MECHANICAL ENGINEERING—ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Proudly Presents:
Dr. Amanda D Hanford
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Hanford is currently a Research Associate and department head of the Marine and
Physical Acoustics Department in the Fluids, Structural Mechanics and Acoustics Office at the Applied Research Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Hanford received her Masters of Science (2004) and Doctorate (2008) in Acoustics from
the Pennsylvania State University on acoustic modeling of various systems using a
computational particle method called direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). Her
Bachelor’s degree is in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, NY (2002). Dr.
Hanford's current research interests include nonlinear propagation modeling, atmospheric acoustics,
acoustic metamaterials and computational methods in fluid dynamics and acoustics.
Thursday,March17,2016
4:00 pm — 103 EERC
Fluid and Structure Interaction Research at the Applied
Research Laboratory at Penn State
The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), is a specialized research unit dedicated to interdisciplinary scientific research at the Penn State, University Park campus. The ARL is a DoD
designated U.S. Navy University Affiliated Research Center. An overview of the research of ARL will be
presented. Additionally, an in depth focus on fully coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) will be given. ARL has developed state of the art computational and experimental techniques to predict and quantify fluid and structural behavior of fully coupled systems. ARL’s FSI computational capabilities include partitioned and monolithic approaches to support the need to engineer advanced systems and products.
ARL’s experimental FSI characterization methods simultaneously measures structure and fluid motion
over the entire domain of interest, at a high enough data rate to resolve the time scales of the fullycoupled motion using techniques such as Stereo and Shadow Particle Image Velocimetry, and timeresolved structure load measurements.