Frederick Stern

Research Links:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/people/details.php?id=39

Joined the College of Engineering: 1983

Education:
Ph.D., Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 1980
M.S.E., Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 1977
B.S.E., Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 1975

Special Fields of Knowledge:
Computational and experimental fluid dynamics; ship hydrodynamics; viscous flow and waves; propellers and cavitation; potential flow; resistance and propulsion; and ship and platform dynamics

Present Research Interests:
Unsteady ship boundary layers, wakes and wave fields; free-surface and wave effects on turbulence; wave-induced separation; marine-propulsor tip-vortex flow and cavitation inception; and unsteady viscous marine-propulsor hydrodynamics

Selected Publications:
Stern, F., Olivieri, A., Shao, J., Longo, J., and Ratcliffe, T., "Statistical Approach for Estimating Intervals of Certification or Biases of Facilities or Measurement Systems Including Uncertainties," ASME J. Fluids Eng, Vol. 127, No. 1, March 2005.

Simonsen, C. and Stern, F., "Flow Structure around an Appended Tanker Hull Form in Simple Maneuvering Conditions," Computers & Fluids, 34, 2005, pp. 169-198.

Longo, J. and Stern, F., "Uncertainty Assessment for Towing Tank Tests with Example for Surface Combatant DTMB Model 5415," Journal Ship Research, Vol. 49 No. 1, March 2005.

Tahara, Y., Stern, F., and Himeno, Y., "Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Optimization of a Surface Combatant," Journal Ship Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2004, pp. 273-287.

Longo, J., Gui, L., and Stern, F., "Ship Velocity Fields," Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol. 9, PIV and Water Waves, invited article, October 2004, pp. 119-179.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
American Society for Engineering Education; American Society for Mechanical Engineering; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Flow Studies Panel SNAME, Propeller Hydrodynamics Panel SNAME, Resistance Committee ITTC, Ad Hoc Working Group on CFD Code Verification and Validation ASME