Reza Kashani

Selected Publications

• Monfort, J., & Kashani, R. (2011). Low-frequency thermoacoustic instability mitigation using adaptive-passive acoustic radiators. ASME/AIAA International Gas Turbine Institute Conference and Exhibit, June, in Vancouver, Canada. (paper GT2011‑46642)
• Mazdeh, A., & Kashani, R. (2011). Distributed parameter acoustic modeling of a perforation with bias flow. ASME/AIAA International Gas Turbine Institute Conference and Exhibit, June, in Vancouver, Canada. (paper GT2011‑46649) 
• El-Sinawi, A. H., & Kashani, R. (2006). Improving surface roughness in turning using optimal control of tool radial position. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 167(1), 54-61. 
• Yu, Z., Hallinan, K. P., Bhagat, W., & Kashani, R. (2002). Electrohydrodynamically augmented micro heat pipes. AIAA J. of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 16(2), 180-186.

Selected Patents

• ‘Active air isolation,’ patent application submitted May 2009.
• ‘Electronic bass trap for reducing very low frequency colorization in a listening room,’ U.S. Patent 7,190,796 B1, issued March 13, 2007.
• ‘System and method for actively damping boom noise in a vibro-acoustic enclosure,’ U.S. Pat. 7305094, filed January 11, 2002.
• 'Active boom noise damping,' U.S. Patent 5,974,155, issued October 26, 1999.

Selected Research and Work

• Kashani, R. (PI) Acoustic instability control in aircraft engines, Phase II Air Force Wright Laboratories. 2007-2009, Subcontractor to DEICON, Inc. $90,000.
• Kashani, R. (PI) Acoustic instability control in aircraft engines, Phase I Air Force Wright Laboratories. 2003-2005, $100,000.
• Kashani, R. (PI) Active boom noise damping in a SUV, DaimlerChrysler Corp., 1999-2001, $120,000.

Selected Honors and Awards

• 1998 Dynamic Systems and Control Division of the ASME Certificate of Appreciation for Chairing the Active and Passive Noise and Vibration Control Panel of 1997-98 ASME-IMECE.
• 1995 SAE Ralph A. Teetor Educational Award.

Undergraduate:

• MEE314- Computational Methods
• MEE439- Dynamic Systems and Controls

Graduate:

• MEE590- Statistical Process Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment
• MEE551- Noise and Vibration Control
• MEE527- Automatic Control Theory
• MEE519- Analytical Dynamics

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
• M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
• M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
• B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1977

• Organized symposia on Noise and Vibration Control at the ASME IMECE
• Prepared and conducted short courses and training in ‘Feedback Control’ at Caterpillar Corp, John Deere Corp, and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
• Consulting work on Noise and Vibration Control Miller Valentine Corporation in Ohio and a number of luxury watercrafts (yachts) in the Mediterranean

• Control of dynamic systems with special interest in sound and vibration control, as well as Control of Manufacturing Processes.