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last update: 09 Mar 2006


Awards Subcommittee

The role of the Awards Subcommittee is to collect, process, and coordinate voting on nomination for the TC's awards and follow-up with AIAA to publicize awards. The subcommittee also assists AIAA with nomations for their annual awards.

The current chair of the Awards Subcommittee is Todd Michal.

MVCE currently has only one award: an annual Best Paper Certificate of Merit.

Resources for the Awards Subcommittee are listed below.

Timetable for the awards process is listed below.

Jan-Mar Collection nomations from MVCE TC members.
Mar Evaluate nominated papers from ASM
Jun-Aug Collect nominations from MVCE TC members
Aug 25th Close nominations
Aug Evaluate nominated papers from the summer conference
Sep Identify 5 finalist papers
Oct 20 Select Best Paper
Oct 27 Notify AIAA
Jan Present Best Paper Certificate of Merit

2006 Best Paper

Papers presented at MVCE sessions at the Aerospace Sciences meeting follow.

78-MVC-1, Unstructured and Hybrid Grids

  1. Grid Generation in the Framework of Unstructured Grid Consortium API Using GGTK by Gopalsamy, Michal, and Shih.
  2. The TSTT Mesh Interface by Olliver-Gooch, et. al.
  3. An Approach to Generate High Quality Unstructured Hybrid Meshes by Ito, Shih, Soni, and Nakahashi
  4. Unstructured Viscous Layer Insertion Using Linear-Elastic Smoothing by Karman
  5. Grid Control for Viscous Unstructured Meshes Using Optimization by Sahasrabudhe, Karman, and Anderson
  6. A Mesh-Database-Independent Edge- and Face-Swapping Tool by Ollivier-Gooch
  7. Anisotropic Hybrid Mesh Generation for Industrial RANS Applications by Martineau, Stokes, Munday, Jacson, and Gribben
  8. A Local Simulated Annealing Stratgy for Mesh Optimization by Acikgoz and Bottasso

137-MVC-2, Geometry, Visualization, and Computational Environments

  1. Toward a Fully Parallel Integrated Geometry Kernel, Mesh Generator, Flow Solver, and Post-Processor by Dawes.
  2. Using Quilts to Generate Grids from Imperfect CAD Assemblies by Dannenhoffer
  3. 3D Visualization and Manipulation of Geometry and Surface Meshes by Ellis, Karman, Novobilski, and Haimes
  4. Use of Advanced Rendering to Visualize Computer Rotorcraft Brownout by Wenren, Walter, and Steinhoff
  5. A Multistage Vortex Visualization Method by Jankun-Kelly, Thompson, Brewer, Jiang, and Machiraju
  6. Automated Finite Element Analysis in a Knowledge Based Engineering Environment by Nawijn, van Tooren, and Arendsen
  7. Computational Science and Engineering Applied to Military Fan and Compressor Design by Gorrell and Thornburg
  8. An Algebraic-Elliptic Orthogonal Grid Generator with Grid Spacing Control by Dhanabalan and Tsai

165-MVC-3, Overset and Adaptive Grids

  1. Generalized Overset Grid Gramework for Incompressible Flows by Koomullil, Bhagat, and Noack
  2. Automated Preprocessing Tools for Use with a High-Order Overset-Grid Algorithm by Shere and Visbal
  3. Prediction of Hydrodynamic Forces and Moments for Underwater Vehicles Using Overset Grids by Boger and Dreyer
  4. Transient Mesh Adaptation Using and Error Wake and Projection Method by Cavallo
  5. Validation of 3D Adjoint Based Error Estimation and Mesh Adatation for Sonic Boom Prediction by Jones
  6. Rotor Wake Capture Improvement Based on the Controlled Grid Resolution by Vasilescu
  7. Optimum Grid By Direct Optimization Methods by Mahajan and Hindman
  8. Unsteady Flow Calculations with a New Moving Mesh Algorith by Mirsajedi and Karimian

2005 Best Paper

Best Paper Certificate of Merit for 2005 was presented to Lee Kania and Shahyar Pirzadeh for "A Geometrically-Derived Background Function for Automated Unstructured Mesh Generation" (AIAA 2005-5240) presented at the CFD Conference in Toronto.