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D. Greg Walker
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Email: greg.walker@vanderbilt.edu
http://telab.vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Office: 335 Olin Hall
Phone: (615) 343.6959
Fax: (615) 343.6687
Mailing Address: VU Station B 351592
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1592

Shipping Address:
2400 Highland Ave.
Olin Hall, Room 101
Nashville, TN 37212

Research Interests
Electro-thermal simulation of semiconductor devices, microscale heat transfer and energy transport, microrefrigeration and energy conversion, MEMS, inverse and parameter estimation methods, scientific computational methods, software integration architectures.

Teaching Interests
Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Inverse/Parameter Estimation Methods, Object-Oriented Design for Engineers
HPC Course
Heat Transfer
Freshman Seminar Presentation

Education
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, 1990
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, 1993
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1997

Publications
Bulusu and D. G. Walker, `` Quantum Modeling of Thermoelectric Properties of Si/Ge/Si Superlattices,'' accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 423--429, January, 2008.

Bulusu and D.G. Walker, ``Quantum modeling of thermoelectric performance of strained Si/Ge/Si superlattices using the nonequilibrium Green's function method,'' Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 102, No. 7, October 2007, 073713.

Bulusu and D.G. Walker, ``Modeling of thermoelectric properties of semiconductor thin films with quantum and scattering effects,'' Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, No. 4, April, 2007, pp. 492--499.

D.G. Walker and S.W. Allison, ``Transient measurements using thermographic phosphors,'' ISA Transactions, Vol. 46, January, 2007, pp. 15--20.

R.D. Harvey, D.G. Walker and K.D. Frampton, ``Enhancing performance of thermoelectric coolers through the application of distributed control,'' IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 330--336.

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