David L. Marcum

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1985
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1981
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1978

EXPERIENCE RECORD

2009-Present, Chief Scientist, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
2003-2009, Director, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University
2002, Director, ERC, Mississippi State University
2001-2002, Deputy Director, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University
1995-2001, Thrust Leader, ERC, Mississippi State University
1991-Present, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Mississippi State University
1987-1991, Scientist, Computational Fluid Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
1985-1987, Senior Specialist Engineer, Aerodynamics Research, The Boeing Company
1983-1985, Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering Department, Purdue University
1978-1983, Senior Product Engineer, Advanced Design, TRW Ross Gear Division

SPECIALTY AREAS

Unstructured Mesh Generation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods

RESEARCH

Computational Simulation and Design Center (SimCenter)

AWARDS

Honorary Professor, University of Wales, Swansea– 2007-Present.
Billie J. Ball Professor of Mechanical Engineering – 2005-Present.
Herrin Eminent Scholar - 2001 to 2005.
Herrin-Hess Distinguished Professor - 1996,1997,1999.
College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Researcher Award - 1998.
Office of Research Outstanding Engineering Faculty Researcher Award - 1998.

PUBLICATIONS

Book Articles

Brewer, M.L. and Marcum, D.L., Editors, “Proceedings of 16th International Meshing Roundtable,” Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-75102-I, 2008.
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, J.A., “Unstructured Grid Generation for Aerospace Applications,” Computational Aerosciences in the 21st Century, edited by M.D. Salas and W.K. Anderson, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 189, 2000.
Marcum, D.L., “Unstructured Grid Generation Using Automatic Point Insertion and Local Reconnection,” The Handbook of Grid Generation, edited by J.F. Thompson, B. Soni, and N.P. Weatherill, CRC Press, p. 18-1, 1998.
Marcum, D.L., “Advancing-Front/Local-Reconnection (AFLR) Unstructured Grid Generation,” Computational Fluid Dynamics Review, World Scientific-Singapore, p. 140, 1998.
Marcum, D.L. and Hoffman, J.D., “Subsonic/Transonic/Supersonic Nozzle Flows and Nozzle Integration,” Numerical Methods for Engine-Airframe Integration, edited by S. N. B. Murthy and G. C. Paynter, Progress in Astronautics & Aeronautics, Vol. 102, AIAA, 1986.

Journal Articles

Patel, P.S., Marcum, D.L. and Remotigue, M.G., “Robust and Efficient CAD Topology Generation using Adaptive Tolerances,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. x, No. x, pp. x-x, Accepted for Publication, 2008.
Blades, E.L., Marcum, D.L., “A Sliding Interface Method For Unsteady Unstructured Flow Simulations,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 53, No. x, pp. 507-529, 2007.
Patel, P.S., Marcum, D.L. and Remotigue, M.G., “Automatic CAD Model Tology Generation,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 823-841, 2006.
Blades, E. and Marcum, D., “Simulation of Spinning Missile Flow Field Using U2NCLE,” AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 248-256, 2004.
Marcum, D.L., “Efficient Generation of High-Quality Unstructured Surface and Volume Grids,” Engineering with Computers, Vol. 17, p. 211, 2001.
Beggs, J.H., Marcum, D.L., and Chan, S-L, “The Numerical Method of Characteristics for Electromagnetics,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1999.
Marcum, D.L., “Adaptive Unstructured Grid Generation for Viscous Flow Applications,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 11, p. 2440, 1996.
Marcum, D.L, and Weatherill, N.P., “Aerospace Applications of Solution Adaptive Finite Element Analysis,” Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 12, No. 7, p. 709, 1995.
Marcum, D.L., and Weatherill, N.P., “A Procedure for Efficient Generation of Solution Adapted Unstructured Grids,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 127, p. 259, 1995.
Marcum, D.L. and Weatherill, N.P., “Unstructured Grid Generation Using Iterative Point Insertion and Local Reconnection,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 9, p. 1619, 1995.
Weatherill, N.P., Hassan, O., and Marcum, D. L, “Compressible Flowfield Solutions with Unstructured Grids Generated by Delaunay Triangulation,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 7, p. 1196, 1995.
Marcum, D.L. and Weatherill, N.P., “Turbulence Models for Unstructured Finite Element Calculations,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 8-9, 1995.
Weatherill, N.P., Marchant, M.J., Hassan, O., and Marcum, D.L, “Grid Adaptation Using a Distribution of Sources Applied to Inviscid Compressible Flow Simulations, ” International Journal for Numerical Methods, Vol. 19, p. 739, 1994.
Marcum, D.L. and Agarwal, R.K, “A Finite Element Navier-Stokes Solver for Unstructured Grids,” AIAA Journal, Volume 30, No. 3, p. 648, 1992.
Marcum, D.L., and Hoffman, J.D., “Calculation of Three-Dimensional Inviscid Flowfields in Propulsive Nozzles,” AIAA Journal of Propulsion & Power, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 172, 1988.
Hoffman, J.D., Thompson, H.D. and Marcum, D.L., “Analytical Study of Swirler Effects in Annular Propulsive Nozzles,” AIAA Journal of Propulsion & Power, Vol. 3, No. 5, p. 465, 1987.
Marcum D.L. and Hoffman, J.D., “Numerical Boundary Condition Procedures for Euler Solvers,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 8, p. 1054, 1987.
Marcum D.L. and Hoffman, J.D., “Calculation of Three-Dimensional Subsonic/Transonic Inviscid Flowfields by the Unsteady Method of Characteristics,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 1497, 1985.

Papers

Sheng, C. Wang, X., Hughson, M., and Marcum, D., “Unsteady Navier-Stokes Simulations of Canard-Controlled Missile Configueations,” AIAA-2008-7324, 26th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Honolulu, HI, August 2008.
P. S. Patel, D. L. Marcum and M. G. Remotigue, “Stitching and Filling: Creating Conformal Faceted Geometry,” Proceedings of 14th International Meshing Roundtable, September 2005, SanDiego, CA.
P. S. Patel, D. L. Marcum and M. G. Remotigue, “Geometrical Details Elimination for Computational Simulations,” The 6th Mississippi State-UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, May 2005, Starkville, MS.
Blades, E.L., Marcum, D.L., “A Sliding Interface Method For Unsteady Unstructured Flow Simulations,” AIAA-2005-5233, AIAA 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2005, Reno, NV.
Paresh S. Patel, David L. Marcum, and Michael G. Remotigue, “Building Topological Information for Triangulated Models,” SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Orlando, FL, February 2005.
Blades, E. and Marcum, D., “Navier-Stokes Simulation of a Missile with a Free-Spinning Tail Using Unstructured Grids,” AIAA-2004-0720, 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Janurary 2004.
Burg, C.O.E and Marcum, D.L., “Moving Towards High-Fidelity RANS Calculations of Maneuvering Surface Vessels Using Unstructured Grids,” 8th International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics, Busan, Korea, Sept. 2003.
Burg, C.O.E, Sheng, C., Newmax III, J.C., Brewer, W., Blades, E.L., and Marcum, D.L., “Verification and Validation of Forces Generated by an Unstructured Flow Solver,” AIAA-2003-3983, 16th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2003.
Burg, C.O.E, Sheng, C., Newman III, J.C., Brewer, W., Blades, E., and Marcum, D.L., “Verification and Validation of Forces Generated by an Unstructured Flow Solver,” 15th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA 2003-3983.
Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L., Marcum, D., and Whitfield, D.., “Computation of Vortex-Intensive Incompressible Flow Fields,” 33rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA 2002-3306, 2002.
Blades, E., Marcum, D., and Mitchell, B., “Simulation of Spinning Missile Flow Field Using U2NCLE,” AIAA 2002-2797, 20th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 2002.
Marcum, D.L., “Parameterization of Tesselated Surfaces for Surface Mesh Generation,” SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento, CA, November 2001.
Jayaraman, B. and Marcum, D.L., “A General Procedure for Dynamic Unstructured Grids,” 7th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Whistler, BC, September 2000.
Gaither, J.A., Marcum, D.L. Mitchell, B., “SolidMesh: A Solid Modeling Approach to Unstructured Grid Generation,” 7th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Whistler, BC, September 2000.
Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Briley, W.R., Marcum, D.L., and Whitfield, D.L., “An Investigation of Parallel Implicit Solution Algorithms for Incompressible Flows on Multielement Unstructured Topologies,” AIAA-2000-0271, 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 2000.
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, J.A., “Unstructured Surface Grid Generation Using Global Mapping and Physical Space Approximation,” 8th International Meshing Roundtable, South Lake Tahoe, CA, October 1999.
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, J.A., “Mixed Element Type Unstructured Grid Generation for Viscous Flow Applications,” AIAA-99-3252, 14th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 1999.
Marcum, D.L., “Unstructured Grid Generation and CAD Geometry Model Coupling in CFD Applications,” SIAM Workshop on Integration of CAD/CFD, University of California, Davis, April 1999. (INVITED)
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, J.A., “Unstructured Grid Generation for Aerospace Applications,” ICASE/LaRC/NSF/ARO Workshop on Computational Aerosciences in the 21st Century, 1999. (INVITED)
Hughson, M.C and Marcum, D.L., “A 3D Unstructured CFD Method for Dynamic Motion,” AIAA-99-0392, 37th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1999.
Sheng, C., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Gaither, J.A., Marcum, D. L., Whitfield, D.L. and Anderson, W.K., “Three-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flow Computations About Complete Configurations Using a Multi-Block Unstructured Grid Approach,” AIAA-99-0778, 37th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1999.
Arabshahi, A., Beddhu, M., Briley, W.R., Chen, J.P., Gaither, J.A., Gaither, K.P., Janus, J.M., Jiang, M., Marcum, D.L., McGinley, J.A., Pakajakshan, R., Remotigue, M., Sheng, C., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L.K., and Whitfield, D.L., “A Perspective on Naval Hydrodynamic Flow Simulations”, Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Washington, D.C., August 1998.
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, K.P., “Solution Adaptive Unstructured Grid Generation Using Pseudo-Pattern Recognition Techniques,” AIAA-97-1860, 13th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Snowmass Village, CO, June 1997.
Marcum, D.L. and Gaither, K.P., “Solution Adaptive Unstructured Grid Generation Using Pattern Recognition Techniques,” 3rd ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Paris, France, September 1996.
Marcum, D.L., “Unstructured Grid Generation Components for Complete Systems,” 5th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Starkville, MS, April 1996.
Marcum, D.L., “Control of Point Placement and Connectivity in Unstructured Grid Generation Procedures,” 9th International Conference on Finite Elements in Fluids, Venice, Italy, October 1995.
Marcum, D.L., “Generation of High-Quality Unstructured Grids for Computational Field Simulation,” 6th International Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Lake Tahoe, NV, September 1995.
Rodrian, H., Hagen, H., Gaither, K., Moorehead, R., and Marcum, D., “Streamballs - Methods and Applications,” Proceedings of Graphicon ’95, p. 128, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1995.
Marcum, D.L., Weatherill, N.P., Marchant, M.J., and Beaven, F., “Adaptive Unstructured Grid Generation for Viscous Flow Applications,” AIAA-95-1726-CP, 12th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, June 1995.
Marcum, D.L., “Generation of Unstructured Grids for Viscous Flow Applications,” AIAA-95-0212, 33rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1995.
Hassan, O., Marchant, K., Probert, E., Weatherill, N. P. and Marcum, D. L., “The Numerical Simulation of 3D Turbulent Transonic Flows Using Unstructured Grids,” AIAA-94-2346, 25th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, June 1994.
Marcum, D.L. and Weatherill, N.P., “Unstructured Grid Generation Using Iterative Point Insertion and Local Reconnection,” AIAA-94-1926, 12th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, June 1994.
Marcum, D.L., and Weatherill, N. P., “Finite Element Calculations of Inviscid and Viscous Flow Fields about Launch Vehicle Configuration,” 8th International Conference on Finite Elements in Fluids, Barcelona, Spain, September 1993.
Marcum, D.L., Marchant, M. J., Hassan, O., and Weatherill, N. P., “Adaptive Inviscid Flow Simulation using Distributions of Sources,” International Conference on Laminar and Turbulent Flow, Swansea, UK, July 1993.
Weatherill, N.P., Hassan, O., Marchant, M., and Marcum, D. L., “Adaptive Inviscid Flow Solutions for Aerospace Geometries on Efficiently Generated Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes,” AIAA-93-3390-CP, 11th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, July 1993.
Marcum, D.L., and Weatherill, N.P., “A Procedure for Efficient Generation of Solution Adapted Unstructured Grids,” 4th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, Swansea, UK, April 1993.
Weatherill, N.P., Marchant, M. J., Morgan, K., Marcum, D.L. and Hassan, O., “Efficient 3D Unstructured Tetrahedral Grids with Adaptation,” Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Swansea, UK, January 1993.
Weatherill, N.P., Hassan, O., and Marcum, D.L., “Calculation of Steady Compressible Flowfields with the Finite Element Method,” AIAA-93-0341, 31st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1993.
Marcum, D.L., and Agarwal, R.K., “A Three-Dimensional Finite Element Navier-Stokes Solver with k-e Turbulence Model for Unstructured Grids,” AIAA-90-1652, 21st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Seattle, WA, June 1990.
Chen, H.C., Yu, H.J., Marcum, D.L., Kao, T.J., and Kusunose, K., “Coupled Euler/Boundary Layer Analysis of a Complete Aircraft with Viscous Modeling on the Lifting Surface,” AIAA-87-2614-CP, 5th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Monterey, CA, August 1987.
Kusunose, K., Marcum, D.L., Chen, H.C., and Yu, H.J., “Transonic Analysis for Complex Airplane Configurations,” AIAA-87-1196, 19th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1987.
Hoffman, J.D., Thompson, H.D. and Marcum, D.L., “An Analytical Investigation of the Effects of Swirler Design on the Performance of Annular Propulsive Nozzles,” AIAA-86-0587, 24th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1986.
Marcum, D.L., and Hoffman, J.D., “Calculation of Three-Dimensional Inviscid Flowfields in Propulsive Nozzles with Centerbodies,” AIAA-86-0449, 24th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1986.
Marcum, D.L. and Hoffman, J.D., “Numerical Boundary Condition Procedures for Unsteady Euler Solvers,” AIAA-86-0107, 24th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1986.
Marcum, D.L. and Hoffman, J.D., “Calculation of Viscous Nozzle Flows by the Unsteady Method of Characteristics,” AIAA-85-0131, 23rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1985.
Marcum, D.L., and Hoffman, J.D., “Calculation of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Subsonic/Transonic Inviscid Flowfields by the Method of Characteristics,” AIAA-84-0440, 22nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1984.