Anil Mitra, Ph. D.
Phone 707 825 0658
aniljmitra@horizons-2000.org
or, http://www.horizons-2000.org/contact.html
Website – Journey in Being – http://www.horizons-2000.org
Achievements
Objectives
Education
Publications and Websites
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1985 - Present Horizons
Enterprises™ Research in Philosophy, specializing in Metaphysics Project Journey in Being Research Support Base for Journey in Being and Metaphysics Details available at http://www.horizons-2000.org and on request 1990 - The present Humboldt
Mental Health Eureka, Psychiatric Care and Document Automation Details available on request § Automation treatment planning using forms technology and Visual Basic programming § Psychiatric care, independent research 1983 - 1985 Humboldt
State University Associate Professor § Taught dynamics, thermodynamics, computation and numerical analysis through finite element methods, advanced energy analysis, and a seminar in optimization and controls 1984 Summer Consultant § Analysis of a general purpose finite element program for strength and vibration of structures. Application in aerospace design 1978 - 1983 University
of Assistant Professor § Taught dynamics, thermodynamics, computer programming and computer graphics, technical drawing, statics, mechanics of materials, advanced dynamics through three dimensional rigid body motion and Langrangean dynamics. Innovative instruction in thermodynamics. Informally recognized for teaching excellence § Research in applied mathematics / wave mechanics and other miscellaneous topics 1977 - 1978 University
of Assistant Professor / Teaching Assistant / Ph. D. Candidate § As Assistant Professor in summer school, taught solid mechanics. As teaching assistant, graded and tutored for dynamics and related courses § As Ph. D. candidate, did research in nonlinear wave mechanics, analytic approximation methods and fluid mechanic stability 1975 - 1977 RIT Assistant Professor § Taught air pollution, vibrations, dynamics, solid mechanics, thermodynamics. RIT is the Rochester Institute of Technology, an institution recognized for excellence in education 1972 - 1975 University
of Teaching Assistant / Ph. D. Candidate § As teaching assistant, graded and tutored in a variety of core engineering courses § As Ph. D. candidate, lectured on perturbation methods in fluid mechanics and did research in fluid mechanic stability 1970 - 1972 University
of Research Fellow § Research on waves and stability in fluid mechanics. Analytic and numerical approximations |
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Mechanics Statics, solid mechanics: strength of materials, elasticity, plasticity, failure theories. Dynamics: lagrangian mechanics and generalized coordinates, space mechanics, kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms and machines, introductory vector and scalar dynamics, mechanical vibrations Computation, Numerical Methods and Applied Mathematics Numerical
Analysis: theory, error estimates,
stability, algorithms, coding, applications for the full spectrum of standard
topics. Fortran programming Finite
Differences and Finite Elements: theory,
coding for general two-dimensional time dependent case, applications in
thermo-mechanics Perturbation Methods. Optimal Control Theory Energy and Fluids Heat transfer. Thermodynamics:
systems and states, first and second laws, statistical mechanics, mixtures,
chemical reactions and combustion. Applied
Thermodynamics: availability theory, its use as an economic tool;
principles of power and propulsion. Power
Systems: thermo-mechanical theory and design aspects for fossil fuels and
propulsion. Fuel cells. Nuclear fission and fusion. Air Pollution: sources and control. Renewable Energy Systems: principles and design aspects for photovoltaics, wave, wind and hydropower Laboratory Fluid mechanics, and engineering measurements and experiments |
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Fluids and Waves Theoretical and computational methods. Stability of fluid systems, wave theories
and mechanics. Wave interactions with
structures, sea floor and wind Mathematics and Computation Expertise in development and use of perturbation and
regularization methods. Applied
mathematics in stability, fluid and wave mechanics, and numerical
methods. Residual/Galerkin
and energy/variational methods for finite elements.
Programming with Fortran. Software: Numerical analysis of
engineering/mathematical modeling problems and software implementation. Use and development of large-scale finite
element program (STARS) for structural/vibration analysis. Interactive graphics I am currently using a PC, Windows 2000, Microsoft Office
XP, and Visual Basic for applications, especially in document automation and
Website development. I use Visual Basic for an applications development
environment and Fortran with IMSL for applications programming in
engineering, mathematics and related technical areas. I am developing a
facility with C++ programming Mechanics Kinematics, dynamics and vibrations of machines and
mechanical systems.
Strength/failure. Lubrication.
See previous item for programming.
Elements and organization of design. The idea and deployment of design
and planning at all scales is an area of interest and research. Limited
exposure to CAD and computer graphics Energy Thermodynamics, heat transfer, resource analysis and
combustion kinetics. Propulsion.
Fossil fuel and nuclear power generation; pollution aspects. Renewable energy power: hydropower,
photovoltaic, wind and wave systems.
Economic optimization |
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Objective: Teaching Physics and Mathematics Experience in physics continued |
I seek a teaching position in physics and mathematics. I would teach core and advanced courses, be involved in innovative course and curriculum development, research, and the professional development of students I have ten years of teaching
experience. My excellent analytic and practical skills; my excellent
background in science and mathematics – extensive masters and doctorate level
course work in mathematics and physics, research in applied mathematics,
theoretical physics, numerical analysis, computation and the theory of
evolution; my record of excellence in teaching; a breadth of experience – see
http://www.horizons-2000.org; my
inherent empathy and especially as developed in psychiatric care will make
for excellent teaching, research and professional involvement. I have
programming and web development skills – see my website, link above; I am able to use these skills to develop interactive
tutorials and maintain an online presence to students Experience in physics Undergraduate: three years of course work through
“modern physics” with, consistently, the top grade among a class of the
brightest students in Graduate: most of the standard Ph.D. level courses at
the Other: seminars by George Sudarshan
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1970 - 74, 77 - 78 Doctor of Philosophy in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering §
Grade
Average 3.94 § Specializing in fluid mechanics and stability; advanced analytic and numerical approximation methods; computation; applied and pure mathematics; theoretical physics 1969 - 1970 IIT Kharagpur, Masters Level Diploma in
Applied Mathematics specializing in Magnetohydrodynamics §
Placed
1st in the Magnetohydrodynamics group §
The
course work for the diploma includes higher mathematics, theoretical physics
including electromagnetism and Einstein’s theory of gravitation, functional
analysis, partial differential equations, higher probability and statistics,
fluid mechanics, magneto-fluid-dynamics, plasma stability 1964 - 1969 IIT Kharagpur, Bachelor of Technology
in Mechanical Engineering §
Graduated
with 1st class honours §
IIT
is the Indian Institute of Technology. The Institute at Kharagpur was the original
higher technical institute established in independent |
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Coursework – undergraduate through Ph. D. Coursework – undergraduate through Ph. D. continued |
English, world history, psychology – general and
industrial, economics and economics of industrial labor, management,
industrial development of Mathematics – undergraduate and graduate Five years of basic and advanced undergraduate mathematics Graduate – through advanced partial differential equations; numerical methods, probability and statistics, functional analysis and distributions Three years of undergraduate physics and two years of chemistry Physics – graduate level Advanced classical dynamics, hydrodynamics, continuum mechanics, elasticity theory – introduction, advanced and special topics, advanced thermodynamics, electromagnetic theory, special and general theory of relativity, classical electrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, hydromagnetic stability, relativistic fluid mechanics, and plasma dynamics, quantum mechanics Engineering science and theory Electronics, electrical machines – two years, applied mechanics, applied mechanics, advanced strength of materials – two years, metallurgy, machines and mechanisms – two years, electrical machines – two years, hydraulic machines, heat and power – three years, instrumentation and control Production engineering, workshop theory and practice – four years, engineering drawing and descriptive geometry – two years, machine and machine elements design – two years, design project |
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Technical Publications continued |
Slow Interactions of Gravity Waves and a Corrugated
Sea Bed, A. Mitra and M.
D. Greenberg, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 1984 Book Review, A. Mitra, Marine Geotechnology, V. 6, No. 2, 1985, of: Peter Lynwander, Reflection of Long Surface Waves by a Corrugated
Bottom, A. Mitra, Report 82-7, Texas Institute for Computational
Mechanics, September 1982 The Effect of Bottom Topography on Stability and
Wave Propagation in a Kelvin-Helmholtz Flow, Ph. D.
Dissertation, The Effect of a Wavy Bottom on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, A. Mitra and M. D.
Greenberg, Journal of Hydronautics, Vol. 8, No. 2,
April 1974 A Vortex Sheet Approach to Two Phase Flows, M. D. Greenberg,
A. Mitra, and S. J. Zarroodny, Fourth Canadian
Congress of Applied Mechanics, Montreal, May 1973 The Effect of a Wavy Bottom on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, A. Mitra and M. D.
Greenberg, Report 168, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Study of MHD-Lubrication and MHD-Squeeze Film
Performance, A. Mitra, DIIT Report, Mathematics, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India, July 1970 Study of Perturbation
Methods in Nonlinear Problems, A. Mitra, B. Tech. Report,
Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, May
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Slow Interactions of Gravity Waves and a
Corrugated Sea Bed, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference, Lectures in Optimal Control Theory,
Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, Reflection of Waves by a Corrugated Bed,
Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, Some Wave Force Computations,
Division of Engineering, On Teaching Thermodynamics,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Western New England College,
Massachusetts, August 1981 Proposal to Use the WKB Method in Wave Force
Computation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State
University, Michigan, January 1980 The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, A Vortex Sheet Approach to Two-Phase Flows, Fourth
Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, |
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Dr. Ronald C. Chaney, Professor of
Engineering, Dr. Michael D. Greenberg, Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE 19711. (302) 831-8159. Email: greenber@me.udel.edu Dr. Swadesh M. Mahajan, Research Scientist, Center for Fusion Studies,
Department of Physics, |