Petroleum Engineering - Mayank Tyagi

CRAFT & HAWKINS DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Tyagi

Mayank Tyagi
Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering
Research Scientist in CCT
Louisiana State University
Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Room 3526A
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6041 / Fax: 225-578-6039
E-Mail: mtyagi@lsu.edu

Background

B.S., May 1995 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India Major: Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., May 2003 Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA Major: Mechanical Engineering Minor 1: Mathematics, Minor 2: Oceanography

Interests, Awards, and Professional Memberships:

Member os ASME, AIAA, APS and SIAM.
Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), and Numerical Heat Transfer (NHT).

Funded Research Grants

DOE-BoR, renewal, Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System (UCoMS) for Discovery and Management of Energy Resources, $210,000, (Role: Co-PI, PI: C.D. White).
NSF-SDCI, Cactus Tools for Application Level Performance and Correctness Analysis (ALPACA), $586,070 (2007-2010) (Role: Co-PI, PI: E.H. Schnetter).
DoD-EPSCOR, Development of an Integrated Modeling Framework for Simulations of Coastal Processes in Deltaic Environments using High-Performance Computing, $463,000 (2007-1010) (Role: Co-PI, PI: Q.J. Chen)
DOE, NNSA, Towards Miniaturization of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Reactors: Novel Processing Routes of Fabricating Microstructures on Pressurized Water Reactors, $1,500,000, (2005-2008) (PI: S.I. Ibekwe; Co-PIs: G. Li, K. Lian, S.S. Pang), (Prime COntractor: Southern University; Subcontractor: CAMD and LSU), (LSU Subcontractor Budget: $222,801; LSU Subcontractor PI: M.A. Wahab; LSU Subcontractor Co-PIs: S.S. Pang, M. Tyagi, K.V. Singh)
LEQSF-BoR, Large Eddy SImulation of Chemical Processes: Improvements in COmplex-Mixer Designs $225,000 (2004-2007) (Role: Co-PI, PI: S. Acharya)
SF-EPSCOR, "Louisiana's Research Infrastructure Improvement Strategy," $9,000,000 (2007-2010) (Role: SI, PI: M. M. Khonsari)

Recent Publications

Journal Publications:

Simulation of laminar and turbulent impeller stirred tanks using immersed boundary method and large eddy simulation technique in multi-block curvilinear geometries, Tyagi, M., Roy, S., Harvey III, A.D., and Acharya, S., Chemcial Engineering Science, Vol. 62, pp. 1351-1363, 2007.
Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flows in COmplex and Moving Rigid Geometries Using the Immersed Boundary Method, Tyagi, M., and Acharya, S., Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, Vol. 48, pp. 691-722, 2005.
Large Eddy Simulations of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Ribbed Duct Flows, Tyagi, M., and Acharya, S., ASME J. Heat Trans., Vol. 127, pp. 486-498, 2005.
Large Eddy Simulation of Film-Cooling Flow from an Inclined Cylinderical Jet, Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., ASME J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 125, pp. 734-742, 2003.
Lareg Eddy Simulations of Jets in Crossflow: I Effect of Freestream Turbulence Intensity, Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., J. Ener. Heat and Mass Trans., Vol 25, pp. 1-26, 2003.
Large Eddy SImulations of Jets in Crossflow: II Effect of Freestream Turbulence Length Scale Effects, Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., J. Ener. Heat and Mass Trans., Vol. 25, pp. 95-116, 2003.
Flow and Heat Transfer Predictions for Film-Cooling Flows, Acharya, S., Tyagi, M., and Hoda, A., Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 934, pp. 110-125, 2001.

Books and Proceedings:

Benger, W., Heinzl, R., Kapferer, W., Schoor, W., Tyagi, M., Venkatraman, S., and Weber, G.H. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th High-End Visualization Workshop, OpenIssues in Visualization with Special COncentration on Applications in Astrophysics, Numerical Relativity, COmputational Fluid Dynamics and High-Performance Comuputing, June 18-22, 2007, Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria (Online order info: Lehmanns Media LOB.de ISBN: 978-3-86541-216-4)

Honorarium Talks:

Fluid Flow SImulations in Moving Geometries using Immersed Boundary Method, January 8, 2007, ME Department Honorarium, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Conference Proceedings

Zero Assignment in Vibration with and Without Time Delay, Singh, K.V., Datta, B.N., and Tyagi, M., Proceedings of the ASME IDETC/CIE 2007 DETC2007-34819, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007.
Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation for Film Cooling, Acharya, S., and Tyagi, M., VKI Lecture Series, Film Cooling Science and Technology for Gas Turbines: State-of-the-art Experimental and COmputational Knowledge, Belgium, April 16-20, 2007.
Simulation of Boiling Heat Transfer around Micro Pin-fin Heat Exchanger: Progress and Challenges, Tyagi, M., Maha, A., Singh, K.V., Li, G. and Pang, S.S., presented at ICCE-14, BOulder, CO, July 2-8-2006.