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Organic Synthesis, Organometallics, Prostaglandins, Vitamin D, Catalysis
ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; ORGANIC REACTIONS; NATURAL PRODUCT. Expert and his research group have successfully carried through many total syntheses of natural products. In addition, he has originated, reduced to practice, and published many new methods for effecting organic transformations. He also…
Digital Communication Systems
COMMUNICATION THEORY; SATELLITES; DATA TRANSMISSION; VOICE COMMUNICATION; ERROR-CORRECTION CODING. For over half of his career, he has worked in the area of communication system design. He has been involved in the development of several sophisticated communication systems, including the MILSTAR…
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
Expert has been involved in the development of a number of features for these devices. These include the dual cell, programmed swept radio frequency excitation, external ion injection, and mass separation. He has also been able to utilize this concept…
Finite Element Techniques
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE. Expert has built an internationally known research program in the area of automated adaptive finite element modeling. Research activities have focused on the development of techniques to reliably automate the finite element modeling…
Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Powders and Single Crystals
Expert has used microencapsulation as a method to prepare multicomponent ceramic powders containing two to five components. He developed (and is in the process of patenting) the first dry microencapsulation process that also can be used as a granulation method.…
Chemical Engineering, Enzymes
Expert has spent the majority of his professional career developing and refining the use of chemical engineering techniques to design biochemical reactors holding enzymes and microbial cells. Expert is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Employer's Chemical Engineering program.…
Heat Transfer
HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION. Expert has worked in the field of heat transfer for 20 years, both as a researcher and as a teacher. His experiences have encompassed all aspects of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation, boiling, and…
Signals, Imaging, Seismic Method – All Aspects, Expert Witness
Expert's work with acoustic signals and their processing has included biosonar, exploration seismic imaging, ultrasonic uses in medical imaging and non-destructive evaluation, sonar systems, and sonic well logging. Specific problems he has been involved in include signal enhancement, data compression,…
Fuzzy, Neural and AI Systems
Expert's book, "Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks, published by Oxford University Press in 1997, is considered an excellent reference in this area. Expert also has some papers in the research literature and has developed a powerful algorithm (the radial basis…
Fluid Flow Systems/Heat Transfer Equipment/Porous Media Flows/Thermal Management
FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID BOUNDARY LAYER. Expert has spent much of his career solving Euler, Navier-Stokes, and Bernoulli equations For their application to complex flow fields such as gas and liquid jets, channel flow design, turbulence, flow separation and mixing processes,…