y.-J. Jan, “A Front Tracking Method for the Computations of Multiphase Flow,” Journal of Computational Physics 169 (2): 708-759, May 20 2001. Nurullah Arslan, Volkan Tuzcu, Selman Nas, Ayşe Durukan, “CFD Modelling of Blood Flow Inside Human Left Coronary Artery Bifurcation with Aneurysms”. 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Nov 20-25, 2005, Prague (Czech Republic). Extended List of Publications
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