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Özgür Ug̃raş BARAN - Curriculum Vitae – 2014
Ö ZGÜR U G̃RA Ş BARAN
e-mail: [email protected]
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
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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
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Industrial Computational Tecniques
Cited Publications
2004
Zafer Bozkuş, Özgür Ug̃raş 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
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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 Ug̃raş 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 Ug̃raş 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 Ug̃raş 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 Ug̃raş Baran and Bülent İrfanog̃lu 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.
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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 DaimlerChrysler.
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.
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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.
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