Nazmiye Acikgoz

Ph.D. Candidate

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Aerospace Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia

nazmiye [AT] gatech.edu

Research Interests

• Thermodynamics, High temperature gas dynamics
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Adaptive finite element methods (FEM)
• Unstructured meshing, Mesh adaptation/optimization
• Aerodynamics, FSI, turbulence, shear flows

Education

• PhD. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology - December 2006 (expected graduation)
• M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology - 2003
• M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey - 2001
• B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey - 1998

Publications

• N. Acikgoz, C.L. Bottasso, "A Unified Approach to the Deformation of Simplicial and Non-Simplicial Meshes in Two and Three Dimensions with Guaranteed Validity," Computers and Structures, Elsevier Science Ltd. 2006, (CAS-D-06-00097, to appear). []
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, C.L. Bottasso, "Metric-Driven Mesh Optimization Using a Local Simulated Annealing Algorithm," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 2006, (NME-Jan-06-0033, to appear). []
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, C.L. Bottasso, "A New Mesh Deformation Technique for Simplicial and Non-Simplicial Meshes," 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006 [PDF]
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, C.L. Bottasso, "A Local Simulated Annealing Strategy For Mesh Optimization," 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006. [PDF]
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, C.L. Bottasso, "Metric Based Mesh Optimization Using Simulated Annealing," European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering; July 2004. [PDF]
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, L. Sankar, "Unsteady Flow Predictions of Oscillating Airfoils,"10th International Workshop on Aeroelasticity of Rotorcraft Systems; November 2003. [PDF]
  
  
• N. Acikgoz, "Application of Turbulence Models to Usteady Cascade Flows in a Parallel Environment 2001. [MS_Thesis]