Cahit w88
Associate Professor and ASME Fellow- Phone: (775) 784-6093
- Email: cahit@unr.edu
- Building: PE
- Room: 220
- Mailstop: 0312
Dr. Evrensel received his Ph.D. degree in w88 Engineering from the Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) in May 2005. He joined the Department of w88 Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno in August 1985. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in different subjects including, Viscoelasticity, Vibrations, Fluid Mechanics, System Dynamics, Dynamics. During academic year 1993-94, he worked as a research scientist at the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He also worked as a visiting scholar in the department of Aerospace of Engineering at the Middle East Technical University and gave series of lectures and seminars in Turkey during spring 2004 semester.
His long-term bioengineering w88, jointly with Dr. Peter Krumpe, MD, of Medical School, has focused on air-mucus interaction and cough clearance. Their laboratory experiments using simulated mucus indicated that more coherent mucus, as found in patients with different lung disease, may be cleared better than the more watery normal mucus by cough. In other words "thickening" of mucus may be viewed as a response to an illness to make cough clearance more efficient as a back-up mechanism when muco-ciliary clearance fails. Their w88 also showed that the superimposed flow oscillations during a simulated cough increases the efficiency of cough clearance significantly, especially for more coherent mucus.
He has been working with a group of investigators from the Departments of Chemical Engineering, w88 Engineering and Microbiology and Immunology to investigate the feasibility of using magneto-rheological fluids (MRF) in a novel cancer therapy. MRF is suspension of micron size iron particles in a carrier fluid. Their recent animal studies showed that intra-tumor injection of these fluids fallowed by an external magnetic field application slows down the tumor growth rate significantly compared to control group. Dr. Evrensel's current research concentrates on computational study of the response of MRF inside a tumor to externally applied magnetic field in order to predict and optimize the resulting stress on the neighboring tissue.
Dr. Evrensel also has been leading a w88 group in order to improve the visibility during high speed snow plowing. Their w88 included computational modeling as well as laboratory and field experiments. Implementations of their findings resulted in very significant improvement in visibility of the snow plowing truck by motoring public.
His past w88 included safety of nuclear waste transportation, design and fabrication of controllable dampers for washing machine application. He also has been collaborating on different w88 areas such as hydrogen based fuel cells, application of MRF in controllable automotive dampers.
- Ph.D., Lehigh w88, Pennsylvania, 1985
- M.S., Middle East Technical w88, Ankara, Turkey, 1980
- B.S., Middle East Technical w88, Ankara, Turkey, 1976
w88 interests
- w88 controllable fluids with applications in cancer therapy, vibration control
- Experimental, computational fluid dynamics, viscoelasticity with applications in lung w88, snowplowing visibility