ÖZGÜR U GRAŞ BARAN e-mail: ozgur.baran@tedu.edu.tr GSM:0538 387 1973 Education 2002 05 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSELS DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FLUID MECHANICS RESEARCH GROUP Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, November 2005 2000 02 MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING HYDRAULICS LABORATORY Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Unfinished 1996 99 MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING HYDRAULICS LABORATORY Master of Science in Engineering, November 1999 1991 96 MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Bachelor of Science in Engineering, February 1996 Professional Experience and Academic Positions 2014-Present Assistant Professor TED University Ankara, Turkey 2010 2014 Researcher, TUBITAK/SAGE Ankara, Turkey. Work as research engineer on different missile projects including SOM, the first cruise missile developed in Turkey, KGK, HGK, SOM Block 20 and others. 2007 2010 Systems Engineer, HELSIM Project, Havelsan A.Ş, Ankara, Turkey 1
Responsible for model development for flight models for aircraft simulators and systems engineering and integration. 2006 Project Manager, ODESA Bilişim, Ankara, Turkey Involved and managed TUBITAK funded R&D projects on software development for very large scale logistic optimization which combines loading planning, route optimization, stock optimization for both daily basis operations and long term planning. Also led projects for development of software for long term forecasting problems. In the charge of a couple of software solutions application specific problems with Industrial partners using mentioned tools. 2002 05 Researcher-developer, NUMECA International, Brussels, Belgium Numeca International is a R&D oriented company that offers innovative CFD solutions for fluid flow and especially turbomachinery problems. Employed in unstructured technologies group, which develops new technologies on unstructured hexahedral CFD solvers all-automatic mesh generators. 2002 05 Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Involved in R&D projects with various interest groups of Fluid Mechanics Group of Mechanical Engineering Department (formerly Department of Fluid Mechanics). 1996 2002 Research and teaching assistant, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Involved mostly in experimental fluid mechanics research. Also served as teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Main graduate courses assisted were: Diffusion and dispersion in water flows, Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Intermediate fluid dynamics. Research Interests Multiphase flows. Fluid-Structure interaction. Turbulent flows and turbulent mixing 2
Industrial Computational Tecniques Cited Publications 2004 Zafer Bozkuş, Özgür U graş Baran, Metin Ger, Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Transient Liquid Slug Motion in a Voided Line. "Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology", 126, (2004), p.241-249. Thesis 2005 Control Methodologies in Hexahedral Mesh Generation, Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, December 2005 1999 Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Transient Liquid Slug Motion in a Voided Line. M.Sc. Dissertation, Middle East Technical University, November, 1999 Proceedings 2015 Umut Can Küçük, Özgür Uğraş Baran, Oğuz Uzol, Passive Flow Control in Boundary Layer Ingesting Semi Submerged Inlet, 51st AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, 2015, Orlando, Florida 2015 Erdem Dikbaş, Özgür Uğraş Baran and Cüneyt Sert, Analysis of Hinge Moment And Drag Coefficients Of A Grid Fin In Comparison With A Planar Fin, 9. Ankara International Aerospace Conference, September 2015, METU, Ankara TURKEY 2013 Kenan Ünal, Özgür Uğraş Baran, An Integrated Store Separation Analysis Tool, 7. Ankara International Aerospace Conference, 11-13 September 2013 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 2013 Erdem Dikbaş, Özgür Uğraş Baran, Cüneyt Sert, A 2-D Theoretical And Computational Study For Preliminary Determination Of Grid Fin Geometric Parameters At Low Transonic Speeds, 7. Ankara International Aerospace Conference, 11-13 September 2013 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 3
2013 Özgür Uğraş Baran, Passive Flow Control In Boundary Layer Ingesting Semi-Submerged Engine Inlets At Transonic Flow, 7. Ankara International Aerospace Conference, 11-13 September 2013 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 2013 Osman Başoğlu and Özgür Uğraş Baran, Design And Optimisation Of High Speed Projectile Nose For Maximum Effectiveness And Stability, 7. Ankara International Aerospace Conference, 11-13 September 2013 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 2012 Özgür Uğraş Baran, Hediye Atik, Aydın Tüzün, Static Aeroleastic Calculations for a Wing Under Large Deformations, 30th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 25-28 June 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana 2011 Özgür Uğraş Baran, Hediye Atik, Aydın Tüzün, Static aeroelastic calculations for a high aspect ratio wing, 6th Ankara International Aerospace conference, 14-16 September 2011 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 2011 Özgür Uğraş Baran, Investigation of the segment spring and ball vertex methods on highly anisotropic meshes under large deformations, 6th Ankara International Aerospace conference, 14-16 September 2011 - METU, Ankara TURKEY 2008 Özgür U graş Baran, Yapısal olmayan ve yarım bağlı hexahedral sayısal ağlarin yay metodu ile eniyilenmesi, II. Ulusal Havacılık ve Uzay Konferansı, October, 15-17, 2008 2006 Cristian Dinescu, Charles Hirsch, Benoit Leonard, Özgür U graş Baran, Fluid-Structure Interaction Model for Hydroplaning Simulations, Technical Paper 2006-01-1190, Society of Automotive (SAE) World Congress, April 4-6, 2006 2005 Özgür U graş Baran, Charles Hirsch, Reduction of Cell Count in Unstructured Hexahedral Mesh Generation on Complex Geometries using Distance Maps, ADMOS 2005, International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, September, 2005 2000 Metin Ger, Özgür U graş Baran and Bülent İrfano glu Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Contamination, ASME Joint Conference on Water Resource Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management 2000, August, 2000. Selected Project Experience 2003 05 Hexahedral mesh generation control for turbomachinery problems. Brussels Region, Ministry of Scientific Research funded project. 4
2003 05 Involved in Aeroacoustics research in Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Fluid Mechanics Group, responsible for integration of Linearized Euler solver to the unstructured N/S solver. 2002 04 TROPHY Towards Prediction of Hydroplaning: Numerical simulation and experimental validation. EC funded R&D project. Involved as a member of the NUMECA International research team. Responsible for development of VOF and Level-Set based multiphase flow schemes and development of coupling of fluid-structure interaction problem. Project partners: Michelin Tires, Pirelli Tires, MSC/MARC Netherlands. 2002 03 SMILE Simulation Methods of Interior Noise Levels aerodynamically Excited. EC funded R&D project. Involved as a member of the NUMECA International research team. Contributed to the development of a FEM model and a SEA model of the vehicle-like model and coupling with the wall pressure excitation in order to predict interior noise in passenger cars. Project partners: Renault and Daimler- Chrysler. 2005 Involved in the development of combustion solver for NUMECA International. Developed interface for chemical reactions models. 2006 Managed project with optimizing daily logistics of ÜLKER, which requires loading of almost 300000 boxes of foods distributed from 80 plants and 70 warehouses to tens of different types of trucks each day. Project is also extended for warehouse and stock optimizations. Project Partners: ÜLKER, Netlog logistics. 2006 Led development of project for TOYOTA that builds weekly Just In Time (JIT) logistics for its Adapazarı plant. Project includes truck loading with actual box dimensions and scheduling of the trucks. The project is extended for all European TOYOTA plants and demonstrated successfully. Project partners: TOYOTA Turkey. 2007-2010 HELSIM project member. HELSIM is the biggest aircraft simulator project of Turkey to date which includes three Blackhawk of two different sub-models, two Seahawk helicopters and one sensor operator simulator that all can conduct cooperative operations. Responsible of all physical systems in both hardware and software side, including flight model performance, hydraulic, electric and all other sub-systems also control loading performance, motion and vibration system integration and tuning. 5
2008 Development of an aerodynamics and related models for Agusta A109 and Blackhawk helicopters including all general libraries. This project became a proof of concept for future helicopter simulators projects. Project is also extended to include a full visual system, two glass-cockpit simulated panel libraries and a Simulink alike visual development system for systems model development. 2010-present Involved in fluid-structure interaction analysis, aerodynamic design, seperation analysis and wind tunnel amalysis for various missile projects including SOM, KGK, HGK and SOM-J. 2011 Perform development of fluid structure interaction and mesh deformation tool. 2011 Involved in development of wind tunnel separation analysis verification and modeling tool. 2011-present Involved in development of in-house CFD solver, SENSE3D 2011 2012 Development of an aerodynamic analysis tool, which unifies aerodynamic solutions produced from different aerodynamic analysis tools, including analytical tools, CFD solutions and wind tunnel tests eliminating common errors and introduces a new workflow for aerodynamic data production. This project is now basis of the all aerodynamic design process of TUBITAK SAGE, where aerodynamic design cycle of an aircraft shortened by an order after employment of this tool. 2013 present Involved into design and platform integration of a cruise missile for F-35 aircraft. Integration studies of the missile is conducted with Lockheed Martin. 6