Department of Aerospace Engineering

SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

• Fu, Y., Kunz, R.F., Wu, J., Dong, C. “Study of Local Hydrodynamic Environment in Cell-Substrate Adhesion using Side-view mPIV Technology, PLOSONE-D-11-16184R1, February, 2012. (Contributing Author)
• Hill, M.J., Kunz, R.F., Medvitz, R.B., Handschuh, R.F., Long, L.N., Noack, R.W., Morris, P.J. “CFD Analysis of Gear Windage Losses: Validation and Parametric Aerodynamic Studies,”  ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 133:031103-1-10, March 2011. (Contributing Author, First Author Supervised by Candidate)
• Hoskins, M.H., Kunz, R.F., Bistline, J.E., Dong, C. “Coupled Flow–Structure–Biochemistry Simulations of Dynamic Systems of Blood Cells Using an Adaptive Surface Tracking Method,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, 25:936–953, July, 2009. (Contributing Author, First Author Supervised by Candidate)
• Liang, S., Hoskins, M.H., Khanna, P., Kunz, R.F., Dong, C., “Effects of the Tumor-Leukocyte Microenvironment on Melanoma–Neutrophil Adhesion to the Endothelium in a Shear Flow,” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 1:2–3:189–200, September, 2008. (Contributing Author, Second Author Supervised by Candidate)
• Lindau, J.W., Kunz, R.F., Miller, T.F., Stinebring, D.R., Dzielski, J.E., Young, S.D., Brungart, T.A., Moeny, M.J., Allen, C.W., Meyer, R.J., Highlands, T.W., Krout, D.W, “Research for Development of Maneuvering and Homing High-Speed Supercavitating Vehicles­Part 4: Detailed Flow,” Modeling, Journal of Underwater Acoustics, 58:3, July 2008. (Contributing Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Gibeling, H.J., Maxey, M.R., Tryggvason, G., Fontaine, A.A., Petrie, H.L., Ceccio, S.L., “Validation of Two-Fluid Eulerian CFD Modeling for Microbubble Drag Reduction Across a Wide Range of Reynolds Numbers," ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 129:66-79, January 2007. (Principal Author)
• Leyton-Mange, J., Yang, S., Henty, M., Kunz, R., Zahn, J., Dong, C. “Design of Side-View Particle Image Velocimetry System For Cellular Adhesion Analysis,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 128:271–278, 2006. (Contributing Author, Third Author Supervised by Candidate)
• Lindau, J.W., Medvitz, R.B., Boger, D.A., Kunz, R.F. “Propeller Cavitation Breakdown Analysis,” Journal of Fluids Engineering , 127:995-1002, 2005. (Contributing Author)
• Balani, A., Culver, R.L., D.L. Bradley, Paterson, E.G., X. Di, and R.F. Kunz, “Coupled hydrody­namic ship wake and PE-based acoustic propagation modeling,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, No 4, Pt. 2, April 2003. (Contributing Author)
• Venkateswaran, S., Lindau, J.W., Kunz, R.F., Merkle, C.L. “Computation of Multiphase Mixture Flows with Compressibility Effects,” Journal of Computational Physics, 180:54-77, 2002. (Contributing Author)
• Lindau, J.W., Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Stinebring, D.A., Gibeling, H.J. “High Reynolds Number, Unsteady Multi-Phase CFD Modeling of Cavitating Flows,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 211:607-616, 2002. (Contributing Author)
• Medvitz, R.B., Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Lindau, J.W., Yocum, A.M., Pauley, L.L. “Perfor­mance Analysis of Cavitating Flow in Centrifugal Pumps Using Multiphase CFD,” ASME Jour­nal of Fluids Engineering 124:377-383, 2002. (Contributing Author, First Author Supervised by Candidate)
• Kunz, R.F., Kasmala, G.F., Mahaffy, J.H., Murray, C.J. “On the Automated Assessment of Nuclear Reactor Systems Code Accuracy,” Nuclear Engineering and Design 211:245-272, 2002. (Principal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., D’Amico, S.W., Vassallo, P.F., Zaccaria “Parallel Jet Mixing in a  Rectangular Confinement,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering 123:567-573, 2001. (Principal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Boger, D.A., Stinebring, D.R. Chyczewski, T.S., Lindau. J.W., Gibeling, H.J., Venkateswaran, S., Govindan, T.R., “A Preconditioned Implicit Method for Two-Phase Flows with Application to Cavitation Prediction,” Computers and Fluids, 29(8):849-875, 2000. (Princi­pal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Cope, W.K., Venkateswaran, V. “Development of an Implicit Method for Multi- fluid Flow Simulations,” Journal of Computational Physics, 152:78-101, 1999. (Principal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Siebert, B.W., Cope, W.K., Foster, N.F., Antal, S.P., Ettorre, S.M. “A Coupled Pha­sic Exchange Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Four-Field Analysis of Heated Flows with Mass Transfer,” Computers and Fluids, 27(7):741-768, 1998. (Principal Author)
• By, R.R., Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Navier-Stokes Analysis of the Pump Flow Field of and Automotive Torque Converter,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 117:116-122, 1995. (Contributing Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B., Basson, A.H. “Investigation of Tip Clearance Phenomena in an Axial Compressor Cascade Using Euler and Navier-Stokes Procedures,” ASME Journal of Tur­bomachinery, 115:453-467, 1993. (Principal Author)
• Basson, A.H., Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Grid Generation for Three-Dimensional Tur­bomachinery Geometries Including Tip Clearance,” AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, 9(1):59-66, 1993. (Contributing Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Computation of Turbo­machinery Flows Using an Explicit Numerical Procedure and a Coupled k-e Turbulence Model,” ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 14:627-642, 1992. (Principal Author) (see awards mention below)
• Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Stability of Explicit Navier-Stokes Procedures Using k-e and k-e/Algebraic Reynolds Stress Turbulence Models,” Journal of Computational Physics, 103(1):141-159, 1992. (Principal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Lakshminarayana, B. “Explicit Navier-Stokes Computation of Cascade Flows Using the k-e Turbulence Model,” AIAA Journal, 30(1):13-22, 1992. (Principal Author)
• Kunz, R.F., Rhie, C.M., Malecki, R.E. “Calculation of Internal Flows Using a Single-Pass Parabolized Navier-Stokes Analysis,” AIAA Journal, 28(5):817-818, 1990. (Principal Author)