Prasanth George: Latest Research

Starting the spring semester of 2006, I have been working with Dr. John Ringland and we are studying how effective/counter-effective refuges are in corn/maize fields. Contrary to the popular notion of refuges always reducing fractions of pests developing resistance to toxins, there could be some circumstances when refuges could contribute to increase in pests that are resistant to toxins. We are trying to come up with a simple mathematical model in which we consider actual field conditions as far as possible.

George, P., Mohammed-Awel, J. and Ringland, J "Evolution in a dichotomous environment: an atlas of possibilities". Manuscript under preparation and to be submitted soon.

To see Dr Ringland's page on this research please go here
Dr Ringland's research page

Prasanth George: Research till 2004

Till 2004 I was working on several problems in the field of computational fluid dynamics(CFD). More specifically, a mechanistic model for the ignition and combustion of aluminum particles(that emit high energy and thus useful in various applications) is developed and results compared against existing experimental results. The following are some of the conference/journal articles published during this time period.

1.George, P. and Desjardin, P.E A Mechanistic Model for Aluminum Particle Ignition and Combustion In Air, Submitted to AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power

2.Carrara, M.D. , George, P. and DesJardin, P.E. "Towards a Predictive Understanding of High Energy Particles" in preparation for Sandia National Laboratories Report 2003

3.George, P. and Desjardin, P. E. Towards a Mechanistic Model for Aluminum Particle Combustion Proceedings of the 2003 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 23-26 2003.

4.George, P. and Desjardin , P.E. Effects of Heterogeneous Combustion on the Ignition of Aluminum Particles, Proceedings of the 42rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Exhibit and Meet, Reno, Nevada, Jan 5-8 2004

5.George, P. and Desjardin, P.E "Ignition and Combustion of Aluminum Particles using Linear Eddy Modeling, presented at the annual CI/CS Meeting, Ontario, Canada(May 9-12, 2004)